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