Ms. Rogers’ pieces are about American Culture, its proliferation & its residue.  Her works often play within the realm of film & photographic history, toying with the common currency of popular culture, our shared literacy & our fascination with mythic representation.  Classic reconsiderations of gender, Jenny’s work explodes the category to reveal the underlying themes of mortality and death, and ultimately, what it takes to make any meaning out of the whimsical struggle we share. Ms. Rogers’ work has appeared in numerous museums and galleries throughout the world including the P.S. 1 / MoMA (Greater New York 2005) in New York City, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, and Mass MoCA.  Her video work TRICK SADDLE was recently acquired as part of the Heather & Tony Podesta Collection.   Forthcoming in 2008 is a new full-length theatrical work, WICKETS premiering at New York’s 3LD Technology Center next winter and a new video project, PERFECT SURF, for which Jenny has been granted a prestigious Independent Artist Award in Film & Media, New Technology Production for $20,000 by the New York State Council for the Arts.

In addition, Jenny’s photography was featured in the Couples Discourse  exhibition and museum catalogue, published by the Pennsylvania State University Press in 2006, showcasing portraits of esteemed artist-couples in their homes and work places.   In 2005, MTV commissioned Ms. Rogers to complete a signature video piece for the launch of their new lesbian & gay television station “LOGO.”  Ms. Rogers’ film & video work has also appeared in numerous festivals in the U.S. & abroad including Feminale 12- the International Women’s Film Festival in Cologne, Bimovie 11- International Film Festival Munich, Out Takes 2005- New Zealand, MIX 18- New York’s Experimental Film & Video Festival, the Frameline Festival - San Francisco’s Lesbian & Gay Film Fest, and Reeling – Chicago’s Gay & Lesbian Film Fest.  TRICK SADDLE was also awarded a “Grand Festival Award” at the Berkeley Video & Film Festival, 2004, and it was shown at the Walker Arts Center as part of “Cinema Bizarre: Short Experimental Works by Lesbian Film/Video Artists” and  “Women with Vision Film Festival 2005.”

In addition to her visual artwork Ms. Rogers has received numerous grants for her theatrical works including grants from the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts. She has been a theatrical artist-in-residence at UC Santa Cruz, Bard College, HERE Center for the Arts & Mabou Mines Suite / RAP Program in New York City. Jenny has shown her theater pieces in New York City at 3LD, PS 122, Raw Space Studios, Dixon Place, Mabou Mines' TORONADA Theater, and HERE Arts Center. Her theater pieces have also been shown internationally, most notably at the Rio Cena Contemporanea Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Jenny has been artist-in-residence at Artist Alliance & Painting Space 122, both in New York City. She is currently an Emerging Artist in the New York Foundation for the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship Program along with collaborator Clove Galilee to develop WICKETS-- Maria Irene Fornes’ “Fefu & Her Friends” set at 30,000 feet starring 1970’s stewardesses.  She & Clove recently founded “Trick Saddle”, their own experimental theater company.  They are currently feverishly at work on WICKETS, and ACCELERATED ENGLISH, a high speed evangelical “Our Town,” inspired by the upcoming presidential election & the regressive state of politics in the U.S.

Ms. Rogers grew up in Nebraska, completely landlocked except for the waves of the grass along the prairie. She currently splits her time between two coasts, spending time in New York City & San Francisco.  She holds a B.A. from Brown University & an MFA from Penn State University.   And she is proud to have been educated at both an Ivy League and a State school.