Minneapolis, MN
About Jennifer Davis:
"Minneapolis-based painter Jennifer Davis possesses a highly developed sensibility for pattern and color, creating an almost tangible world of strange creatures that seem to live and breathe, despite their simplified forms."
- Juxtapoz
Jennifer Davis is a Minneapolis-based artist known for her colorful and imaginative paintings of surreal and whimsical characters. Over the past 20 years, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at venues such as The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN); Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA); The Lesher Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA); and ArtSpace (Raleigh, NC); as well as several galleries in major cities across the United States, Canada, and Europe, most recently at Frock Gallery in Ypres, Belgium. Davis received the 2013 Next Step Fund Grant from the Minnesota Regional Arts Council/McKnight Foundation and a printmaking residency at the Lawrence Art Center (KS) in 2016. She created the set design for the Walker Art Center-funded dance and musical performance “Stripe Tease” and toured with the cast for on-site installations in eight US cities. She holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota.

Selected exhibitions
- Gamut Gallery - Minneapolis, MN, 2024
- Nucleus Gallery - Portland, OR, 2024
- Nahcotta - Portsmouth, NH, 2023
- Frock Gallery - Ypres, Belgium, 2023
- Rubine Red Gallery - Palm Springs, CA, 2022
- Bloomington Center for the Arts - Bloomington, MN, 2019
- Artistry at Bloomington Art Center - Bloomington, MN, 2019
- Artspace - Raleigh, NC, 2018
- Drever Family Foundation - Tiburon, CA, 2017
- Track 29 Gallery - Minneapolis, MN, 2016
- Decoy Gallery - Austin, TX, 2015
- Public Functionary - Minneapolis, MN, 2014
- DeVos Art Museum at Northern Michigan University - Marquette, MI, 2013
- GrayDuck Gallery - Austin, TX, 2012
Education
- University of Minneasota, Bachelor of Fine Arts: Drawing and Painting - Minneapolis, MN,1998
Press Accolades
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