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Tintype Portrait by Asa Gilmore, 2016
Jennifer Garza-Cuen is a photographer from the Pacific Northwest. Currently Assistant Professor and director of the Photography program in the Department of Art+Design at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, she received her MFA in photography and MA in the History of Art and Visual Culture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. Her BA in comparative literature was completed at the American University in Cairo. During both years of her attendance at RISD, she received the RISD-GS competitive grant. She was also awarded the Daniel Clarke Johnson, Henry Wolf, and Patricia Smith Scholarships as well as the Dean of Graduate Studies and Photography Department Fellowships. Additionally, she has received fellowships to attend residencies at The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Light Work, Ucross, Oxbow, Hambidge, Brush Creek, and the Vermont Studio Center. Public collections include Light Work, The Do Good Fund, the New Mexico History Museum and The Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and published in contemporary photographic journals such as Dear Dave, Contact Sheet, Musée, Blink, PDN, Der Greif, The Photo Review, and Conveyor as well as on-line journals such as i-D, Feature Shoot, Aint-Bad, Fubiz, iGNANT, Dazed, and Juxtapoz.
Contact Jennifer for print sales, commissions, and general inquiries.
Links to recent Exhibitions, Publications, Interviews & Collections
United States
Oxford American
Eyes on the South
Littlerock, AR
Juxtapoz Magazine
San Francisco, CA
Musée Magazine
Place Issue
New York, NY
Aint-Bad Magazine
Savannah, GA
Light Work
Syracuse, New York
Do Good Fund
Columbus, Georgia
New Mexico Museum of Art
Santa Fe, New Mexico
RISD Special Collection
Providence, Rhode Island
Europe & Asia
Dazed Magazine
Ten Photographers you should know, London, UK
i-D Magazine (Vice)
Berlin, Germany
iGNANT
Berlin, Germany
Fubiz
Paris, France
il Post Foto
Milan, Italy
Xatakafoto
Madrid, Spain
C 41 Magazine
Milan, Italy
Der Grief
Jubilee Issue 10
Augsburg, Germany
Photogrvphy
Krakow, Poland
Frill Magazine
Warsaw, Poland
Pictorama
Russia