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Jen Bervin's work brings together text and textile in a practice that encompasses poetry, archival research, artist books, and large-scale art works.
Her books include The Dickinson Composites (2010) and The Desert (2008) from Granary Books, and The Silver Book (2010), A Non- Breaking Space (2005), and Nets (2004, fifth printing 2010) from Ugly Duckling Presse. Her next book is forthcoming from Granary Books in February 2012.
Her work has been published in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern University Press 2011), La Familia Americana (Spain: Antonio Machado Libros, 2010), The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (UK: Reality Street Editions, 2008), and is forthcoming in a German anthology on appropriation literature (Luxbooks), I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press), READ (1913 Press), and Figuring Color (ICA Boston/ Hatje Cantz).
Recent exhibitions include: "Jen Bervin: Weaving" at Gridspace in Brooklyn; "The Wildest Word We Consign to Language" at Poets House in New York; and the group show "Telefone Sem Fio: Word-Things of Augusto de Campos Revisited" at EFA Project Space in New York.
Bervin has received fellowships in art and writing from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Centrum, The MacDowell Colony, Visual Studies Workshop, The Center for Book Arts, and The Camargo Foundation.
Her work is in more than thirty collections including The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Walker Art Center, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Stanford University, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the British Library.
Bervin curated the New York exhibition, "Emily Dickinson at Poets House: Manuscripts from the Donald and Patricia Oresman Collection"—a rare selection of the poet Emily Dickinson's original manuscripts. She teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and guest-taught recently at Harvard University. She'll be the Von Hess Visiting Artist at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2012. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Website address: jenbervin.com
Email address: jenbervin (at) mac (.) com
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