Megan Jenkinson

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

Megan Lillian Jenkinson
Born1958 (age 64–65)
Hamilton, New Zealand
Known forPhotography

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 Chistchurch 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. "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.

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