Megan Hamilton. Artist. Photographer.
Artist Bio
Megan Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist currently living in Tkaronto who recently completed her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design 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, video, found object, painting, and silkscreen, to explore death, grief, liminal spaces, identity and memory. Processes of manipulation/mutation reoccur to create other-worldly places of the uncanny and unseen, embedded with emotional residue. Wandering through the cemetery, creating portals to the other side, a practice informed by ritual, art becomes a method of working through the effects of trauma and mental illness. Megan has shown work in an array of exhibitions including at Ignite Gallery, The Marion Nicoll 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
2025
One stick alone is just a stick, group exhibition, Xpace Cultural Centre, 303 Lansdowne Ave, Toronto, ON
2025
2024
Among flowers and bones, solo exhibition, Ignite Gallery, 100 McCaul St, Toronto, ON
The Spaces In-Between, group exhibition, The Grad Gallery, Toronto, ON
2024
2024
2023
Exquisite Corpse, group exhibition, The Grad Gallery, Toronto, ON
Don’t look at me I’m hideous, group exhibition, The Great Hall, OCADU, Toronto, ON
Messadology, group exhibition, Open Space Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023
2023
2022
2022
2022
2022
2022
2022
2022
2021
2021
2021
2021
2021
2020
Emerging Photographers Showcase, group exhibition, Contemporary Calgary, Exposure Photo Festival, Calgary, AB
Rewinding the Tape- Volume 2, group exhibition, Marion Nicoll Gallery, curated by the Hear/d Residency for Exposure Photo Festival, Calgary, AB
Burial Grove, solo exhibition, The Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, AB
A drop into Memory, group exhibition, The Queten Doolittle Memorial Gallery, Calgary, AB
AUArts Grad Show, group exhibition, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB
The fourth-year photo showcase, group exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
Subject to Change, group exhibition for the Hear(d) Residency, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
Rewinding the Tape, group exhibition at the Marion Nicoll Gallery and online, curated by The Hear(d) Residency for Exposure Photography Festival, Calgary, AB
The Painting Show, group exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
Where Art Belongs FINA 450, group exhibition, Room 371, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
Drawing Department Exhibition, group exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
Guess Who Pathfinders, group exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, online at the Marion Nicoll Gallery Website, Calgary, AB
Uncanny Dwellings, group exhibition online, Alberta University of the Arts
The 15th Annual Horse Show, group exhibition online, Alberta University of the Arts
The Drawing Show, group exhibition, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB