Megan Hamilton. Artist. Photographer.
Artist Bio
Megan Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist currently living in Tkaronto and completing her Masters of Fine Art at OCADU. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta University of the Arts on Treaty 7 territory. Her practice incorporates a variety of mediums such as photography, found object, painting, collage and silkscreen, to convey and explore ideas of death, grief, liminal spaces, identity and memory. Concealment and manipulation/mutation, are reoccurring techniques used to create other-worldly places of the uncanny and unseen, embedded with emotional residue. Megan has shown work in an array of exhibitions including at The Marion Nicoll Gallery, The Illingworth Kerr Gallery and Contemporary Calgary. She was awarded the TREX Emerging Photographer of the Year Award and the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographer Award in 2023.
Education
2023- 2025
Ontario College of Art and Design University, MFA
2017-2022
Alberta University of the Arts, BFA
Residencies
2021-2022
The Hear(d) Residency, AUARTSSA, Calgary, AB
Exhibitions
2024
Don’t look at me I’m hideous, group exhibition, The Great Hall, OCADU, Toronto, ON
2023
Messadology, group exhibition, Open Space Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023
Emerging Photographers Showcase, group exhibition, Contemporary Calgary, Exposure Photo Festival, Calgary, AB
2023
Rewinding the Tape- Volume 2, group exhibition, Marion Nicoll Gallery, curated by the Hear/d Residency for Exposure Photo Festival, Calgary, AB
2022
Burial Grove, solo exhibition, The Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, AB
2022
A drop into Memory, group exhibition, The Queten Doolittle Memorial Gallery, Calgary, AB
2022
AUArts Grad Show, group exhibition, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB
2022
The fourth-year photo showcase, group exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2022
Subject to Change, group exhibition for the Hear(d) Residency, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2022
Rewinding the Tape, group exhibition at the Marion Nicoll Gallery and online, curated by The Hear(d) Residency for Exposure Photography Festival, Calgary, AB
2022
The Painting Show, group exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2021
Where Art Belongs FINA 450, group exhibition, Room 371, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2021
Drawing Department Exhibition, group exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2021
Guess Who Pathfinders, group exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, online at the Marion Nicoll Gallery Website, Calgary, AB
2021
Uncanny Dwellings, group exhibition online, Alberta University of the Arts
2021
The 15th Annual Horse Show, group exhibition online, Alberta University of the Arts
2020
The Drawing Show, group exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB