Jenna Spevack is a New York-based artist, designer, and educator. She uses interactive and participatory practices to explore how relationships with nature, simulated and real, can help to rekindle a sense of awe and a deeper connectedness to the natural world – and ourselves. Field recordings, photographic projection, physical computing, 360-video, craft supplies, rubbings, fabric, and natural elements are used to create personal and shared moments of curiosity and introspection.

Her work has been shown in one-person and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Wave Hill, Pulse Miami, Mixed Greens, BRIC House Gallery, Woskob Family Gallery, Hendershot Gallery, Sanlun Yishu – Beijing, Mucius Galéria – Budapest, White Columns, Art in General, Artists Space, Monya Rowe Gallery, Arts Center of the Capital Region -Troy, NY, Albright Knox Gallery, and Panorama City – Zurich, among others.

She has received several grants, residencies, and fellowships including the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Residency on Governors Island, I-Park residency in Connecticut, Platte Clove residency in Catskill NY, Estonian Artist’s Association residency in Tallinn, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, and several PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Awards.

Her work has been recognized in publications such as The New York Times, ABC News, Hyperallergic, GOOD, Art21, Fast Company, The Daily News, New York Arts, The Times Union, Daily Gazette, Metroland Magazine, Provincetown Magazine, Provincetown Banner, Providence Journal-Bulletin, CUNY Channel, Self Magazine, and Art New England, among others.

She has a BFA in Printmaking from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Jenna is Professor of Communication Design and Co-Director of  City Tech’s OpenLab at the City Tech- CUNY (The City University of New York).

Full CV available upon request.
Find some archived projects from 2000-2018 on this retired website.