Megan Christiansen

Born in 1989 in Auckland, New Zealand. Megan Christiansen is a Visual artist and educator working in photography, experimental video installation, and performance. 

She utilizes analog and digital photography, video art, sonic practices, and performance to explore the performance of gender, race, and sexuality and how these performances are imaged. She is interested in exploring how racism and misogyny infiltrate and structure the pornographic media landscape in particular and contemporary media in general – questioning how these power systems are performed, re-performed, re-articulated, and re-imagined within this circulated visual economy. In particular, she interrogates the construction and currency of white female sexuality by imaging her own participation within these oppressive structures. 

She received her MFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2021 and her BFA in Spatial Design from the Auckland Institute of Technology in 2013. She lives and works in Harlem, NY.k.