Cash register paper, color ink, lights, foam, plywood, metal hardware, tape, magnets, paint, glue
About the artist
Jennie E. Park
American
Jennie E. Park is a South Korea(n)-born and Southern California-based first-generation American immigrant artist, writer and curator. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Art and Creative Writing in 2022. Her artwork has been internationally exhibited through galleries, film festivals, fairs, publications and community and office spaces, including in 2023 at SVA Theatre (New York, NY), Treehouse NDSM (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Pence Gallery (Davis, CA), Brand Library & Art Center (Glendale, CA), THE REEF (Los Angeles, CA), Irvine Fine Art Center (Irvine, CA), MOAH:CEDAR (Lancaster, CA), and online through Stoneboat Literary Journal and Shoebox Projects. In 2024, her work will be included in group shows at Crear Studio (Santa Ana, CA), The Artists Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Studio Channel Islands (Camarillo, CA). Her awards received for sculpture and video work include a MOZAIK Future Art Award in 2020 and 2021, the City of Lancaster Mayor's Award and Assistant City Manager's Award through MOAH:CEDAR in 2022, and Third Place through Pence Gallery, First Place through Shoebox Projects and an LA Art Documents Award through MOAH:CEDAR in 2023. She has written for Artillery and other arts publications and received a 2021 MOZAIK Future Art Writers Award. Through the nonprofit arts advocacy organization Arts for LA, she co-organized resource-sharing public events for Los Angeles-area artists as a 2023 Emerging Arts Leader, and advocated for legislative policies supporting the California arts economy as a 2022 Delegate. She was also a 2020 CalArts Research and Practice Fellow with ACLU Southern California's inaugural Artist in Residence, Audrey Chan. All of her curatorial projects have featured unedited, personally meaningful works by intersectionally diverse independent artists with varying levels of formal arts training. In 2023, she received a Vibrant Cities Arts Grant and California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellowship. As a 2023 - 2024 California Arts Council Creative Corps artist grantee through Arts Council for Long Beach, she is developing a long-term community-engaged narratives integration project with self-identifying Asian adults based in Southern California.
