Megan Speers
meganspeers@rogers.com (click)

Megan Speers is a working artist, bookmaker, and zine maker living in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently interested in commissions and collaborations of all sorts-- especially for (hand-done) illustration work and zine collaborations.
Her work focuses on exploring adolescence and childhood from a non-traditional perspective, often addressing themes of gender, multiculturalism, and sexuality. She is also very much interested in satanism and the occult as expressions of alternative moralities, as well as outsider subcultures and how they fill the hidden nooks and crannies of every city.

Curriculum Vitae

Education
2009
Ontario College of Art and Design. Bachelor of Fine Arts—Printmaking major, English minor.

Selected Group Exhibits
2009
We Made a Deal with the Devil. Travelling show/various venues. Presented by Methinks. Toronto, Ontario, to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Lunar Landings. Gallery 1313. Toronto, Ontario.
OCAD+. Ontario College of Art and Design. Toronto, Ontario.
ROCK N ROLL – a celebration of stone lithography. Whippersnapper Gallery. Toronto, Ontario.
Prints are like that. Gallery 1313. Toronto, Ontario.
Print for the other 100%. Transit Space. Toronto, Ontario.

2008
PROOF. Great Hall (OCAD). Toronto, Ontario.
Me and My Sister. Transit Space. Toronto, Ontario.
NANO NANO NANO. This Ain’t the Rosedale Library. Toronto, Ontario.

2004
ARTCIRCUIT. Art Gallery of Algoma. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Past Book and Zine Fairs
2010
Small Press of Toronto. The Great Hall. Toronto, Ontario.
Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair. Westdale High. Hamilton, Ontario.
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. CEDA. Montreal, Quebec.
Toronto Anarchist Bookfair. Steelworker's Hall. Toronto, Ontario.
Chicago Zine Fest. Columbia College. Chicago, Illinois, USA.

2009
Small Press of Toronto. Gladstone Hotel. Toronto, Ontario.
Canzine. Gladstone Hotel. Toronto, Ontario.
Independent Press (part of Queen West Art Crawl). Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario.
Zine Dream 2. Tranzac. Toronto, Ontario.
Toronto Small Press Book Fair. Toronto Reference Library. Toronto, Ontario.
Garage Sale Zine Fair. The Other White House. Toronto, Ontario.
Zine Recession Sale. Front Hall (OCAD). Toronto, Ontario.

2008
OCAD Book Arts Fair. Great Hall (OCAD). Toronto, Ontario.
Canzine – Alternative Culture Festival. Gladstone Hotel. Toronto, Ontario.
Zine Dream. Tranzac. Toronto, Ontario.
BIG on BLOOR Festival. Toronto, Ontario.
Toronto Small Press Book Fair. Toronto, Ontario.

Published Work
2010
WANDERLUST. Porcupine's Quill. Erin Village, Ontario.

Collections
Art Gallery of York University (Artist Books Collection). Toronto, Ontario.
Dorothy H. Hoover Library. Toronto, Ontario.
OCAD Printmaking Archives. Toronto, Ontario.
OCAD Zine Library. Toronto, Ontario.
Toronto Zine Library. Toronto, Ontario.
Calgary Zine Library. Calgary, Alberta.
Algoma District School Board. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Awards
Bill Poole Memorial Award (for book art). Ontario College of Art and Design, 2009.
Diana Myers Book Award. Ontario College of Art and Design, 2009.

Lectures and Demonstrations
2010
Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Panel discussion: "The Artist Book and the Graphic Novel: Converging Traditions". Toronto, Ontario.

2008-2009
Ontario College of Art and Design. Printmaking demonstration for advanced printmaking students. Toronto, Ontario.
Ontario College of Art and Design. One on one printmaking demonstrations as student monitor. Toronto, Ontario.

Related Employment
2009-present
Artistic co-coordinator. The Molotov Rag. Toronto, Ontario.

2008-2009
Printmaking studio monitor. Ontario College of Art and Design. Toronto, Ontario.
Library reshelving monitor. Ontario College of Art and Design. Toronto, Ontario.

2008
Set designer / Sculptor (commission) for Wesley Connor. Toronto, Ontario.

2007
Studio Assistant (life casting and mouldmaking) for Gabrielle Horvath. North York, Ontario.

2003
Visual Art tutor and class assistant. St. Basil Secondary School. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.