“Jen Everett’s presentation particularly stood out to me. Her work brings an archival sensibility and an aesthetic that resonates both personally and within the broader history of image-making.” – juror Erin Dziedzic, Independent Curator.

“I was particularly taken by the rigor, precision and thoughtfulness of Jen Everett’s interdisciplinary practice of rupture, Black interiority, and the archive.” – juror Diya Vij, Curator, Creative Time.

Jen Everett (b. 1981 Detroit, MI) is a teaching artist working across collage, installation and time based media. Her work engages relationships between rupture, Black interiority and knowledge production. She works with photographs, objects inherited from her own family, and material recovered from thrift stores, to expand what constitutes an archive. Her work refuses spectacular representations of Blackness and instead foregrounds the everyday.

Everett has exhibited nationally and internationally at the Contemporary Art Museum – St. Louis, SCAD Museum of Art, ACRE Projects, Flux Factory, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Kunsthall Stavanger and more. Recent solo exhibitions include Could you dim the Lights? (Krannert Art Museum – Champaign, IL ) and Come Through (Rivalry Projects – Buffalo, NY). Jen received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Architecture from Tuskegee University.