Meghan Bailey is a Boston-based artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the Northeast. She is part of the Somerville, MA artist community and maintains a studio at 11 Miller Street Studios. Meghan holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University, a BFA in Painting from MassArt, and an MS in Library Science and Archives Management from Simmons University. 

As an archivist at the UMass Boston Archives, Meghan spent her 2024 sabbatical exploring how artists engage with archival materials and how the Archives can better support this community, integrate innovative uses of primary resources, and showcase the intersection of art and archives through the Grossmann Gallery. 

Her work with historical collections informs her artwork, where she uses paint to explore industrial detritus, the digital shift, their inherent politics, and how art can reinterpret meaning. Through gestural abstraction, she integrates textile patterns and vibrant colors that evoke a fractured landscape.