Jennifer Sakai Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | ART | Art
- Degrees
- MFA Virginia Commonwealth University
- Bio
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Jennifer Sakai is a fine art photographer, Museum Curator and University Professor who resides in Washington D.C. Her large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional relationship between the human and natural world.
She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and her BFA in fine art design in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has taught at Ithaca College, VCU, and was Assistant Professor of 4th year Fine Art Photo Thesis at the Corcoran School of Art and Design until its closure. She currently teaches in the MFA program at American University.
Ms. Sakai is the President of the Board of Directors for Transformer Gallery in Washington, D.C. Se has presented numerous curatorial and professional lectures.
Ms.Sakai has shown at Somerset House in London England. The Corcoran Museum in Washington D.C., The Anderson Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, IA&A at Hillyer Gallery, Washington, D.C., , Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C., Lightwork Gallery, Syracuse New York, Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, Photoworks Gallery in Maryland and the Handwerker Gallery in Ithaca, NY.
She has published in the Guardian UK, LensCulture, The Washington Post, American University Press, Musée Magazine, Fotofilmic, Float Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, Covid Picture Archive, Washington City Paper, and Color Tag Magazine.
She is a winner in the 2023 LensCulture Art Photography Awards. She exhibited at Photo London at Somerset House in May 2023. Jennifer was selected for a Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency in Johnson Vermont Fall 2023.
Jennifer is a multiple recipient of the prestigious DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Grant in Fine Art for her photographic practice.
Her next solo show will be at Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C. Spring 2025.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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ARTS-660 Research Practicum