JENNIFER GARZA-CUEN
Untitled - Girl with Snake, Rabun, GA
Jennifer Garza-Cuen is an artist from the Pacific Northwest. Currently Associate Professor of Photography in the Department of Art + Design at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, she received her MFA in photography and MA in the History of Art and Visual Culture with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her BA summa cum laude in comparative literature was completed at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Garza-Cuen is the recipient of numerous grants, awards, and fellowships including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Photography, the Robert Rauschenberg Residency Award, and the British Journal of Photography and 1854 Media’s Female in Focus Award. Additionally, she has received fellowships to attend residencies at Light Work, Ucross, Oxbow, Hambidge, Brush Creek, and the Vermont Studio Center. Public collections include Light Work, The Do Good Fund, the New Mexico History Museum and The Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and published in contemporary photographic journals such as Dear Dave, Contact Sheet, Musée, Papiers Paris, Blink, PDN, NR Magazine UK, Der Greif Germany, The Photo Review, and Conveyor as well as on-line journals such as: i-D, Feature Shoot, Aint-Bad, Fubiz, iGNANT, Dazed, and Juxtapoz. Garza-Cuen’s recent monograph, Past Paper // Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg, in collaboration with Odette England was published by Radius Books summer 2021.
Untitled - Man on White Horse, Buffalo, WY
Imag[in]ing America
Our society treats place as a central identifying characteristic, second only to name and followed closely by profession. We all have a catalogue of images in our mind that we call upon when a city, town, or country's name is mentioned and those images help us to form an opinion of place, and those we meet from there.
What is it that makes us ‘of’ a place? As a former American expatriate and one who has lived my adult life essentially placeless this is a central question in my work. In my ongoing project Imag[in]ing America, I am interested in investigating national, regional, and local identities as well as ideas of otherness as they relate to place and documentary photography in America.
Photographs have the ability to expand and compress time. They speak of what was, what is, and what will be. We look to photographs to remember and often reenact what we see, pushing old images into the future. Imag[in]ing America depicts a series of locations in the United States as a residue of cultural memory, an inheritance. It is a metaphorical memoir, a narrative re-telling of facts and fictions and a discovery of the dreamland that still is America.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Imag[in]ing America, Melhop Gallery º7077, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
2020 Penumbra Foundation, Past Paper // Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg (10.20-11.20), New York, NY
Sala Diaz, New Work (Postponed due to COVID-19), San Antonio, TX
2019 Bristlecone Gallery, Eden (8.27-10.17), Western Nevada College, Carson City, NV
2017 Palmetto Art Gallery, Eden (9.4-10.6), Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX
2015 Red Mountain Gallery, Imprints of Detroit, (9.9-10.15), Truckee Meadows College, Reno, NV
2012 Red Mill Gallery, Imprints, (5.10-5.30) Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2009 El Cortez Hotel, Room 217 Cortez at the Cortez, NadaDada Motel, Reno, NV
2008 Sierra Arts Gallery, Otel, Reno, NV
2007 McKinley Arts Center, As Light Enters The Morris & Motel America, Reno, NV
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 El Barrio Artspace, 1854 & British Journal of Photography: Female In Focus Award Exhibition (TBD) New York, NY
Center for Photographic Art, Future/Past: Critical Mass TOP 50, Juror Elizabeth Avedon (8.7-9.12), Carmel, CA
Museum of South Texas, ARCHIPELAGO 15° 7' 2" S, (4.16-8.15.21), Corpus Christi, TX
2020 Telfair Museum, Youthful Adventures: Growing Up in Photography, Curator Erin Dunn (9.18.20-4.18.21) Savannah, GA
Houston Center for Photography, Keeper of the Hearth, Curator Ashlyn Davis (9. 11.20-11.8.20) Houston, TX
Box13 Artspace, 8th Annual Combined Caucus, (3.6-4.18.2020), Juror Zackary Drucker, Houston, TX
2019 Fleming Museum, Be Strong And Do Not Betray Your Soul (9.27-12.13), University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Museum of South Texas, Confluence, (4.19-8.11.2019), Corpus Christi, TX
Cole Arts Center, Texas National, (4.12-6.8.2019) Curator Michelle White, SFA University, Nacogdoches, TX
Meadows Gallery, 34th Annual International Exhibition, (1.21.19-3.8.19), Tyler, TX
PCNW, 22nd Juried Photography Exhibition, Jurors Conor Risch & Lara Behnert (1.17.19-3.14.19 ), Seattle, WA
2018 Root Studios NYC, Feature Shoot: The Print Swap Holiday Exhibition, (12.13.18 ), Brooklyn, NY
Islander Gallery, reCollection: TAMU-CC Art + Design Faculty Exhibition, (11.9.18-12.9.18 ),Corpus Christi, TX
Photoville, PDN's 30 2018, (9.13-9.16 & 9.20-9.23), Brooklyn, NY
Light Work, Be Strong And Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from Light Work Collection, 8.27-10.18), Syracuse, NY
Providence Art Club, America, Now, Juror Dr. Elliot Bostwick Davis, (6.23-7.20), Providence, RI
Atlanta Photo Group, Know South/No South! Juror Richard McCabe, (6.1-7.14), Atlanta, GA
Photo London, LensCulture Exposure Awards, Somerset House, (5.17-5.20), London, UNITED KINGDOM
Gallery Walk at Terminus, Growing Up Human, Curator by Nick Ashton, (4.28-7.5), Atlanta, GA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, One Place Understood, (3.22-6.10), New Orleans, LA
Filter Photo, Context, Juror April M. Watson, (3.16-4.28), Chicago, IL
Vermont Center for Photography, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Juror Shane Lavalette, (3.2-4.1), Brattleboro, VT
The Palitz Gallery, New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from Light Work Collection, (2.5-4.12), New York, NY
2017 CPW, Photography Now 2017, Juror William Ewing (11.4.2017-1.14.2018), Woodstock, NY
Light Work, New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from Light Work Collection, (11.1-12.14), Syracuse, NY
Gallery 1401, Best of Show: Photo Review, 4th Prize, Juror Yancey Richardson, (11.3-12.1), Philadelphia, PA
Atlanta Photo Group, Selects, Juror Gregory Harris (10.5-11.11.2017), Atlanta, GA
Verbal Arts Centre, On the Front, (8.25-9.25), Derry, NORTHERN IRELAND
Site: Brooklyn, Text & Image, Juror Edith Newhall (6.16-7.16.2017), Booklyn, NY
The Light Factory, The 9th Juried Annuale, Juror Rick Wester (4.20-6.4.2017), Charlotte, NC
Museum of South Texas, Tidal Shift, (4.20-6.4.2017), Corpus Christi, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Architectural Imagination, (2.11.17-4.16.2017), Detroit, MI
Gallery 110, Greetings from the Anthropocene, Juror Maiza Hixson (2.2-2.28.2017), Seattle, WA
Amarillo Museum of Art, High Plains Highway, Juror Wyatt McSpadden (11.11-1.15.2017), Amarillo, TX
2016 The Center for Contemporary Art, International Juried Exhibition, (11.10-12.23), Bedminster, NJ
Islander Gallery, The Artist is in the Building, (10.21-11.27), Curator Laura Petican, Corpus Christi, TX
4th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, Gala Awards (10.6-10.30), Berlin, GERMANY
Gertrude Herbert Institute, A Sense of Place, (9.9-10.14), Juror Michael Rooks, High Museum, Augusta, GA
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Re-Context, (7.1-7.30), Juror Ariel Shanberg, Denver, CO
New Mexico History Museum, The Frontier, (6.9-6.30), Juror Center, Santa Fe, NM
Southeast Center for Photography, On the Road, (6.3-6.30), Juror Doug Beasley, Greenville, SC
United States Pavilion - Venice Architecture Biennale, The Architectural Imagination, (5.28-11.27), 'My Detroit Post Card Photo Contest,' Venice, ITALY
Flash Forward Boston, The Gun Show, (4.4-5.4), Curator Maja Orsic, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 The University of the Arts Gallery 1401, Best of Show: The Photo Review, (11.1-12.6), Philadelphia, PA
2012 Mill Gallery, Ornamentation + Landscape, Pawtucket, RI
2011 Sol Koffler Gallery, Selections, Providence, RI
RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Imprints, Providence, RI
2010 Camera Obscura Gallery, The Art of Photography Today II, Denver, CO
2009 RISD Museum - Gelman Gallery, America, America, Providence, RI
Sol Koffler Gallery, Five by Seven, RISD MFA Photography Biennial, Providence, RI
Yellow House Gallery, Wild Wild West, Providence, RI
RISD Red Eye Gallery, First, Incoming Photography MFA exhibition, Providence, RI
Jennifer Garza-Cuen photographed by Asa Gilmore