Jennifer Packer

Jennifer Packer (born 1984) is an American painter living and working in New York City.[2] In 2020, she won the Hermitage Greenfield Prize[3] and the Rome Prize.[4] Packer won the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome 2020-2021.

Jennifer Packer
Born
Jennifer Packer

1984[1]
Philadelphia, PA[2]
NationalityAmerican
EducationTyler School of Art
BFA – 2007
Yale University School of Art
MFA – 2012

Artistic practice

Packer paints expressionist portraits, interior scenes, and still lifes. She is interested in authenticity, encounters, and exchanges in relation to her painting practice. The models for her portraits are often friends or family members.[5]

In her 2020 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, her expressionistic paintings were all in oils on canvas. As well as people, including the very large Blessed Are Those Who Mourn (Breonna! Breonna!) showing her reaction to the killing of Breonna Taylor, her painting of flowers, a traditional form of still life, was used in Say Her Name to reference the death of Sandra Bland. Other portraits indicate inspiration from western sources as diverse as Henri Matisse and Caravaggio as well as Americans Kerry James Marshall and Philip Guston.[6]

Packer is currently an Assistant Professor in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.[5] She was formerly Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2012-13) and a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts (2014-16).[3]

Selected exhibitions
  • In 2012, Packer's work was included in the group show Fore, organized by curators, Lauren Haynes, Naima J. Keith and Thomas J. Lax, at The Studio Museum in Harlem.[7]
  • November 2018, in her solo show at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, Packer exhibited a large diptych titled Laquan (2016–2018), a colorful still life of palm fronds and fiery peonies that is named after Laquan McDonald, a black teenager who was killed by a Chicago policeman in 2014.[8][9]
  • Packer is set to show in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta.[8]
  • Solo exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London. 2020.[6]

Awards

In 2013, Packer was awarded the Rema Hort Mann Grant.[2] In 2012-2013 Parker was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and from 2014 to 2016, a Visual Arts Fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[2]

In 2020, she won the Hermitage Greenfield Prize which included a commission to produce a new work that will premiere in 2022 at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida.[3]

She will be hosting a solo exhibition in Los Angeles at the Museum of Contemporary Art and will be participating in Prospect New Orleans, 2021.

References
  1. Cotter, Holland (29 November 2012). "'Fore' at Studio Museum in Harlem". The New York Times.
  2. Society, The Renaissance. "Jennifer Packer: Tenderheaded | Exhibitions | The Renaissance Society". www.renaissancesociety.org.
  3. Daniels, Karu F. "Visual artist Jennifer Packer named recipient of 2020 Hermitage Greenfield Prize". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  4. "Rome Prize Fellows | American Academy in Rome". www.aarome.org. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  5. "Jennifer Packer | Faculty | Painting | RISD". www.risd.edu.
  6. Gompertz, Will. "Jennifer Packer: Will Gompertz reviews the artist's show at the Serpentine Gallery". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  7. "The Studio Museum in Harlem". www.studiomuseum.org.
  8. "Jennifer Packer". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  9. "Barry Schwabsky on Jennifer Packer". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
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