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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 "Anomalistic Urge" at Vaudeville Park, jameswagner.com, April 8, 2011 Ken Johnson, One-Week Walden, The New York Times, December 10, 2010 A Tour of the Monuments of Ridgewood, Queens, Art Fag City, September 13, 2010 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 |