Angie Jannings

Is an artist who investigates hierarchical constructs of circumstance, often employing strategies of subversion, satire and obfuscation. Identity, isolation and the formation of new mythologies are notions heavily imbued within her work. Jennings aims for the uncanny through processes of edging up next to commanding yet unassuming modes of exploitation and exaggeration. The performativity of both body and materials are expanded through sacred realms of otherness. Jennings is a former student of Performance Art 101 taught by Kembra Pfahler, has attended La Pocha Nostra Summer School, and The Abramovic Method Workshop. Recent awards, performances, and exhibitions include: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Woman’s Caucus for the Arts, Abode Gallery, Human Resources, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Nominee, NADA NY, Galerie Christine Myer, LAST Projects, OCHI PROJECTS, Commonwealth and Council. Jennings received her MFA from the University of California San Diego, and a BS from South Dakota State University.

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Education

2016 MFA, Visual Arts, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
2015 La Pocha Nostra Summer School, Tijuana, MX
2015 Abramovic Method Workshop
2014 Performance Art 101 with Kembra Pfahler
2011 Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Fine Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2006 BS, Art Education, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD

Solo Exhibitions/Performances

2019
Familiar Spirit, Best Practice, San Diego, CA

2018
Extinct Paradise, Abode Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017
eXit Party, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego CA

2016
STIGMA FOG, Visual Arts Facilities, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
NADA Performance, NADA Fair, Basketball City, New York, NY

2015
Drawing Dolls, Your Favorite Doll! Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
Paintings on Practical Surfaces, Experimental Drawing Studio, San Diego, CA

2014
Organic Play Time, Visual Arts Facilities, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Walk Over Me, Visual Arts Facilities, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Doll Play, Visual Arts Facilities, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA

Group Exhibitions

2019
These Creatures, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
At Odds, No Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Forging Territories, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Every Woman Biennial, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
Boys Home, Project Rat, Desert Hot Springs, CA
BEING HERE WITH YOU/ ESTANDO AQUÍ CONTIGO: 42 ARTISTS FROM SAN DIEGO
AND TIJUANA. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA

2018

Topography of a Terrestrial Paradise, Et al.etc., San Francisco, CA
Separation, Tin Flats, Los Angeles, CA

2017
Art Speaks: An Evening of Performance Art, Women’s Caucus for the Art and the Feminist Art Project,
Art Share Los Angeles, CA
IMPERFECTU: International Film/Gender Studies Festival, Cineteca in Centro Cultural Tijuana, MX
Fall Factory, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, AZ
Material Mortality, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Anthro-Morpho-Cene, Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA
Dialects of Isolation, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Blessed Be: Night of Occult Performances, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
GLAMFA, Cal State University Long Beach, CA

2016
WOMAN ON THE FENCE, Desert Hot Springs, CA
LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Occupy Space Differently, OCHI PROJECTS, Los Angeles, CA
TENDER IS THE NIGHT, Galerie Christine Myer, Munich Germany
Rijksakademie Interview, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL
Dossier Thalamus, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Object Art, SME Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

2015
Christmas Studies, in collaboration with Matt Savitsky, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Space Program:GDDSD, by Matt Savitsky, Fest Zoco, Tijuana, MX
La Pocha Nostra Summer School, Tijuana, MX
Fragment, UCLA’s White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Perform Chinatown:Rush Hour Was Shot Here, Los Angeles, CA
SPF15, Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA
The Family Room: Season 2, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Disrupting Bodies, Disrupting Narratives, New Media Caucus, CAA Conference, New York, NY
Darin & Friends Present Box of Books, Vol. VIII., Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Abramovic Method Workshop and 3015 in collaboration with Kim Stanley Robinson, UC San Diego
University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA

2014
Auto Body, Giant Motors: Auto Body & Paint Shop, Miami Beach, FL
Girls of Karen Black, Auto Body, Spinello Projects, Miami Beach, FL
A Collapse of Distance, SME Performance Space, La Jolla CA
Perform Chinatown CHAOS REIGNS!, Los Angeles, CA
Mux Demux, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
Performance Art 101 with Kembra Pfahler, SME Performance Space, San Diego, CA
Summer Job, Pendergrast Gallery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA

2013
Mind Maps, The Center of Urban Ecologies, San Diego CA

2012
WhoaMan, Manetamed, Brooklyn, NY
Small Works Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2011

Taste, LAP Gallery, Waltham, MA
Chain Letter, Sampson Project, Boston, MA
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
Sentimental Futures, Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
Fuck Yeah America, LAP Gallery, Waltham, MA
Floors and Ceilings, Kniznick Gallery, Waltham, MA
Festival of the Arts, Shapiro Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Thesis show, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2007
Cotton, Cottonwood, Brookings, SD

2006
Education, Ritz Gallery, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD

Awards
2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Nominee, New York, NY
2016 Russell Foundation Grant, University of California San Diego
2016 Visual Arts MFA Fellowship, University of California San Diego
2015 UCSD Travel Grant
2014 Thurgood Marshall College Artist in Residence, University of California San Diego
2014 UCSD Graduate Student Project Grant
2006 Bertha Schuland Macksam Scholarship, South Dakota State University
2006 Arts Practicum Scholarship, South Dakota State University