b. auckland, new zealand. lives and works in Detroit.
Megan Christiansen is a Visual artist and educator working in photography, experimental video, installation, and performance. She utilizes this interdisciplinary practice to explore the performance of gender, race, and sexuality and how these performances are imaged. She is interested in exploring how racism and misogyny infiltrate and structure the pornographic media landscape in particular and contemporary media in general – questioning how these power systems are performed, re-performed, re-articulated, and re-imagined within this circulated visual economy. In particular, she interrogates the construction and currency of white female sexuality by imaging her own participation within these oppressive structures. She has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the DNA Gallery Summer residency, and the Teaching Artist Project. She has taught at Wittenberg University, Rhode Island School of Design, and incarcerated students at Wilmington College. She currently teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit.
education:
Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Fine Arts with a Certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art & Design, Photography, 2021
Auckland University of Technology, Bachelor of Art and Design, Spatial Design, 2012