Jennida Chase

Lives and works in Greensboro, NC, USA

Artist statement

Jennida Chase is a multi-media artist who primarily works with film, video, animation, sound and photography. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1998), and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2009). Themes within her work deal with relational interaction played out in society at large. Her work has been extensively shown in galleries, museums, art fairs and film/video festivals worldwide. Her practice includes short films and video art, site-specific installations, city-wide interventions, multiplatform projects, music videos, photography and printed work, live sound-based events, interactive performance, and documentary projects. Her exhibitions often include performative elements and mediated footage, pushing both experimental and conceptual ideas around media. Thematic undercurrents in her work often seek out and disrupt social constructs as it relates to race and gender. She regularly enjoys collaborating with others, and has created multi-platform works with various people, entities, and communities in several cities. Jennida believes collaboration is key to opening broad dialog and expanding what is possible. She regularly collaborates and exhibits with artist Hassan Pitts under the moniker of s/n, together for 15 years making a large quantity of works world-wide. In 2022 Chase was awarded the NC Arts Council Arts in Education Artist Residency Grant (in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts) to work with...

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