Solo Exhibitions
2010
Women in Photography Presents Jen Davis.

2009
"Jen Davis: Photographs," Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA).

2005
"Jen Davis: Recent Photographs," Texas Woman's University Fine Arts Gallery, Denton.
"Self-Image," Photo Passage at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada.

2004
"Jen Davis: Body Image," Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago.

Group Exhibitions
2010
"Going from Nowhere: Accumulated Images," Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.
"Versus," Hous Projects, NYC.
"reGeneration2: Tomorrow's Photographers Today," Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2009
"Hall of Mirrors" (Self-Portraiture), Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe.
"Global Photography," SI FEST - Savignano Immagini Festival, Italy.
"Women," Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany.
"Yesterday & Tomorrow: Issues in Contemporary Photography," Ruschman Art Gallery, Indianapollis.

2008
"Photographic Figures," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
"Made in Chicago: Photographs from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection," Chicago.
"Unmasked & Anonymous," Milwaukee Art Museum (including Artist Talk).
"Yale MFA Photography 2008" at Yale University School of Art, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT; Danziger Projects, New York, NY; Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA.

2007
"The Female Gaze" (three-person show), Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.
"A New American Portrait," Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC.
"Relative Closeness," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL.
"On the Wall-Aperture Magazine '05-'06," Aperture Gallery, NYC.

2006
"Passionate Attitudes," Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
"Domestic Diaries," Rockford Art Museum, IL.

2004
Identifying Marks: Contemporary Portraits, Houston Center for Photography, TX.
17th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, IL.
Self-Exposed, Stephen Daiter Contemporary, Chicago.
Soliloquies, John R. Grady Gallery of Photographic Art, Elgin, IL.
3rd Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Texas Woman's University Fine Arts Gallery, Denton.

2003
Self-Centered, Creative Artist Network, Philadelphia, PA.
As Seen, Moser Gallery at University of Saint Francis, Joliet, IL, (Visiting Artist Lecture).
Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship Show, Hokin Gallery, Chiccago, IL.

2002
Creativity with a Conscience: The Alexandroff Exhibit, 3C Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Senior Thesis Show, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship Show, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Artificial Light, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2001
Pilson Annual Holiday Exhibition, 1837 South Halsted, Chicago, IL.
Columbia College Spring Honors Show, A+D Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Selected Publications
2008
Yale Graduate Photography 2008, Yale University Press.

2007
"Women Seeing Women," Photography Quarterly, No. 94.

2006
Portfolio of Nine Photgraphs, Zoom International, November/December issue.
"The Modern Self," (Jen Davis, Nikki S. Lee, Anthony Goicolea, Teun Hocks), PDN, August 2006.
"Jen Davis: Body image," Aperture, no. 182, Spring 2006.

2005
"Sex Tv," Jen Davis, Episode 8-5.
"Liberation," Hors-Serie 2005 Photographie, Images d'inactualite.
"Best Bet-Jen Davis: Self Image," Eye Weekly.

2004
"Body Image and Catharsis Co-exist in This Exhibit," Chicago Tribune.
"Self-Exposed" Catalogue, by Karen Irvine, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
Camera Austria, Forum Section, March Issue.

2003
My Body/Your Body. 6x6 Series, Columbia College Publishing, Vol. 1, No. 1.
"Alter of the Ego," Philadelphia Weekly. December, Vol. XXXII, No. 49.

2002
"College Senior to Display Photographic Work in Chicago," North Scottsdale Independent. January, Vol. 3, No. 11.

Grants/Awards
2008
Leeds Marwell Photography Scholarship.

2007
Yale Norfolk Summer School in Art Teaching Assistantship.

2004
Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant. 1st Place Award in Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition Solo Show.

2003
Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award.
Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant through The Department of Cultural Affairs.

2002
3rd Place Award, Creativity with a Conscience. Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship.

2001
Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship

Photographs in Public Collections
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH.
Art Institute of Chicago.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago.
The Sir Elton John Photography Collection, Atlanta, GA.
LaSalle National Bank, Chicago, IL.
Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, KY.
Toledo Museum of Art, OH.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

Artist's Statement
The perfect body image in this culture requires that one be thin. Images of perfectly fit individuals saturate the visual media, creating icons which establish a norm that makes all else seem to be deviant. Overweight people do not satisfy what is attractive or desired. In this body of work, I deal with my insecurities about my body image and the direct correlation between self-perception and the way one is perceived by others. Most of my pictures take place in my home, revealing aspects of myself that are private and personal. I am evaluating my self-image, as an obese female in her 20s, dealing with ever-present pressures from the outside world. This process of self-exploration has helped to lay the foundation of finding my voice and recognizing my actions and insecurities. My work is solely based on personal experiences that I have re-constructed into a photograph, but I believe that it speaks generally to the situation of many women in our culture.