Jennie C. Jones

Jennie C. Jones attended the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she received her Masters of Fine Art in 1996. Prior to that she attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a Bachelors of Fine Art in 1991, with Fellowship. Over the past decade she has participated in numerous prestigious artists’ residency and fellowship programs, both nationally and internationally, including: The Liguria Study Center for the Arts & Humanities Fellow - Genoa, Italy, (2004); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (2002-2003); The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency at the World Trade Center (1999); and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1996).

Her previous awards include a Pollock-Krasner (2000), a NY Community Trust Pennies from Heaven grant, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award, both in 2006.  Her Artists Space project “Simply Because You’re Near Me” was reviewed by Holland Cotter in The New York Times (February 10, 2006).   In 2007 she had her first solo exhibition, Recomposing, at Arratia, Beer Gallery in Berlin, Germany, and participated in the group show Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, Texas.

She has works in the prestigious Deutsche Bank collection, and in the collection of the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges.  In 2008 she will be a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center in Italy, as well as a visiting artist at The American Academy in Rome.  She is a 2008 Creative Capital Grant Recipient, and was a finalist for the prestigious William H Johnson award.

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