Bio:

Megan Jacobs’ creative art explores delicate relationships—our existence as material and concept, the interweaving between two partners in love, the bond of parent and child, and the interdependence of humans and the natural world. Her work uses photographs, video projections, time-based media, glass, and ice metaphorically to illustrate the mutability of these foundational relationships. 

Jacobs work has been exhibited broadly in over 100 solo and group shows nationally and internationally including exhibitions at Aperture Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, the Museum of New Art (MONA), The FENCE, Blue Sky Gallery, and Currents New Media Festival. Her work has been featured in Adbusters, Musee Magazine, Lenscratch, Feature Shoot, and Frankie Magazine. She earned a BA in Fine Art from Smith College and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Her work was recently published in an anthology of women photographers, Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood. 

Megan’s interdisciplinary honors courses range from a philosophical exploration of the good life, to evaluating art’s role as a socio-political tool, to exploring identity through photography. Broadly, her courses help students to hone their critical thinking skills in order to creatively construct their way in the world. Jacobs’ recent creative and pedagogical efforts explore the precarious relationship between humans and the natural world. She co-developed and team taught the course, Eco-Art: Making Art to Reconcile with the Climate Crisis, with an honors student, Kineo Memmer, and was awarded the 2022-2023 Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. Jacobs’ series, Shared Breath: Motherhood in the Time of Climate Crisis, was recognized with the 2024 Lauren Shrensel Zadikow Award for social/environmental art from the Society for Photographic Education. Megan co-curated the environmental exhibit, Eco-Pulse: Rise and Fall, in partnership with curator Mary Statzer at the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Jacobs is a founding member of the UNM Interdisciplinary Design Certificate. 

Research Interest:

Contemporary Socio-Political Art; EcoArt; Exhibit Design; Philosophy; Aesthetics; Material Culture Studies; Photography; Installation Art; Design Thinking; Data Visualization; and Fashion.