A woman with short dark hair, wearing a black hoodie, stands against a white wall with her eyes looking upward. Balancing on her head is an elaborate sculpture made of thin, curved wooden sticks resembling a tall, abstract structure.

Meghan Thréinfhir (née Meghan Elizabeth Trainor) is a Seattle-based artist, writer, lecturer, performer, and curator. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Seattle, New York, Copenhagen, Berlin, and Barcelona. Recent solo exhibitions include Spacetime Gothic at Steve Gilbert Studio (opens 9/10/26), Bog Memory/Computer Memory at Captive Portal in Copenhagen, and Let Us Not Confuse Zero With The Stillness Of Electrons at Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA). In 2025, she was selected for the Centrum Emerging Artist Residency.

Thréinfhir works across sculpture, electronics, installation, performance, and writing. Her practice explores relationships between computation and the natural world through bogs, electricity, cybernetics, cosmology, animism, and esoteric technologies. Drawing connections between ancient knowledge systems and contemporary computation, her work treats technology not as something separate from nature, but as another material and cultural system through which humans attempt to understand and construct worlds.

Her work has been featured at HTW Berlin, Museum of Museums, and the Frye Art Museum, and on the Critical Bound podcast series Art, AI, and Technology. Her RFID-cyborg performances as Megatron were presented as part of Ask the Robot, a performance series she co-produced in New York with Ophra Wolf.

Thréinfhir received her master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at Centrum, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York’s Digital Performance Institute, and the Janie & James Washington Foundation.

She is Curator of the M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery at Seattle Central College and founder of Moss Art Space, a home gallery and performance venue established during the pandemic. She was appointed by the ArtsWA Board of Commissioners to the 2022–2026 ArtsWA Curator Roster.

Thréinfhir restores the Irish form of the Anglicized surname Trainor. It means “strong man” or “champion” and is pronounced approximately “Thrayn-fir.”