BIO
Jen Palmer was born and raised in Southwestern Pennsylvania and currently resides in Savannah, Georgia. She studied foundations at the Columbus College of Art and Design and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art at Seton Hill University, where she also completed coursework in art therapy at the graduate level. Palmer earned a Master of Arts degree in digital photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design.
As a multidisciplinary artist with disability, chronic pain, and illness, Palmer uses traditional and new media in her practice to hold space and create expressions of radical hope.
Her work has been featured by Playform, Exactly.AI, Cent, VoyageSavannah, Canvas Rebel, Art(s) on the Air, Savannah Morning News, the Tribune-Review, Allegory Gallery, and published in Alternative Press Magazine and Yahoo! Lifestyle.
She has participated in residencies with Sulfur Studios/Arts Southeast, You Are Here, and the Thrive Together Network. She is listed in All SHE Makes, Curated Online Directory for Women Creatives Worldwide, and in the Where Are The Women Artists Directory. Palmer also facilitates Representations: A collaborative project encouraging people of marginalised genders to take up space and affect the future at the intersection of art and technology.
Luminous Waves, Solo Exhibition, Far North Side Gallery, Chicago, 2024
Object as Vessel, Process as Catharsis, Invitational Group Exhibition, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, 2023
Uncertain Certainties, Group Virtual Exhibition, Thrive Together Network, 2023
EXACTLY.AI, Group Exhibition, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, 2023
REPRESENTATIONS, Group Collaborative Virtual Exhibition, Jen Palmer Art, Taking. Up. Space. with the Thrive Together Network, 2023
ON::VIEW Revue - Celebrating the Artists-in-Residence of 2022, Group Exhibition, Sulfur Studios, 2023
DARKNESS, Group Virtual Exhibition, Juniper Rag, 2022
OBSERVANCE, Solo Virtual Exhibition, Taking. Up. Space. with the Thrive Together Network, 2022
HOPE, Group Exhibition, The Roaring Artist Gallery, 2021
Simulacra, A National Call for Entry Exhibition, Sulfur Studios, 2021
REMIX, A Playform Group Exhibition, exclusively on Rarible, Playform, 2021
Women’s Work Group Exhibition, You Are Here Gallery, 2021
Off The Wall Group Exhibition, You Are Here Gallery, 2020
Women’s Work Group Exhibition, You Are Here Gallery, 2019
Off The Wall Group Exhibition, You Are Here Gallery, 2019
Invitational Group Exhibition, You Are Here Gallery, 2019
Stone Age Group Exhibition, Allegory Gallery, 2019
Group Exhibition & Live Painter, Art All Night Pittsburgh, 2019
Group Exhibition, You Are Here Gallery, 2018
Featured Artist, Allegory Gallery, 2018
Alumni Exhibition, Harlan Gallery, 2017
Featured Artist, Allegory Gallery, 2013
Group Exhibition, Art All Night Pittsburgh, 2010
Greenlight Engage 5x7 Group Show, DV8 Gallery, 2009
Westmoreland Art Nationals, Juried Exhibition, Westmoreland County Community College, 2009
Westmoreland Art Nationals, Juried Exhibition, Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival, 2009
Women of the World, group show, 28 West Second Gallery, 2009
Senior Thesis Exhibition, 2-person show, Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill University, 2004
Student Exhibition, Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill University, 2004
Student Exhibition, Columbus College of Art and Design, 2002
Indiana Arts Council Annual Juried Exhibition, Indiana County Courthouse, 2001