Bio
Born in Atlanta, GA, Meghann Riepenhoff is an artist based on the west coast of the United States. She received a BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia, and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. In 2018, Riepenhoff was recognized as a Guggenheim Fellow.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at locations including the High Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Denver Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, the Royal Maritime Museum, the George Eastman Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, Yossi Milo Gallery, Fraenkel Gallery, Haines Gallery, The New York Public Library, Jackson Fine Art, C/O Berlin, Museo de la Ciudad, Galerie du Monde, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Anchorage Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum, the Cantor Museum at Stanford, the Nasher Museum at Duke, University of Michigan Museum of Art, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Centre d’art contemporain de l’Onde, Centre Photographie D’Île De-France, the Photographers Gallery (London), and the Aperture Foundation, among others.
Collections include the National Gallery, the Getty, the High Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Harvard Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Worcester Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, and the Elton John and David Furnish Collection.
She has published two monographs, Littoral Drift + Ecotone and Ice, with Radius Books and Yossi Milo Gallery. Smithsonian Magazine named Ice a Top 10 Photography Book of 2022. Her work has also been featured in publications including ArtForum, The New York Times, Time Magazine Lightbox, The Guardian, Foam, Oprah Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and Wired Magazine.
Riepenhoff is the recipient of the inaugural Intersect Aspen Art and Design Artist Award. She was also an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Art and the John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, and was an Affiliate at the Headlands Center for the Arts.