Megan Lillian Jenkinson | |
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| Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
| Known for | Photography |
Megan Lillian Jenkinson (born 1958) is a New Zealand photographer.
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]
Jenkinson has exhibited for over thirty years, both in New Zealand and internationally.[4] Exhibitions include:
