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Jacq Groves is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in Queens, New York. Their installation-based practice draws on trans theory, crip theory, and queer ecology to examine the entanglements between urban and natural ecologies and complex bodily systems. Working across sculpture, installation, printmaking, and alternative photographic methods, Groves investigates how surrounding infrastructural and ecology systems can either mediate and inhibit experiences of embodiment, transformation, and interdependence.

Groves' conceptual inquiry and material sensibilities are deeply informed by their background in microbiology. They previously held a post-baccalaureate fellowship studying immunology at the National Institutes of Health and later researched biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. This scientific training guides their practice, manifesting in a reliance on rigorous observation, a discontent with binary thought, and an exploration of data, systems, and microscopic worlds.

Their work has been exhibited in New York-based exhibitions including a solo, site-specific installation at Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space in the Bronx (2023) and group shows at Springs Projects (2025), Essex Flowers (2023), The Jewish Museum (2022), The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University (2022), and Half Gallery (2022). Nationally, Groves has exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, 2014), White Page Gallery (Minneapolis, 2019), Edgewood Gallery at Yale University (2022), and other venues. Groves has been an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center (VT), NARS Foundation (NY), Stove Works (TN), and Loghaven Artist Residency (TN). In 2024, Groves received a Queens Arts Fund grant from NYFA to support early development of Embodied Infrastructure, a sculptural installation exploring invisible disability through industrial forms.

Groves recently completed a three-year appointment as the Foundation Fellow in Arts + Sciences at Pratt Institute, where they led interdisciplinary initiatives linking art, design, and the natural sciences through teaching, research, and programming in the Foundations Lab. Groves earned their MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2022) and a BA in Studio Art and Biology from Grinnell College (2009).



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JACQ GROVES
grovesja@gmail.com ∙ www.jacqgroves.com

EDUCATION 

2022    Columbia University, New York, NY

            MFA, Expanded Practice | Sculpture         

2009     Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA 
             BA, Studio Art and Biology

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2023      tending to change, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY 
2020     Corporeal Conundrums, Aquarium Gallery, New Orleans, LA 
2016      Shifting Deltas / Drifting Shelters, The Tigermen Den, New Orleans, LA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2025
Red Dot, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN                                         
Rooted Resistance, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY    
Subway Riders, Springs Projects, Brooklyn, NY   
QueerBestiary, Foxtrot Farms, Upstate Art Weekend, Stanfordville, NY 
Sympathetic Lightning, Springs Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Exuberant Multitudes: Queer Ecology Hanky Project, Society of Northern Alberta Print (SNAP) in Edmonton, Alberta

2024
Queer Ecology Hanky Project, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

2023
Liliana Farber / Jacq Groves / Allison Reimus, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
Queer Ecology Hanky Project, Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2022
Traces, NARS Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Otherwise, Half Gallery, New York, NY
Noumena, ChaShaMa, New York, NY
In Response: Jonas Mekas, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Show, Class of 2022, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY
No White Walls, Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT   
In Time, ZaZ Gallery, Times Square, New York, NY 

2021
Better Late Than Never, ChaShaMa Gallery, New York, NY
Columbia First Year MFA Exhibition, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY
Queer Ecology Hanky Project, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Not Just Another Anthropocentric Love Story, Trestles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Queer Ecology Hanky Project, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

2020
Hot Future, 912 Julia St. Gallery, New Orleans, LA 
Tuft, Group Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 
Queer Ecology Hanky Project, Irma Freeman Center, Pittsburgh, PA

2019

Guess What…, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Mixed, Studio Waveland Gallery, Waveland, MS
Queer Ecology Hanky Project, White Page Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
A Lemon, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA 

2018
Introduction, Mehle Studios Gallery, New Orleans, LA
La La Land, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2017
WTF, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA 

2016
Finding Our Place, Hall Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2015
Nostalgia, Hall Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA 

2014
Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

2022-25 Foundation Fellowship in Art + Science, Pratt Institute: Brooklyn, NY
2024  New Work Grant, NYFA’s Queens Arts Fund, Queens, NY
2024 Production Labs' Faculty Fellowship, Pratt Institute: Brooklyn, NY
2021-22 Shop Fellowship, Columbia University: New York, NY
2020-22 Joan R. Sovern Award for Sculpture, Columbia University: New York, NY
2022    Dean’s Project Grant, Columbia University: New York, NY
2005-09 Grinnell Trustee Honor Scholarship: Grinnell, IA 
2009         Purchase Prize, Grinnell College’s Art Department: Grinnell, IA

RESIDENCIES

2026 Bunker Projects: Pittsburgh, PA     (forthcoming)
2025 Loghaven Artist Residency: Knoxville, TN                                        
2025 Stove Works Artist Residency, Chattanooga, TN                                
2022  NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program: Brooklyn, NY
2019        Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center: Johnson, VT 
2015 Grin City Collective Artist Residency: Grinnell, IA

SELECT PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

2025 Dominika Tylcz, “Editors’ Selects July 2025: Sympathetic Lightning,” IMPULSE Magazine, July 2025
2024 Alexa Hoyer and Alexander Zev, “Fallow Frames Biennial,” Flushing Town Hall, December 2024
2023 Tao Leigh Goffe, “Week 8/7/24 – 8/1, Dark Laboratory,” Dark Laboratory, 
August 2023
Kevin Gotkin, “New Works, Crip News v.91,” Crip News, July 2023
2022 Billy Anania, “Highlights From Columbia University’s MFA Thesis Exhibition,” Hyperallergic, May 2022
2021 V. Adams and Mary Tremonte, “Exuberant Possibilities,” Booklyn, Summer 2021
Class of 2022 First-Year MFA Exhibition, Columbia University School of the Arts, “Arts and Education,” e-flux, July 2021
2020 Lonely Palette (Part One): “A Survey of Visual Artists in Lockdown,” Antigravity Magazine, May 2020
Lady Science, “Plant Flagging and the Queer Ecology Hanky Project 2020, Queer Science Series/Essays,” June 2020
Bill O'Driscoll, “Queer Ecology Hanky Project Explores Nature and Sexuality,” WESA Pittsburgh NPR, February 2020 

LECTURES, PANELS & JUROR INVITATIONS

September 2025 — Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Visual Art Department, Chattanooga, TN
September 2025 — Blah, Blah, Blah, Stove Works Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
December 2024 — Embodied Infrastructure in Conversation with Saar Shemesh, Plank Road Gallery, Queens, NY
October 2023 — In Conversation with Sarah Davidson, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
August 2023 — Sunroom Project Space Selection Panel, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
June 2022 — Meet The Artist, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
September 2022 — Point of View: First-Year Conversations Across Disciplines, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 
August 2021 — Slide Night: Artist Talks, Department of Studio Art, Columbia University, New York, NY
March 2020 — Corporeal Conundrums: Virtual Gallery Walkthrough and Artist Talk, Aquarium Gallery, New Orleans, LA
May 2019 — Artist Talk, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

SPECIAL PROJECTS, INSTALLATIONS, AND COLLABORATIONS

September 2025
Contributed original zines and risograph prints for distribution at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair (MoMA PS1) and Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (Carnegie Museum of Art). Collaborated with Tree News, an experimental publication and programming platform exploring ecological perspectives, cultural relationships to nature, environmental justice, and climate adaptation through tree and forest narratives.

July 2024
Participated in Fallow Frames Biennial, a public art festival in Ridgewood, Queens. Developed an installation within an abandoned tree bed to engage viewers in dialogue surrounding urban ecology and the significance of neglected green spaces.

2016 – 2020
Co-founded and facilitated a monthly critique group for women and trans/gender-nonconforming artists in New Orleans, fostering community engagement and professional development.

May 2018
Designed props and contributed installation art for Jubilee, an immersive performance by New Noise, a New Orleans-based ensemble, examining Southern identity and institutional racism.

April 2018
Supported design and fabrication of Porch Life, a three-story mobile sound-art installation and performance space by New Orleans Airlift’s Music Box Village. The installation toured nationally, culminating in a presentation in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

October 2015
Designed and fabricated The Trailer, an installation-based venue for Court 13’s annual Always for Pleasure film festival.