Bio

Megan Hatch (she/her) is a queer artist and curator living in Portland, OR. Her work has been exhibited across the country, and in locations as far afield as Barcelona and Budapest. She was a 2022 Critical Mass finalist and a member of the 2025 & 2026 PNW Drawers collection at the Blue Sky Gallery in Oregon.

Megan makes works that tells a story, and she creates her images as she would craft a sentence: to shed light. Lens-based art and mixed media painting form the main through lines of her arts practice. While she holds a degree in Studio Art from Carleton College, she is a self-taught photographer. The daughter of farmers, she grew up listening to the land. Today she does so with a camera in her hands, feeling her way through terrain both external and internal. In her mixed media work, she is captivated by the alchemy that occurs between the different materials and the way abstraction can invite meaning-making.

Megan’s experience of growing up queer, rural, and working class created a deep desire to shift the paradigms that control production of, access to, and connection with art. She curates for and teaches in community.