Jenny Calivas

Jenny Calivas is an artist working with photography and performance. She makes her photographic work using analog processes and experimental darkroom techniques, prioritizing embodied ways of thinking and making. Her recent work consists of performative self-portraits as well as darkroom collages that investigate issues of agency and gender in relation to photography and the natural environment. Calivas’ photographs have been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; Light Work in Syracuse, NY; David Zwirner in New York City; LTD Los Angeles; Huxley Parlour in London and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, ME. She holds her MFA degree from Yale University and her undergraduate degree from The Evergreen State College. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art.