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"I think my task as an artist is to be more attentive. Everyone should be attentive, but I ask myself to look and reap the benefits and witness pain with that consciousness."
Jennifer Packer creates portraits, interior scenes, and still lifes that suggest a casual intimacy. Packer views her works as the result of an authentic encounter and exchange. The models for her portraits—commonly friends or family members—are relaxed and seemingly unaware of the artist’s or viewer’s gaze.
Packer’s paintings are rendered in loose line and brush stroke using a limited color palette, often to the extent that her subject merges with or retreats into the background. Suggesting an emotional and psychological depth, her work is enigmatic, avoiding a straightforward reading. “I think about images that resist, that attempt to retain their secrets or maintain their composure, that put you to work,” she explains. “I hope to make works that suggest how dynamic and complex our lives and relationships really are.”
Born in 1984 in Philadelphia, Jennifer Packer received her BFA from the Tyler University School of Art at Temple University in 2007, and her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2012. She was the 2012-2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, from 2014-2016.
Her work was most recently featured in two major solo exhibitions: Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing, the largest survey of Packer’s work to date, presented at Serpentine Galleries, London (2020) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2021-22), and Jennifer Packer: Every Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2021-22), her first exhibition on the west coast. Her first solo institutional exhibition, Tenderheaded, was presented at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (2017) and the Rose Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2018). Her work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and P.5 - Prospect New Orleans (2021). Packer currently lives and works in New York.
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Ausstellungen
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Jennifer Packer
Dead Letter 10.18 – 12.13.25“This is an impossible communication, but that's the only kind we want.” April Freely, 2014 Excerpt from “But Is It An Essay, Voyager Edition” April Freely passed four years ago....Explore -
Jennifer Packer
Quality of Life 11.29.18 – 01.19.19Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present Quality of Life , a solo exhibition of new paintings by Jennifer Packer. This is Packer’s second solo show at Sikkema Jenkins....Explore -
Jennifer Packer
Breathing Room 12.10.15 – 01.23.16Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present, Breathing Room , a solo exhibition of new drawings and paintings by Jennifer Packer on view at the gallery from December 10,...Explore
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The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing
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News
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Jennifer Packer Receives 2025 Heinz Award for the Arts
09.16.25Sikkema Malloy Jenkins is thrilled to announce that Jennifer Packer has been recognized with a 2025 Heinz Award for the Arts. Jennifer Packer's expressive paintings and drawings offer a powerful... -
Is There Something Radical About Painting Flowers?
The New York Times February 28, 2024 -
Jennifer Packer Shows Us the Responsibility of Seeing
Hyperallergic February 8, 2022 -
Jennifer Packer with Amber Jamilla Musser
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Jennifer Packer
4Columns January 29, 2021
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