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Born in Toronto Ontario, Jennifer Pepper is an installation artist
who now lives in CNY. She teaches full time in the Division of Art
+ Design at Cazenovia College since 2003 where she has been appointed
the gallery director since 2005. As an artist she has exhibited
nationally and internationally in thirteen solo exhibitions to date
and has participated in over fifty group exhibitions since 1990.
Her work has been seen in international and national venues including
Ireland, Japan, Canada, New York City and other gallery and museums
throughout the USA. Pepper was invited to participate in Sculpture:
Carved, Cast + Constructed a group exhibition of nine artists at
The Schweinfurth
Memorial Art Center in Auburn, NY and Saltonstall Fellows at
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in
2006. 2004 and 2003 she was an invited artist to participate in
the international site specific installations created for the city
of Sumter, SC; “Buoyancy of Place” (2004) and “The
Finger Poets,” (2003). She has been the recipient of granted
awards including The National Endowment for the Humanities, New
York State Council on the Arts, New York State Foundation for the
Arts, Astraea National Visual Artist fellow (NYC) and The Constance
Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Pepper has been an invited
artist in residence to Art Colony Galichnik (2006) in the Republic
of Macedonia, Foundation Valparaiso, Spain (2003), The Constance
Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts (2004 + 2003), The Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts (2002), Anam Cara Artists Colony, Co.
Cork, Ireland (2001), The Corporation of Yaddo (2000), Sculpture
Space, Inc., (1997), Millay Colony for the Arts (1995), in New York
State. Her work is included in the Flatfiles at Pierogi
Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
Pepper will be a guest panelist at the 2007 Women’s Studies
Annual conference sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University
authoring a paper titled: The Latent Image: Performing Identity.
She has been a guest panelist at the 2005 14th Annual Women’s
Studies Conference meetings presenting the paper: Digital Flickerings
+ Femme Technology, in 2003 she authored and presented a paper on
Postmodern Gender Aesthetics at The Western Social Science annual
conference in Las Vegas, NV. And in 2001 to American Society for
Aesthetics annual meetings in Minneapolis, MN authoring the paper
How Feminist Aesthetics has Affected the Arts.
Pepper received her BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art
in 1987 and her MFA degree from The University of Connecticut in
1989.
» SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Moore, Ivy, Sculpture
– Nov. 2005, Washington, D.C. Vol. 24
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