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Jennie C. Jones

A native of Cincinnati, Jennie C. Jones attended Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts where she received her MFA. Prior to that she received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Over the past decade, Jones has participated in numerous prestigious artist residency and fellowship programs including the Center for Book Arts, New York (2010), Cité Internationale des Arts-Paris, France (2002-2003), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency at the World Trade Center (1999) and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1996). In 2008 she was a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center as well as a Visiting Artist at The American Academy in Rome. Her awards include a Pollock-Krasner Grant, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award and the William H. Johnson Prize. Her recent exhibitions include State of the Art: New York at Urbis in Manchester, UK; Red, Bird, Blue, a solo installation at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; and 30 Seconds Off An Inch at the Studio Museum in New York.