Photo by Paul Esposito
Jenn Dierdorf (b.1978 Michigan City, Indiana) is a visual artist working in painting and sculpture. She received a B.F.A. from the University of Kansas and an M.F.A. from the University of Connecticut. Her work has been exhibited widely including Lancaster Museum of Art, PA, Art Space in New Haven, CT, Cindy Rucker Gallery and Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City as well as Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and Cleve Carney Gallery in Chicago, IL. Dierdorf has been artist-in-residence at several arts programs including the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (Amherst, VA), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Wassaic Art Project (Wassaic, NY), Mudhouse Art Colony (Crete, Greece) and others.
Dierdorf previously served as the Executive Director of SOHO20 Gallery (2008-2013) where she created and curated Savoir-Faire, an annual performance art series that featured emerging women performance artists. From 2014-2016 she was the Director of the Fellowship program at A.I.R. Gallery located in Brooklyn, NY. She served on the Committee for Women in the Arts at the College Art Association (2014-2018), a Visual Arts Board member of the art collective ABC No Rio (2018-2022), a NYC coordinator for The Feminist Art Project out of Rutgers University (2010-2020), and a contributing writer to The Coastal Post art blog. Dierdorf participated in NYC based arts programming, such as Bushwick Art Crit Group, NYC Creative Salon and Artists Talk on Art. She was the Co-Founder of the creative networking initiative Lady Painters, along with artist Kelsey Shwetz. She maintains a studio in Brooklyn, NY.