Chantal Meng

Chantal is a Brooklyn-based artist and researcher working with photography, drawing, and performance. Her work explores how light pollution shapes our perception of darkness in urban nightscapes. Focusing on the design and politics of nighttime environments, she examines the impact of artificial light on urban culture and ecology.

Chantal holds a practice-based PhD in Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. She was awarded a Fulbright, named a Stuart Hall PhD Fellow, and received a Doc.Mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is also the founder of Night Drawing, a participatory project where people sketch together to explore the relationship between darkness and light in the city at night.

At Woodward, Chantal will work on a series of night drawings and develop her bedtime story, Good Night: In Conversation with Darkness, as both an artist's book and a theater play.