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Practice
animation with sound
34 sec
2025
I am a cancer survivor and mother. These life events have significantly impacted my creative
practice. Confronting my own mortality at age 25 and then experiencing the fragility and strength of birth, I have become obsessed with tracking time- documenting the small, routine moments of my life and my child’s life. I am interested in content and parts of life that loop and repeat. I want to give the viewer intimate, personal moments that capture the both short and endless seconds of being alive. My current work documents the break-neck period of growth and evolution I witness in my two young children. I am interested in making work about the simultaneously tedious and rapid process of becoming. The immediacy of drawn or painted marks suits me best. I try to fix the fleeting moments of physical and psychological change and growth into a single image.
Megan Hildebrandt
@meganhildebrandt11
Megan Hildebrandt received her BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design in 2006, and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of South Florida in 2012. Hildebrandt has exhibited nationally and internationally, including: The Painting Center, New American Paintings, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Craft, Arlington Arts Center, Detroit Contemporary, HEREarts Center, Latitude 53, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, the LIVESTRONG Foundation, Hyde Park Art Center, The Torpedo Factory, and Collar Works, and the Texas Vignette Art Fair.
In 2018, Hildebrandt received an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the Aesthetics of Health Course she developed for Interlochen Arts Academy. In 2024, she was awarded the University of Texas Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Award, which acknowledges innovative classroom approaches for faculty engaged in first-year instruction.
Practice
animation with sound
34 sec
2025
I am a cancer survivor and mother. These life events have significantly impacted my creative
practice. Confronting my own mortality at age 25 and then experiencing the fragility and strength of birth, I have become obsessed with tracking time- documenting the small, routine moments of my life and my child’s life. I am interested in content and parts of life that loop and repeat. I want to give the viewer intimate, personal moments that capture the both short and endless seconds of being alive. My current work documents the break-neck period of growth and evolution I witness in my two young children. I am interested in making work about the simultaneously tedious and rapid process of becoming. The immediacy of drawn or painted marks suits me best. I try to fix the fleeting moments of physical and psychological change and growth into a single image.
Megan Hildebrandt
@meganhildebrandt11
Megan Hildebrandt received her BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design in 2006, and her MFA in Studio Art from the University of South Florida in 2012. Hildebrandt has exhibited nationally and internationally, including: The Painting Center, New American Paintings, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Craft, Arlington Arts Center, Detroit Contemporary, HEREarts Center, Latitude 53, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, the LIVESTRONG Foundation, Hyde Park Art Center, The Torpedo Factory, and Collar Works, and the Texas Vignette Art Fair.
In 2018, Hildebrandt received an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the Aesthetics of Health Course she developed for Interlochen Arts Academy. In 2024, she was awarded the University of Texas Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Award, which acknowledges innovative classroom approaches for faculty engaged in first-year instruction.