Meg Rotzel is an artist, curator and producer of exhibitions and public programs in the research university context. Her artwork is rooted in the practice of noticing, drawing, and recording through image. Working with a variety of media including graphite, ink, watercolor, ceramics and found objects, she assembles artworks that connect with the phenomenon of seeing, sensing, and making sense.
She is curator of exhibitions at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study where she organizes contemporary art projects in the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, and exhibitions that draw from the collections of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. She has organized exhibitions with Xiveria Simmons, Gala Porras-Kim, Clarissa Tossin, Mary Lum, Tomashi Jackson, Jill Slosburg-Ackerman, Anthony Romero, and E.J. Hill among others.
Meg worked for a decade at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she connected artistic disciplines to research in science, technology, and the humanities. She created new artworks together with faculty, labs and centers through various programs originating from the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, the MIT program in Art, Culture and Technology, and the Center for Art, Science and Technology. While at MIT she produced artworks with Mel Chin, Joan Jonas and Jason Moran, Fritz Haeg, Xavier Le Roy, Rick Lowe, Trevor Paglen, Otto Piene, Tomas Saraceno, and Anika Yi, among many others.
Meg received a MA from Brown University in Public Humanities, a BFA from Tufts University, and a Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. After attending art school, she founded and directed the Boston based artist-run non-profit Berwick Research Institute with other area artists, and developed residency programs for artists and curators in their early careers. Meg is a recipient of grants and awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, the St. Botolft Foundation, and others.
All images copyright Meg Rotzel, 2025