McCann received her BFA Washington University in St. Louis, MFA Yale University, and studied at Yale/Norfolk and the New York Studio School. Her solo exhibitions include Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura in Milan, The Painting Center in NYC, and Artemesia Gallery in Chicago, and her work has been reviewed in La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, the LA Times, Huffington Post and NY Observer; awards include Fulbright, Ingram-Merrill, Blanche E. Colman, and NH State Council grants, and residencies at Ragdale, Millay, AAiR, and Cite des Arts in Paris. McCann also teaches at the Art Students League and Montclair State U., and has taught at UVA, Semester at Sea, Pratt, Syracuse U., Boston U, Stockton and UNH – and in Rome, Italy at RISD, Trinity and Saint Marys colleges, U. of Loyola-Chicago, and John Cabot U.

Margaret McCann’s paintings feature giant figures inspired by Roman monuments, cubo-surrealist still life, self-portraits with quasi-architectural headdresses, and elements of Atlantic City.McCann’s reviews have been published on Painters Table blog and in Art New England. She served as editor for “The Figure” (Skira/Rizzoli – NYAA 2014), which revolves around the evolution of techniques, from perspective and the camera obscura to the use of photography, Photoshop, and 3D-modeling in contemporary figurative art. Essays also address changing cultural concerns (Greek philosophy, Christianity, democracy and fascism, Freud, mechanical reproduction and kitsch, feminism, etc.) in the western tradition from antiquity to present day. Writers include Bob Colacello, Vincent Desiderio, Judy Fox, Natalie Frank, Donald Kuspit, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Anne Harris, Hillary Harkness, Julie Heffernan, F. Scott Hess, Laurie Hogin, Alex Kanevsky, Kurt Kauper, Steve Mumford, Scott Noel, Richard Phillips, Rona Pondick, Irving Sandler, Robert Taplin, Nicola Verlato, and Alexi Worth.