BIOGRAPHY

Jen Blazina resides and has a studio in Philadelphia where she is a working artist exhibiting with solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Some the highlights of her solo exhibitions are: Oracle, Kunstoffice, Berlin, Germany; The Bridge International during Art Basel Miami, Represented by Marx Saunders Gallery, Miami, FL; Historia at Pictura in Dordrecht, Netherlands; Ephemera at The Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery in Rosendale, NY; and Bittersweet at Scuola di Graphica, Venice, Italy

She has been awarded numerous residencies including: The National Endowment for the Arts Grant to fund a fellowship at the Women’s Studio Workshop, Toos Neger in Dordrecht, Netherlands; Frans Masserel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium; Scuola di Graphica in Venice, Italy; Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA; The Creative Glass Center of America’s Residency Fellowship in New Jersey; Millay Colony for the Arts in New York. She has also been awarded numerous grants including the Leeway Foundation Grant, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Independence Foundation Grant.

She has gallery representation at multiple galleries which include: Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Divergence Fine Art, Baltimore, MD; MMFA Contemporary Gallery, Palm Desert, CA; and Morgan Contemporary Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.

Jen Blazina received her M.F.A. in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art, her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in New York and her B.F.A., cum laude, from the State University of New York at Purchase College. She is a currently a professor of Fine Arts at Drexel University.