Megan Jenkinson

Megan Lillian Jenkinson
Born1958 (age 66–67)
Hamilton, New Zealand
Known forPhotography

Megan Lillian Jenkinson (born 1958) is a New Zealand photographer.

Background

Jenkinson was born in 1958 in Hamilton, New Zealand.[1]

Career

Jenkinson works primarily as a photographer and is an associate professor at the Elam School of Fine Arts.[2]

In December 2005, Jenkinson traveled to the Antarctica as part of the Artists to Antarctica fellowship programme.[3] Her photographs taken during this time we exhibited during the 2008 Photography Festival at Two Rooms Gallery[4] and in 2007 at the Jonathan Smart Gallery in Christchurch.[5]

In 2007, Jenkinson won the Jury Award at the Wallace Art Awards with her work Atmospheric Optics V.[6] She has received the 1989 Montana Lindauer Art Award and the Graphics Prize at the 1999 Sharjah International Art Biennal.[7]

Work by Jenkinson is held in the public collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; the Sarjeant Gallery, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki,[8] Aigantighe Art Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Art Gallery of New South Wales, and National Gallery of Australia.[4] She is represented in Auckland by Two Rooms[9] and Christchurch by Jonathan Smart Gallery.[10]

Exhibitions

Jenkinson has exhibited for over thirty years, both in New Zealand and internationally.[4] Exhibitions include:

  • 2016, The Coincident Present, Two Rooms, Auckland
  • 2016, Other Space, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • 2014, Double Vision, Bartley + Company Art, Wellington (with Mary-Louise Browne)
  • 2014, So Last Century, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch (group show)
  • 2014, phyto-plasts, Two Rooms, Auckland
  • 2011, Drift, Two Rooms, Auckland
  • 2009, Second Silence, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • 2007, The Dark Continent, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • 2004, Afterword: The Colours, Colour Codes, and Cloud of Unknowning, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • 1999, Sharjah Biennale (group show)
  • 1996, The Virtues (touring show)[11]
  • 1990, The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art (Sydney Biennale, group show)
  • 1989, Esslingen Photo Triennale (group show)
  • 1989, Photography Now, Victoria and Albert Museum (group show)

References

  1. ^ "Megan Jenkinson". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Associate Professor Megan Jenkinson". The University of Auckland. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Alumni of the community engagement programme". Antarctica New Zealand. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  4. ^ a b c "Megan Jenkinson". Ocula. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  5. ^ "The Dark Continent". Jonathan Smart Gallery. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Awards 2007". Wallace Arts Trust. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  7. ^ "Associate Professor Megan Jenkinson". The University of Auckland. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  8. ^ "Megan Jenkinson". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  9. ^ "Megan Jenkinson". Two Rooms. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  10. ^ "Artists". Jonathan Smart Gallery. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  11. ^ "The Virtues: Megan Jenkinson". Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Retrieved 13 December 2017.

Further reading

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