J Charboneau

"My art should be as malleable as the world we live in.
It should not be stagnant.
It should possess life and inspire the looker to give and take life from it." -J.Charboneau

Jennifer Charboneau is an American contemporary painter based in Reno, Nevada. After completing her BFA in 2008 she then traveled abroad living and working as a nomadic painter and muralist for over 5 years. Her work is held in private collections across Europe, Australia, South Korea and Mexico. She has been involved in exhibitions in over a dozen cities across the globe and has curated numerous public art events under her ongoing community project, Alley Art. She currently creates and operates out of her home studio and continues to travel for live painting performances and national + international art fairs and exhibitions.

Creating with a minimalist palette and approach, J. Charboneau's landscapes and figures become refined gestural abstractions of form and movement with ink, charcoal, and bold splashes of color. Her artwork is often influenced by the poetry and prose she writes while traveling to new places and exploring in Nature’s most secluded regions. These “visual philosophies” invite the viewer to discover their own context within the works while ...

Painting BFA - UW Eau Claire. Eau Claire, Wisconsin

2023
- Reno Tahoe International Art Fair @ Reno Convention Center, Reno, NV
- MEMORANDUM (solo exhibition) @ The Basement, Reno, NV
2022
- Reno Tahoe International Art Fair @ Reno Convention Center, Reno, NV
- A Retelling of the Familiar (duo exhibition) @ Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno, NV
2021
- The Other Art Fair Dallas, @ Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX
- Until The Ink Runs Dry (solo exhibition) @ Savage Mystic Gallery, Reno, NV
- Inside The Urban Jungle | Bird Watching (outdoor gallery for Reno, Artown
- Wild Nevada @ Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno, NV
- A World of Our Own @ The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, NV
2020
- Collective West - Expansion @ Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno, NV
- Solo Exhibit: Sierra Arts Pop-up series @ Shims Surplus, Reno NV
2019
- Between the lyrics: @ Holland Project Gallery, Reno NV
2018
- Solo Exhibit: Mindscapes, @ Holland Project Gallery, Reno NV
- Septemberfest, @ The Potentialist Workshop, Reno, NV
2017
- Reno Art Fest Exhibit, @ Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno NV
- Our Art, @ Reno Art Works Gallery, Reno NV
- Culture of Now, @ Reno Art Works Gallery, Reno NV
2016
- Reno Visual ArtBlast, @ Mckinley Arts $ Culture Center, Reno NV
- Time Project, @ Holland Project Gallery, Reno NV
- Creative Revolution, @ Reno Art Wo...