Megan Brigham was born in 1988 in Connecticut but for more than half her life, she has lived in Atlanta, GA where she has developed into a traditional realist painter.

As a child, Megan showed significant artistic talent, but it was not until her junior year of high school that she began to focus seriously in the visual arts. In 2006, during her senior year of high school, Megan won the Silver Key Scholastic Arts Award in graphic design. In that same year, Megan also received a score of 5/5 on her AP Studio Art Portfolio, granting her college course exemptions and a college scholarship. Megan has grown extensively as an artist since beginning at SCAD in 2006. She enjoys working in oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink, charcoal and graphite and has also created mosaic shell beach art. She is currently represented by the Atlantic Beacon Gallery on Tybee Island, GA and hopes to gain more representation in the coming year.

Megan completed her BFA degree at SCAD in March 2010 with a GPA of 3.79 and Magna Cum Laude honors. She is further expanding her inventory of work through experimentation, and by trying several different styles and techniques, Megan hopes to continue discovering who she is an artist and what direction she would like to take in the future. She is pursuing her education in a Masters of Arts in Teaching program at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta which started in the Summer 2011.

Art is about an image of thought. Through realism, Megan evokes an emotional response from the viewer. She attempts to exploit the conscience, and examine our plight in the modern world. Her compositions express issues of human tendencies and intimacies within. Her stylized portraiture, with a narrative sense, explores questions of identity: the subtle empowerment of the figures allows them to appear sensual but guarded. Whether or not her work is beautiful because it is visually appealing or something familiar, she looks for obvious and hidden splendor. Megan's aesthetic judgments represent her relation to the truth.