solo exhibitions
Mireille Mosler, Ltd.
Jenny Perlin: Sequence
March 25-May 31, 2008 | New York, NY
Possible Models: An Evening with Jenny Perlin
The Museum of Modern Art, New York | MediaScope
Monday, April 30, 2007 | 6:30pm
Dedicated to experimentation with cinematic form and content, MediaScope presents emerging and recognized artists who discuss their work with the audience. The program explores filmmaking and videomaking, as well as Web-based, installation, and digital art practices. Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator; Jytte Jensen, Curator; Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator; and Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film; and Barbara London, Associate Curator; Department of Media.
2007 MediaScope series information >>
Jenny Perlin:Transcript
The Kitchen | New York, NY
December 15, 2006 - February 10, 2007
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Galerie M+R Fricke
Düsseldorf, Germany | October 21-December 23, 2006
Solo exhibition of new film/video installation and works on paper
Possible Models: New Work by Jenny Perlin
Curated by Katie Geha
November 10, 2005 - December 23, 2005
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University | Wichita, KS
In her first major solo musuem exhibition, Brooklyn-based artist Jenny Perlin examines details of everyday life through 16mm film, video, and drawing. Included in the exhibition is the multi-channel video installation Sight Reading, which documents three pianist performing a difficult piece of music for the first time. In addition, the exhibition presents the 16mm film loop Washing, which poignantly describes the changed skyline of Lower Manhattan after September 11, 2001, and represents an attempt to clean a landscape - and a collective memory - of trauma.
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Schumann Tree
Gallery P74 | Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005
Exhibited works: Schumann (2002), Sight Reading (2004), Schumann Tree (2005), hand painted glass slides, wall drawing, and audio.
Sight Reading
Museum of Fine Arts | Houston, Texas, USA, 2005
Exhibited work: Sight Reading (2004)
3-channel video installation as solo exhibition
Sight Reading
Annet Gelink Gallery | Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005
Exhibited works: Sight Reading (2004) (video installation), Possible Models (16mm film loop), and 26 drawings.
A Worry-Free Life or Your Money Back
Gallery 400, UIC | Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2004
Exhibited four 16mm film projections, one three-channel video projection, and several drawings. Exhibition reviewed in Artforum magazine (September, 2004), received Critic’s Choice review in the Chicago Reader, and several other reviews.PR04, Biennial of Puerto Rico
San Juan and Rincon | Puerto Rico, 2004
Presented three solo screenings of 16mm films at Biennial: Perseverance & Other Aspirations. Created poster project, Invitacion/Invitation in conjunction with Luis Romero/ Fundacion la culpable, Caracas, Venezuela.
Perseverance & Other Aspirations
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema \ New York, New York, USA, 2003
Presented a two-hour long program of films and videos in solo presentation to a sold-out house at premier avant-garde film locale in New York City.
Perseverance
Belluard Bollwerk Contemporary Art Festival | Fribourg, Switzerland, 2003
Selected by artist William Kentridge as the representative ‘up-and-coming’ artist to present work at prestigious performance and art festival in Fribourg, Switzerland. Created a new hand-processed film for screening at the festival and also showed full-length evening screening of film and video work.
