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 works that explore desire, memory, intimacy, and attachment. Her work regularly incorporates elements from personal and familial archives, transforming them into portals or time capsules that reimagine relationships, memories, and possibilities.

Central to her practice is a belief in the aliveness of matter. She works with handmade forms and found objects as alive with their own agency, history, and force. In performance, these objects become collaborators, often integrated with the body. Structured around loose scores, her performances are marked by chance, improvisation, and risk. Rather than proposing idealized utopias, her performance work creates opportunities for relating based on trust, uncertainty, strangeness, and vulnerability.

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.