Education
2009 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
2002 BA, Art and Literature, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
Selected Exhibitions
2021
All This Happened: 29 Years at Rose Gallery, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Into the Blue, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2020
Bodies as Singularity, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California
Enter Viewing Room, Super Dutchess, New York, NY
2018
Proprius, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California
Afraid of Acquaintances, curated by Cuevas Tilleard, False Flag, Long Island City, NY
RADIANT, presented by Big City Forum, Blue Roof Studios, Los Angeles, California
2017
UNITITLED, Klowden Mann, Miami Beach, Florida
2016
QUEUE, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California
Pushing Paper, Junior Projects, New York, New York
CUBIT, New Release Gallery, New York, New York
2015
UNTITLED, Junior Projects, Miami Beach, Florida
IDEA’L, Junior Projects, New York, New York
Rhythm, Repetition and Pattern, SPACE, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2014
I love you Helen, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California
Twenty Thousand Years of Yarn, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
it's a poor craftsman who blames his tools, Junior Projects, New York, New York
Rhythm, Repetition and Pattern, TSA, Brooklyn, New York
Rhythm, Repetition and Pattern, Lewis Art Gallery, Millsaps College, Jackson, MI
2013
Rhythm, Repetition and Pattern, Curating Contemporary, online
Rhythm, Repetition and Pattern, Space 4 Art, San Diego, California
Miami Project, Klowden Mann, Miami, Florida
ArtPadSF, Klowden Mann, San Francisco, California
10 Years Too Late, I-A-M Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Hollywood Forever, SIA Gallery, Sheffield, England
2012
Honeycomb II, I-A-M Gallery, Berlin, Germany
…and They Lived Happily Ever After, GlogauAIR Project Space, Berlin, Germany
This Was Funny Yesterday, CCS Gallery, UC Santa Barbara, California
Letters from the Field, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
D3 Spirit Resurrection at Machine Project, Los Angeles, California (PST)
2011
D3 Trap Door, Human Resources, Chinatown, California
D3 CIncArt The Convention on Incorporated Art, CentralTrak Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Unit/Constellation, Dan Graham Gallery, Chinatown, California
2010
ECU, Dan Graham Gallery, Chinatown, California
2009
78 Beds, 4 Chandeliers, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Feeling Feelings, Compact Space, Los Angeles, California
I Was A Teenage Pie Boy, Los Angeles, California
GLAMFA, CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, California
Why Theory, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles, California
2008
Lend Me Your Armor, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Selected Bibliography
2018
Zellen, Jody, “Megan Cotts,” Artscene, April.
“Featured Artist,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April.
“Megan Cotts,” Wall Street International, April 16.
2015
Fried, Michelle, "A Review of Rhythm, Repetition & Pattern at SPACE," PGH City Paper, June 24.
Shaw, Kurt, "Art Review: Rhythm, Repetition and Pattern at SPACE," Trib Live, June 3.
2014
Happerset, Susan, “Megan Cotts at Junior Projects Gallery,” fibonaccisusan, April 17.
Mitzota, Sharon, “Art Review: Megan Cotts Reanimates Family History,” Los Angeles Times, April 4.
2012
Unwanted, Unfictional radio broadcast, KCRW, November 30.
Letters From the Field, Exhibition Catalog, Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin, DE
Zilm, Kirsten, “Die Dramaturgie der Zerstörung,” Deutschlandfunk, August 2.
Zilm, Kirsten, Die Kunst des Zerstörens, Deutschlandradio Kulture, March 3. Sallabedra, Megan, “D3, an Artist Collective That Will Destroy the ‘90’s Mixtape Your Ex-Boyfriend Made You,” LA Weekly, February 7.
Xiao, An, “Smashing the 80’s Away,” Hyperallergic, February 29.
2011
Horne, Rebecca, “Keepsake-Busters: Artists Target Painful Stuff,” Wall Street Journal Ideas Market, December 5.
2009
McCrory, Meghann, “Feeling Feelings; On (re)Framing Affect,” January.
Selected Publications
2010
D3 Brochure and Submission packet, Los Angeles, California
2009
Why Theory, Exhibition Catalog, Los Angeles, California
GLAMFA Exhibition Catalogue, California State University Long Beach, Long
Beach, California
2008
The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore and Politics, Jennifer Heath
Residencies
2021
Stoneleaf Retreat, Catskill, New York
Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, Troy, New York
2013
Terra Summer Residency, Giverny, France
Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
2012
GlogauAIR Artist In Residence Program, Berlin, Germany
I-A-M Artist in Residence Program, Berlin, Germany
Lectures
2013
Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts
Visiting Artist, Otis College of Art and Design
2012
Sheffield Hallam University, Transmission Series
Guest Tutor, Sheffield Hallam University