JENNIFER KARADY

Jennifer Karady is an award-winning, Brooklyn-based artist who works primarily in photography, film, and video and sound installation. Her acclaimed project, Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan,  has been exhibited widely, including at the Palm Springs Art Museum, MASS MoCA, the University of Michigan, Berman Museum of Art, Harn Museum, CEPA Gallery, SF Camerawork, and University of Denver. Her work has been featured on PBS NewsHour and National Public Radio, in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Kunstbeeld, Polka, reviewed in Frieze, and published in books such as Suffering from Realness, Art and Agenda and Bending the Frame. Public collections include LACMA, San Francisco MOMA, The Albright Knox Gallery, Palm Springs Art Museum, Harn Museum of Art and Smith College Museum of Art. Karady’s numerous residencies and awards include the Roman J. Witt Residency at the University of Michigan, the Francis Greenburger Fellowship for Mitigating Ethnic and Religious Conflict at Art Omi, MacDowell, Yaddo, The Headlands, two grants from New York State Council for the Arts, two grants from the Compton Foundation and a Getty Creative Images Grant. Her short documentary film, Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process won the Humanitarian Award at the Fine Arts Film Festival, Honorable Mention at the International Fine Arts Film Festival and Karady was nominated for Best First-time Filmmaker at the GI Film Festival.

Itinerant Artist (Self-portrait after Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother'), 2012
11 in. x 14 in. chomogenic color print

Born Elizabeth, NJ. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
EDUCATION
1998

MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Studio Art

1989

BA, Brown University, honors in Literature and Society, now part of Modern Culture and Media Department

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECT ROOMS
2014

In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, December 13-March 29

Exhibition included newly commissioned photograph and catalogue publication.

Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: New Work, Photographs and Sound Installation, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, upcoming September 25-November 12
Exhibition included newly commissioned photographs with accompanying sound stories and Soldiers’ Stories Shed, a mixed media and interactive sound installation of four additional soldier’s stories.

Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: Photographs and Stories, Slusser Gallery, Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, upcoming October 10-November 12

2013

In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, January 28-April 7

2011

In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY Exhibition included newly commissioned photograph.

In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, Myhren Gallery, University of Denver

2010

In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA Exhibition included two newly commissioned photographs and exhibition catalogue publication.

2005

Selections from Animal Project, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

Byzantine Portrait Studio: Become an Icon, interactive community project for The Kitchen Highline Block Party, New York, NY

2004

White Room, White Columns, New York, NY

2001

Refitting, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

Dining Haul, solo exhibition in a truck parked in Chelsea, New York, NY

1998

Splitting Seams, Mason Gross School of the Arts Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ Installation of large scale photographs, video and sound piece

1996

The Art Market, Gen Art, project space, New York, NY

SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2014

Palm Springs Art Museum: Commission to work with a local veteran to create a photograph for Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

2014

Witt Residency and Commission, Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan: Commission to create photographs and sound stories with local veterans for Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

2014

Institute of Humanities, University of Michigan: Commission to produce photograph with U-M student veteran for Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan; Former Lance Corporal West Chase, U.S. Marine Corps

2014

Getty Creative Images Grant: Commission to create media campaign for Volunteers of America Los Angeles in collaboration with Fraser Communications

2011

CEPA Gallery: Commission to work with a local veteran to create a photograph for Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

2010

SF Camerawork: Commission to work with two local veterans to create photographs for Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FILM SCREENINGS
2022

Performing Past-Present: Transforming Reenactment, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, March 18-April 23.

Arts.Film platform, an initiative of Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art, online screening in Canada of Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process, beginning on May 13.

2021

San Diego International Airport Arts Program, In-terminal screening in AIRspace screening room, Terminal 2 West and online streaming of Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process, October 15-January 6, 2022.

Why We Rise, an arts initiative of the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health for Mental Health Awareness Month. Online screening of Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process for Memorial Day weekend, May 27-May 31.

Festival International du Film sur l’Art (le FIFA), Official Selection, Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process. Online screenings streaming March 17-28.

GI Film Festival, Official Selection and Nomination for Best First-time Filmmaker, Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process. Screenings May 20 and 23, online rental May 21-26.

International Fine Arts Film Festival, Official Selection and Honorable Mention in Documentary Category, Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process. Online screenings streaming April 1-30.

2020

Imaging Change: History, Memory, and Social Justice, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA, December 7-March 24, 2020.

Fine Arts Film Festival, Official Selection and Humanitarian Award, Green Series: Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process, Virtual Screenings continuously streaming June 8-14.

2019

Suffering from Realness, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, upcoming April 13-December (book).

2018

The Un-Heroic Art: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S., Shiva Gallery, John Jay College for Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, NY, September 5 – November 2 (catalogue).

2017

Bending the Frame, Gulf + Western Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, September 12 – October 22.

Aftermath: The Fallout of War – America and the Middle East, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, October 15–January 21, 2018.

Aftermath: The Fallout of War – America and the Middle East, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, January 20–April 20.

Bending the Frame, Preus Museum, Oslo, Norway, October 15-March 4, 2018.

2016

Aftermath: The Fallout of War – America and the Middle East, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, August 16 – December 31

Bending the Frame, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 26 – October 23

Ourselves through the Lens: Photography from the Ramer Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, June 19 – October 23

Not Alone, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, Veterans Building, San Francisco, CA, November 9 – March 4, 2017

2015

Out of Rubble, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, April 2- May 16

2014

Out of Rubble, Jack Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, September 2-October 16

Out of Rubble, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, January 23-March 8

2013

Looking Out and Looking In: A Selection of Contemporary Photography, The Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, January 19-June 9

The First Fifteen: Photography from the Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 8-September 29

Home Front, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID, March 1-May 25

Out of Rubble, String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora NY, March 20-April 26

Out of Rubble, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne CA, September-October

2012

Homefront, Visual Arts Galleries, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, October 26-December 18

Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

Out of Rubble, Bowling Green State University Galleries, Bowling Green, OH, Sept. 7-Oct. 7

Out of Rubble, The Marlin and Regina Miller Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, Oct. 18-Nov. 18

2011

Out of Rubble, Space Gallery, curated by Susanne Slavick, Pittsburgh, PA

9/11 Arts: A Decade Later, Commons Gallery, New York University, New York, NY

Shout!, Hilliard Gallery, an exhibition organized by Swords to Plowshares, San Francisco, CA

2009

2,191 Days and Counting, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY

2007

NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

2006

Saltonstall Exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

The Social Body, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL

2005

Exploding Plastic Inevitable: 40 Fun Galleries, NADA exhibition, New York, NY

Photo New York, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY

2004

Intimacy, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY

Long Island University Faculty Show, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Petropolis: A Social History of Urban Animal Companions, The New York Historical Society, New York, NY

Dog Show, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalogue)

2002

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Masquerade, Sheboygan, WI (catalogue)

Staged/Unstaged, Riva Gallery, New York, NY

Scratch Arena, New York, NY

Collarborations, National Arts Club, New York, NY

Unpacked, Dining Haul in Meatpacking, New York, NY

Long Island University Faculty Show, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2001

Dreaming, Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY

Tweaked, Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, New York, NY (catalogue)

2000

Unconscious Documentaries, Von Lintel & Nusser, New York, NY

Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY

Posers, White Columns, New York, NY

Meat Market Art Fair,* presented by Momenta Art, New York, NY

Meat Market Art Fair, presented by White Columns, New York, NY

1999

Surface Tension, Art in General, New York, NY

Sugar, 31 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY

The Artist As Patron, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Locus, 451 Greenwich, New York, NY

Long Island University Art Faculty Show, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1998

We Can Go Where We Want To, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Untitled Video Program, Zone Festival, Manchester, England

Long Island University Art Faculty Show, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1997

Small Wonders, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1996

Surgically Altered Fruit,* Focal Point Gallery, Three-person exhibition, City Island, NY

Photoworks,* Omni Gallery, Three-person exhibition, Long Island, NY

National Showcase Exhibition, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

7th Annual New Images Exhibition, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, VA

Annual Small Works Exhibition, An Art Place, Chicago, IL

Photowork ‘96, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY

Maximum-minimums, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Emerging Artists, Slowinski Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2022

Individual Artists Grant Award, New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) in Interdisciplinary Art

2021

Nomination, Best First-time Filmmaker, GI Film Festival, San Diego, CA

Honorable Mention, Documentary Film Category, International Fine Arts Film Festival

2020-2

Tuttle Creative Resident/Distinguished Visitor, Visual Studies Department, Haverford College, Haverford, PA

2020

Humanitarian Award, Fine Arts Film Festival, Venice, CA for the film, Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process

2019

Individual Artist Grant Award, New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) in Film and Electronic Media

Finalist, Creative Capital

2018

MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH (August)

Finalist, Creative Capital

2017

Francis Greenburger Fellowship for Mitigating Ethnic and Religious Conflict, Art Omi International Artists Residency

2016

Finalist, Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize

2015

Grant Award, Compton Foundation, for courageous storytelling, in support of Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

Nomination, Prix Pictet, theme of Disorder

2014

Visiting Artist in Residence Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan

2013

Grant Award, Compton Foundation, for innovative storytelling, in support of Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

Recipient, Witt Residency and Commission, Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Getty Creative Images Grant, created photograph with Brittny Gillespie about her experience of military sexual trauma as part of a campaign for Volunteers of America, disseminated by Fraser Communications.

2012

NYFA Opportunity Grant

Finalist, Howard Foundation Fellowship

Invitational Residency Other Histories, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Artist Residency, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, NE

2010

Grant Award, Puffin Foundation

Invitational Residency, Costs of War, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY (May)

Artist Residency, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, NE (July)

2009

The Meredith S. Moody Residency, Yaddo Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY (July)

2008

Artist Residency, Yaddo Colony, Saratoga Springs, NY (June)

Blue Mountain Center Fellowship, Blue Mountain Lake, NY (August)

Grant Award, Brooklyn Arts Council Regrant funded by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs

2007

New York Foundation for the Arts Fiscal Sponsorship Program

Creative Capital Grant Finalist

MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH (May and June)

2006

Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Residency, Atlantic Center forthe Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL (June)

Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA (August)

2005

Avery Arts Foundation Fellow, Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY (August)

2004

Jerome Foundation Grant and Residency, New York Mills Cultural Center and Arts Retreat, MN (August)

Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA (July)

2003

Jerome Foundation Grant and Residency, The Anderson Center at Tower View, Red Wing, MN (July)

Artist Residency, Saltonstall Arts Colony, Ithaca, NY (August)

1998

American Society of Media Photographers-NJ Grant

Merit Scholarship, Rutgers University

1997

Merit Scholarship, Rutgers University

1995

First Place, New Directions '95, Barrett House Galleries

1994

Scholarship, Santa Fe Photo Workshops

1990

Dicky Pfaelzer Award of Excellence, Santa Fe, NM

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021

Bouveresse, Clara. “Scènes de guerre dans un salon: Montages photographiques sur la guerre en Irak, 2003-2010,” Histoire de l’Art, February Issue.

2019

Karady, Jennifer and Lee, Jes. "Because We Haven’t Left: The photography of Jennifer Karady in the series, Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan," Peeps Magazine, Issue 3: Art and Ethnography, October 1, https://peepsmagazine.ca/because-we-havent-left/

Cutrona, Madeleine and Karady, Jennifer. "Conversations: Jennifer Karady at MASS MoCA," NYFA Current, May 21, https://current.nyfa.org/post/185037279423/conversations-jennifer-karady-at-mass-moca

Le Guen, Adélie. "Chambres en souffrance," Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre, numéro 15, November/December.

Jones, Gillian. "’Suffering from Realness’ makes you question what is ‘real,’" The Berkshire Eagle, April 5, https://btwberkshires.com/arts/suffering-from-realness/

Abbott, Kate. "'Suffering from Realness’ at MASS MoCA," BTW Berkshires, August 19, https://btwberkshires.com/arts/suffering-from-realness/

Whyte, Murray. "Art Review: Getting real in a stirring show at Mass MoCA," The Boston Globe, June 13

Heartney, Eleanor. “Art in the Age of Sexual Disruption,” Art in America, January 2019 Issue, pp. 19-22.

2018

Steinhauer, Jillian. “Female Artists Grapple With Rape,” The New York Times, October 19, p. C19.

Tolentino, Jia. “How a Woman Becomes a Lake,” The New Yorker, November 2,
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-a-woman-becomes-a-lake.

Cascone, Sarah. “Editor’s Picks: 12 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,”
Artnet, September 25, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-september-24-1345826.

Editors. “Best of 2018: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows: Number 5—The Un-heroic Act,” Hyperallergic, December 18.

Rosenberg, Gigi. “Grantwriting for Success,” Professional Artist, December ’18-February ’19 Issue.

2017

Fabrikant, Geraldine. “When War Begets Art,” The New York Times, October 29, p. F4.

Iowa Review, Issue 47/1, Spring 2017, p. 22.

Lederer, Phil. “Ringling Gets Political,” SRQ Magazine, October Issue.

Kottmann, Niki. “Ringling photography exhibit offers unique points of view,” Your Observer, December 13.

“Group of leading international photographers captures human toll of contemporary conflict,” Artdaily.org, November 6. http://artdaily.com/news/99791/Group-of-leading-international-photographers-captures-human-toll-of-contemporary-conflicts#.WgChI4Zrw0p

Fugate, Marty. “Fallout of War: Photographers explore impact of battle in ‘Aftermath’ exhibit at The Ringling,” Herald-Tribune, October 5.

2016

Milian, Jordan. “Harn’s ‘Aftermath: The Fallout of War’ captures conflict,” The Gainesville Sun, August 17.

Fenton, Claire. “Aftermath: The Fallout of War,” ArtDistricts Magazine, Oct/Nov issue.

2015

Pagel, David. “The consequences of war: Jennifer Karady brings aftereffects of Afghanistan and Iraq back home in staged veterans’ portraits,” "Los Angeles Times, February 22, pp. F1 and F4.

Butet-Roche, Laurence. “Casseurs de Tabous,” Polka Magazine #30, Jun-Juillet-Août 2015, pp. 32-36.

Cubit, Alexis. “Photos depict internal struggles of war,” Hi-Desert Star, January 24, p. A4. Montgomery, Edward. “In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan,” Dotphotozine, January 16.

Barocas, Victor. “Before and After War: Jennifer Karady’s Powerful Photos of Soldiers Are a Highlight at the Palm Springs Art Museum,” March 2.

2014

Biller, Steven. “The War Comes Home: The Photographs of Jennifer Karady Capture Soldiers’ Trigger Points and Show How They’re Readapting to ‘Normal’ Life,” Palm Springs Life: Art + Culture, Winter/Spring 2015, Cover and pp. 34-39.

Goolsby, Denise. “Soldiers’ Stories captured in Palm Springs art exhibit,” The Desert Sun, December 13.

Holdship, Deborah. “The Art of War and Memory,” Michigan Today, October 22,2014.

Cantu, John Carlos. “Haunting artwork from Jennifer Karady, on display, highlights soldiers’ stories,” Ann Arbor News/Michigan Live, November 1, 2014.

O’Sullivan, Kelly. “Marine’s story told in photograph,” Observation Post, May 9, 2014, p. A7.

Vaughn, Courtney. “Recreating the War Within,” Hi-Desert Star, July 18, 2014.

2013

Ritchin, Fred. “What a Photograph Can Accomplish: Bending the Frame,” TIME LightBox, May 29, 2013.

Zabala, Santiago. “El arte como emergencia,” La Maleta de Portbou, Numero 1, Septembre-Octobre 2013.

The First 15: Photography from the Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo, exhibition catalogue, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. June 2013, p. 24.

2012

van der Zee, Renate. “Actie!,” Kunstbeeld, Number 11/2012, pp. 34-43.

Denson, G. Roger, “A Time to Gather Stones: Nomadism after War in Susanne Slavick's Out of Rubble”, Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, Volume 08/ Issue 02, July 2012.

Denson, G. Roger. “Nomads Occupy the Global Village: Left Political Art Timeline, 2001-2012,” The Huffington Post, May 1, 2012.

Lapham, Lewis H. (editor). “Politics,” Lapham’s Quarterly, Volume V, Number 4, p. 156.

Ravenhill, Mark. “Performing the Problem,” Troilus and Cressida Program, Royal Shakespeare Company/Wooster Group, August 2012.

Homefront, exhibition catalogue, New Jersey City University. November 2012, pp. 6-11.

McGinnis, Christopher L. “Review: ‘Out of Rubble,’ An art exhibit asks what comes after war,” Pittsburgh City Paper, January 11, p. 24.

Shaw, Kurt. “Review: Images tell stories of ‘consequences’ of war,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, January 15.

2011

Dabkowski, Colin. “Soldiers’ Stories,” The Buffalo News. July 10, p. F3.

Horne, Rebecca. “Looking Through the Eyes of Soldiers,” Photo Journal, Wall Street Journal, July 5.

McCusker, Carol. “Full Disclosure: Images of War in the 21st Century,” B&W + Color. Issue 83, June, pp.102-111.

Raymond, J. Tim. “In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan,” Artvoice, Issue v10n30 (week of July 28), p. 10.

Bon, Lauren, ed. “Jennifer Karady: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan,” Strawberry Bulletin, published by the Metabolic Studio, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation. May issue, pp. 8-9.

VanDeCarr, Paul. “Jennifer Karady’s In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan,” Inside Stories, http://www.insidestoriesonline.com/2011/04/jennifer-karadys-in-country-soldiers.html, April 18.

Pierce, Morgan. “Year in Review: Editor’s Choice,” Art Practical, http://www.artpractical.com/feature/year_in_review_editors_choice/, January.

2010

Le Duc, Aimee. “Review: ‘In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan,’” Frieze, October issue, p. 246.

McKinley, Jesse. "War Zone Traumas Restaged at Home," The New York Times. May 6, p. C1, C8.

Curiel, Jonathan. "War Games: Soldiers reenact life and death in Iraq and Afghanistan," SF Weekly, May19.

Welch, Brady. “Review: ‘In Country; Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan,’” Art Practical, www.artpractical.com/review/in_country/,, July.

2004

Dog Show, exhibition publication, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, July/August, p. 4.

2003

Masquerade, exhibition catalogue. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, pp. 6-7.

Nerhaugen, Ruth. "Emerging artists, writersat center," Republican Eagle. July 7.

2002

Masquerade, exhibition publication, John Michael Kohler Arts Center. November/December 2002. p. 3.

2001

Meehan, Alisoun. "Keep on Truckin’: Here’s a food artist with real drive," Saveur. December, p. 15.

West, Judy. "City Focus: Fresh Perspectives," ArtNews. October, p. 106.

Sozanski, Edward J. "Works on paper stimulate, delight," The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 5.

2000

King, Sharon. "Today in New York: Skewed View," The New York Daily News, April 12, p. 59.

Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review: Collector’s Choice," The New York Times. December 15, p. E41.

Aletti, Vince. "Voice Choices: Unconscious Documentaries,” The Village Voice. July 25, p. 104.

The New Yorker. "Goings On About Town: Unconscious Documentaries," July 17, p. 16.

1999

Pasquini, Stefano. Harvesting the New Art World: A Few Lines on Curating," NY Arts, Vol. 5, No. 6. p. 48 (interview).

Bollen, Christopher. "Art Review: Posers,” Time Out New York. Apr 27-May 4, p. 71.

Glueck, Grace. "Art in Review: “Surface Tension,” The New York Times, October 8, p. E37.

Glueck, Grace. "Art Guide: Surface Tension,” The New York Times, October 22, p. E42.

NY Arts .Vol. 4, No.10, October 1999. p. 64.

Wilkinson, Jeanne C. "Surface Tension: Is It Art or a Cry for Help?," The Tribeca Trib, October, p.39.

CEPA Gallery. Volume 1, Number 3. Cover and p.4.

1996

Harrison, Helen. "Emerging Artists and Irish Works: Photo Works," The New York Times. July 21, Section 13, p. 10.

Aletti, Vince. "Voice Choices: The Alternative Museum," The Village Voice.

Landman, Beth and Mitchell, Deborah. "Intelligencer: Soho Gallery’s Cardinal Sin," New York Magazine, February 26, p. 17.

Viewfinder: Journal of Focal Point Gallery No. 20. Focal Point Press Ltd., pp. 13-14 (reproduction).

1994

Center Quarterly #58: Signs of the Times, Center for Photography at Woodstock. Volume 15, No. 2. p. 9

RADIO AND TELEVISION
2014

Zientarski, Sarah. “Photographer captures portraits of vets and things they carried home from war,” PBS NewsHour, November 11, 2014.

Zientarski, Sarah. “Artist Jennifer Karady: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan,” Detroit Performs, Detroit Public Television, November 11, 2014.

2011

Kryszak, Joyce. “CEPA exhibit tells Soldiers’ Stories,” Morning Edition, WBFO (Buffalo Public Radio), July 27.

Barr, Zachary. “War Reenactments of a Different Kind,” Colorado Matters, Colorado Public Radio, April 5.

2010

O’Neill, Claire, “Visualizing Memory, Photographing War Stories,” Weekend Edition and The Picture Show, National Public Radio, July 4.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
2022

Sturken, Marita. Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era,New York: New York University Press.

2021

Gattinoni, Christian and Vigouroux, Yannick. Les Fictions documentaires en photographie, Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Scala.

2019

Markonish, Denise. Suffering from Realness, New York: Prestel.

2018

Fabijanska, Monika. The Un-heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S.. Exhibition catalogue, New York: Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College for Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

2017

Zabala, Santiago. Emergency Aesthetics—Why Only Art can Save Us, New York: Columbia University Press.

2016

McCusker, Carol, ed. Aftermath: The Fallout of War – America and the Middle East, Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

2015

Schmidt, Jason. Artists Volume II. Gottingen: Steidl.

2014

Cornell, Daniell. Jennifer Karady: In Country, Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan. Exhibition Catalog, Palm Springs: Palm Springs Museum of Art.

2013

Ritchin, Fred. Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary and Citizenship. New York: Aperture.

2011

Alonzo, Pedro and Bieber, Alain, eds. Art and Agenda. Berlin: Gestalten, pp. 260-263.

Slavick, Susanne, ed. Out of Rubble, Milan: Edizioni Charta. pp. 24-25, 84-85, 137-139.

2010

Karady, Jennifer. In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan. Exhibition catalogue, San Francisco: SF Camerawork Publications.

Hirsch, Robert, ed. Exploring Color Photography. Oxford, UK and Burlington, MA: Focal Press/Elsevier, Fifth Edition, p. 227.

2009

Dantzig, Cynthia Maris. 100 New York Photographers. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, pp. 98-99.

2004

Hirsch, Robert, ed. Exploring Color Photography. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark Publishers, Fourth Edition.

1997

Hirsch, Robert, ed. Exploring Color Photography. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark Publishers, Third Edition, p. 286.

SELECTED LECTURES AND PANELS
2022

Performing Past-Present: Transforming Reenactment, panel discussion with artists Sharon Hayes, Jennifer Karady, Dread Scott, and Marisa Williamson, April 6, Haverford College.

2021

Visualizing the War from Within: Post 9/11 Imagemaking, panel, International Center of Photography, September 13.

2020

Artist Talk: Making Meaning, Enactment and Reenactment Faculty Seminar and course, Haverford College, via zoom, October 28 and November 20.

2018

Rape in the Social Context, panel, includes artist talk on Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, September 26.

Artist Talk, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 7.

Artist Talk, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, February 13.

2017

Bending the Frame: Imagery In Support of Social Change, panel discussion with Jennifer Karady, Debi Cornwall, Benjamin Petit of #Dysturb, Bayete Ross Smith of Question Bridge, and Celia Shapiro, moderated by Fred Ritchin, New York University, New York, NY, October 5.

2016

Helping Soldiers Tell Their Stories, The UCLA Conference on Art, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, UCLA Luskin Conference Center, Los Angeles, CA, November 3.

Jennifer Karady and Rania Matar in Conversation, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, October 23.

2014

Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq andAfghanistan, artist talk and panel with artist Jennifer Karady, PSAM Director of Art Daniell Cornell and Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Kyle Winjum, Palm Springs Art Museum, December 12

Soldiers’ Stories Conversation with U-M student veterans, Institute of Humanities, University of Michigan, with Jennifer Karady, Andrew Floyd and West Chase, September 25.

War and Memory, panel, Institute of Humanities, University of Michigan, with artist Jennifer Karady, VA psychiatrist and U-M Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Sheila Rauch, PhD and political science scholar Arlene Saxonhouse, U-M Caroline Robbins Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies.

2013

Seeing is Believing: A Consideration of Image, Memory and the Velocity of Time, panel, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA

Q and A: The Art of the Interview, panel, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY

2012

Soldiers’ Stories: A Conversation between Jennifer Karady and Paul Rieckhoff, founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Penny W. Stamps Lecture Series, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI

Artist Talk, Charles Arnold Lecture Series, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, Coming Home from War Discussion Series, presented by the Veterans Outreach Center, Arts Center, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY

2011

Outsiders Looking In, panel at Downtown Community Television Center, New York, NY

Picturing Soldiers: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Contemporary Soldier Photographs, panel at Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Auditorium, Providence, RI

Artist Talk, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Artist Talk, University of Denver, Denver, CO

Soldiers’ Stories, The New School, graduate students in oral history, New York, NY

2010

Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Gallery Talk, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

Artist Talk, Fieldston School, New York, NY

Artist Lecture, The Spence School, New York, NY

2009

Artist Lecture on “Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan,” Momenta Art, funded by Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY

Artist Lecture, The New School, oral history students, New York, NY

Artist Lecture, School of Cinema and Performing Arts, Brooklyn, NY

2006

Artist Lecture, School of VisualArts, New York, NY

Artist Lecture, International Center for Photography, New York, NY

2005

Artist Talk and Studio Visit, visiting students from Rhode Island School of Design, Brooklyn, NY

Artist Lecture, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2004

Gallery Talk, White Columns, New York, NY

The History of Staged Narrative Photography, New York Mills Cultural Center, New York Mills, MN

2003

Artist Lecture, Einstein Auditorium, New York University, New York, NY

SELECTED TEACHING, ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE
2022

Judge, GI Film Festival San Diego

2020-22

Tuttle Creative Resident/Distinguished Visitor, Visual Studies, Haverford College, Haverford, PA

2019

Grant Panelist, New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA): Individual Artists Grant in Film, Media and New Technology

2016

Visiting Scholar, Graduate Humanities Seminar, University of Florida, Gainesville

2014

Visiting Artist and Fellow (2 weeks in residence), Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan

2013

Witt Artist in Residence, Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2012

Adjunct Professor, Art Department, New Jersey City University

Adjunct Associate Professor, Media Arts Department, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

Visiting Critic, Graduate Photography, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Visiting Critic, Graduate School of Art and Design, University of Michigan

Visiting Critic, Graduate Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology

2010

Visiting Critic, Graduate Department of Visual Studies, University of Buffalo

2003-2005

Adjunct Associate Professor, Media Arts Department, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

1998-2003

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Media Arts Department, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

1997-1998

Instructor, Photography Department, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

1995-1998

Instructor, Media Arts Department, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1998-present

Freelance Photographer, Jennifer Karady Studio. Editorial assignments have been published in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Blender, Discover, Sex and the City, Seventeen, Mademoiselle, Details, TimeOut, Women’s Health, BusinessWeek

2000

Co-curator, “Posers,” White Columns, New York, NY

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

The Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL