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, LeJeune was named Woman Science Photographer of the Year by the Royal Photographic Society. Her interdisciplinary practice has been shaped by residencies that foster exchange between artists and scientists, including the Changing Climate Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Trout Lake Research Station, the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, Ives Lake Field Station at Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation, and the Coalesce Center for Biological Art at the University at Buffalo.

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. 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.

She received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop and has held academic appointments at Bradley University and Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work and research have also taken her into classrooms, laboratories, field stations, and lecture halls, with invited talks at Trinity College Dublin, Virginia Tech, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Rochester, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the University of Texas–San Antonio, and the University of Toledo among others.

LeJeune currently serves on the Board of Directors of GroundTruth Institute and is a founding member of the Environmental Photography Collective. 

Contact info:

margaretlejeune{at}gmail.com

@margaret_lejeune