“Jennifer Zackin has worked with Rose Petals, Little Plastic Cowboys, pre-Columbian symbols, bright handmade pom-poms, cheap mass-produced posters, coca leaves, and her grandfathers old Super-8 home movies. How she weaves them into rhythmic, often meditative forms depends in great part on the underlying pattern that she is able to detect and orchestrate among her diverse materials. Fervently pluralistic, hers is a strategy that echoes the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s, when artists like Miriam Shapiro, Joyce Kozloff, and Robert Kushner created rich new vocabulary of line, motif and undervalued materials. Zackin, too, has fashioned idiosyncratic, appropriative artworks in a multi-ethnic practice that incorporates influences from the arts and crafts of Western and non-Western cultures alike.” -- Lori Waxman

Her sculptures, videos and site-specific installations has been widely exhibited in major national and international museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut, Spertus Museum in Chicago, Rose Museum in Massachusetts, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio, Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, The Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden in Norway, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Zacheta National Art Gallery in Warsaw, Poland. Site-Specific Commissions have included a project on Governors Island in NYC with LMCC, Katonah Village with the Katonah Art Museum in New York, Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens NYC and the Berkshire Botanical Gardens in Stockbridge, MA. She has received numerous awards and residencies, including Factory Direct at Pinchbeck Rose Farm, Art Omi, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture.