Jennifer Steensma Hoag is a conceptual artist working primarily in photography and video. She received an MFA in Imaging Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Awards for her artwork include an artist in residence with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, a Calvin Research Fellowship, and a Community Giving Program Grant from the Target Corporation. Hoag’s photographs have been exhibited at universities and art centers across the country and her photography series, “The Nature of Invasion” was featured in the Society for Photographic Education’s journal, exposure, and online in Drain – Journal of Contemporary Art & Culture. Hoag’s video work has been screened at the 5th Cairo Video Festival by Medrar for Contemporary Art in Egypt and exhibited across the United States in group and solo shows including Rehearse, Rewind, Repeat: Photography, Video and Performance juried by Kelli Connell for Ohio University Art Gallery, You and Yours: Artists’ Images of Family curated by Patricia Briggs for the Tweed Museum of Art, and Gallery 31 Video Exhibition: Transient at the Corcoran Gallery of Art/College of Art & Design. She is a professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMANS & NATURE:
- Broken Models
From Minding Nature’s Spring 2019, Volume 12, Number 2 issue.