Jenn Cacciola

Jenn Cacciola uses intuitive material choices to leave relics and a sense of touch planted throughout densely layered scenes. These relics act as transmitters across lineage, tracking what has bloomed and/or been shed generationally. The work takes form in fiber, sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation—sometimes involving audio components.

Cacciola uses high and low-quality art historical, archaeological, and personal references to understand the desire to connect ourselves to the ultimately unreachable past, and to something more stable and “simpler” than what is contemporary. Peripheral influences like ancient graffiti, extraterrestrial theories, and common mourning practices all begin to represent the allure of half-knowing something while feeling intimately close to it. She is interested in the impulses, nervousness, desires and guiding forces that cause us to seek out relationships to history, and the way these forces inform our present-day relationships. Many of Jenn’s works address viewers individually—sometimes imposing themselves or calling to viewers in a way that establishes a more private relationship between the piece and its visitor. Layering, density, and texture all work to slow the experience of viewing a...

2015, BS cum laude, Visual Arts, SUNY Purchase College School of Art + Design, Purchase, NY
Minors in Chemistry, Art History

2022
Spectrum, Group Exhibition, Arts Westchester Serious Fun Art Fair, White Plains, NY
Did You Too See It, Drifting, All Night, on the Black River?, Group Exhibition, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Branching Out, Two-Person Show at Howard County Arts Council
Cosmologic, Small Group Exhibition, Curiouser & Curiouser, Kansas City, KS
Storytellers Pt II, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Storytellers, Group Exhibition, Perspectives Gallery at the Whitney Center, Hamden, CT
Among Friends, Group Exhibition, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
NYC Crit Club Pop-Up Show, Group Exhibition, Studio 9D, New York, NY
Artist Club Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
Terrarium, Group Exhibition, Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY

2021
Media & Materials, Group Virtual Exhibition, Dodomu Gallery
Here Nor There, Group Virtual Exhibition, Milcon Gallery
Painting 2011-2021, Group Virtual Exhibition, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Liminal Beings, Group Virtual Exhibition, Socially Distant Art
Windows of Understanding Public Installation in partnership with Rutgers Climate Institute and New Labor, New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, New Brunswick, NJ

2020
USPS A...