JENNY LYNN MCNUTT

BIO

JENNY LYNN McNUTT has exhibited and performed throughout the U.S. and internationally, most recently in Milan, Rome, Dublin at Temple Bar Gallery, in Barcelona, Paris and in New York with Florence Lynch Gallery and the American Gallery. In the 1980’s she showed with Emily Sorkin Gallery in New York City. In 1993 on a Fulbright Fellowship she went to Ivory Coast and Cameroon to study and document the masquerading ceremonies and was a part of a three person inaugural show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Abidjan. An Eastman Foundation grant enabled her to continue work on the documentaries of West Africa.

With Galerie d’Arte Essaadi in Carthage, Tunisia Jenny Lynn will show a group of bronze and mixed media sculptures and prints in Fall 2005. An exhibition of her sculptures and prints was shown at Artefact, Galleria Pardo in Milan in 2004. As part of the show she presented a performance, “Borsalino sings” with new sound works. In Rome with Robert Pardo Gallery and Galleria Le Bateleur at Palazzetto del Gonfalone Jenny Lynn presented“Sewing Songs”, a multimedia performance and installation in 2003. A sound and sculpture installation was also a part of this inaugural show. “Sewing Songs” was hosted by Bard College in March 2002. She created a video for “Woman’s Song: The Story of Roro Mendut”, Lisa Karrer’s wayang opera, which opened at The Kitchen last October and toured in Estonia in July. "33 Swoonings", a large-scale multimedia performance was presented at Tishman Auditorium, New York, in Spring 2003 with funding by the Hillman Foundation. Jenny Lynn also created an installation of sculptures, sound works and video at the Florence Lynch Gallery in June 2002. Spring 2001 she exhibited with Nadine Thomas Gallery in Paris and created an installation with Pierre Jaccaud/Kamila Regent Gallery in southern France.

Currently she teaches studio arts, West African art and Performance art courses at The New School University, at Pratt Institute and the past four years with Bard College in France