Abbreviated CV
Education
2011 MFA with honors, Printmaking, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Minor in Intermedia
2010 MA with honors, Printmaking, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Minor in Intermedia
2009 Photogravure Workshop, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2006 BFA with honors, Studio Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Minor in Art History
2005 Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
2021 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
2020 New Faculty Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2019-22 Knight Foundation, Knight Arts Challenge, Akron, OH
2019 Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, NJ
2018 Denbo Fellowship, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
2017-18 Catalyst Grant with collaborator Chanjuan Chen, College of the Arts, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2017 Vermont Studio Center Grant, Johnson, VT
2014 Project Support, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
2013 87th Annual International Competition: Printmaking & Photography Award, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (juried by Irene Hofmann, Phillips Director & Chief Curator of SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM)
2012 Honorable Mention Award, Beyond Printmaking III, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (juried by Melanie Yazzie, Professor of Art, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
2011 Southern Graphics Council International Graduate Fellowship Award, Statesboro, GA
2008-09 Leola Bergmann Graduate Fellowship, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Artist Residencies
2018 Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
2017 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2015 55 Limited, Berlin, Germany
2012 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2011 Anchor Graphics, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2008 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2006-07 John Talleur Print Studio, The Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
Solo Exhibitions
2021 See You On The Moon, Spiers Main Gallery, Brevard College, Brevard, NC
2019 Sightlines, College of the Sequoias Art Gallery, Vasilia, CA
2019 Field of Vision, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE
2018 Vanishing Points, Thompson Gallery, Furman University, Greenville, SC
2017 Third Nature, The Bubbler Gallery, Madison Public Library, Madison, WI
2016 Biosphere, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
2016 Turf, Starfangled Press and Gallery, Brevard, NC
2015 SupraEcology II (Seeming Nature), Main Hall Gallery, Kent State University Stark, North Canton, OH
2015 SupraEcology, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2015 Raised From Seeds Sown in Spring, Inlet Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2014 Raised From Seeds Sown in Spring, Lillian Boyer Gallery, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
2013 Shade Beneath Trees of My Own Planting, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Tracking Their Wondrous Transformation, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2011 Too Much Love, Being Loved to Death, Porch Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2011 Their Wondrous Transformation and Peculiar Nourishment, Porch Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2010 The Happier Side of a Vast World, Porch Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2008 Prints and Pop-ups, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2007 Pattern and Place, The Lawrence Arts Center Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Two and Three- Person Exhibitions
2021 Hyperreal Landscape (with Mary Claire Becker), Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery, Broward College, Davie, FL
2019 Secret Garden (with Sangmi Yoo), Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
2019 Radical Intimacy (with Emmy Lingscheit and Brian Spolans), Voertman Gallery, Denton, TX
2019 Natura Naturata: Nature Already Created (with Arron Foster), Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2019 Displacement: New Work by J. Leigh Garcia and Taryn McMahon, Coburn Gallery, Ashland University, Ashland, OH
2018 Encountering Environment (with Ellie Honl and Rachel Singel), Biblioteca Central Sala Hangar, Santander, Spain
2016 Unsettled Terrain: New Work by Ellie Honl and Taryn McMahon, Fine Arts Gallery, College of Southern Nevada, North Las Vegas, NV
2015 Wild Morphologies (with Carla Aspenberg), Curfman Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2015 If Then: Taryn McMahon and Keith Lemley, 55 Limited, Berlin, Germany
2015 Changing Winds: Ellie Honl and Taryn McMahon, McCormick Gallery, Midland College, Midland, TX
2012 Sweetness and Light (with Keith Lemley), Unsmoke Artspace, Braddock, PA
Site Specific Installations
2016 Build Adapt Repeat with Ellie Honl and Alison Filley, Site-Specific Installation in conjunction with Southern Graphics Council International Conference at Portland State University, Portland, OR
2014 Raised from Seeds Sown in Spring, Site-Specific Installation for Interstruct, James Pepper Distillery Warehouse, Lexington, KY
Selected Group and Juried Exhibitions
2020-21 Making Your Mark, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
2020 Printed, Photocentric, Cleveland, OH
2020 Artists Select, YARDS Projects, Cleveland, OH
2019 Anchor Graphics: 25 Years of Printmaking, The Hokin Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2019 Forms of Enclosure: New Prints 2019/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2019 Shadow of the Gradient, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Compo/Site, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2018 lay · name · place · reply, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI
2018 Unconfined, H-Space Gallery, Washington, DC
2018 Tiny Acts Topple Empires, Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA
2018 Under the Blankets, Printmakers Together, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 Unknown Terrain, Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2018 Compo(site), Troppus Projects, Kent, OH
2017 Biennial Exhibition, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2017 PRINTWORK 2017, Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 Fresh Ink, Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2016 Mid-America Print Council Juried Members’ Exhibition, The Carnegie Center for Art and Art History, New Albany, IN
2016 Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 The Other: Nurturing a New Ecology in Printmaking, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
2016 8th International Printmaking Biennial Douro, Douro Museum, Alijo, Portugal
2015 Mid-America Print Council Juried Members’ Exhibition, Frick Center, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL
2015 A Tenuous Balance, Gallery 249, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2015 2nd Global Print 2015, Douro Museum, Alijo, Portugal
2015 Upon Closer Inspection, Minthorne Gallery, George Fox University, Newberg, OR
2014 Mark(ing) Time: Expanded Notions of Drawing, Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, TX
2014 East Coast Screenprint Biennial, Arts Center of the Capitol Region, Troy, NY
2014 Armatures of Audubon: Contemporary Constructions and Ecologies, Kentucky School of Art, Louisville, KY
2014 Mid-America Print Council Members Juried Exhibition, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2014 Coming From Afar: Prints from Across the United States and Abroad, Visual Art Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2013 Gesturing Into Consciousness, Zoller Gallery, University Park, PA
2013 Mid America Print Council Juried Exhibition, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
2012 Beyond Printmaking III, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2012 Visual High, Patton-Malott Gallery, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2011 Linking Collections, Building Connections: Work from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
Artist Lectures & Conference Panel Presentations
2021 University of North Florida, Virtual Artist Talk, Jacksonville, FL
2021 Broward College, Virtual Gallery Talk, Davie, FL
2019 International Print Center New York, Gallery Talk, New York, NY
2019 Cleveland Institute of Art, Artist Lecture and critiques with students, Cleveland, OH
2018 Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Artist Talk, Hyattsville, MD
2018 Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 2-day Relief Silkscreen Workshop, Hyattsville, MD
2018 H-Space Gallery, Artist Talk, Washington, DC
2018 Furman University, Gallery Talk, Greenville, SC
2017 SPACES Gallery, Panelist, Speculative Drawing, Cleveland, OH
2017 Georgia State University, Panel Chair, SGC International Conference, Stop Collaborate & Listen, Atlanta, GA
2016 University of Louisville, Panel Chair, Mid-America Print Council Conference, Site As Matter: Printmaking and Site Building, Louisville, KY
2016 Illinois Wesleyan University, Gallery Talk, Bloomington, IL
2016 West Virginia University, Artist Lecture, Morgantown, WV
2016 Artist Lecture and Gallery Talk, College of Southern Nevada, North Las Vegas, NV
2015 Colorado State University, Artist Lecture, Studio Visits, and Silkscreen workshop, Fort Collins, CO
2015 Pratt Munson Williams Proctor Museum of Art, Easton Pribble Visiting Artist Lecture, Utica, NY
2015 Gallery Talk, classroom visits, and silkscreen workshop, Midland College, Midland, TX
2015 Artist Lecture and classroom visits, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2014 Wayne State University, Panel Chair, Mid-America Print Council Conference, Artificial Nature: Building an Ecological Vision through Printmaking, Detroit, MI
2013 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Panel Co-Chair with Andrew Kozlowski, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Community Support Group: A Roundtable Discussion, Milwaukee, WI
2013 Artist Lecture and studio visits, University of Akron, Akron, OH
2013 Gallery Talk, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Artist Lecture, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2011 Artist Lecture, Columbia College Chicago at Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
2010 Gallery Talk, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2008 Artist Lecture, no_space gallery, Rosendale, NY
Professional Associations
Southern Graphics Council International, member 2008-2018, board member 2018-present
Mid-America Print Council, member 2008-2018
Commissions
2019-22 Permanent Public Commission, Texas Native Botanicals, 5 large-scale prints on paper, and Canopy, 7 large scale panels of digital ceramic frit on glass, The City of Richardson, TX
2020 Permanent Corporate Commission, Cloud Forest, large scale pigment prints on canvas, The East End, Akron, OH
2019 Permanent Corporate Commission, Shadows, large scale installation of 3 panels of digital ceramic frit on glass, Summa Health, Akron, OH
Collections
Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
Art in Embassies Program, Collection of the US Embassy, Reykjavik, Iceland
Artist Printmaker Research Collection (AP/RC), Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Baker Hostetler Law Firm, Columbus, OH
Brody Award, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
City of Richardson, TX
Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, OH
C.N. Gorman Museum Special Collections, University of California, Davis, CA
Drive By Press, New York, NY
Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Monash University, Gippsland, Australia
Icelandic Printmakers’ Association, Reykjavik, Iceland
Iowa Print Group Archive, School of Art & Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Lake Effect Editions, Syracuse, NY
Leifur Eiriksson Foundation, Charlottesville, VA
PNC Bank, Louisville, KY
SGC International Prints Collection and Archive, Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
Southwest General Health System, Cleveland, OH
Summa Health, Akron, OH
St. Lawrence University Special Collections, Canton, NY
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
University of Colorado Special Collections, Boulder, CO
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Yager Award, College of Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Bibliography
Ryan Standfest, “Compo/Site @ Scarab Club,” Detroit Art Review, April 19, 2019.
- Kent Wolgamott, “Printstallation brings giant gallery-filling printed wall to Constellation Studios,” Lincoln Journal Star. February 21, 2019.
Jacqueline Bon, “The Morgan Presents ‘Unknown Terrain,’ an Immersive Installation Art Experience,” CAN Journal, Summer 2018. 30.
Art in Print, “News of the Print World: Selected New Editions,” Vol. 7 no. 4 (November – December 2017): 54.
Graphic Impressions, Cover Image, Winter 2017.
Kellie Nock, “Professor’s Print Exhibition brings Biosphere to Illinois Wesleyan,” Kent Wired, November 2016.
Tinete Williams, “’Unsettled Terrain’ Art Exhibit for Unsettled Times,” Coyote Student News @CSN, October 2016.
Lauren Hittinger, “East Coast Screen Print Biennial in Troy,” All Over Albany. September 3, 2014. http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2014/09/03/east-coast-screen-print-biennial-in-troy#more
David Linnewah and Nathan Meltz, “Screen Print Biennial,” Studio Break podcast. March 2014. http://studiobreak.com/nathan-meltzscreen-print-biennial/
Graphic Impressions, Featured Image, Fall 2013. 20.
The Mid America Print Council Journal, Cover Image, Fall/Winter 2012, Volume 20, Numbers 3 & 4 Twentieth Anniversary Edition.
Pittsburgh City Paper, “Short List,” exhibition announcement with photograph, Pittsburgh, PA, November 14, 2012.
Published Writings
“Print Synthesis,” The Mid America Print Council Journal, Spring/Summer 2014, Volume 22, Numbers 1 + 2.
“Studio Visit: Joseph Lupo,” Printeresting (blog). January 2013 http://www.printeresting.org/2013/01/14/studio-visit-joseph-lupo/
Teaching
2020-present Associate Professor (with tenure), School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2014-2020 Assistant Professor (tenure-track), School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2013-14 Lecturer (full-time non-tenure-track), School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2013 Adjunct Lecturer, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2009-11 Instructor of Record, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Contact
taryn.m.mcmahon(at)gmail(dot)com