ABOUT

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. 

EXHIBITIONS

  • Boldly Taking Up Space: Southeast Scope, Group Exhibition, ClearStory Arts, Chattanooga, 2024

  • 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