CURRICULUM VITAE
Meghan Bogden Shimek | b. 1979, Flint, MI | living Oakland, CA
EDUCATION
2007 BS, Dietetics: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2002 BA, History: Oakland University, Rochester, MI
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2026 U.S. Embassy in Qatar (in progress)
2024 Milton Village, Atlanta, GA
Foggy Notion, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
Crux Capital, Dallas, TX
2023 Google, Mountain View, CA
2022 Etsy, Brooklyn, NY
Royal Palaces of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Libra Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2021 Google Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Al Solito Posto, Las Vegas, NV
Lattice, San Francisco, CA
2020 Sera Design, Oakland, CA
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, San Francisco, CA
Google ATAP, Mountain View, CA
My Sphere, Oakland, CA
2019 Alta Waverly Apartments, Oakland, CA
ThredUp, Oakland, CA
Google Engineering, Mountain View, CA
Google Experience Center, Tokyo, Japan
Wave Capital, San Francisco, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Retreat, San Francisco, CA
Headprint Studio, San Francisco, CA
Vintage, Berkeley, CA
2023 Garin, New York, NY
Grand Bohemian Gallery, Charleston, SC
2022 The Mill, San Francisco, CA
Rare Device, San Francisco, CA
2020 Esqueleto, Los Ángeles, CA
2019 Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gamble Plus Design, San Francisco, CA
2018 Hello Stranger, Oakland, CA
2017 Fiber Works, Edo Salon, San Francisco, CA
Esqueleto, Oakland, CA
Portland Garment Factory, Portland, OR
I AM THAT, Portland, OR
Incarnadine, Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Poketo, Los Angeles, CA
The Line Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Transformation, Local Language Art, Oakland, CA
Deactivated History, The Mill, San Francisco, CA
2016 Little Paper Planes, San Francisco, CA
Re-search, Stumptown, Portland, OR
Interactions, Makers Mess, Los Angeles, CA
Not So Alone, Strangematter, Lansing, MI
2015 Esqueleto, Oakland, CA
Bell Jar, San Francisco, CA
ROVE, Seattle, WA
Onyx, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV
2025 Carpet Diem, Paris, France
And Friends, Santa Cruz, CA
Flavio Dolce Projects, New Orleans, LA
Orchard on 25, Oakland, CA
Krasl Art Center, Saint Joseph, MI
Small Works, San Francisco, CA
Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2024 Analog Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Joanne Artman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Uptown Fine Art, Oakland, CA
Asaad Bruno - Light Travels, Oakland, CA
2023 Turkish Textile Biennial, Izmir, Turkey
Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Sarasota Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
2022 Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
2021 Skye Gallery, Aspen, CO
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Esther B O’Keefe Gallery at the Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach FL
2019 Capsule Gallery, Houston, TX
2018 Pure Not Proper, Los Angeles, CA
Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2017 Corner Apartment, San Francisco, CA
Material Musings, Bank of America, Houston, TX
Peep Show, Mule Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 The Artisans, La Villa Rose, Paris, France
Show and Tell, Los Angeles, CA
Yael Design, Ross, CA
West Coast Craft, San Francisco, CA
Thread and Colour, The Gallery, Paddington, Australia
Fibers of Design, San Antonio, TX
Hanging Out, Nido Living, San Francisco, CA
2015 Closest to Clouds, Have Company, Grand Rapids, MI
2014 QRNRMRKT, Velouria, Seattle, WA
Gradient Pink, Ogaard, Oakland, CA
2013 Closed Circuit, LoveCityLove, Seattle, WA
RESIDENCIES
2022 Julie Berranger, Paris, France
2021 Abbey Carpet, El Cerrito, CA
2017 Local Language Art, Oakland, CA
2015 Ogaard Textile Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015 Have Company, Grand Rapids, MI
LECTURES AND PUBLIC EVENTS
2025 Minted, San Francisco, CA
Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, San Francisco, CA
Weed Auntie, New York, NY
2023 Oakland Style, Oakland, CA
Tapestry Weavers West
2022 Camp Minted
San Francisco State University
2019 Allbirds, San Francisco, CA
2018 Panelist, The Assembly, San Francisco, CA
2017 Panelist, Workshop, The Weaving Kind, Boulder, CO
Speaker, Athena Conference, Bozeman, MO
Panelist, West Coast Craft, San Francisco, CA
Artist Talk, Poketo, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Talk, Anthropologie, Walnut Creek, CA
2014 - present: weaving workshops nationally and internationally