Megan JenkinsonBorn 1958, Hamilton, New Zealand Awards/Scholarships2005-6 - Antarctic Arts Fellow 1999 - Graphics Prize - The Sharjah International Art Biennal, United Arab Emirates 1995 - Creative New Zealand assistance for the publication 'Under the Aegis: The Virtues' 1993 - Moet and Chandon one month residency in France 1989 - The Montana Lindauer Art Award 1988 - Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, sponsored attendance at the 1988 Houston Foto Festival to deliver a lecture on Contemporary New Zealand Photography 1984 - Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand Travel Award 1977 - Senior Prize in Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts Public Collections - InternationalArt Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney - Australia Public Collections - New ZealandAuckland City Art Gallery - Auckland Solo Exhibitions - International2004 - After/Word, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 1999 - The Virtues - The Sharjah International Art Biennal, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 1989 - Photographs by Megan Jenkinson - Internationale Foto - Triennale, Esslingen 1989, Villa Merkel - Esslingen am Neckar - West Germany 1985 - Photographs by Megan Jenkinson -The Photographers Gallery Print Room - London - England 1984: Photographs by Megan Jenkinson - Polaroid Exhibition at Photokina - Cologne - West Germany Solo Exhibitions - New Zealand2015 - Other Space, Jonathan Smart Gallery - Christchurch 2009 - Second Silence, Jonathan Smart Gallery - Christchurch 2007 - The Dark Continent, Jonathan Smart Gallery - Christchurch 2004 - The Colours, Colour Codes and The Cloud of Unknowing, Jonathan Smart Gallery - Christchurch 2000 - On the Ruins of Uncertain Sciences, Jonathan Smart Gallery - Christchurch 1996 - 1999 - The Virtues, 1995 - Per Genus et Differentiam, Andrew Jensen Gallery - Wellington 1993 - In Omne Tempus - For all time, Jonathan Jensen Gallery - Christchurch 1992 - Per Genus et Differentiam, Govett Brewester Art Gallery - New Plymouth 1987 - Atticamorphous, Real Pictures Gallery - Auckland 1986 - Disarray in Aequilibria, Real Pictures Gallery - Auckland 1983 - Photographs by Megan Jenkinson, Wairarapa Arts Centre - Masterton 1982 - Rediscovering Galapagos, Real Pictures Gallery - Auckland 1979 - Photogrpahs by Megan Jenkinson, Elam School of Fine Arts Library Selected Group Exhibitions - International1996 - 7 - The Inner Eye - Art Beyond the Visible 1992 - Headlands - Thinking through New Zealand Art, Museum of Contemporary Art - Sydney - Australia 1991 - La Photographie en miettes I, Georges Pompidou Centre - Paris - France 1990 - The Eighth Biennale of Sydney 1990 - The Readymade Boomerang
(Certain Relations in 20th Century Art) - The Bond Store - Sydney -
Australia 1990 - Heart and Land - Contemporary Works on Paper from Aotearoa, New Zealand - Australia (Touring Exhibition) 1989 - Photography Now, Victoria and Albert Museum - London - U.K. 1986 - Selection 3 (Works From the Polaroid Collection - Offenbach - West Germany) - Polaroid International Touring Exhibition Selected Group Exhibitions2005 - TiesThat Bind, Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington. 2004 - Cut-Outs, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, curated by Gavin Hurley. 2003 - ImageAndObject - Still Life in New Zealand. Pataka, Porirua. 2002 - Victory over Death - About Photography, curated by Peter Ireland. Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington.
2001-2 Votive - Sacred and Ecstatic Bodies. Adam Art Gallery and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2002, curated by Christopher Braddock and Mark Jackson. Exhibitiors: Ian Breakwell (Britain); Pierre and Gilles (France); Cathy de Moncheaux (Britain); Christopher Braddock and Megan Jenkinson (New Zealand). 2001 - Looking Back, curated by Peter Ireland, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington. 2000 - Not By Subject - curated by Peter Ireland and D'Arcy Dalzell, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui. 1999-2000 - Manufacturing Meaning - The University of Wellington Art Collection in Context - Adam Art Gallery - Wellington, Exhibition concept, Christina Barton. Guest Curator, Anna Miles. 1998 - C6H10O - Jensen Gallery - Auckland 1995 - Currency - Photo Forum group exhibition - Auckland War Memorial Museum - Auckland 1994 - Auckland Photographers Now --Photo Forum group exhibition - Auckland War Memorial Museum - Auckland 1992 - Headlands - Thinking through New Zealand Art, Touring Exhibition 1991 - Constructiva - Five Woman Photographers, Jonathan Jensen Gallery - Christchurch 1990 - Eye to Eye, The George Fraser Gallery - Auckland 1989 - Seven Photographers' Update, Sarjeant Gallery - Wanganui 1988 - N.Z.XI, Auckland City Art Gallery - Auckland
1987: Auckland/Halifax Exchange, Artspace - Auckland 1986 - Someone's Schemeing (Aspects of a rapidly changing city) 1985 - Elam Staff Exhibition, Elam Library - University of Auckland 1984 - Real Pictures House Show, Real Pictures Gallery - Auckland 1983 - Elam in Focus, Elam School of Fine Arts - University of Auckland 1982 - Real Pictures House Show, Real Pictures Gallery - Auckland 1981 - Furniture - 100m2, Federal Street - Auckland 1980 - Kolorplaten - An Exhibition of Colour Xerography, Real Pictures Gallery - Auckland
1979 - Photo-Forum 1979, Auckland War Memorial Museum - Auckland and 26 Harris Street - Wellington 1978 - Campus Arts North Photographic Exhibition, Auckland
University Maidment Centre - Auckland (Touring Exhibition - New Zealand) Bibliography1997 - Jenkinson, Megan. Under the Aegis: The Virtues. Ed. by Peter Shand with essays by: Marina Warner, Elizabeth Eastmond, Dougal Blyth and Tom Stevenson, Marcus Wilson, Denys L. Drysdall and Laurence Simmons (Auckland, Fortuna Press) 1995 - Jenkinson, Megan. Per Genus et Differentiam - By Kind and Difference - Essay by Priscilla Pitts (Catalogue) Selected Bibliograohy2004 - O'Brien, Gregory. Welcome to the South Seas - Contemporary New Zealand Art for Young People, Auckland University Press, 2004 2002 - Jackson, Mark and McFarlane, Kyla, Votive - Sacred and
Ecstatic Bodies, Adam Art Gallery and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2002 2001 - Ireland, Peter, Looking Back, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington 1999 - Miles, Anna, Manufacturing Meaning, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington 1998 - Niklaus Peter, ed. Megan Jenkinson, The Virtues , Zeit Schrift, Bern 1996 - Brown, Warwick. Another 100 New Zealand Artists - (Auckland, Godwit ) 1993 - Main, William and Turner, John B., New Zealand Photography from the 1840's to the Present, PhotoForum Inc, Auckland 1992 - Barr, Jim and Mary, ed., Headlands - Thinking through New Zealand Art - (Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art Ltd) 1991 - Millbank, Bill and Ennis, Helen, 175° East - A Tasmania/New Zealand Photographic Exchange, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui 1990 - Heart & Land - Contemporary Works on Paper from Aotearoa New Zealand 1989 - The Montana Lindauer Art Award 1989 - Haworth-Booth, Mark, Photography Now, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Dirk Nishen Publishing, London 1988 - N.Z.X.I., Auckland City Art Gallery - Auckland 1987 - Six Woman Photographers, Photo-Forum New Zealand 1986 - Selections 3, From the Polaroid Collection - Offenbach 1983 - The Way We Like It, Photo-Forum Desk Diary of Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, PhotoForum, Auckland Writing (Essays / Reviews)2002 - Jenkinson, Megan, Beauty and Waste. Landfall 204, Spring 2002. Pg's 181-185). Commissions1999 - Cover of The End of the Century and Other Stories - Christine Johnston 1995 - Cover of The Warrior Queen - Barbara Else 1993 - Pagework for the New Zealand Yearbook - 1993 1990 - Cover of The Veteran Perils - short stories by Damien Wilkins 1989 - Artwork commissioned by the National Library of New Zealand for the Hearts and Minds exhibition in celebration of the centenary of Katherine Mansfield's Birth 1988 - Cover of Creative Camera - 10/1988 1987 - Cover of Antic 2 Magazine |