Jenny Perlin

Jenny Perlin is an Adjunct Professor at The Cooper Union's School of Art and The New School in New York. Her artistic practice spans 16mm film, video, and drawing, engaging with documentary traditions while employing innovative stylistic techniques to explore themes of truth, personal history, and social dynamics. Born in Massachusetts in 1970, she holds a BA in Literature and Society from Brown University, an MFA in Film from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and postgraduate studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Her works have been exhibited at prestigious institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, and internationally at venues like the Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals. Perlin’s projects often blend handwritten text, drawn imagery, and analog technologies to interrogate how societal mechanisms manifest in everyday life fragments. She is represented by Simon Preston Gallery (New York) and Galerie M+R Fricke (Berlin).

No academic articles are explicitly listed, though her artistic output includes film and video installations. Teaching and artistic collaborations are central to her professional activities. No grants or fellowships are mentioned in the provided text.