Jennifer Packer
Spotlight Artist in Residence
Winter 2022

BIOGRAPHY

Jennifer Packer is a painter known for her portraits, still lifes and interior scenes. Packer has been recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She has also been an Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Packer has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Galleries, London, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has also been included in major group exhibitions, including Prospect New Orleans, the Whitney Biennial and the 33rd São Paulo Biennial. Packer is an Associate Professor in the painting department at the Rhode Island School of Design.

COURSES TAUGHT

Jennifer Packer was at UC Davis from February 6-11, 2022. She met with nine graduate students for hour-long in-studio critiques. On Friday, February 11, Packer led a masterclass of twenty advanced undergraduate painters. Each student was asked to bring two works, one finished and one unfinished, to the seminar. Packer gave a public lecture on Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. in Wright Theatre. She also visited the Living Plant Collection at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, the Bohart Museum of Entomology, the California Raptor Center and the permanent collections at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.

PUBLIC LECTURE

Packer gave a public lecture on Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. in Wright Hall.