Biography
Born in 1993 in Nelspruit South Africa, Megan-Leigh Heilig grew up in Johannesburg, graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a Bachelor in Fine Art (BFA) in 2015 and is currently studying towards a Masters in Fine Art (MFA) at the University of Cape Town.
She works primarily in video, film, installation and sculpture, using these mediums to question notions of self: intersectionality within history, memory in personal and national archives. Megan has exhibited in the Seven Hills 2nd Kampala Biennale: Virtual Mobilities 2016, curated by Elise Atangana, with a focus on selected video. In 2016 she was nominated for best experimental short by the Top Indie Film Awards; and was pre-selected for KraftaDoc Film Festival. She was also recently selected to participate in the International Video Art House Madrid (IVAHM), curated by Nestor Prieto. In 2017 she will be participating in the Digital Africa project between YaPhoto and Open Source; a video art screening in London, conceptualized in Cameroon; as well as a group exhibition titled The Art for Living Space exhibition at the CICA Museum in Gimpo, Korea. She has also intervened in project and public spaces, both 'real' and virtual, through various other site specific and collaborative engagements.
