Jenifer Kent works with black ink on clay-coated panels, building up compositions from thousands of marks that draw from an evolving visual vocabulary of short lines and small ovals and circles. She often starts in the center of the composition and works outward, so that the resulting forms recall organic or biological accretions; other compositions express an almost explosive energy derived from their internal interconnectedness.

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EDUCATION
1999 Mills College, Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art
1994 Rutgers University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Marking Time, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015 Hyperspace, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Marked & Bound, Solo Exhibition, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2001 Drawings: Accumulations, Solo Exhibition, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Garvey Simon at Art Fair 14C, New Jersey’s Art Fair, NJ
Reality Check: Shifting Perspectives, Garvey | Simon, San Anselmo, CA
2021 Select 6, Artsy.net & Garvey|Simon, New York, NY
12th International Drawing Discourse Exhibition (juried), UNC Asheville, NC
2020 Stay Inspired, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Identity, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Landing Contemporary Pop-Up, Fritz Porter, Charleston, SC
 2019 Drawing, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Selections by The Line Miami, The Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL
The Sheltering Sky, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2018 Art Helix Gallery Brooklyn at Aqua Art Miami 2018, Miami, FL
Wildlands, Lulo Gallery, Healdsburg, CA
In the Aggregate, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Making Your Mark, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Nat’l Juried Exhibition, Marin, CA
2017 Artist as Subject, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Pairings: 16 Artists Creatively Combined, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, CA
KALA Artists’ Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
The Space Between, Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Symbiosis, Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, CA
San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2015 Lightning Strikes: 18 poets. 18 artists, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Marin MOCA, National Juried Drawing Exhibition, Marin, CA
On View: New Work from Kala, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
The Shape of Time, The Alley Gallery, Sonoma, CA
Drawing Discourse: Contemporary Drawing (juried), UNC Asheville, NC
Lucid Arts Residency Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2014 Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco, Dolby Chadwick Gallery Booth, San Mateo, CA
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Dolby Chadwick Gallery Booth, Palm Springs, CA
San Francisco Decorator Showcase – Kitchen of the Year, San Francisco, CA
2013 SF artMRKT Art Fair, Dolby Chadwick Gallery Booth, San Francisco, CA
2012 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2011 Black and White, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Outlandish: Contemporary Depictions of Nature, (juried), Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2010 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
The Secret Lives of Teachers, Jackson Street Gallery, SF, CA
2009 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2008 Visual Aid, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
The Gift of Art, Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Twelfth Annual Art Sale & Live Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2007 Teachers at Work, New House Gallery, Ross, CA
2006 Supernatural, (juried) 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
2005 Marking Motion, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Eighth Annual Art Sale & Live Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2003 Post-Postcard, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Introductions South, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Seventh Annual Art Sale & Live Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2002 Deep Seeded, Site specific public installation, Oakland, CA
2-2002, Two person show, Nexus Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2000 Small Works, Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Women Consuming, Women Consumed, (juried) MatrixArts International 2000, MatrixArts Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Small is Beautiful, (juried) Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1999 Recent MFA Graduates, Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
Mills College MFA, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Introductions, Cecile Moochnek Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1996 Members Showcase, Art Not Terminal Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 Mason Gross School of the Arts BFA, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1993 Off the Wall, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

PUBLICATIONS
2022 ArtDaily.com, Garvey Simon Opens New Gallery Space with “Reality Check:
Shifting Perspectives”, September.
2021 ArtDaily.com, Garvey Simon Announces the Sixth Annual Exhibition of Work by Emerging & Mid-Career Artists, Tuesday, December.
The Drawing Stall, Volume 1, Edition of 300
2020 Stay Inspired: Shelter in Place 2020, Dolby Chadwick Gallery.
Identity, Exhibition Catalog, Jen Tough Gallery, 2020
Meet the Artist: Jenifer Kent, Landing Contemporary Art Journal, March 31. 
2019 Palo Alto Online, Art From Above, Jan 20, 2019
ArtDaily.org, Palo Alto Art Center Exhibition Encourages Viewers to Find Art in the Skies. Sunday, Jan. 3, 2019
 2018 The Line Miami, International Arts Project, Miami, October 2018.
2016 Berkeley Times, Front Page, Vol. 7, No. 4, Dec. 15, 2016
West Marin Review, Vol. 7
2015 Lightning Strikes/ 18 poets. 18 artists. Exhibition Catalog, 2016
Squarecylinder, Lightning Strikes, Dec. 29
New American Paintings, #115, Pacific Coast Issue.
Howard, Rachel. San Francisco Chronicle, Thurs., July 16, 2015.
Mills Quarterly, Summer 2015
Widewalls, Enter the Hyperspace with Jenifer Kent, Amy Lin, 2015
Bamberger, Alan. ArtBusiness.com, July 9, 2015
Kordic, Angie. Widewalls, Lightning Strikes, December 2015.
Morris, Elise. The Studio Work, May 27, 2015
Drawing Discourse Contemporary Drawing: UNC Asheville
2014 Eleveneleven Journal, Issue 17, Winter.
Pittel, Christine. House Beautiful, 2014 Kitchen of the Year, 2014
2013 Thich Nhat Hanh. Moments of Mindfulness, cover and illustrations, April.
Minh-Le, Anh. SF Chronicle, SF Decorator Showcase: traditional, modern mix, April 25.
2010 “SFUHS Gallery, Secret Lives of Teachers,” The Stark Guide, 22 March.
Stark, Marianna. “The Secret Lives of Teachers”, The UHS Journal, Spring.
The Stark Guide, March22, 2010
Stark, M. The UHS Journal, The Secret Lives of Teachers, Spring 2010
2006 Harmanci, Reyhan. “Art & Science,” San Francisco Chronicle, 31 August.
2001 Elsasser, B. Arts & Culture, Sacramento Digitalcity.com, 18 July.
Elsasser, B.“Clear on the Concept,” Sacramento News & Review, 26 July.
Mantay, M. “Window into an Artistic Soul,” The Davis Enterprise, 19 July.

HONORS + AWARDS
2018 Nominee, Tosa Studio Award at Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2017 Wildlands Artist Residency Award
2016 KALA Parent Artist Residency Award
2014 Lucid Arts Foundation Residency, Inverness, CA
2012 Kala Art Institute Residency
SFUHS Sabbatical
2008 “Site Specific Art: Site Santa Fe Biennial & Marfa, Texas”, SFUHS Sabbatical
2004 Contemporary Painting in NYC, SFUHS Educational Grant, San Francisco
1998-1999 Graduate Art Alumnae Scholarship, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1998-1999 Graduate Art Teaching Assistantship, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1997-1998 Graduate Art Alumnae Scholarship, Mills College, Oakland, CA

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 “HOME: Lisa Solomon, Rodney Ewing, Hannah P. Mode”, Jackson St. Gallery, SF
2014 Observations & Collections, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University – guest juror
2001-2016 Jackson Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA – curator of painting/drawing exhibits

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2000 – present San Francisco University High School; Drawing, Painting, AP Studio; SF, CA
2014 Visiting Instructor - Graduate Drawing, Colorado State University, CO
2006 California College of Arts, Extended Ed, Drawing from Life, Oakland, CA
2001 California College of Arts, Extended Ed, Drawing from Life, Oakland, CA
1998 Mills College, TA Basic Composition, Oakland, CA

LECTURES
2017 Petaluma Arts Center, Artist’s Lecture,
Copperfield’s Books, Petaluma, CA, Artist’s Lecture, March, 26, 2017
2015 Colorado State University – guest critiques and lecture, Fort Collins, CO
2002 Mills College, Oakland, CA
2001 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
The Menlo School, Atherton, CA
Seminar Panel Discussion, Mills College, Oakland, CA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Alameda County Art Collection, Alameda County, CA