b. auckland, new zealand. lives and works in NY.
Megan Christiansen is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator who works across experimental video, photography, performance, installation, and printmaking to investigate how images construct and circulate ideas and performances of race, gender, sexuality, whiteness, and power, and how these representations shape collective memory and everyday social and political life. Drawing on archival research, documentary strategies, and staged image-making, her practice occupies the gap between representation and lived experience, unraveling how media teaches us what to desire, fear, remember, and believe.
She has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, DNA Gallery, and the Teaching Artist Project. Her work has been exhibited at Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts, ClampArt, Power Plant Gallery, and the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Her work is held in the RISD Museum and private collections internationally. She has taught at Wittenberg University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Wayne State University, and Wilmington College’s prison education program.
education:
Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Fine Arts, photography
Rhode Island School of Design, Certificate of Collegiate Teaching in Art & Design
Auckland University of Technology, Bachelor of Art and Design, Spatial Design