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

Background

Jenkinson was born in 1958 in

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, New Zealand.

Career

Jenkinson works primarily as a photographer and is an associate professor at the Elam School of Fine Arts. In December 2005 Jenkinson traveled to the Antarctica as part of the

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fellowship programme. Her photographs taken during this time we exhibited during the 2008 Photography Festival at Two Rooms Gallery and in 2007 at the Jonathan Smart Gallery in Christchurch. In 2007 Jenkinson won the Jury Award at the Wallace Art Awards with her work ''Atmospheric Optics V''. She has received the 1989 Montana Lindauer Art Award and the Graphics Prize at the 1999 Sharjah International Art Biennal. Work by Jenkinson is held in the public collections of the

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; the

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, Dunedin Public Art Gallery,

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, Aigantighe Art Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum,

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, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston),

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, and National Gallery of Australia. She is represented in Auckland by Two Rooms and Chistchurch by Jonathan Smart Gallery.

Exhibitions

Jenkinson has exhibited for over thirty years, both in New Zealand and internationally. 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,

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(group show) * 1996, ''The Virtues'' (touring show) * 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)

Background

Career

Exhibitions

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Further reading