{"id":7535,"title":"Amy Jenkins","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/amy-jenkins","version":"d2266a358aba4e89de596d243a8bb0142e7d6d20383da675b33f4a9aae53e0d8","modified":"2011-06-18T00:00:08+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Amy","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Jenkins","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Amy Jenkins.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/amy-jenkins.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7535.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":2026},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":745}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Amy Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based artist whose installations, videos, and photography have been exhibited and published internationally. Her work has received wide support from granting organizations, including New York State Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Jerome Foundation, the Experimental Television Center, and Aaron Siskind Foundation. As a Djerassi Resident Artist in Woodside, CA, she was selected for the Hewlett-Packard Honorary Fellowship. She has also been a Harvestworks Media Artist-in-Residence in NY; other residencies include an NEA-sponsored Fellowship and residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VA, and artist residencies at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; Yaddo, Saratoga, NY; and Light Work, Syracuse, NY. Her video Closures received the Director\u0027s Choice Award from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival, as well as a Jury\u0027s Choice Award at the New York Exposition of Short Film and Video. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, Anna Kustera Gallery, NY, and John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; as well as the museum group shows Video Art/Video Culture, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Aquaria, Ober\u00F6sterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria; New Video Artists, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN; Video Jam, Palm Beach ICA, FL; Domestic Disturbance, Salina Art Center, KS; Threshold, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, VA; the Havana Biennial 2000, Havana, Cuba; Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; and Moving Image: Ten Years of Video, Anthology Film Archives, NY. Included in the Thames and Hudson book New Media in Late Twentieth-Century Art by Michael Rush, Ms. Jenkins\u0027 artwork has also been reviewed and reproduced in The New York Times, ARTnews, Performing Arts Journal, Aperture, Art New England, The Village Voice, and Bomb. She is represented by Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery in New York.","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":2026,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}