MEGAN HYDE

Megan Hyde is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, sound, sculpture, and installation. She creates surreal, psychologically-charged installations that become activated and altered through live performance. Many of her works mine materials from her personal archive and popular culture, including movies, music, clothing, furniture, toys, electronics, and a large audio collection of recordings she has been amassing since childhood. Exploring ideas of vulnerability, chance, repression, and intimacy, she creates spaces where reality and illusion, truth and deceit, art and artifice are slippery and unclear.
 
Currently based in Boston, Megan's work has been included in recent group exhibitions at ChaShaMa Gallery (NYC), Ladies’ Room (LA), Tufts University Art Galleries (Boston), and Gallery 263 (Boston). Her work was featured in solo exhibitions at Women’s Work Gallery in Poughkeepsie, NY in 2022 and at Cool Change Gallery in Perth, Australia in 2021. Megan received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University (2024) and MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008).

In addition to her practice as an artist, Megan has over seventeen years' experience as an educator and arts administrator working with organizations in the US and Australia, including Tufts University, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia, PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art), Goolugatup Heathcote, Paper Mountain, and more. In all of her work, Megan aims to center care, sensitivity, openness, curiosity, and play.