MAGGIE MEINERS  (b. 1972, Chicago) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work emerges from lived experience and cultural critique, exploring the complex interplay between personal memory and collective imagery. Growing up amid magazines, media, and family traditions, she became acutely attuned to how visual narratives shape identity—particularly for women—and continues to investigate how images influence notions of gender, selfhood, and societal expectations.

Her practice spans photography, film, and mixed media, often drawing from cultural artifacts, domestic rituals, and art history. Central to her work are three themes: reshaping identity within social norms, deconstructing perception and media, and  reconstructing cultural icons to reveal truth and contradiction. By deconstructing and reimagining cultural symbols and media imagery,  she exposes the glittering yet unsettling surfaces of consumer culture and mines personal memories to create vibrant, frenetic compositions that blend tenderness with critique.

Whether restaging familiar images, interrogating cultural systems, or reflecting on her own past, her art invites viewers to reconsider their beliefs, memories, and consumption, fostering an ongoing dialogue between the personal and the collective. Through this, she highlights the intertwined threads that influence individual and shared narratives, encouraging reflection on how visual culture shapes identity and societal mythologies.  Through her nuanced reconstructions, Meiners challenges audiences to reconsider the constructed narratives of American identity and culture.

Her work remains in the collections of the Illinois Institute of Art, Wheaton College, Harrison Street Lofts, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP and numerous private collections and  has been exhibited across the United States and internationally at institutions including the Montclair Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the American Embassy in Uruguay. Her insights and work have been featured in The New York Times, Art New England, CNN and The Huffington Post.