Meghan Deroma

Meghan DeRoma (b. Chicago, IL, US) is a visual artist working in collage, painting, sculpture, installation, and curation. Blurring the lines between narrative, representation, and abstraction, DeRoma focuses on the archetypal symbols and themes of the intricacy and nuance of human relationship—our relationship to Self, other humans, the “other”, (wo)man’s relationship with nature, and our own inherent wildness.

Overlaying themes include curiosity, gestural flow, and a sly-smile approach to obscured symbolism and playful mixed metaphor. Her process involves discovery and articulation, using her hands and organic materials, many of which have an inherent history, to imply a sense of ethereal nostalgia, familiarity, and memory’s edge.

DeRoma received her BFA in Sculpture from Miami University, Oxford, OH. She has completed coursework at the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia University, Chicago, and creative writing at Harvard University under film director Catherine Eaton. She is an artist member and curator at Dorado 806 Projects in Santa Monica and lives and works in Venice, CA.

2023 Animas Valley Institute, Soulcraft Depth Psychology Intensive
2018 Harvard University, Creative Writing
2004 Columbia University, Chicago, Digital Arts
2000 Residency, Art Institute of Chicago, Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI, Glassblowing
2000 Miami University, Oxford, OH, BFA Sculpture and Photography, Minor Psychology

2023
Venice Art Crawl, Flavio Biscotti House, Venice, CA
Forage, Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA
Asteroids Killed the Dinosaurs, Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA
Are Friends Electric?, Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, Curated by Mark X Farina
California Dreaming, Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA
Illustrators 65 Show, Museum of the Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
CHTV, Pasadena, CA, Curated by Yiwei Lu


2022
The Picture Book Art Show, Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA
Let’s Get Phygital, Dorado 806 Projects Group Show, Santa Monica, CA
Venice Art Crawl, Flavio Biscotti House, Venice, CA
Head in the Clouds, Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA

2021
The Original Art Show, Museum of the Society of Illustrators, New York, NY