Jennifer Karady

Jennifer Karady is a Brooklyn-based artist/photographer, whose focus is on large-scale staged portraiture, working with real people to dramatize their stories through narrative, metaphorical, and allegorical techniques. She believes in art’s ability to impact change for both an individual and society.

She received her BA in Literature and Society from Brown University and her MFA in Studio Art from Rutgers University.

Karady’s critically acclaimed series, Soldiers' Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan has been exhibited in solo shows at SF Camerawork in San Francisco, the Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver, CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, the Berman Museum at Ursinus College, PA and continues to travel. Her work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, National Public Radio, Frieze, Kunstbeeld, and The Wall Street Journal and in books such as Art and Agenda (Gestalten), Out of Rubble (Charta) and 100 New York Photographers (Schiffer).

Karady’s work is in the permanent collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Albright Knox Gallery. She has received grants and residencies from SF Camerawork, CEPA Gallery, the Puffin Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, The Blue Mountain Center, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and The Atlantic Center for the Arts. She was recently awarded the prestigious Witt Residency at the University of Michigan.

Her editorial assignments have been published in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Discover, Blender, Women’s Health and BusinessWeek among other publications.