Jen DeNike

Jen DeNike is an artist whose practice utilizes creative filmmaking and performative enactments as a phenomenological form of visual mapping to reframe gendered intersectionality. Her research centers on the evolving role of women in the gendered politics of space related communities. The research asks how the embedded corporeality of female queer bodies as a platform of intervention can contribute to the embodiment and construction of female empowerment as a metaphysical, theoretical, and visual site for advocacy. Her research is funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP AHRC Studentship and St John’s College Scholarship under the supervision of Daria Martin and Anthony Gardner.  Jen’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, KW Berlin, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Tensta Konsthall, Crystal Bridges Museum, Palais de Tokyo, MOCA Toronto, Site Gallery Sheffield, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 54th Venice Biennale, Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Zendai Museum of Modern Art Shanghai, and MACRO Rome, recent art commissions include Creative Scotland and Art Fund in collaboration with 16N St Glasgow. She holds an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Bard College, where she also completed a two-year Master Class with photographer Stephen Shore. As a member of the Explorers Club - she receives mentorship from Dr. Tanya Harrison a planetary Scientist and Mars Specialist.