Jenny Walker

Contact: jwalkerartist@gmail.com



Education

BS, Skidmore College (concentration in Drawing and Sculpture)

MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art (concentration in Fiber Art)


Group Exhibitions

2022 “Newport Annual”, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island


2020 “Fiber 2020”, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut

2020 “Craft in Contemporary Art”, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York

2020 “Materials Hard + Soft”, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, Texas

2020 “2020 Newport Annual”, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island


2019 “Look Again”, The White Brick Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan

2019 “69th AoNE”, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut

2019 “AiR @ 10”, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, Connecticut


2016 “New Fibers 2016”, Fiber Arts Network, University Gallery of Eastern Michigan, Ypsilanti, Michigan 2016 “66th Art of the Northeast”, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut

2016 “ViewPoints 2016”, Studio Montclair, Newark, New Jersey

2016 “By a Thread”, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, Connecticut

2016 “Materials: Hard & Soft”, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas


2015 “Water – Mayim”, Windsor Jewish Community Center, Ontario, Canada

2015 “65th Annual Art of the Northeast”, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut

2015 “Who’s Afraid of Feminism”, Women’s Caucus for Art, Online gallery

2015 “2015 Graduate Degree Exhibition”, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2015 “Experiencing Perspectives”, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, Michigan

2015 “A Hawk and A Handsaw: On Narrative and the Absurd”, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan


2014 “Comfort Me”, SOFA CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois


2013 “Tomorrow Ain’t Promised to No One”, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2013 “Studio Drawings”, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2013 “Cranbrook Vision”, Delta College Gallery, University Center, Michigan


2012 “Now Showing”, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, Connecticut


2011 “Juxtaposition”, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, Connecticut

2011 “82nd Connecticut Women Artists Open Juried Show”, Jorgensen Gallery, Storrs, Connecticut 2011 “Connecticut Women Artists Invitational”, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, Connecticut

2011 “Sources – Origins”, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts

2011 “Slide Slam 2010”, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut


2010 “Collective”, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts

2010 “81st Connecticut Women Artist Open Juried Show”, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut


2009 “Connecticut Women Artists 2009 Members Juried Show”, Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, Connecticut

2009 “Index II: CWOS Members’ Exhibition”, ArtSpace, New Haven, Connecticut

2009 “Art League of New Britain 7th Annual Spring Juried Show”, ALNB, New Britain, Connecticut 2009 “CT Women Artists 1950 – ”, New Britain City Hall, New Britain, Connecticut Jenny Walker


2008 “Senior Thesis Exhibition”, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York


Solo Exhibitions

2012 “Face Print Project”, Art League of New Britain, New Britain, Connecticut


2009 “Jenny Walker: Ink and Paper”, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, Connecticut

2009 “The Landscape Feminine”, Theaterworks, Hartford, Connecticut

2009 “Jenny Walker: Recent Works on Paper”, Cheshire Public Library, Cheshire, Connecticut


Two-Person Exhibitions

2011 “Slick Innuendo”, Rockwell Art & Framing, Ridgefield, Connecticut


2009 “Paper Cuts”, Art League of New Britain, New Britain, Connecticut


Awards

2013 Merit Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan


2011 Honorable Mention, “82nd Connecticut Women Artists Open Juried Show”, Jorgensen Gallery at UConn, Storrs, Connecticut


2010 1st Place and Honorable Mention, “81st Connecticut Women Artists Open Juried Show”, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut

2010 Online Promotion, “2010 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition”, Agora Gallery, New York


2009 Artist-in-Residence, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, Connecticut

2009 Honorable Mention, “Art League of New Britain 7th Annual Spring Juried Show”, ALNB, New Britain, Connecticut


Lectures

2020 “2020 Newport Annual”, Newport Art Museum, Online


2014 “Comfort Me: A Conversation”, SOFA CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois