Jennifer Liston Munson
Medusa #3, Pigment print, resin, 4 x 4 x 3.5 inches, 2025
Artist Statement
The lightness of the gaze
The weight of objects
My interest in capturing ancient art objects through a practice of image–memory, image–making, and image–viewing connects to my identity as a museum worker looking at objects up close, looking after objects, being in their presence, and in the presence of their makers.
My objects hold both the lightness of the gaze and the memory of the object in translucent weight. Translucency, like a watery pool, promotes ambiguity, a sense of mystery and complexity that allows multiple understandings of what an object, a space, or an idea can be.
The image of the object becomes an object again.
Artist Bio
Jennifer Liston Munson is a Boston area artist who was born in New York and grew up in Los Angeles, CA. She received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University, and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Jennifer studied painting at Loughborough College of Art and Design in England. She was a Traveling Scholar and received a fellowship to show her work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Jennifer teaches at the SMFA at Tufts University and has an exhibition design practice that focuses on placemaking for historic and contemporary art objects.
Her work is held in corporate and private collections and is currently represented by curator Beth Kantrowitz at bk projects, as well as the Kingston Gallery, Boston MA..
Medusa #2, Pigment print, resin, 4 x 4 x 3.5 inches, 2025
Medusa #5, Pigment print, resin, 4 x 4 x 3.5 inches, 2025
Ancient glass #2, Pigment print, resin, 4 x 4 x 3.5 inches, 2025
Ancient glass #5 (side), Pigment print, resin, 4 x 4 x 3.5 inches, 2025
Ancient Glass #5, Pigment print, resin, 4 x 4 x 3.5 inches, 2025
Exhibitions
2025 The Petrifying Gaze, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 Dig, Duxbury Museum, Duxbury, MA
2024 The Memory of Place, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 Looking In + Looking Out, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 The Color of Memory, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA, upcoming
2022 Solo pop-up exhibition, curated by Beth Kantrowitz, Arlington, MA
2022 Hopscotch, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
2021 Lockets & Lace, curated by Beth Kantrowitz, Jameson & Thompson, Jamaica Plain, MA
2020 The Yellow Wallpaper, curated by Janet Hicks and Beth Kantrowitz, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY
2020 Solo exhibition, Inclinadas: Leaning in from Mexico City, Shelter In Place Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Art in the Time of Corona: A Global Art Project, curated by Yessica Torres, Dab Art Co, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Solo exhibition, Invisible Histories: New Work by Jennifer Liston Munson, All+One gallery, Portsmouth, NH
2020 Structure, Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, curated by Bill Schwab
2019 Dot Conference, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Kirstin Lamb
2019 Dot Conference, Watertown, MA, curated by Kirstin Lamb
2018 The Line Begins to Blur, Sasaki Gallery, curated by bk projects, Watertown, MA
2017 In Transit, Stove Factory Gallery, Chelsea, MA
2016 Ptown Pop Up, curated by bk projects, 444 Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2015 Wheaton Biennial, Beard and Weil Gallery, Norton, MA
2015 Motion, Memory, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2015 Solo exhibition, Cuba Provides, curated by bk projects, Cutter Gallery, Arlington, MA
2015 In Passing, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 P.O.E.M., Cushing-Martin Gallery, Stonehill College, Easton, MA
2011 Popsicle, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Solo exhibition, Glance, multi-media installation, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Tracks, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 Introductions, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 Imaging Machines, multi-media installation, UMass Art Gallery
2000 Head Over Heels, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
1999 New England/New York, New Talent, Hampshire College Art Gallery,Contact + Links
1998 Notes from the Next Life, Invisible Cities Group, Somerville, MA, Amherst, MA
1998 Emerging Artists, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1998 National Print and Drawing Show, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
1999 Solo exhibition, Being Temporal Being, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 Solo exhibition, Mars, Christina and Me, \Lincoln Art Gallery, RI
1997 Eleven Artists, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, MA