Margaret LeJeune’s creative practice explores the relationship between art, science, and environmental studies. As a lens-based creator, she produces works that probe shifting landscapes, symbiotic relationships, and the nature of the photographic medium. In 2023, she was named the Woman Science Photographer of the Year by the Royal Photographic Society.
Her photographs, installations, and video works have appeared in over 150 solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has been an artist-in-residence at several programs that promote collaboration between the arts and sciences including the Changing Climate Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, University of Wisconsin – Madison Trout Lake Research Station, University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, Ives Lake Field Station at Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation, and the Global Nomadic Art Project.
LeJeune’s work can be found in the permanent collection of Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art+Environment, Central Michigan University Galleries, Radford University Art Museum, Nazareth University, and many private collections. She is the recipient of the Cummings Residency Prize at the Griffin Museum of Photography (2025-26), two Puffin Foundation Visual Artist Grants (2014/2022), and a Community Arts Foundation Grant (2018). Her work has been published in Slate, Lenscratch, Oxford American, Urbanautica, Tatter Journal, and books from art.earth press including Culture, Community, and Climate: conversations and emergent praxis and Evolving the Forest.
LeJeune received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop and was a Full Professor at Bradley University. She has recently held visiting scholar positions at Rochester Institute of Technology, Central Michigan University, and Radford University.
She is a founding member of the Women’s Environmental Photography Collective and is the current Vice-Chair of theSociety for Photographic Education (SPE).
Inquiries regarding speaking engagements, acquisitions, exhibitions, and image reproduction may be send to margaretlejeune[at]gmail.com.