Background
Jennifer Rochlin was born in 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Jennifer Rochlin was born in 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Jennifer Rochlin received her Bachelor of Arts and of Political Science in 1991 from the University of Colorado Boulder. Then, Rochlin pursued her education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While there she took part in the exchange program which allowed her to study art at the Universität der Künste (Berlin University of the Arts), Berlin, Germany in 1998.
Rochlin graduated a year later with a Master of Arts degree in painting and drawing.
Jennifer Rochlin started her career as an artist at the turn of the 20th century. In 2000, the artist moved to Los Angeles where she quickly became involved in the local art community. She represented her works at group shows especially enjoying the atmosphere of the Chinatown scene. The debut solo exhibition of Rochlin took place at Black Dragon Society in 2007.
Since then, Jennifer Rochlin has had solo and two-person exhibitions in various art spaces around the country, including South Willard, Statler Waldorf Gallery, both in Los Angeles, Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Milwaukee in Wisconsin, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, Venice Beach Biennial, in conjunction with Made in LA 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and Venice, the Gamble House, Pasadena, and Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento among others.
In 2014, the Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York City hosted Rochlin’s first site-specific installation ‘Window Project’.
Nowadays, the artist lives and works in Los Angeles, California. The most recent solo shows include the exhibitions at the Pit Gallery, Los Angeles, Lefebvre & Fils in Paris, France, both in 2018 and at Geary Contemporary Gallery in New York City in 2019.
Quotations: "A lot of my work deals with the memories that come from a location in time, and [Elysian Park] was the landscape for my life through breakups and having children. It was a real constant in my life, and it often reappears in my work."
