Bio:
Jennifer Banzaca (b. New Jersey, 1969) is a painter and designer living in San Francisco. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA, she went on to live in New York and San Francisco working as a digital designer for print and animation. In 2004 she resumed her painting practice and continued studies at the Art Students League and the New York Academy of Art. Jennifer has exhibited throughout the Bay Area and has been an artist in residence at the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts.
Solo Shows/ Duo Shows:
2023 Solo Show “Soft, Fluffy, and Loud” Four Chicken Art Gallery, SF, CA.
2023 Solo Show “I Dream of Color” Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA.
2022 Duo show, “Current Work” Groundfloor Social Club, SF, CA
2021 Duo show “Mirage” Voss Gallery, SF, CA.
2020 Solo show “Utopia”, Voss Gallery. SF, CA
2019 Duo show “Kaleidoscope Sky” duo show, Art Attack SF, CA.
2018 Solo show “Spotlight Exhibition" Art Attack SF SF, CA.
Selected Group Shows:
2024 Group Show “The Big Softie” Soft times Gallery, SF, CA
2023 Group Show “12x12 Invitational” 2121 ArtSpace, SF, CA
2023 Group Show “SEA”, The Drawing Room, SF, CA.
2022 Group Show “Five for Fall” Popup exhibit, SF, CA.
2022 Group Show “Unfurl” A Plant-Themed popup, SF, CA.
2022 Group Show “Soft Times Online Auction” Soft Times Gallery, SF, CA.
2021 Group show “Kids & Art” an.a.log gallery, SF, CA,
2021 Group show “Botanic Rituals” Radian Gallery, SF, CA.
2020 Group show, “10 xTen,” Faultline Artspace, Oakland, CA
2020 Group show, “Through the Looking Glass,” Voss Gallery, SF, CA.
2020 Juried show “Congruence”, summer online exhibit (LINK)
2019 Group show “The Essentials”, Voss Gallery, SF, CA.
2019 Group show “Style, Tradition, and Art”, Adrina Resort Panormos, Skopelos Greece
2019 Group show Skopelos Foundation for the arts. Skopelos, Greece
2018 Group show "50/50 Show" Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA.
2018 Group show "Patterns in Nature" Organized by Slate Gallery, San Ramon Valley conference center, San Ramon, CA
2018 Group show "Into the Wild" Juried show Art Attack Gallery, Sf, CA
2018 ArtSpan Art-in-Neighborhoods Exhibition, The Marker Hotel, SF, CA
2017 "Abstracted" Bay Area Artists Juried Exhibition SFWA Gallery SF, CA
2017 "Summer of Love" Juried Exhibition Arc Gallery SF, CA
2017 “Snap!" Juried Exhibition Arc Gallery SF, CA
2014 EAFA Juried Exhibition, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
Education:
1991 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL BFA
2006-2009 Art Students League New York, NY
2009-2012 New York Academy of art New York, NY
Awards:
2023 The Sheridan Prize for Art, Honorable mention, Women Artists category
Workshops/ Residencies:
2019 The Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos, Greece
2016 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
2010 International School of Drawing painting and sculpture, painting residency Umbria, Italy
2008 Fine arts work center, Provincetown, MA
Speaking / Press:
2019 Murze Magazine Issue #7 August 2019
2018 Artist Talk for Ivy: The Social University, SF, CA.