Jennifer Yorke ’95
Studio Art Major
Based in Chicago, IL
She/Her/Hers
“I examine the uneasy relationship between consumption, identity, the physical body and the natural world through installations, collages, drawings, prints, photographs and books. Through collage, itself a medium of conjoined fragments, I conflate fashion’s celebration and distortion of the body with our more day-to-day experience of its flaws and failures.”
Professional Life Post-Carleton
2020
- The Rural Residency for Contemporary Art, Brescia, Italy
2019
- The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2017
- The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2016
- The American Academy in Rome, Italy; Visiting Artist
2015
- La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts, Noyers-sur-Serein, France
- The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
2014
- Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing, Art & the Environment, Medina, TX
2013
- The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2012
- The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
- The Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY
- The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
- The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2011
- Anchor Graphics, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
- The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
- The Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY
2010
- The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
- The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
2008
- Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
2005
- Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; partially funded by an Artist’s Grant
2004
- Perpetual Portfolio Digital Residency at The Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England, Bristol, England
1998
- Master of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Graduate Trustee Fellowship (full-tuition fellowship)
Favorite memory of life at Carleton
“I always knew what day the Art and Art History faculty was meeting because Fred wore his purple pants!”
Favorite memory of studying with Fred Hagstrom
“In Fred’s teaching and critique, he was unfailingly thoughtful, incisive and demanding while at the same time personally supportive and nurturing. I completed a fully-funded MFA in printmaking and taught at the college level for a decade as a direct result of Fred’s mentorship.”