Jeanne Jo

Jeanne Jo is a media artist who works with high and low technologies to investigate the stereotypically gendered. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, where she was a President’s Scholar and recipient of many awards, including a Graduate Award of Excellence. She received her BFA in Digital Media from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she minored in Art History and screamed in a hardcore band. She has taught at RISD , Brown University, Emerson College, and for the City University of New York school system. Her recent activities include an artist lecture at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Singapore, a performance at the Conflux Festival in New York City, and solo exhibitions in locations as diverse as Tulsa, Oklahoma and Rovaniemi, Finland. In 2009, she co-founded a Brooklyn gallery called Tompkins Projects. She is currently a PhD candidate in Media Arts and Practice at the University of Southern California.