{{Short description|New Zealand photographer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox artist | name = Megan Lillian Jenkinson | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1958}} | birth_place = Hamilton, New Zealand | known_for = Photography }}
'''Megan Lillian Jenkinson''' (born 1958) is a New Zealand photographer.
== Background == Jenkinson was born in 1958 in Hamilton, New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://findnzartists.org.nz/artist/7762/|title=Megan Jenkinson|website=findnzartists.org.nz|language=en|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref>
== Career == Jenkinson works primarily as a photographer and is an associate professor at the Elam School of Fine Arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/people/elam/m-jenkinson|title=Associate Professor Megan Jenkinson|website=The University of Auckland|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref>
In December 2005, Jenkinson traveled to the Antarctica as part of the Artists to Antarctica fellowship programme.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.antarcticanz.govt.nz/education/communityengagementprogramme/alumni/|title=Alumni of the community engagement programme|website=Antarctica New Zealand|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref> Her photographs taken during this time we exhibited during the 2008 Photography Festival at Two Rooms Gallery<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://ocula.com/artists/megan-jenkinson/|title=Megan Jenkinson|work=Ocula|access-date=13 December 2017|language=en}}</ref> and in 2007 at the Jonathan Smart Gallery in Christchurch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jonathansmartgallery.com/content/view/84/|title=The Dark Continent|website=Jonathan Smart Gallery|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref>
In 2007, Jenkinson won the Jury Award at the Wallace Art Awards with her work ''Atmospheric Optics V''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://wallaceartstrust.org.nz/awards-2007/|title=Awards 2007|work=Wallace Arts Trust|access-date=12 December 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> She has received the 1989 Montana Lindauer Art Award and the Graphics Prize at the 1999 Sharjah International Art Biennal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/people/elam/m-jenkinson|title=Associate Professor Megan Jenkinson|website=The University of Auckland|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref>
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,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artist/2298/megan-jenkinson|title=Megan Jenkinson|work=Auckland Art Gallery|access-date=13 December 2017|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /> She is represented in Auckland by Two Rooms<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tworooms.co.nz/artists/megan-jenkinson/|title=Megan Jenkinson|website=Two Rooms|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref> and Christchurch by Jonathan Smart Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jonathansmartgallery.com/content/blogcategory/16/38/|title=Artists|website=Jonathan Smart Gallery|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref>
=== Exhibitions === Jenkinson has exhibited for over thirty years, both in New Zealand and internationally.<ref name=":0" /> Exhibitions include:{{Expand list|date=December 2017}} * 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)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/the-virtues-megan-jenkinson|title=The Virtues: Megan Jenkinson|website=Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref> * 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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== Further reading == Artist files for Megan Jenkinson are held at: * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/11/ Angela Morton Collection, Takapuna Library] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/1/ E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/2/ Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/6/ Fine Arts Library, University of Auckland] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/3/ Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/4/ Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] * [http://findnzartists.org.nz/artists/artist-file/8/ Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury]
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