Meghann Stephenson (b. 1990, Virginia)
Meghann Stephenson is a painter whose quiet, poised canvases examine emotional states, gendered experience, and the subtle dissonances of relational life. Working primarily in oil with traditional methods, she frames her subjects—hands, vases, figures, cut flowers—within ambiguous, minimal spaces that emphasize both intimacy and rupture. Her visual language is spare yet loaded: moments of imbalance, poised collapse, and tentative vulnerability haunt her scenes, often drawn from interior lives and psychological reflection.
Stephenson earned her BFA from Parsons in 2013. She is based in Los Angeles, where she continues to refine her evocative pictorial voice.
Her recent exhibitions include I’ll Be Your Mirror (Half Gallery Annex, 2025), and Swan Dive (New York, 2024). Her work has also been included in group shows at Woaw Gallery (Hong Kong), Half Gallery (New York), Moosey (London), Harper’s (East Hampton), and exhibited at the Armory Show.
Stephenson’s paintings walk a line between still life and portraiture, often activating personal history, memory, and the interior fragments of identity.