Jennifer Packer


Jennifer Packer is an American painter living and working in New York, New York. In 2020, she won the Rome Prize.

Artistic practice

Packer paints expressionist portraits, interior scenes, and still lifes. She is interested in authenticity, encounters, and exchanges in relation to her painting practice. The models for her portraits are often friends or family members.
Packer is currently an Assistant Professor in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Packer's paintings are very similar with the portraits. She uses limited colors for each paintings. She does simple brush strokes, this blends the portraits and the background. Her works are not made to be straightforward.

Selected exhibition history

In 2013, Packer was awarded the Rema Hort Mann Grant. In 2012-2013 Parker was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and from 2014 to 2016, a Visual Arts Fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.