Jennifer Pepper
M.F.A., University of Connecticut @ Storrs, CT
B.F.A., The Maryland Institute College of Art & Design, Baltimore, MD
Born in Canada, Jen Pepper is an independent curator and visual artist who has exhibited in solo and group shows internationally since 1990. Her work is included in the Flatfiles at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC. A solo exhibition of her work including video projection with installational components was mounted in the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY and was reviewed in Sculpture magazine Vol.30 No.2, March 2011.
Pepper has been the recipient of granted awards including NEH, NYFA, NYSCA, Astraea Foundation and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She has been an artist in residence at Kunstnarhuset Messen, NORWAY, NES AiR, ICELAND, Gæsteatelier Hollufgård, DENMARK, Art Colony Galichnik, MACEDONIA, Foundation Valparaiso, SPAIN, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Anam Cara Colony, Ireland, Corporation of Yaddo, Sculpture Space and Millay Colony for the Arts, NY. Pepper has been a guest panelist at national Women’s Studies, Social Science and Society for Aesthetics annual conferences presenting papers on feminism and explorations of identity, and a visiting artist at various colleges and universities. She holds a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from The University of Connecticut at Storrs. She is a professor of Studio Art and Design at Cazenovia College since 2003 and the Gallery Director of The Reisman Hall Art Gallery since 2005.She has been the successful recipient of many grants and awarded fellowships. Pepper has been a guest panelist at national Women’s Studies, Social Science and Society for Aesthetics annual conferences authoring and presenting papers on feminism, explorations of identity, postmodernism, and has been a visiting artist at various colleges and universities.
2021
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2020
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2019
Marge Pinet Research Grant, Cazenovia College awarded
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2018
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2017
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2016
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2015
Marge Pinet Research Grant, Cazenovia College awarded
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2014
Marge Pinet Research Grant, Cazenovia College awarded
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2013
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2012
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2010
Marge Pinet Research Grant, Cazenovia College awarded
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
New York Foundation for the Arts, S.O.S. Grant recipient, Strategic Opportunities Stipend awarded
2008
New York Foundation for the Arts, S.O.S. Grant recipient, Strategic Opportunities Stipend awarded
Marge Pinet Research Grant, Cazenovia College awarded
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2007
New York Foundation for the Arts, S.O.S. Grant recipient, Strategic Opportunities Stipend awarded
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
Marge Pinet Research Grant, Cazenovia College awarded
Faculty Development Fund, Cazenovia College awarded
2006
Astraea National Visual Artist grant recipient AUG
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
Marge Pinet Research Grant, Cazenovia College awarded
New York Foundation for the Arts, S.O.S. invited panelist for grant proposal awards, Strategic Opportunities Stipend, CNY Region, NY
2004
New York Foundation for the Arts, S.O.S. Grant recipient, Strategic Opportunities Stipend awarded
The Sumter County Cultural Commission, Sumter, SC
Marge Pinet Research Grant, Cazenovia College awarded
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
The Elizabeth Firestone Foundation for the Arts, grant recipient for catalogue publication
2003
New York Foundation for the Arts, S.O.S. Grant recipient, Strategic Opportunities Stipend awarded
Summer Research Grant Recipient, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY
Cazenovia College Faculty Development Grant awarded
2001
Summer Research Grant Recipient, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2000
New York Foundation for the Arts, S.O.S. Grant recipient, Special Opportunities Stipend awarded
National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Grant recipient, Alfred University, NY
1999
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture Fellows Recipient, Ithaca, NY
1994
Funded Residency Program, New York State Council for the Arts, Sculpture Space, Inc., Utica, NY, A.I.R. JUL-AUG
1995
The McClennen Fellows, The Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc., Austerlitz, NY, A.I.R. AUG
1993
Pew Fellows Recipient in Education, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
1989
Solo Exhibition Recipient, The Slater Memorial Museum of Art, Norwich, CT
1988
Second Place Award Recipient, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
Open Award Recipient, Chautauqua Art Association Galleries, Chautauqua, NY
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Member, The University of Connecticut at Storrs, chapter
1987
Graduate Teaching Fellows, The University of Connecticut, School of Fine Arts, Storrs
Special Graduate Student Fellows, The University of Connecticut, Graduate School, Storrs
1986
John J. Leidy Merit Scholarship, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Stone Canoe 16
A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary
Number 16, Downtown Writers Center, Syracuse, NY, FEB 2022, illustrated
Pepper, Jen, Shari Urquhart, A catalogue of the fiber works on contemporary artist Shari Urquhart (American, 1940 - 2020).132 pages. 2nd Edition MAY 2021.
Available on Amazon
Stone Canoe 15
A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, Number 15, Downtown Writers Center, Syracuse, NY, MAR 2021, illustrated
Stone Canoe 14
A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary
Number 14, Downtown Writers Center, Syracuse, NY, MAR 2020, illustrated p.194+195
Cæsura
The Journal of the Poetry Center San José, To be Determined www.pcsj.org ISBN 978-0-9850301-6-2 Library of Congress # 2018959562 illustrated p. vii, viii, 3, 6 DEC 2018
50 Haikus, Volume 1, Issue 13, Prolific Press, Johnstown, PA https://prolificpress.com hardcopy & virtual, APR 2018
Stone Canoe #12, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary Number 12, Downtown Writers Center, Syracuse, NY, illustrated, 2018
50 Haikus, Volume 1, Issue 12, Prolific Press, Johnstown, PA https://prolificpress.com/bookstore/50-haikus-c-5/50-haikus-volume-1-is…- p-227.html hardcopy & virtual, OCT 2017
Stone Canoe #11, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, Downtown Writers Center, Syracuse, NY, illustrated, 2017
Stone Canoe #10 A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary Vol. 10, Downtown Writers Center, Syracuse, NY 2016, illustrated, cover
Skagaströnd Review, editor Andrea Webster, Skagaströnd, ICELAND MAR 2016, illustrated.
Stone Canoe #8, a journal of ideas and art from Upstate New York, Vol. 8, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 2014, illustrated
Stone Canoe #7, a journal of ideas and art from Upstate New York, Vol. 7, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 2013, illustrated
Catalogue essay & guest curator , TONY (The Other New York), Everson Museum of Art and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY, SEP 22 - JAN 06 2013
Fundación Casa Museo SOLAINA DE PILOÑO Biennial exhibition catalogue, Galicia, SPAIN 2008
Galichnik Biennial exhibition catalogue, published by MALA STANICA National Galleries of Macedonia, Skopje, MACEDONIA, 2007
Space Questions: art + nature + culture, site specific installations in South Carolina, 2004, Sumter, SC illus., served as art director of catalogue and obtained publication granting funds
Pepper, Jennifer. Charles W. Goolsby: Sfumato: Italian Landscape Monotypes, authored exhibition catalogue essay: “Liminal Ports: Italian Landscape Monotypes by Charles W. Goolsby,” 1912 Gallery, Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA, March, 2003 http:// zeeman.ehc.edu/art/sfumatoessay/sfumatoessay.html
Dobie, Elizabeth Ann, Body of Experience, McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario, 1997, London, Ontario, Canada, illustrated
Eighth Floor Gallery, NY SOHO ARTS, 1996, New York, NY, illustrated
Rutgers University, Rutgers National Works on Paper, 1996, Camden, NJ, illustrated
Texas Fine Arts Association & Laguna Gloria Art Museum, New American Talent, Tenth Exhibition, 1994 Austin, TX, illustrated
Florida State University Gallery & Museum, Combined Talents: The Florida National, 1993, Tallahassee, FL illus.
Brandstater Gallery, Issue:EARTH, 1991 Exhibition, La Sierra University, 1991, Riverside, CA, illustrated
Parker, William E., RE/meaning, The University of Connecticut, 1989, Storrs, CT, illustrated
Waite, William, The 31st Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, 1988, Chautauqua Institute, Art Association Galleries, NY, illustrated
Others
Jen Pepper has participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions internationally since 1989
Recent Group exhibitions include:
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2021
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Pandemonium, Chroma Projects Art Lab, Carlottesville, VA SEP 13 - NOV 3
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Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY OCT
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2020
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Made in New York 2020, The Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY AUG 7 - SEP 21
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Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY SEP 12 - OCT 10
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Division of Art & Design Faculty Biannual, Art Gallery in Reisman Hall, Cazenovia NY FEB 27 - MAR 16
- 2019
- Reveal, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY OCT 4 - 31
- En Route/En Camino, Centre d'Art La Rectoria, Sant Pere de Vilamajor, Catalonia, SPAIN JUN 01-30
- 2018 Made in NY, The Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY APR 20 - JUN3
- 2017 Art & Design Faculty, The Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College APR 6 - MAY 6
- 2016 Made in NY, The Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY MAR 26 - MAY 22
- 2016 Assembling Wonder, Cazenovia Public Library, NY MAY 31 -SEP
- 2015 Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY APR 10 - MAY 16
- 2015 Studio OPEN, KH Messen AiR, Ålvik, NORWAY MAR 26
- Solo exhibitions include:
- "Aurora Sojourn," Gallery 135, Sumter Co. Cultural Center, SC JUL 16 - AUG 14 2015
- "Lickety Split," video projection, Sumter Co. Cultural Center, SC OCT 24 - 30 2014
- "Dwell," Pocket Productions.org, AIR national proposal invited to create site-specific work along the Palmetto Trail annual, Columbia, SC MAY - OCT 2012
- "Swell," Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY FEB 16 – MAR 16 2012
- "Magnolia," Kershaw County Fine Arts Center, Camden, SC JAN 20 - FEB 29 2012
- "A Glimpse, Spark & Flash," Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred State College, Alfred, NY MAR 22 - APR 08 2011
- "That Which Cannot be Held," Robineau Gallery, The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY JAN 29 - APR 04 2010
- "Architecture of a Cloud," Mural Gallery, The Frank W. Cyr Center, Stamford, NY SEP - OCT 2010
- "Tautologos," University of Massachusetts @ Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA JAN 19 – MAR 15 2008 UMassd.edu.Tautologos.JenPepper
- "Slipstream," String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, NY NOV 07- DEC 14 2007
- "Farm Works," artist project installed on CNY agricultural tourism farm, Madison, Co., NY OCT 2007
- "Field Notes," University Gallery, University of South Carolina @ Sumter, SC MAY-JUN 2006
- "Jen Pepper: Recent Work," George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, NY NOV 14 – DEC 09 2006
- "Broken English," Earlville Opera House, Earlville, NY OCT-NOV 2005
- "Lickety Split," installation, Loupe Gallery, Prattsburgh, NY- MAY 2005
- "Stream," Chapman Gallery, Cazenovia College, NY APR – Reviewed in Sculpture - Nov. 05, Vol. 24 No. 9, illust. 2005
- "Slieve," Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY 2001
- "Anatomy of the Read," 1912 Gallery, Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA 1999
- "Above Din," Penelic Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 1999
- "Sounding," Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY 1998
- "Trace," Alice & William Jenkins Gallery, Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, FL 1997
- "Body of Experience," McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, CANADA catalogue, 1997
- "Merging Presence," Manwaring & Gallery 66, Connecticut College, New London, CT 1996
- "Built Upon The Body," Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California @ Santa Cruz 1995
- "Jen Pepper: Sculpture and Works on Paper," Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 1994
- "Recent Work," Charter Oak Cultural Center Gallery, Hartford, CT 1992
- "Recent Work," The Slater Memorial Museum of Art, Norwich, CT 1990
- TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
- "In Words, Drown I, J. Pepper + Tammy Renée Brackett," Kirkland Art Center Gallery, Clinton, NY NOV 13 - DEC 7 2012
- "Swell," installation Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY FEB 16 - MAR 16 2012
- "J. Pepper + Erica Duffy," Olin Gallery, Washington + Jefferson College, Washington, PA SEP 15-OCT 15 2006
- "J. Pepper & M. Nelson," Munson Williams Proctor Institute, School of Art, Utica, NY 2003
- "J. Pepper & C. Harper," The Barn Gallery, Middle Tennessee State Univ., Murfreesboro, TN 1998
- "Accumulations: J. Pepper & C. Prusa," Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, TN 1997
- "Sedimentations: J. Pepper & C. Dobie," Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1996
- The Astraea Visual Art Fellows panel, The Sackler Center for Feminist Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY OCT 25 2008 .
- "Constructing Identity," 16th Annual Women + Society Conference Marist College, authored + delivered paper, Poughkeepsie, NY OCT 26 - OCT 28 2008 .
- "Performing Identity," Women's Studies Annual Interdisciplinary conference, authored + delivered paper, Middle Tennessee State University 2006 .
- "Construction of Gender, The Art of Gender in Everyday Life III," authored + delivered paper, Anderson Gender Center, Idaho State University Pocatello, ID MAR 30 2006 .
- 14th Annual Women's Studies Conference, authored + delivered paper, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, "Digital Flickerings + Femme Technology" SEP 23-24 2005 .
- The Western Social Science 45th Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, authored + delivered paper: "Identity: 3 Postmodern Constructions," APR 9-12 2003 .
- "How Feminist Aesthetics has Affected the Arts," visiting artist lecture, The American Society for Aesthetics 59th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota OCT 24-27 2000 .
- Professor of Studio Arts at Cazenovia College, Fall 2003 - current
- Director of Art Gallery at Cazenovia College, 2005 - current
- Program Director, Studio Art, 2016 - current
- Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Alfred University, 1999-2003
- Associate Lecturer, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NYC 1990 - 1998
- Graduate teaching fellow, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Master of Fine Arts, 1987-1989
- Ongoing, conducts creative workshops in two and three dimensions at national and international venues
- The University of Connecticut @ Storrs, Storrs, CT, Department of Art, visiting artist lecture APR 17 - 18 2018
- HAKU Kundskule, visiting artist lecture and workshop, Norheimsund, NORWAY, MAR 20 2015
- Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, visiting artist lecture, Oneonta, NY MAR 16 2012
- Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred State College, visiting artist lecture, Alfred, NY MAR 25 2011
- SUNY Oswego, visiting artist lecture, Oswego, NY APR 20-21 2011
- The Wilton Public Library, visiting artist lecture, Wilton, CT MAY27 2010
- "That Which Cannot be Held," Artists' Open Lecture Series, The Everson Museum of Art
- Syracuse . NY MAR 18 2010 . Truman State University, visiting artist lecture, Kirksville, MO MAR30 2009
- "Tautologos," University of Massachusetts @ Dartmouth, visiting artist lecture, New Bedford, MA MAR 15 2008
- Great Minds + Great Ideas lecture series "Dipping Digits: From Gramma Sweaters, The Ethernet + Back Again" @ Cazenovia and Manlius Public Libraries, NY APR 2008
- "Objects + Implications," visiting artist lecture, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY OCT 2006
- Macedonian National Radio artist interview, Republic of Macedonia, AUG 2006 . Macedonian National Television artist interview broadcast, Republic of Macedonia, AUG 2006
- "Field Notes," University of South Carolina, visiting artist lecture, SC JUN 2006 . Syracuse University, Department of Art, Fibers Program, visiting artist + MFA graduate critiques APR 2005
- "Buoyancy of Place, recent site specific installation," visiting artist lecture, Cazenovia College NOV 2005
- The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Artists Talk on Art, visiting artist lecture, JAN 30 2004
- Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, School of Art, visiting artist lecture, Utica, NY, 2003
- Department of Art, visiting artist lecture, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Storrs, CT, 2003
- The Maryland Institute College of Art, visiting artist lecture, Baltimore, MD 2000
- The Beara Arts Society in association with Anam Cara,visiting artist lecture, Artist Colony, West Cork, Ireland, visiting artist lecture 2000
- In conjunction with Quirk Work Exhibition, Feed Gallery, visiting artist lecture for Parsons School of Art, Brooklyn, NY SEP 1999
- Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA, visiting artist lecture 1999
- Bergren Forum, delivered lecture, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 1998
- The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, visiting artist and panelist 1998
- Manhattanville College, Art Department, Purchase, NY, visiting artist lecture 1998
- Department of Art, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, visiting artist lecture OCT 1997 . Department of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, visiting artist lecture 1997
- Multiplism as a Feminist Strategy, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, panelist, exhibiting artist 1997
- "Trace," Alice & William Jenkins Gallery, Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, FL, visiting artist lecture 1997
- "Body of Experience," McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario, CAN, visiting artist lecture 1997
- Saint Frances' Residence Program, Art Program, New York, NY, visiting artist lecture 1996
- The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, visiting artist lecture 1995
- BACA Downtown Gallery & Performance Space, Brooklyn, NY, exhibiting artist lecture 1995
- The University of California at Santa Cruz, visiting artist lecture 1994
- Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, visiting solo artist lecture 1993
- The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, visiting artist lecture 1993
- NYC School District #32, Multicultural Arts Program in Education, Brooklyn, NY, panelist 1992
- College Art Association member since 1987
- Phi Kappa Phi member since 1988
- Omicron Delta Kappa member since 2002
- The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
- Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
- The Schweinfurth Memorial Art Centre, Auburn, NY