GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Revisiting Rockwell THELMA Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI
2022
Revisiting Rockwell Downers Grove Library, Downers Grove, IL
Looking Back, Moving Forward Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
Revisiting Rockwell Princeton Public Library, Princeton, IL
Beautiful Collisions Vintage Redefined, Chicago, IL
2021
Revisiting Rockwell Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ (partially funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts)
2020
Revisiting Rockwell Gallery 210, UMSL, St. Louis, MO
2019
Revisiting Rockwell American Embassy of Uruguay, Montevideo, URUGUAY
2018
Revisiting Rockwell American Embassy of Uruguay, Montevideo, URUGUAY
Revisiting Rockwell McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL
Revisiting Rockwell Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH
2017
Revisiting Rockwell American Embassy of Uruguay, Montevideo, URUGUAY
Revisiting Rockwell Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Revisiting Rockwell New England School of Photography, Boston, MA
Conscious States CB2, Chicago, IL
Revisiting Rockwell Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
Revisiting Rockwell Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016
Revisiting Rockwell American Embassy of Uruguay, Montevideo, URUGUAY
Revisiting Rockwell Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Revisiting Rockwell Vanderpoel Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Revisiting Rockwell Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
Revisiting Rockwell Warren Family Fine Art Gallery, Berkshire School, Sheffield, MA
2014
I Hear with my Eyes Buckingham Interior Design, Chicago, IL
Childhood Contemplations Neapolitan Collection, Winnetka, IL
2011
Childhood Contemplations Buckingham Interior Design, Chicago, IL
I Hear With My Eyes Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
I Hear With My Eyes Adlai Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, IL
Childhood Contemplations Helen Yi, Chicago, IL
2009
Childhood Contemplations Art Lounge, Student Center West, University of Illinois-Chicago, IL
2008
Childhood Contemplations Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
Extractions National City Bank, Chicago, IL
2007
Extractions The Artist Project, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006
Polaroids Chrome Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
Extractions Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
91st Professional Members Show The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Selected Works (with Whitney Bradshaw, Patty Carroll, + Melissa Ann Pinney),ENGAGE Projects, Chicago, IL; curated by Curators Gone Rogue
2023
Feminist to the Core, Salon lb, Chicago, IL
2022
90th Professional Members Show The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
*eyelash flutter*, Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI
Photographic Works (with Vanessa Filley + Leila Jeffries), Arbor 3 Arts, Three Oaks, MI
The Human Body New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY
Threaded Together Alma Interiors + Lynn Manilow Consulting, Chicago, IL
2021
Arbor 3 Arts, Three Oaks, MI
Gaze Arts to Hearts Project, International Online Exhibition
2020
89th Professional Members Show The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Little Black Dress, SideLot Experimental Film Festival, Evanston, IL
2019
Portrait of America Fabrik Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
All Women are Dangerous II Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA
The Little Black Dress-nominated for Best Mobile Short Los Angeles International Short Film Festival Los Angeles, CA
The Little Black Dress-Official Selection WRPN.TV Short, Tight + Loose Global Film Festival
The Little Black Dress-Official Selection WRPN.TV Women’s International Film Festival
2018
Alternative Perspectives (with David Burdeny + Joshua Jensen Nagle) Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
Invitational Visual Art Exhibition-All Media Brierly Gallery, New Trier High School, Winnetka, IL
On Blue (collaboration with F8 Collective) University of Michigan Gifts of Art Gallery, Taubman Center, Ann Arbor, MI
88th Members’ Exhibition The Arts Club, Chicago, IL
Impermanent Lands The Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL
2017
Alternative Perspectives (with David Burdeny + Joshua Jensen Nagle) Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
What the World Needs Now B Complex Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2016
I Witness: Activist Art and Social Movement Politics Bradley University, Peoria IL
WE AMEricans Station Independent Projects, New York, NY
Center Forward The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft.Collins, CO
Water The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO
f/8 Collective: One Another Rangefinder Gallery, Chicago, IL
Emerge 2016 Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
f/8 Collective:The Instagram Project Photo Independent, Los Angeles, CA
Artificial Turf Co-Star Studios, Evanston, IL
2015
f/8 Collective and Fabrik Projects Foto Fever, Paris, FRANCE
Portraits Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN
Summer Photo Show Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
In View- Member and Faculty Showcase The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
Midwest Contemporary Lill Street Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Meditative Surfaces The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
Grounded: f/8 Collective Photo Independent, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Summer Photography Exhibition Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
Select Pieces HBF Showroom, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
2013
Meditative Surfaces (3 person exhibition including work by Charles Gniech and Deanna Krueger) Ft. Wayne Art Museum, Ft. Wayne, IN
Mapping: borders, bodies, memories David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Chicago Project Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Summer Lens Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
Shades of Gray Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
The Magic of Light Photo Place Gallery: Online Gallery Annex, Middlebury, VT
Box Squared The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO
Family Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Birmingham, MI
Picture This: What We Photograph Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN
2012
National Art Premier Elmhurst Artist’s Guild, Elmhurst, IL
I Hear With My Eyes (selected works) Zia Gallery, Winnetka, IL
2011
Photo ‘11 Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
Reflections (selected works) ZIA Gallery, Winnetka, IL
Woman as Photographer Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN
2010
Mothers Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009
Meditative Surfaces (3 person exhibition including work by Charles Gniech and Deanna Krueger) Schoenherr Art Gallery, North Central College, Naperville, IL
Contrast The Warehouse, Cleveland, MS
Chicago Looks, Riverwalk Exhibition Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago, Chicago, IL
From Nature Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
The Preview Exhibition Art Against AIDS Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
2008
Chicago Looks, Riverwalk Exhibition Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Enduring. Omissions. Awakenings (Collaborative work) Chrome Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Preview Exhibition Art Against AIDS Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
2007
All Media Exhibition Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
2006
Aha! Epiphanies and Breakthroughs Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
2005
Mighty Midwest Biennial New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI
Structures: Interior and Exterior Architectural Spaces Gallery 350, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
Regional Juried Exhibition III Freeport Arts Center, Freeport, IL
Spirituality and Religion in the Modern World Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
Gone Fishing Freeport Arts Center, Freeport, IL
2004
Manufactured Reflections (collective work) Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
Collection Exhibition Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
“Human” National Juried Exhibition Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
120 Hours: New Mexico (collective work) Barefoot Press, Raleigh, NC
2003
12th Annual Fall American Photography Competition Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso Downs, NM
120 Hours: New Mexico (collective work) Body Elemental, Raleigh, NC
120 Hours: Memphis (collective work) Urban Studio, Chicago, IL
Annual Juried Group Exhibition The Salon Studio, Loveland, CO
COLLECTIONS
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
The Alexandra + Steven A. Cohen Collection, Greenwich, CT
The Lori + Ted Souder Family Collection, Chicago, IL
Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
Harrison Street Lofts, Chicago, IL
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, Chicago, IL
AWARDS, HONORS, & RECOGNITIONS
2021
Distinguished Alumnae of the year, Berkshire School, Sheffield, MA
2019
Portrait of America, Silver Award Winner, Fabrik Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Palm Springs Photo Festival Slideshow Finalist 2016 Winner
Midwest Photo Emerge, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
2015
3rd Place Winner of Portrait Exhibition, Minneapolis Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN
2011
Official Selection PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
2009
Ragdale Prize, Lake Forest, IL
2008
Winner Multimedia Exhibition, Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago
PUBLICATIONS
2022
The Museum of Americana, a literary review, Issue 27, Spring 2022
2021
Sheridan Road magazine, “Portrait of an Artist”, Issue #110 August, 2021
The New York Times, How Museums Are Reaching Out to Their Local Communities, Alyson Krueger, May 21, 2021
Art Daily, Montclair Art Museum Opens “Fragile Freedoms: Maggie Meiners Revisits Rockwell”, February 13, 2021
2020
UMSL Daily, “Gallery 210 features Chicago artist Maggie Meiners’ “Revisiting Rockwell’, September 4, 2020
2018
The New York Times, Reimagining Norman Rockwell’s America, Laura M. Holson, November 14, 2018
Artsy This Photographer Is Reimagining Norman Rockwell for the 21st Century, Alexxa Gotthardt, August 7, 2018
2017
Modern Luxury, NS Magazine, July 2017
Sophisticated Living, July/August 2017
The Jambar, Youngstown State University Student newspaper, January 12, 2017 The Literate Lens, “Rockwell Redux”, by Sarah J. Coleman, February, 10. 2017
2016
Ohio Magazine, “Reinventing Rockwell”, December 2016
Evanston Magazine, “Cultivating Creativity”, December 2016
The Chicago Ambassador, December 4, 2016 Sheridan Road magazine, Issue #64, November 2016
The Beverly Review, “The VAA hosts ‘Rockwell’ exhibit”, October 11, 2016
American Photo, “Photos that celebrate the Diversity of the American People”, Hannah Smith Allen July, 21, 2016
Slate, “These Photos Ask: What Does it Mean to be an American ?”, David Rosenberg, July, 13, 2016
Chicago Tribune, Suburban News-The Winnetka Talk, Thursday, May, 19, 2016
L’Oeil de la Photographie, Paris, FRANCE, Sunday, May 29, 2016
Lenscratch, featured portfolio, Revisiting Rockwell, Monday, May 30 2016
BIBA Magazine, Paris FRANCE, Monday, June 20, 2016 Winnetka Current, May 12, 2016
Chicago Fine Art Blog, April 23, 2016
Berkshire Bulletin, Fall/Winter 2016
2015
NS Magazine: Arts and Culture Issue, Modern Luxury, January 2015
Silvershotz Magazine, May 2015
Portraits, Minneapolis Photo Center
2014
The Daily Photograph, Duncan Miller Gallery, February, 2014
2013
The Daily Photograph, Duncan Miller Gallery, December, 2013
Monarch Daily: MAPPING: borders, bodies, memories October 1, 2013
PDN Pulse, Crusade for Collecting, August 23,2013
F-Stop Magazine, #60, August 2013
Picture This: What We Photograph, Minneapolis Photo Center
2012
CS Interiors, Winter issue Winnetka Current, July 11, 2012
NS Magazine, Premier Issue, Fall 2012
Market Square Musings, April 2012, October 2012
2011
Sheridan Road magazine, Issue #45 January/February 2011
F-Stop Magazine, February 2011
Winnetka Current, February 2, 2011
Woman as Photographer: Documenting Life as a Woman, Minneapolis Photo Center
2010
Sheridan Road magazine, Issue #44, December 2010
2009
Black and White magazine, Online Portfolio Gallery, August 2009
Material Girls Blog, March 25, 2009
Material Girls Blog, November 11, 2009
Chicago Fine Art Blog, February 23, 2009
CS Interiors Summer issue Chicago Fine Art Blog, April 1, 2009
Chicago Fine Art Blog, August 26, 2009
Chicago Fine Art Blog, September 23, 2009
2008
iBIENNIAL, 1st Edition, Artoteque.com
New City, September 16, 2008
Factio Magazine, September 2008,
"Childhood Contemplations" Chicago Home Magazine Blog. “Design Dose” July 21, 2008
Home Canary Blog, May 19, 2008
LECTURES
2023
“The A Game: the Authenticity of Self in Conceptual Image Making”, Chicago Photogrpahic Arts Society, Deerfield, IL
“Revisiting Rockwell: Examining Diversity in Americana”, Missouri Arts Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2022
“The A Game: the Authenticity of Self in Image Making”, Maine Media Alumni Lecture, Rockport, ME
2018
Guest lecturer, New Trier High School, Winnetka, IL
“Art is Not a Luxury”, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2017
Interview, The Lisa D. Show, Podcast, Soundcloud Evanston, IL
Artist Talk, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Professional Practices in Photography, Master Class, Instructor, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL
Perspectives in Photography, Master Class, Instructor, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL
Instructor, Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods, Deerfield, IL
Juror, Chicago Botanic Garden, Student Exhibition
Juror, New Trier High School, AP Student Art Exhibition
2016
Pro Vita, Visiting Artist, Berkshire School, Sheffield, MA
Guest Speaker-North Shore Camera Club, Professional Practices in Photography, Evanston, IL
Professional Practices in Photography, Master Class, Instructor, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL
Artist Talk, Revisiting Rockwell, Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
Juror, Chicago Botanic Garden, Student Exhibition
2013
Latitude Chicago/ Filter Photo Festival Panel Discussion, “How to Prepare for a Portfolio Review” Chicago, IL
HBF Textiles Chicago, IL,
“The Art of Collecting Photography” Evanston Open Studios Evanston, IL
“For the Love of Art: How to Begin and Define an Art Collection” Artist Talk, Meditative Surfaces, Ft. Wayne Art Museum, Ft. Wayne, IN
2011
Stevenson High School Gallery Talk Lincolnshire, IL
Wheaton College Gallery Talk, Wheaton, IL
RESIDENCIES
2023
Picture BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
2019
Pocoapoco Oaxaca, MEXICO
2009
The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
EDUCATION
2021
MFA in Media Studies, Maine Media College
1996
MEd in Elementary Education DePaul University
1994
BA in Anthropology University of Colorado-Boulder
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2014-2018
Founding member of f8 Collective
2014-2019
Founding member of Chicago Women in Photography
2016-2018
Co-Director, Platform, Evanston, IL
2013-2017
Board member, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL
2005-2017 , 2021-2023