BIOGRAPHY

Spanning video, photography and performance, Jen DeNike’s work negotiates a distinctly feminine perspective on gender roles. A director of choreographed movements, her structuralist approach to time is grounded in the formal language of photography. Evoking cinematic archetypes, aesthetic cannons build a gravity of repetitive actions, forming a psychogeography of both real and imagined utopias with a reverence for nature and architecture that interchangeably function as containers of desire and places of intervention.

DeNike received her MFA from Bard College. Her work has been exhibited internationally at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf; MoMA PS1; The Brooklyn Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Participant Inc; 54th Venice Biennale; Garage Projects, Moscow; Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; MOCA Toronto; MACRO ROMA; Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart; Red Line Contemporary Art Center, Denver; CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-On-Hudson; MEF Museo Ettore Fico, Torino; Schauspiel Köln Opera House; Art Basel Miami Film Sector; and Wallis Annenberg Center For the Performing Arts, Los Angeles. Select commissioned projects include Bombay Beach Biennale, EMPAC, LAND Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Creative Time, Performa Biennial and Faena Art. Her work is held in the permanent public collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Julia Stoschek Collection, among other private collections. DeNike lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

In 2019, DeNike premiered the first act of her new ballet Crystal Cut Levitation for her first solo exhibition at signs and symbols. A publication dedicated to the artist’s two ballets Scrying (2010) and Crystal Cut Levitation (2019-21) is currently in progress.

DeNike’s forthcoming exhibitions include a solo exhibition Sculpting Time with an accompanying book at Feld+Haus in Germany and group exhibition at Museo de la Ciudad in Mexico.

EXHIBITIONS

Being Like Water, January 13 – March 10, 2018

If She Hollers, November 14 – December 19, 2015

The Star Card, November 10, 2012 – January 26, 2013

The Scrying Trilogy, September 17 – October 23, 2010

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Jen DeNike

1971

American, born Norwalk, CT

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Education

2002

MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, NY

1999-2001

Master Class with Stephen Shore, Bard College, NY

1995

BFA in Photography, Georgia State University, GA

Solo Exhibitions

2021

TBD, Central Fine, Miami, FL (forthcoming)

TBD, FELD + HAUS, Frankfurt, Germany (forthcoming)

TBD, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)

2020

Jen DeNike + Pola Sieverding, we tell ourselves stories in order to live, signs and symbols, New York, NY

Jen DeNike: Shipwreck, Deadman's Float, Fell, signs and symbols, New York, NY (online)

Jen DeNike: Queen of Narwhals, signs and symbols, New York, NY (online)

2019

Crystal Cut Levitation, Signs and Symbols, New York, NY

2017

Film Sector, Art Basel Miami Beach, with Anat Ebgi, Miami, FL

2015

If She Hollers, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

2013

Die Grünen Löwen, DUVE BERLIN, Berlin, DE

2012

The Star Card, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

2011

Rope Mirror, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, BR

2010

Jen DeNike: Scrying: Another Circle and Hydromancy, Claudia Groeflin Galerie, Zurich, CH

Jen DeNike: Scrying Trilogy, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, DE

Jen DeNike: Scrying Trilogy, The Company, Los Angeles, CA

SCRYING, Number Three: Here and Now, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, DE

Jen DeNike: Another Circle, Smith-Stewart Roving, New York, NY

SCRYING, PopRally, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2008

Thirteen, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Annarumma 404, Milan, IT

2007

Jen DeNike, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK

Next Door, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, SE

2006

Jen DeNike, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE

Seven Suns, New Center For Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY

2005

Seasons in the Sun, Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery, New York, NY

The Vampire Portraits, 404 Arte Contemporarie, Naples, IT

Special Projects and Performances

2017

The Femmes' Video Art Festival at Fair Play., Brickell City Centre, Miami, FL

CAPRI BY NIGHT, curated by Elke Kania, Schauspiel Köln, Offenbachplatz, Cologne

2015

Rabbit Moon Performance, Ebell House, LAND Gala, Los Angeles, CA

Time to Honor Fire Performance, Intentionally Blank, New York, NY

2013

Lolita Lo, site specific video and performance, curated by Shamim Momim of LAND, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, at Soho House, West Hollywood, CA

Triskaidekaphobia, curated by Bradford Kessler and AA Bronson, Parade Ground, New York, NY

2012

Performance: Chris Bicalho Collection co-hosted by Christie’s, Sao Paulo, Brazil

She Was Dreaming of Castles in the Sand, Creative Time, New York, NY

13 Moons, curated by Birte Kleeman, Brooklyn Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY

2011

Iemanja, Art Basel: Art Public, Miami Beach, FL, curated by Christine Kim

Ghost Dance Performance, Vogt Gallery, NYC, curated by Anne Apparu

2010

SCRYING, PopRally, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

SCRYING, Number Three: Here and Now, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, DE

2009

TWIRL, Performa Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Arctic Circle, Lisa Cooley Fine Art, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021

Homage to Kurt Schwitters, Museo del a Ciudad, Mexico

The Cat, Belgrade MOCA, Serbia curated by Kathy Baptista

2020

Good Company: Pt. 1, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

Visions in Light: Windows on the Wallis, Wallis Annenberg Center For the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA

artists & allies III, signs and symbols, New York, NY (online)

2019

Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today, curated by Joachim Pissarro, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

Some people, Fotografie da Von Gloeden a Warhol, from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito, MEF Museo Ettore Fico, Torino, IT

Artists & Allies II, Signs and Symbols, New York, NY

The Vision Board: A Group Show, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

Being Like Water (Jen DeNike and Katherine Bradford), AE2, Los Angeles, CA

2017

777 (Jen DeNike and Damien Echols), Participant Inc, New York, NY

I hear it everywhere I go, curated by Terri C. Smith, Franklin Works, Stamford, CT

Generation Loss: 10 Year Julie Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, DE

Bombay Biennale, Salton Sea, CA

2016

Number Twelve: Hello Boys, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, DE

2014

The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

2015

NADA NY, with Anat Ebgi, New York, NY

Auto Body, Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, AR

Girls Girls Girls, NADA Cologne with Vanity Projects NYC, Köln, DE

2013

MoMA Media Lounge, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Gender Show, Eastman Kodak House, Rochester, NY

Commercial Break, curated by Neville Wakefield and Emma Reeves, Garage Projects, Moscow, RU

Mexico City, public screenings as part of Zona Mexico, Mexico City, MX

AutoCenter, Berlin, DE

2012

Lucie Fontaine Estate, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

Alphabet of the Magi, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, BR Americana, Grey Area, New York, NY

Blood Sugar Sex Magick, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

What Do You Believe In, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Photo Festival, DUMBO, New York, NY

Campaign, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, C24 Gallery, New York, NY

2011

¡Patria o Libertad!, MOCCA Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON

¡Patria o Libertad!, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, NL

54th Venice Biennale, Commercial Break, curated by Neville Wakefield and Emma Reeves with London-based media platform Post, Garage Projects, Moscow, RU

Meditation Trance, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, BR

Ca & la, Willow sound installation, Palais de Toyko, Paris, FR

She Devil 5, MACRO Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, IT Our Darkness, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE

A Strange Affinity to the Beautiful and the Dreadful, Hendershot Gallery, New York, NY

2010

Deichtorhallen, Julia Stoschek Collection, Hamburg, DE

Father, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, BR

Filament, EMPAC, Troy, NY

Misericordia, curated by Birte Kleeman, PRISM, Los Angeles, CA

Plus One, curated by Dan Cameron, Perry Rubenstein, New York, NY

Inspired, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY

Saturn Return, Curated by Elizabeth Lovero, Wallspace, New York, NY

2009

Performance, Performa Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Deep End, The Company, Los Angeles, CA

Burn Baby Burn, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, DE

Reflections On The Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video, curated by Lauren Ross, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

A Starting Point: Intrude 366—Dynamics of Change and Growth, curated by Biljiana Ciric, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, CN

Arctic Circle, Lisa Cooley Fine Art, New York, NY

The Company Presents: Video Screening, Sagamore Art Hotel, Miami Beach, FL

2008

Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, DE

Through A Glass Darkly, curated by Jenny Schlenzka, Redline, Denver, CO

To: Night, curated by Joachim Pissarro, Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY

Human Resources, The Company, Los Angeles, CA

Art Intrude Art & Life 366, curated by Biljiana Ciric, Citywide Public Art Installation, Shanghai, CN

Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl, curated by Anat Ebgi and Terence Koh, Asia Song Society, New York, NY

Seduction of a Blossom, Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA

Studio 54, video screenings series, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, DE

Video 2008, Duvekleemann, Berlin, DE

That Was Then, This Is Now, PS 1 / MoMA, Long Island City, NY

Under the Influence, curated by Anat Ebgi, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY

Warlord, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY

Boys of Summer, curated by Shelley Aarons and Edsel Williams, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New York, NY

2007

She Was Born to Be My Unicorn, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY

Curious Green, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

m.a.s.h, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Amy Smith-Stewart, New York, NY

Into Me / Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE

2006

Into Me / Out of Me, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, PS1 / MoMA, Long Island City, NY

Upstate, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

The Spiral House, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, SE

People, Museum D’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli, IT

Schwanengesang/Swansong, Centre of Attention, Schiffbau, Zurich, CH

Smoke and Mirrors: Deception in Contemporary Art, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

Art & Place 1: Place as Muse, Space 301, Mobile, AL

Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jose Diaz, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL

The Seventh Side of the Die, curated by Anat Ebgi, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY

Slow Burn, curated by Jonah Freeman, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, CH

Bricks In The Hood, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY

Oh Boy, New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY

2005

Greater New York, PS1 / MoMA, Long Island City, NY

On the Beach, curated by Justin Lowe, Printed Matter, New York, NY

Something is Somewhere, curated by Anat Ebgi, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY; PAN Museum, Naples, IT

If You’re Feeling Sinister, curated by Anat Ebgi, Alona Kagan, New York, NY

Inner Garden, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY

2004

Boys Behaving Badly, curated by Valerie Cassel, Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX

Narcissism and Other Diseases of the Soul, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY

Art & Commerce Emerging Photographers Exhibition, Empire State Park Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

AIM 24, curated by Lydia Yee and Amy Rosenblum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY

Liasons, Luxenbourg Contemporary Art Center, Luxembourg, BE Domestic Arrivals, curated by Anat Ebgi, White Box, New York, NY

Sitting, Standing, Reclining, Modern Culture, New York, NY

By the Woods, Miami Light Projects, curated by Diego Singh, Miami, FL

2003

Tar Beach: New Artists from New York, curated by Michael Wilson, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK

Haunted, curated by Jose Diaz, Worm-Hole Laboratory, Miami, FL

Louisiana Biennial, curated by Terry Myers, Valerie Cassel, Odili Donald Odita, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

2002

Something in Common, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY

Plant TV Performance: Peter Coffin’s Perfect If On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY

2001

Pete & Repeat, curated by Kathleen Forde, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

2000

Cities Stories, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia School of Design, Halifax, NS

1999

Outer Boroughs, curated by Paul Ha and Lauren Ross, White Columns, New York, NY

Public Collections

Hood Museum of Art, Darmouth, New Hampshire

The Bunker, West Palm Beach, Florida

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Julia Stoschek Sammlung Collection, Dusseldorf, DE

Il Giardino dei Lauri Collection, Umbrio, IT

Awards/Fellowships

2004

AIM 24 Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts

2003

Louisiana Division for the Arts – New Media Grant

2000-2002

Bard Fellowship, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College

2000

Artist Travel Grant, Nova Scotia School of Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Bibliography

2020

"Julia Stoschek presents her media art collection online." e-flux. May 18, 2020. (Link)

Marani, Francesca. "signs and symbols postcard project." Vogue Italia. April 27, 2020. (Link)

"7 art films you should see right now." Monopol Magazin. April 17, 2020. (Link)

2019

“Jen DeNike. Crystal Cut Levitation, “ Wall Street International, February 14 Cascone, Sarah, “Editors’ Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,“ Artnet News, January 26

2018

Daniel Gerwin, "Two Fresh Takes on Portraying Female Bathers in Art," Hyperallergic, February 7, 2018. (Link)

Annabel Osberg, “Jen DeNike and Katherine Bradford,” Artillery Magazine, January 24, 2018. (Link)

2017

Mariam Nihal, "Highlights from Art Basel in Miami," The Saudi Gazette, December 15, 2017. (Link)

“5 new things to see and do at Art Basel 2017,” South Florida Business Journal, December 6, 2017. (Link)

Christina Hennessy, “Stamford art show ponders the American Dream,” CT Post, November 26, 2017. (Link)

“‘Generation Loss’ at Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf,” Bluoin ArtInfo, September 18, 2017. (Link)

2016

Andrew Berardini, “Jen DeNike: If She Hollers,” ArtReview, January-February 2016.

2013

Ed Schad, “Star Card review,” ArtReview: 145, March 2013.

Annie Buckley, “On Seing: Divination,” Huffington Post, March 2013.

Holly Myers, “Jen DeNike is in Too Deep,” L.A. Times, February 2013.

2012

Pauline Adamek, “Jen DeNike at the Anat Ebgi Gallery in Los Angeles,” Art Media Agency, November 14, 2012.

Georgianna Boehnke, “The Star Card-An Art Show,” The Tarot Room, November 19, 2012.

Robin Newman, “Clouds in My Coffee,” Dossier Journal, November 20, 2012.

Pauline Adamek, “Jen DeNike art opening ‘The Star Card’ and ‘Full Moon Fever’” ArtsBeatLA, November 9, 2012.

2009

Anke Volkmer, “Number Two: Fragile,” Catalog Text, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, June 2009.

“Goings On About Town, Art,” The New Yorker, May 25, 2009.

Jane Harris, “Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video, The third wave of feminist video comes ashore at the Brooklyn Museum,” Time Out New York / Issue 711, May 14-20, 2009.

Ken Johnson, “SheTube: Female Voices on the Small Screen,” The New York Times, May 1, 2009.

Jenny Schlenzka, “Through a Glass Darkly,” Catalog Text. Redline, Denver, CO, April 2009.

2008

Catherine Taft, “Catherine Taft’s Round-up of the Best Shows in LA, Human Resources,” November 2008.

Joachim Pissarro, “To: Night,” Catalog Text, Hunter College Art Gallery, October 2008.

Anat Ebgi, "Jen DeNike," Flash Art International: 162, May-June 2008.

Dmitry Komis, "Stars and Stripes," NY Arts Magazine, May-June 2008.

H.G. Master, “Jen DeNike: Thirteen,” Flavorpill, February 9, 2008.

Rachel Fershleiser, “You’re a Grand Old Flag,” Grand Street News: 16, February 2008.

Nicholas Weist, “Interview with Jen DeNike,” ArtSlant, March 12, 2008.

2007

Robert Clark, "Jen DeNike Sheffield," The Guardian, Jun 23, 2007.

Tina Jackson, "Jen DeNike," Metro Newspaper, May 29, 2007.

Rodrigo Mallea Lira, "The Flag Girls in the Little House on the Prairie," Catalog Text, Tensta Konsthall and Site Gallery, April 2007.

Jeanine Griffin, "Visual Semaphore," Catalog Text, Tensta Konsthall and Site Gallery, April 2007.

Stephanie Vegh, “Jen DeNike,” MAP Magazine, Fall, 2007: 63.

Michael Wilson, "For All Mankind," Catalog Text, Tensta Konsthall and Site Gallery, April 2007.

2006

Klaus Biesenbach, “Into Me Out of Me,” New York: PS1 Contemporary Art and Berlin, September 2006.

Matt Wolf, “Jen DeNike,” Flash Art International, January-February 2006: 50. Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, 2006.

2005

Choire Sicha, “Inner Gardens,” The New York Times, April 10, 2005.

Karen Rosenberg, “Artists on the Verge of A Breakthrough,” New York Magazine, March 7, 2005: 35-36.

Amy Smith-Stewart, “Greater New York, 2005,” New York: PS1 / MoMA, 2005.

2004

Lydia Yee, “AIM 24,” Catalog Essay, Bronx Museum of The Arts, April 15 – June 20, 2004.

Valerie Oliver, “Boys Behaving Badly,” Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2004.

2003

Eric D. Bookhardt, “Louisiana Biennial,” Art Papers, November 2003: 44.

Alfred Hickling, “Tar Beach,” The Guardian, May 26, 2003.

Vince Aletti, “Something in Common,” Village Voice, January 29, 2003: 54.

Ken Johnson, “Something in Common,” The New York Times, January 17, 2003.

Publications

2019

Crystals in Art, Ancient to Today, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Lauren Haynes and Joachim Pissarro, The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville

2013

Various Small Books, MIT PRESS

2012

Campaign, C24 Gallery, New York, New York

2011

¡Patria o Libertad!, MOCCA Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto

¡Patria o Libertad!, Cobra Museum, Netherlands

2010

Julia Stoschek Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Misericordia, PRISM, Los Angeles, California

2009

Fragile Number Two, Julia Stoschek Collection

2008

Through A Glass Darkley, REDLINE, Denver, Colorado

I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl, Asia Song Society, New York, NY

Boys of Summer, Fireplace Projects, East Hampton, New York, NY

To: Night, catalog, Hunter College, New York, New York

2007

Fluxus Kit, co-produced by Tensta Konstall Sweden and Site Gallery, England, UK

2006

Seven Suns, Artist book, published by Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY and Oliver Kamm, New York, NY

Into Me Out Of Me, KW, Berlin, Germany

2005

Greater NY, MOMA/PS1, New York

2004

AIM 24, Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, New York

Boys Behaving Badly, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston