Jenna Bliss
Media
CV
Education
2016-2017
Whitney Independent Study Program - Studio
2013
M.A. (Distinction) Fine Art Media/History and Theory of Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London,UK
2007
B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2004-2005
Modern Culture and Media Department, Brown University, Providence, RI
Solo exhibitions
2024
Basic Cable, Amant, New York, US (upcoming)
Jenna Bliss for MSGM (Commission), miart 2024, Milan, IT
Haus am Waldsee, curated by Anna Gritz, Berlin, DE
2023
Paris+ par Art Basel, Section Émergent, w. FELIX GAUDLITZ, Paris, FR
2022
FEELERS, w. Susan Conte, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, DE
HOMING, Ulrik, New York City, US
2021
Now vacant., Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, CH
The People’s Detox, Kunstverein München, Munich, DE
LISTE 2021, w. FELIX GAUDLITZ, Basel, CH
2020
Late Responder, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna, AT
The People’s Detox, Metrograph Theater, New York, NY, USA
Paris Internationale, w. FELIX GAUDLITZ, Paris, FR
2017
Poison The Cure, OUTPOST, Norwich, UK
Day One in Step into Spring, Two Person Show with Gili Tal, Cell Project Space, London, UK
2016
Brain-Sick Visions Cheat Her Tortured Mind, Lisa Cooley Gallery, NY, NY, USA Two Person
Show with Susan Conte, Dotory Korean Eatery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Group exhibitions
2024
New York, N. Why?, GEMS, New York, US
2023
Mainhattan, 112 Hudson Street, New York, US
Group show, curated by Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe and Nikhil Vettukattil, Podium, Oslo, NO
2022
PROTECTION PROCEDURES, STUDIO PERAGINE, Hamburg, DE
Social Photography X, carriage trade, New York, US
Der Radwechsel, curated by Lukas Posch, Universitätsgalerie im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, AT
Only Reliable Narrators, curated by Miles Rufelds, The Plumb, Toronto, CA
2021
This City Is, Francesca Pia, Zurich, CH
2020
Jenna Bliss, Hélène Fauquet, Jesper List Thomsen, Margherita Raso, A collaborative project hosted by Fanta-MLN, Milan with an intervention by Hans-Christian Lotz and a text by Jason Hirata, Fanta- MLN, Milan, IT
2019
Cutting The Stone, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Screening of Poison The Cure and Book Launch Suicide Girls, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Subsets, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, DK
Straying From The Line, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, DE
2018
Screening of The People’s Detox, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY, USA
MULTILOGUE ON THE NOW, tranzitdisplay, Prague, CR
EX VOTO: The Body + The Institution, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, IR
2017
Group Show, 3236RLS, London, UK
Group Show and Video Commission, Poison The Cure for 56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row, London, UK
Event Series Nihilism and Self Care and Screening of Poison The Cure, KW Institute, Berlin, DE
Whitney Independent Study Program Show, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY, USA
2016
Screening Into This Recovery, CAC, Vilnius, LT
Screening Into This Recovery, ICA, London, UK
Into This Recovery, Rough House, Glue Factory, Glasgow International, UK
2015
Screening Into This Recovery, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, CN
Performance Into This Recovery Center, Midway Contemporary, Minnesota, MN, USA
Performance Into This Recovery Center, Acting Out 2015, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Performance Into This Recovery Center, curated by Anna Gritz, South London Gallery, London, UK
Does Not Equal, W139, Amsterdam, NL
Aggro-Culture, curated by Kari Rittenbach, Holiday Cafe, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2014
Performance and Event blackout.lt, with Alex Davidson, CAGE, NY, USA
Screening LETTERS in L before K, Hamburg Short Film Festival, curated by Anna Gritz, Hamburg, DE
Withdrawal in u always know the right thing to say, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Performance let’s make another possible now, AntiKnow, Flat Time House, London, UK
2013
Screening LETTERS, 21st Century: Graduate Screening, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
Performance, don’t believe you have rights, Vilnius, LT
Filmography
2023
True Entertainment: Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
HD video with sound
Scripted reality show taking place at the most prestigious art fair in 2007.
TRT: 31:59 min
2021
Professional witnesses.: Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
SD/HD video with sound
Mockumentary on the aftermaths of 911, commissioned by Stadtgalerie Bern, CH TRT: 56 min
2019
The People’s Detox: Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
Full-length documentary on Lincoln Detox, radical health clinic in NY focusing on the years 1970-79. TRT: 56 min
2017
Poison The Cure: Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
Docu-drama commissioned by Raven Row, London, UK with funding from the Arts Council England.
TRT: 28 min
Day One: Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
Series of 5 short videos, commissioned by Cell Project Space, London, UK with funding from Arts Council England and Cockayne
TRT: approx. 8 min
2014
Now Is Night: Director, Producer, Editor
Funded by Lithuanian Arts Council TRT: 8min Withdrawal: Director, Producer, Writer, Editor Commissioned by Embassy Gallery, Scotland, UK TRT: 9 min
2013
LETTERS: Director, Producer, Writer, Editor Series of 5 short videos
TRT: 20 min
Writing
2020
Press release for Loretta Fahrenholz, Company, New York, NY, USA
2019
Suicide Girls, book with saxpublishers, Vienna, AT
2018
Escape from New York, movie review of Kids for Tube #4
Press release for Loretta Fahrenholz, mumok, Vienna, AT
Suicide Girls, self-published PDF
2017
We’re Still Here, movie review of Strange Days for Tube #3 written with James Duesterberg
Cultural production and the use of Irony, self-published PDF
2014
DIY or DIE: A Pastoral Selfie (w. Elise Duryee-Browner and Damon Sfetsios), #13 MAY revue
#14 Art Licks New York
Grants
2023
Massimo Giorgetti Prize, Grant for practice and research, miart, Milan, IT
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Exhibitions
News
19. 9. 2024 – 16. 2. 2025
10. 5. – 15. 6. 2024
2. 2. – 5. 5. 2024
Jenna Bliss in Mainhattan, 112 Hudson Street, New York, US
17. 11. 2023
13. 5. – 4. 6. 2023
8. 12. 2022 – 29. 1. 2023
28. 11. – 18. 12. 2022
11. 6. – 16. 7. 2022
10. 5. – 9. 6. 2022
14. 4. – 15. 5. 2022
31. 3. – 30. 4. 2022
12. 6. – 11. 9. 2021
20. 3. – 8. 5. 2021
8. 3. – 18. 4. 2021
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Publications
2024
Jenna Bliss, Book with contributions by Anna Gritz and Ivan Gaytan, Published by Spector Books, Leipzig, DE
2019
Suicide Girls, Book with saxpublishers, Vienna, AT
2017
Cultural production and the use of Irony, self-published PDF
Press
- Jenna Bliss, Basic Cable at Amant by Chris Murtha, e-flux, October 2024 Print, 15. 10. 2024, PDF (321 KB)
- Jenna Bliss at Haus am Waldsee by Silke Hohmann, Monopol, Feb 2024 Print, 2. 2. 2024, PDF (125 KB)
- Jenna Bliss, 5 Breakout Artists to Know at Paris+ by Anna Sansom, Artnet, October 2023 Online
- Jenna Bliss, Seven unmissable projects at Paris+ par Art Basel by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Art Basel Stories, October 2023 Online
- Jenna Bliss, 9 Highlights der Paris+ und Paris International, monopol, October 2023 Online
- Jenna Bliss, Professional witnesses. at Stadtgalerie Bern, Critics’ Picks by Kathrin Bentele, 2021 Print, PDF (219 KB)
- Jenna Bliss, Late Responder at FELIX GAUDLITZ, Critics’ Picks by Max L. Feldman, Artforum, 2020 Print, PDF (698 KB)
- Jenna Bliss, Private Publics by Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, Mousse Magazine 71, Spring 2020 Print, PDF (183 KB)
- Jenna Bliss, Profile by Tim Steer, Art Monthly No 405, April 2017 Print, PDF (6 MB)