Megan Broughton

Megan Broughton is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA, addressing the climate crisis, loss, transformation, and the sublime. She uses ice, fog, and air currents to underline our daily environments at risk. Her work stems from onsite study in the Arctic, whose materiality shapes and influences her practice.

Exhibition highlights include Berkeley Art Center (CA), Richmond Art Center (CA), and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN). In 2020, she received First Place in Studio Channel Islands’ annual show, The Next Big Thing, from juror and art critic Leah Ollman (Los Angeles Times, Art in America). In 2025, she received the Audience Award at Berkeley Art Center's annual summer show juried by Anthony Graham (Senior Curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive). 

Notable residencies include MaréMotrice, sailing from Iceland to Greenland and back on a 15 meter sailboat, and The Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard. Megan holds a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She was a 2023 California Arts Council Emerging Individual Artist Fellow and is a 2025 Gallery Route One Fellow.