Jenny Morgan’s diaphanous paintings are inhabited by hyper-realistic figures ebbing in and out of focus, merging into landscape or diffusing gently into a painterly fog. There is a razor’s edge quality in the calm precision of Morgan’s deliberate brush stroke, which can be quick and expressive as well as invisible and exact. Her work recalls numerous art historical references, from Venetian reclining nudes to playful rococo paintings, all while imbuing a hypnotic, euphoric, and hyper-present setting.    

Jenny Morgan (b. 1982 Salt Lake City, UT) holds a BA from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. Her first solo museum exhibition Skin Deep with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver took place in 2017. Morgan has had solo exhibitions in New York, London, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Summer Lovin’ at Stems Gallery, Paris, France; Corpo e Mente at LVH Art, Venice, Italy; If you forget my name, you will go astray at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; and Women of Now at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX. Her work is in the permanent collections of several public museums including Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL; Purdue University Art Gallery, West Lafayette, IN; Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; UNiversity of Maryland’s Stamp Student Union Art Collection, College Park, MD; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; and Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI. Morgan lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.