Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Jennifer Chai Shear (b. 1987 Taipei, Taiwan) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in Philadelphia. While working across collage, independent publishing, video, and sculpture, her practice locates a personal connection to desire, materiality and visual culture.
EDU
- 2020 - 2023 / MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University / New Brunswick, NJ
- 2005 - 2010 / BFA Pratt Institute / Brooklyn, NY
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
- 2025 / "Words that Start" / two-part group exhibition at Studio Route 29 and Art Yard / Frenchtown, NJ
- 2024 / "Files" / Kunsthalle Zürich / Zürich, Switzerland
- 2024 / "Unlife Part 2" / Soft Life / London, UK
- 2023 / "Unlife Part 1" / Soft Life at Paul Soto / Los Angeles, CA
- 2023 / "Playback" / Rutgers MFA Exhibition in New York / Westbeth Gallery / New York, NY
- 2023 / "Harm Reduction Collection" / Los Angeles Contemporary Archives / Los Angeles, CA
- 2023 / "Eternal Springs" / Picture Room, Brooklyn, NY
ETC
- 2024 / "Harm Reduction" workshop facilitator / Rutgers’ Art and Design Spring Festival / New Brunswick, NJ
- 2023 / "Zines: An Independent Publishing Primer" workshop facilitator / Rutgers’ Art and Design Spring Festival / New Brunswick, NJ.
- 2022 / "Some Follow Up Questions" / Rutgers in New York MFA Exhibition co-organized with Jason Hirata, Park McArthur, and Nora Nomile / Westbeth Gallery / New York, NY
- 2021 - 2022 / Visiting Artist Lecture Series Coordinator for MGSA / Rutgers University / New Brunswick, NJ
- 2019 / "Harm Reduction with Jen Shear" facilitator / SFABF / San Francisco, CA
- 2019 / "Under the Sun" facilitator with Maia Ruth Lee / Wide Rainbow collage workshop with the Downtown Women's Center / LAABF / Los Angeles, CA
- 2019 / "Shorts 2" organizer / The Classroom at the LAABF / Los Angeles, CA
- 2018 / Collage workshop with No School / 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA
- 2018 / "Year of the Doggo" workshop facilitator with Angela Dimayuga / 356 Mission / Los Angeles, CA
- 2017 / "The Wandering Line" curator / NIAD Art Center's "Affordable Art Online" exhibition series / Richmond, CA
- 2017 / "Shorts 1" organizer / The Classroom at LAABF / Los Angeles, CA
TEACHING
- Spring 2025 / Art, Design, and Digital Culture / Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
- Fall 2024 / Drawing 1A: Collage / Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
- Fall 2024 / Graphic Design 2: Design Systems / Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
- Spring 2024 / Graphic Design 1: Creative Technologies / Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
- Fall 2023 / Drawing 1A: Collage / Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
- Spring 2021 - Fall 2023 Print 1A: Screen Printing / Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
RESIDENCIES
- 2018 / The Range / Saguache, CO
CONTACT
jenshear.com
@jen__shear
jenniferjeanshear@gmail.com