Meg Saligman

Meg Saligman is an internationally recognized American artist. She is best known for large scale murals and has painted more than fifty murals internationally, including several of the largest murals in the United States. The artist is known for mixing classical and contemporary aspects of painting, and for her community centered process. Saligman's seminal murals were painted in the late 1990s-early 2000s are credited as exceptionally influential to the contemporary mural movement. Saligman currently lives in Philadelphia.

Saligman grew up in the small town of Olean, New York. In high school she helped to paint one of the murals in Olean. Saligman's first independent mural was painted on the front of a sweater factory that no longer exists. It was owned by a man that is now her husband. She attended Washington University where she earned a degree in painting.

Saligman is known for mixing classical and contemporary painting techniques with an emphasis on figurative compositions with abstract accents. Her practice is focused on community, collaboration, and site specificity. Saligman’s process often relates to themes of social practice in contemporary art, with the idea that exchange is essential between the viewer or participant, the artist, and the artwork.

Saligman's public art can be divided into three distinct, but related, bodies of work: large-scale exterior murals, hybrid interior/exterior projects, and installations.

Murals

We Will Not Be Satisfied Until (2015)
Water Tower, Water Tale (2013)
Hues of the Heart (2012)
Magic Hour (2012)
The Evolving Faces of Nursing (2010)
Fertile Ground (2009)
Passing Through (2004)
Theater of Life (2002)
Once in a Millennium Moon (2000)
Common Threads (1998)

Saligman's best known mural is Common Threads located in Philadelphia. It is painted on the west wall of the Stevens Administrative Center at the corner of Broad and Spring Garden streets. The mural uses portraiture of local high school students alongside antique dolls owned by Saligman's grandmother to commentate on shared humanity.

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