Meggan Joy is a self-taught artist primarily focused on digital collage. Joy combines fragments of the natural sciences with her narratives and allegories, often weaving in motifs from art history to create a new surreal vision. Each figure is created by assembling thousands of photographs (that she takes herself) of botanicals, insects, and other wildlife - resulting in an image bursting with life.

Beyond the digital medium, she crafts ephemeral floral installations and community events that merge interactive art with citizen science.

Joy was honored as one of Amazon's Artists in Residence in 2023, a finalist for the 2019 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, and received the 2017 bronze award at the Moscow International Foto Awards in the Fine Art – Collage category. She occasionally shares her practice in collaboration with SIGMA lenses.

She lives and works in Seattle, WA, and is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery.

Battle Cry is a collection of digital collages representing women in various stages of an unnamed conflict.

Their bodies made of thousands of photographs of flora and fauna, many of which I grew in my garden for this purpose.

From those photographs, I use color and texture to form each woman's shape. Building a portrait of an ethereal being out of these once individual living things.

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You lowered, and I shifted.

You called the warning, and I carried on.

The spring rain fed me, while you rooted deeper.

I had the belly of a hawk, yet you twirled to songbirds.

Beside us was the trail neither of us was prepared to find.

Our triumph hid in the fray and the bramble, ever-blooming.

And then golden light demanded of us a truce while dancing in faith. So with the first crisp wind, we withdrew to start again.

Amazon Headquarters; Seattle WA
Waldorf Astoria Hotel; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thompson Hotel; Seattle, Washington
Zielinski & Rozen Perfumerie x Les Perles du Palais; Courchevel, France
The Coleman; Newcastle, Washington