Jen Everett (b. 1981, Detroit, MI) is an artist and educator based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her practice moves between lens and time based media, installation and writing. Jen received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis where she was a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Tuskegee University. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at The Saint Louis Art Museum, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Krannert Art Museum, SCAD Museum of Art, and Kunsthall Stavanger, among many others. 

She has presented her work during lectures and workshops at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Black Portraitures - Harvard University, and the Luminary. She currently lectures in the photography department at Washington University in St. Louis. Jen recently served as a teaching artist at the Contemporary Art museum. Her work has been published in Oxford American, Color Theory (Wolfman Books, 2019) and Undertow (Silent Face Projects, 2018). 

Jen has been an artist in residence at the Fire Island Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts and ACRE. She was a 2021-22 Duke University DocX Archive Lab fellow. Her work resides in the public collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College - Chicago.

SELECT Exhibitions

• Could You Dim The Lights?, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, 2024

• Counterpublic, St. Louis, MO, 2023

• The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 20th Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2023

• The Promised Land, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2023

• Redoubled/Something We Carry, The Photography Gallery at Riley Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2021

• Collaborating with the Archive, Filter Space, Chicago, IL, 2021

• LEAN Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway, 2021

• Elizabeth Catlett - Points of Contact, SCAD Museum of Art - Savannah, GA, 2021

• Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See, Flux Factory (Mounted at The Chocolate Factory Theater), Queens, NY

• Prairieland Monaco Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 2021

SELECT AWARDS AND Residencies

• Artist in Residence, Fire Island, Fire Island, NY, 2022

• Duke University DocX Archive Lab Fellow, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2021-2022

• Snider Prize, Honorable Mention, MoCP Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2019

• ACRE, Steuben, WI, 2018