Education

1997 MFA | School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, Boston, MA

1984 BFA | Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1983 Loughborough College of Art and Design, Leicestershire, England

Solo Exhibitions

2015

“Cuba Provides”, Cutter Gallery, Arlington, MA

2008

“Glance”, judi rotenberg gallery, Boston, MA

2006

“Imagining Machines”, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Lowell , MA

2002

“Being Temporal Being”, Fort Point Arts Gallery, Boston, MA

1998

Mars, Christina and Me, Knight Gallery, Lincoln, RI

Group Exhibitions

2015

“In Passing”, Fort Point Arts Gallery, Boston, MA

“Blur”, Artspace, Marnard, MA

“Wheaton Biennal: Beyond the Frame”, Beard & Weil Galleries, Norton, MA

“Motion, Memory”, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

2014

“POEM”, Cushing–Martin Gallery, Easton, MA

2012

“iSpy”, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA

2010

“Finale”, judi rotenberg gallery, Boston, MA

2009

“Popsicle”, judi rotenberg gallery, Boston, MA

2007

“Tracks”, judi rotenberg gallery, Boston, MA

“New England/ New York/ New Talent”, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA

2006

“New Work”, judi rotenberg gallery, Boston, MA

2004

“National Juried Print and Drawing Show”, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT

2003

“Intimate Objects”, Chase Gallery, Boston, MA

2001

“Traveling Scholars 2001”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

“Ground Zero”, 129 Lafayette Street, New York, NY, 2001

“Head over Heals”, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

2000

Notes from the Next Life, Invisible Cities Group, Boston, MA, 2000

Emerging Artists, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2000

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1999

“Watching the Detectives”, Invisible Cities Group, Somerville, MA

1998

“Eleven Artists”, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, MA

1997

“Women in Photography”, Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA

“Animate Objects”, Koppleman Gallery, Medford, MA

1996

“National Print Symposium”, Grossman Gallery, Boston, MA

“Lasts”, Installation at Mobius, Boston, MA

1995

“The Unexpected” Koppleman Gallery, Medford, MA

Selected Awards

2001 Traveling Scholars Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts

2000 Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant

1998 Ulsake Studio Award, Artworks Gallery, Bernard Toale curator

1997 Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant

1984 Massachusetts College of Art Foundation Award

Bibliography

“Poetics of Ephemeral Memory”, Visual and Performing Arts catalogue, Stonehill College, 2014

“Happenings”, New York Arts Magazine, Catherine Hsieh, March/April, 2009

“Glance at judi rotenberg”, Boston Globe, 2008

“Moving Art”, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, 2002

“Groveland Artist using award to study in Italy”, Claire Paulson, Daily News, 2001

“Tying the shoe industry and art world together”, Carley Thornell, Haverhill Gazette, 2000

“Being Temporal Being is almost by definition a resting point”, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, 1999

“Computers spur change in visual arts scene”, Gary Duehr, The Tab, 1999

“Spirited night owls venture into the Mystic River”, Christopher Barge, Boston Herald, 1998

Jennifer Liston Munsonjmunsonlistonmunson.com

www.bka r tp ro j ec t s .com617-835-8255

Cuba Provides New Work by Jennifer Liston Munson

The title for this show emerged from the cropped images of text from a Cuban tobacco factory. It was a quote from José Marti, “Cuba le debe al tabaco nombradia y riqueza” (Cuba owes its name and prosperity to tobacco). The cropping of that graffiti text in Untitled (Cuba #15) alters the phrase to read, Cuba le da... which can be interpreted as Cuba Provides.

What Cuba provides and what is taken from Cuba is an interesting frame for this work. Most of the images here record an hour of time at an empty tobacco factory outside of Havana in May, 2013. The unoccupied chairs sat in the center of the space and the green pole—stand-ins for the body and for time—are peripheral details that became the subjects of perception.

Sorting through these images, Munson chose the scale and materials (matte paper, resin, oil paint, wood) that this place should resurface within the frame. The sequence of images and paint serve to transform the objects—to define the composition and color, and to mark a later time—so that visual perception and recognition itself become the narrative.

Untitled (Cuba #15), Archival pigment print,oil, resin, pencil, wood, 12” x 24”, 2015

Untitled (Myanmar #1), Archival pigment print, resin, oil, wood, 2 panels 9” x 14” each, 2015 Brickbottom Gallery 1 Fitchburg Street, Somerville, MA 02143 www.brickbottom.com Thursday-Saturday, 12-5 pm

MOTION, MEMORY

March 12 – April 11, 2015 Reception: Sunday, March 15, 3-5pm

“Motion, Memory” presents the work of three artists whose work combines photography with painting or printmaking: Gary Duehr, Jennifer Liston Munson and David Palmquist.

Although photography’s origin is that of freezing motion (and time), each of these artists explores

how photography, when altered or extended, can allow motion to partially wipe away the memory

of a place or event. Their artwork owes a debt to Einstein’s notion that time only occurs when

change happens; if nothing changes, time does not pass. These three artists try to catch the

moment of transition between stillness and action.

Jennifer Liston Munson

My images start with travel. Fleeting moments among Buddhist nuns in Myanmar, architecture in Havana, and electric lines in Mexico are marked by what the camera has recorded and what I can recall. The blurred periphery rises to the surface and paint helps to define them—both marking time and magnifying the gap between seeing and knowing. www.jenniferlistonmunson.com

Cushing-Martin Galleryat Stonehill College

320 Washington Street Easton, MA 02357

Poetics of Ephemeral MemoryFebruary 28–March 29, 2014

Presented by the Visual and Performing Arts Department

For Immediate Release October 3, 2008

Jennifer Liston Munson: Glance

November 20-December 23, 2008 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 20, 2008 6-8pm

Jennifer Liston Munson, Billboard in Seville,” 2008, c-print mounted to plexi glass, oil on plaster and wood, 38” x 92”

The judi rotenberg gallery is pleased to present Glance, Jennifer Liston Munson’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Jennifer Liston Munson works with the unlikely combination of two disparate media: c-prints and oil paintings. Her alluring, faded imagery are abstractions of Polaroid’s taken in motion during her travels. Through the enlargement of the original grainy Polaroid, and through the translation from one medium to another, Liston Munson further distances her imagery from the particulars of place, and recreates the perceptive experience of a glance.

Liston Munson has been working with a Polaroid xs-70 for several years now. These thumbnail size pictures are her preferred method of isolating a moment of visual interest. The hazy, blurred, tonal images are then filtered through a digital enlargement process. At this stage, the artist further translates the subject through painting, by working on a panel that has been prepared with plaster and sanded to a fine finish. On this surface, Liston Munson, employs a repetitive layering of oil in washes to create depth and richness. Liston Munson’s image selections resonate familiarity, and therefore offer room for appropriation of memory for the particular viewer. The material juxtaposition of these saturated architectural components and the reflective sheen of the c-print reinforce this sensation as the viewer looks back and forth to locate an elusive memory that shifts form.

Liston Munson received her B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art, and her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1997 after studying at Loughborough College of Art and Design, Leicestershire, England. She has exhibited at commercial galleries and institutions, including CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, University of Massachusetts Art Gallery, Lowell, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has also been the recipient of the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant and the Traveling Scholars Award for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts .