Megan Broughton
San Francisco, CA
I use experimental etching and drawing techniques to process at-risk local and global environments. I am fascinated by natural elements and transformation.
MessageMegan Broughton is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA, addressing the climate crisis, loss, transformation, and the sublime. She uses ice, fog, and air currents to underline our daily environments at risk. Her work stems from onsite study in the Arctic, whose materiality shapes and influences her practice.
Exhibition highlights include Berkeley Art Center, Richmond Art Center, and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. In 2020, she received First Place in Studio Channel Islands’ annual show, The Next Big Thing, from juror and art critic Leah Ollman (Los Angeles Times, Art in America).
Notable residencies include MaréMotrice in Greenland and The Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard. Megan holds a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She was a 2023 California Arts Council Emerging Individual Artist Fellow and is a 2025 Gallery Route One Fellow.
Statement
I use experimental etching and drawing techniques to process at-risk local and global environments. A fascination with natural elements and transformation fuels my work. I am particularly interested in air currents, fog, and bodies of ice and water. I am heavily influenced by the famous pale blue dot photograph, onsite studies in the Arctic, and geological deep time. My imagery is often fragmented as if swept away on the wind or lost to time. Atmospheric shapes chase and erase solid forms as imagery disappears and reforms. This sense of losing one’s way within the work echoes the damaging ways in which geopolitics and capitalism have affected planetary health. I seek to inspire care for and curiosity about the climate by bringing faraway, sublime environments that are crucial to our everyday lives closer to home.
www.meganbroughton.com
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