Megan Jenkinson's career in Art spans four decades.  After graduating with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Auckland Jenkinson painted silk fabrics for clothes she designed. This led to a career as Associate Professor in FIne Arts the Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland until 2018.

 

Jenkinson has exhibited her photo-collages nationally and internationally, at major art events such as the Sydney Biennale, 1990 the Sharjah Biennale, 1998, and in significant exhibitions such as Photography Now, 1989 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (commemorating the first 150 years of Photography).

 

Jenkinson’s most significant projects include The Virtues, 1996, and The Antarctica Project, 2007-2014.  The Virtues toured to eight local public art galleries and is accompanied by the book Under the Aegis: The Virtues, 1997. More recently, The Light Horizon is a culmination of work produced for several exhibitions inspired by her visit to Antarctica as an Antarctic Arts Fellow, 2005.  

 

Her artworks are held in nine local, and several international, collections including the Museum of New Zealand Re Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; V&A Museum, London; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the National Gallery, Canberra, Australia.