Education

2011 Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME

2005 MFA, Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

1999 BFA, Sculpture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Awards and Residencies

2010 Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

2010 NYFA Artist as Entrepreneurs Program, Brooklyn, NY

2008 Artist in Residence with Scholarship, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI / Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship

2006 Artist in Residence, Voom HD Lab, New York, NY

2003 Dean's Merit Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2010 Adult Movie, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2010 One-Week Walden, Freight + Volume, New York, NY

2009 Manhattan Miniseries (With Sweaty Palms), Heist Gallery, New York, NY

2008 WJEN Radio Station Live! From Los Angeles, CA, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Matt Wardell

2005 You've Got a Friend: Solo Works and Generica Collaborations (with Erica Magrey), Sixtyseven, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

Future Present: Five Artists, Five Weeks, Arthouse, Austin, TX

Anomalistic Urge, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY

Cover Version LP, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Timothy Hull

2010

Be Your Own Placebo, North Adams, MA. Curated by Jamie Lee Mohr

Tragic Sense of Life, Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Valhalla, NY

2009

Collage: Collage, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY

\'flo\: art, text, new media, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

Warren Oates in the Economic Crisis of 2008, OK Mountain, Austin, TX

2008

Papercut, Heist Gallery, New York, NY

Cover Versions, Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA

This One Goes Up to 11, Why + Wherefore, New York, NY

2007

The Feminine Mystique, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

Let's Bolt, CSV Cultural Center, New York, NY

2006

The Pursuit of Happiness, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Christopher Howard

Naive Set Theory, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Catherine Taft

The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

Everybody Dance Now, EFA Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Kathleen Goncharov

Brooklyn > Long Beach, Enview Gallery, Long Beach, CA. Curated by C. Finley

2005

Sasquatch Society, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY

Sympathetic Magic, Planaria Gallery, New York, NY

Primed, Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Sisters, Fresh Up Club, Austin, TX

2004

4-Color Pen Show, General Store, Milwaukee, WI

Desert Swap Meet, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA. Curated by Tyson Reeder and Elyshia Borowy

Infinite Fill, Foxy Production, New York, NY. Curated by Cory and Jamie Arcangel

Your Heart is No Match for My Love, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN.

Curated by Robert Blackson and Bree Edwards

The Skull Show, HaNNa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Curated by Hanna Fushihara

Artist Book Show, Crop's For Girls, New York, NY. Curated by Dana Dart-McLean

2003

Looking is Better Than Feeling You, Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Astria Suparak

Scope Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Kelly Taxter and Robert Blackson

Summer Salon, Dumba Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by C. Finley

100 Artists, 100 T-Shirts, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY

Emerging Artists Spring Showcase, Eikholt Gallery, New York, NY

Performances/Screenings

2011

Dance Recital Concert, Movement Research Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Do Me, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY

I'm Your Biggest Fan, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Quebec, Montreal. Curated by Julie Lequin

QNTV, Champion Contemporary, Austin, TX

2010

Their, There, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY

Seven Easy Steps: Spiritual Ecstasies, Horton Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Amanda Schmitt

Body Blend, Dixon Place, New York, NY

QNTV, Queen's Nails Project, San Francisco, CA

2009

Performer/Collaborator in Chase Granoff's, The Art of Making Dances, The Kitchen, New York, NY

Jennifer Sullivan Avant-Garde Glamour Studio, NADA County Affair, Brooklyn, NY

Monkeytown Semiennial, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY

Fall Collection, NY Art Book Fair, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY

Kate Bush Dance Troupe Performance #2, 179 Canal St., New York, NY

Recession Runway, NADA Emerging Artist Party, New York, NY

It's a Process: Ladies Night, Klaus von Nichtsaggend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2008

First Impressions, NADA Exhibition Space, New York, NY. Curated by Lumi Tan

Dystopian Utopias, Screeners I, Smockshop, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Glenn Phillips

Kate Bush Dance Troupe Performance #1, Brooklyn, NY

Performer in My Barbarian's, Post-Paradise, Sorry Again, New Museum, New York, NY

Nakedly, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY

This One Goes Up To 11, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Why + Wherefore

WJEN Radio Presents: It's a Process Live!, Cakeshop, New York, NY

2007

X is for XXX-mas: Experimental film eXploring sexuality, Images Cinema, Williamstown, MA

Experiments in High Definition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Highly Defined: New Works from the Voom HD Lab, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

Watch Me get Watched, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Glenn Phillips and Catherine Taft

WJEN Radio Station performance, Exile, Long Island City, NY

WJEN Radio Station performance, 169 Bar, New York, NY

Neurotic Naturalism, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY

2006

Likewise a Virgin, New General Catalog 224, Brooklyn, NY

2005

Generica performance, Planaria Gallery, New York, NY

Generica performance, Glasshouse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Generica performance, Flywheel, Easthampton, Massachusetts

Generica performance, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY

2004

Generica performance, La Superette, The Tank Annex, New York, NY

2003

Ladies and Boys and Touching, Video Mundi at The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Looking is Better Than Feeling You, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Francisco, CA

Looking is Better Than Feeling You, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA

Looking is Better Than Feeling You, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA

Adolescent Boys and Living Rooms, Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, CT

2002

Looking is Better Than Feeling You, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

Looking is Better Than Feeling You, Mix: New York Lesbian/Gay Experimental Film Festival New York, NY

Looking is Better Than Feeling You, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

Looking is Better Than Feeling You, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo New York

2000

Raw (Solo installation and video), NY Underground Film Festival, CBGB's Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Astria Suparak

Public Collections

Geisel Library Video Collection, University of California, San Diego, CA

Visiting Artist/Lectures

2011 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2011 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

2011 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2010 Teaching Artist Union, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Heist Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY

2006 Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

Bibliography

Julie Lequin, One Night Down South, No More Potlucks, issue 15

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Ken Johnson, One-Week Walden, The New York Times, December 10, 2010

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Chelsea Magazine, The Sophomore Issue, Pg. 4-5, Fall 2010

Gia Kourlas, Looking Back, and Taking It Forward, The New York Times, November 6, 2009

Chase Granoff and Jenn Joy, The Art of Making Dances, 2009

Alice Gregory, NADA's County Affair, Idiom, October 21, 2009

Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman, Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory, New Museum & Phaidon Press, 2009

Amir H. Fallah, Jennifer Sullivan - Bad Means Good, Beautiful/Decay Magazine, August 2009

Michael Wilson, X-Factor, Artforum.com, March 3, 2009

Rachel Koper, Warren Oates in the Economic Crisis of 2008, Austin Chronicle, January 23, 2009

Sarah Amiel, Jen on Jen on Jen, Sadie Magazine, Issue #3, Fall 2008

Mike Force, Interview, Chief Magazine, Issue #11, 2008

Matthew Chambers, Jen Makes Art! (Interview), Trudi E-Project Space, December 2007

Drawings, Swingset Magazine, Issue #8, 2007

Charlene Roth, Naive Set Theory at Cirrus Gallery, Artweek, February 2007

George Melrod, Pulse: Naive Set Theory, Art Ltd. West Coast Art + Design, January 2007

Riley O'Bryan, 20MB at Mass Gallery, Fluent~Collaborative, issue 78, October 27, 2006

Ken Johnson, Sightings of an Elusive Mountain Creature, The New York Times, August 26, 2005

Roberta Smith, Sympathetic Magic, The New York Times, March 11, 2005

Choire Sicha, An Art Students Paradise, The New York Times, February 6, 2005

Drawings, Swingset Magazine, Issue #5, 2004

Fred Camper, Video Mundi, Chicago Reader, March 4, 2003

Drawings, Swingset Magazine, Issue #4, 2003

Publications

Open Mike, Interview with Michael Smith, Swingset Magazine, Issue #7, 2005

Urban Renewal, Interview with Tyson Reeder, Swingset Magazine, Issue #6, 2005

Curatorial

2009 Fall Collection, NY Art Book Fair, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY

2009 Group Show/Garage Sale, Heist Gallery, New York, NY

2009 Recession Runway, NADA Emerging Artists Party, New York, NY

2008 Nakedly, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY

2007 Neurotic Naturalism, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY

2005 Sympathetic Magic, Planaria Gallery, New York, NY