Megan Rye is an American painter, living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), earning a BFA in Painting in 1998, with an Art History concentration. Her senior year at RISD was spent in Rome, as a participant in the European Honors Program. She was awarded an MFA in Painting from the University of Minnesota in 2003, where she received a Graduate School Fellowship. In 2005 Rye was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.