Born in 1978 in Albany, NY
Lives and works in Queens, NY
Education
2011 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2005 MFA, Fine Arts, Parsons, New York, NY
1999 BFA, Sculpture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Fellowships/Residencies/Awards
2021 City Artist Corps Grant, NYFA, New York, NY
2020 Paint School, Shandaken Projects, New York, NY
2015 Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island, NY
2012 Visual Arts Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2010 Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2008 Artist in Residence, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI
2006 Artist Outreach Grant, Voom HD Lab, New York, NY
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2022 Original Face, Deli Grocery Gallery, Ridgewood, NY
2021 Versace Chrysalis, Matinee Projects, New York, NY
2021 Sleeper, Turn Gallery, New York, NY (Parlour Room)
2020 Devotional Paintings, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
2020 My Pretty Red Heart, Hans Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Female Sensibility, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Exiled Parts, No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH
2018 the soft animal of your body, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Revenge Body, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Big Girl Paintings, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Adult Movie, La Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2010 One-Week Walden, Freight + Volume, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Salad Days, Personal Space, Vallejo, CA
2022
Jung Lovers, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Brackett Creek Invitational, Brackett Creek Exhibitions, Bozeman, MT
A Light in the Attic, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Georgia McGovern
If a Mountain Could Love, Circle Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2021
Muscle Definition, CPM Gallery, Baltimore, MD
I Am Not This Body, Tyler Park Presents, Los Angeles, CA
Hell, Yes!, Horse and Pony, Berlin, Germany
Side Bar, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Make Me One With Everything, Grifter, New York, NY
A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock and Roll, Circle Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2019
Cloud Memories, White Columns Online, New York, NY
20/20, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
NADA House, Governor’s Island, New York, NY
AXxoN N.: A Collective Commentary on David Lynch’s Inland Empire, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
2018
Tomer Aluf, Sacha Ingber, Jennifer Sullivan, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
Cheeky: Summer Butts, Marinaro, New York, NY
Susumu Kamijo, Alicia Gibson, Rachel Eulena Williams, Jennifer Sullivan, Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn, NY
Friends of Marvin Gardens, Rod Barton, London, England
Shadowboxing, Lane Meyer Projects, Denver, CO
Salad for Everyone, St. Charles Projects, Baltimore, MD
Flower Sermon, Yui Gallery, New York, NY
Quinn Likes Trucks, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Stomach Acid Reflux, White Columns Online, New York, NY
Shindig, Yui Gallery, New York, NY
First Ever and Only East Hamptons Biennial, East Hamptons, NY
Cosmic Joke, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Small Painting, COUNTY, Palm Beach, FL
2016
Bunnicula, Marvin Gardens, Ridgewood, NY
100% presents: Mallrats, Et. Al. Etc., Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Synesthesia, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
Casino Cabaret, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SIREN, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Drawings, Klaus von Nichtsaggend, New York, NY
Your Bad Self, Arts + Leisure, New York, NY (catalog)
Lesser Deities of Summer, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Bulletproof Heart, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
Bar at the End of the Night II, David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Walden, Revisited, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)
JS/JS: Night Painters' Pajama Party and Confidence-Building Seminar, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
Edge of Continuation, Pablo's Birthday, New York, NY
2013
Abstract Perversion, Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA
What Are You Looking For?, 247365, Brooklyn, NY
CKTV, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Breaks and Breaks, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2012
CKTV, Brooklyn: City Pavilion at The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
The Double Dirty Dozen, Freight + Volume, New York, NY
The Right Wrong, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Telling Tales, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2011
Cover Version LP, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Future Present: Five Artists, Five Weeks, Arthouse, Austin, TX
QNTV, Champion Gallery, Austin, TX
2010
QNTV, Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA
Physical Center, St. Cecilia's Convent, Brooklyn, NY
Seven Easy Steps: Spiritual Ecstasies, Horton Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Collage: Collage, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
Warren Oates in the Economic Crisis of 2008, OK Mountain, Austin, TX
It’s a Process: Ladies Night Live, Klaus von Nichtsaggend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Papercut, Heist Gallery, New York, NY
Cover Version, Taylor De Cordoba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
First Impressions, NADA Exhibition Space, New York, NY
2007
The Feminine Mystique, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ (catalogue)
Watch Me Get Watched, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA
Experiments in High Definition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Highly Defined, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2006
The Pursuit of Happiness, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Naive Set Theory, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Everybody Dance Now, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Sympathetic Magic, Planaria Gallery, New York, NY
Sasquatch Society, Sixtyseven, New York, NY
Bibliography
Artist of the Week, LVL3, December 29, 2021
Lara Brörken, In Hell Dreams Come True - Hell, Yes! at Horse & Pony, gallerytalk.net, May 9, 2021
Anne Wallentine, Female Sensibility, Artillery Magazine, February 20, 2020
Jori Finkel, Artist-Run Galleries Defy the Mega-Dealer Trend in Los Angeles, New York Times, February 7, 2020
Editorial Selection, Anniversary Issue 15, ArtMaze Mag, Fall 2019
Omer Soylemez, An Interview with Jennifer Sullivan, SIMPL MAG, June 2019
20/20 at Peter Blum, New York, ARTnews, May 31, 2019
Full Blede, Issue 8 - The Interpenetrate, April 2019
John Cappetta, Artseen: Quinn Likes Trucks, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2018
Jens-Peter Brask and Christian Langballe, Brask Studio Visits III, 2017
Shana Nys Dambrot, Jennifer Sullivan: Revenge Body at Five Car Garage, LA, Whitehot Magazine, August 2016
Howard Halle, 10 NYC artists 35 and under you should know, Time Out NY, June 24, 2016
Molly Larkey, SYNAESTHESIA at 5 Car Garage, Contemporary Art Review LA, May 26, 2016
Steven Hull and Amy Thoner, Las Cienegas: 06.18.2009 - 12.17.2011, 2015
Ruth Erickson, Review: Walden, Revisited, ArtNews, May 2015
Stephen Vincent Kobasa, Inventing a Pond, Big Red & Shiny.com, April 1, 2015
Allison Meier, Jam-Packed Spring/Break Art Show Pulls into Moynihan Station, Hyperallergic, March 4, 2015
Nicole O'Rourke, The best artist-run spaces in New York, Dazed Digital.com, January 2015
Jennifer Sullivan: Playlist, Modern Painters, October issue, 2014
Scott Indrisek, 5 Must-See Gallery Shows: "Go With the Flow" and More, BlouinArtinfo.com, August 7, 2014
Scott Indrisek, Studio Tracks: Jennifer Sullivan's Playlist, BlouinArtinfo.com, July 16, 2014
Erin Nixon, ‘The Superior Object’, Make Literary Magazine, Issue #14, Fall 2013
Ken Johnson, ‘The Double Dirty Dozen (& Friends)’, The New York Times, September 6, 2012
Liz Filardi, Curators Take On The Art Fair, Hyperallergic, March 9th, 2012
Dinah Ryan, Telling Tales, Art Papers, March/April 2012
Ken Johnson, Jennifer Sullivan ‘One-Week Walden’, The New York Times, December 10, 2010
Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman, Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory, New Museum & Phaidon Press, 2009
Russ Crest, Jennifer Sullivan - Bad Means Good, Beautiful/Decay Magazine, August 2009
Michael Wilson, X-Factor, Artforum.com, March 3, 2009
Rachel Koper, Warren Oates in the Economic Crisis, The Austin Chronicle, January 23, 2009
Charlene Roth, Naive Set Theory at Cirrus Gallery, Artweek, February 2007
Ken Johnson, Sightings of an Elusive Mountain Creature, New York Times, August 26, 2005
Roberta Smith, Sympathetic Magic, New York Times, March 11, 2005
Choire Sicha, An Art Students Paradise, New York Times, February 6, 2005
Fred Camper, Video Mundi, Chicago Reader, March 4, 2003