MEGAN HYDE

Megan Hyde (b.1983) is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, sound, sculpture, and installation. She creates seductive, precarious, and often absurd worlds that explore desire, memory, and intimacy, with a particular focus on the ways the female body is seen and controlled. Approaching femininity through a queer lens, her work examines its allure while contending with its demands and her own inevitable failures in trying to perfect it.

Her work brings bodies and objects together into strange and intimate relationships. Combining found objects and handmade forms, she creates sculptures and installations that make meaning in dialogue with the body: chocolate “lipsticks” that are eaten, old love letters emerging from a dress, red string spilling from a mouth like an abscess. In live and recorded performance, these objects become collaborators, opening up alternative ways of being and relating. Structured around loose scores, her live performances are marked by vulnerability, chance, and risk, remaining open to failure, unexpected encounters, and the possibility of connection.

Megan earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, in 2024, receiving the Museum Council Sculpture Prize. Her work has been presented internationally, with solo exhibitions in Poughkeepsie, NY and Perth, Australia, and group exhibitions at ChaShaMa Gallery (NYC), Ladies' Room (Los Angeles), Mosesian Center for the Arts (Watertown), and Mobius Artists Group (Boston), among others. She is a 2025 recipient of the City of Boston's Opportunity Fund and participant in the Mellon Foundation's Un-monument project. Her studio practice is informed by more than 15 years of experience as an arts administrator, curator, and museum educator. She also holds an MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches courses in media arts and visual culture across Boston universities, including Northeastern University, Lesley University, Tufts University, and Merrimack College.