Bio

Jennifer Markowitz is an American textile artist specializing in hand embroidery. Her work has been shown at The Nasher Museum, Gail Severn Gallery, 440 Gallery, Artspace, CAM Raleigh, The Freeman Gallery at Albright College, Frank Gallery, Dayton Society of Artists, St. Luis Art Guild, Block Gallery, The Arts Center Highland Park, The National Humanities Center, Weems Art Gallery at Meredith College and VAE. She is a three-time recipient of the United Arts Career Development Grant and was a Brightworks Fellow at Anchorlight and then an Emerging Artist Resident at ArtspaceNC. Jennifer’s solo shows include “Dr. Charcot's Hysterical Women” (Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC), “Fleshmap: My Bipolar Embroidered Geographies“ (Anchorlight) and Fleshmap: My Unravelling Geographies” (ArtspaceNC).

Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Jennifer received her MA by Research at University of Warwick in England.. She has also lived in Ireland, Lebanon, Mexico and Iceland. Before turning to textile art, Jennifer directed site-based theatre in Chicago, New York, LA, Dublin and throughout the United Kingdom.