Jennifer Reeder

For the historian, see Jennifer Reeder (historian).
Jennifer Reeder (VIS 2015)

Jennifer Reeder (born 1971, Ohio) is an American artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Her short film A Million Miles Away (2014) was nominated for a Tiger Award for Short Films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam[1] and screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Short Narrative Films category.[2][3] In 2003, she had a solo screening at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.[4] She received a Rockefeller Grant for New Media in 2002 and a Creative Capital grant in 2015 to support the production of her first experimental feature-length film, Knives and Skin.[5][6] She won a 2018–19 SFFILM Rainin Grant for scriptwriting, and was the 2019 recipient of the Alpert Film Award residency at the MacDowell Colony.[7] In 2021, she was awarded a United States Artists (USA) Fellowship.[8]

Reeder attracted notice early in her career for her performance and video work as "White Trash Girl," a fictional identity through which the artist explored lower-income white culture in the United States.[9] Interviewed by writer and Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis for the anthology White Trash: Race and Class in America, Reeder said that white trash "describes a certain esthetic, but I think it's also a socioeconomic situation, and a way of perceiving the world around you and your own place in the world."[10] Her more recent films explore the lives of adolescent girls and their use of music, slang, and fashion to express their identities and aspects of their emotional world.[11][12]

Her films have screened at the Whitney Biennial; The New York Video Festival; Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Austria; the Gene Siskel Film Center; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; the Wexner Center for the Arts; the Chicago Underground Film Festival; the Criterion Channel;[13] and the 48th International Venice Biennial.[14]

Reeder currently teaches in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago and holds the position of Associate Professor Moving Image.[15][16] She is the founder of the social justice group Tracers Book Club, which focuses on feminist issues.[17] Reeder received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and was represented by the Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.[18]

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  5. ^ "Announcing the 2015 Creative Capital Artists: $4,370,000 Awarded to 46 Moving Image and Visual Arts Projects". Creative Capital. 7 January 2015. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
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  8. ^ "United States Artists » Jennifer Reeder". Retrieved 2023-02-25.
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  10. ^ Kipnis, Laura (1997). "White Trash Girl: The Interview". In Wray, Matt; Newitz, Annalee (eds.). White Trash: Race and Class in America. New York: Routledge. pp. 113–30. ISBN 0415916917.
  11. ^ Wisby, Gary (9 September 2014). "Feature-length dreams and artful, award-winning films". University of Illinois at Chicago News Center. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  12. ^ "Blood Below the Skin: Films by Jennifer Reeder". Wisconsin Film Festival. 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  13. ^ "Short Films by Jennifer Reeder". The Criterion Channel. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  14. ^ "Jennifer Reeder at the Gene Siskel Film Center (September 29, 2014)". School of the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni News. SAIC. Retrieved 9 August 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  15. ^ "Jennifer K Reeder". School of Art & Art History. University of Illinois at Chicago. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  16. ^ Altadonna, Ashley (29 February 2016). "Filmmaker Jennifer Reeder talks feminism, the Midwest, cat films". Milwaukee Record. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  17. ^ "MCA Talk: Tracers Book Club". Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. 2015. Archived from the original on 7 September 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  18. ^ "Jennifer Reeder". Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2015.