Megan Plunkett (b. 1985 in Pasadena, CA, US) lives and works in Los Angeles, US. The image-based practice of Megan Plunkett is an investigation of material conditions and visual economies of reality in photography. Working with the physical space of an exhibition, she utilises movement, seriality and other types of disambiguation to cultivate a sense of estrangement and distance within familiar and mundane images, often harvested online. Her installations are set up to create moments where the material conditions of an image are made clear, and then disrupted. As such, Plunkett’s work is constantly pushing back against a false sense of totality or wholeness in favour of a photographic activity that expands outwards, where images are invariably bound up and imbricated with each other and their archive.

Emalin

Sweetwater

Los Angeles

Pasadena

New York City

Magenta Plains

Berlin

Hudson

Baba Yaga

Reena Spaulings Fine Art

Jenny’S

Redling Fine Art

Dallas

And Now

Planthouse

Bad Reputation

Hester Gallery

Night Gallery

Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Oakland

Important Projects

London

The Gallery At El Centro

356 Mission

Swiss Institute

Printed Matter

Megan Plunkett

Bard College

Pratt Institute

Attitudinal Beliefs 02

Attitudinal Beliefs 01

The Clawing Hand

Handy Man (Big)

The Crawling Key 04

The Crawling Key 01

The Crusher 01

The Encounter 04

The Invader 02