Jennifer Loeber is a conceptual documentary photographer based in New York City. Her work focuses on representations of female identity and historical narrative.
Recent honors include a month-long artist residency awarded by Q21 Museumsquarter in Vienna, Austria.
Her current work-in-progress, VERHEXEN, was shortlisted for the 2022 Athens Photo Festival (Greece) and was named a 2022 Critical Mass finalist. She received a MACK First Book Award nomination in 2017 for her previous long-term body of work, GYRLE and was shortlisted for the Triskel 40 Photo Prize (Ireland). She has been awarded the Purchase Prize at the San Diego Museum of Art (2016), the Theo Westenberger Art & Activism Prize (2015), The Barcelona International Photography Award (2015), Finalist in the Kuala Lumpu Photo Awards (2015), a Terry O’Neill TAG award nomination (2012), a Darkroom Residency at The Camera Club of New York (2011), and Finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass (2011).
Her work has been exhibited widely, including Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany), Bonniers Konsthall (Switzerland),Visa Pour L'Image (France) Organ Vida International Photography Festival (Croatia), Foley Gallery (NYC), Fotonoviembre (Tenerife), the Daegu Photo Biennale (South Korea), the Griffin Museum of Photography (Massachusetts), The Center for Fine Art Photography (Colorado), the SCOPE Art Fair (NYC),The Center for Photography at Woodstock (New York), Photoville Festival (NYC) and Rayko Gallery (San Francisco).
Her photographs have been published in New York Magazine, W Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, GEO, PDN, CNN, Huffington Post, The Village Voice, VICE, Marie Claire, American Photo, LINDA, Guernica, Le Journal de la Photographie, and GUP Magazine.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts in PHOTOGRAPHY, MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART, Boston, MA
Magnum Masterclass, Mentor, Alec Soth, New York, NY
AWARDS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2023 Artist in Residence, Q21 Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
2022 Finalist, Critical Mass, Photolucida, VERHEXEN
Shortlisted, Athens Photo Festival, Greece, VERHEXEN
Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Award, VERHEXEN
2021 Finalist, Critical Mass, Photolucida, VERHEXEN
Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Award, VERHEXEN
2019 Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Award, VERHEXEN
Finalist, Critical Mass, Photolucida, VERHEXEN
2018 Nominee, 2018 Photogrvphy Grant, GYRLE
Shortlisted, Triskel 40 Photo Prize, Ireland, GYRLE
Shortlisted, Athens Photo Festival, Greece, GYRLE
2017 Nominated, MACK First Book Award, GYRLE
Finalist, Critical Mass, Photolucida, GYRLE
Shortlisted, Concurso Internacional de Alliance Française en España, GYRLE
2016 Purchase Award/Juror’s Selection, San Diego Museum of Art
Finalist, Philadelphia Photo Arts Competition, PA
Hellerau Photography Award, Germany
Honorable Mention, International Color Awards
2015 Theo Westenberger 2015 Art & Activism Prize, Theo Westenberger Estate
Winner, Barcelona International Photography Award, Spain
Finalist, Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards, Malaysia
Shortlisted, Athens Photo Festival, Greece
Selected Portfolio, New York Times Portfolio Review, NYC
Selected Portfolio, Review Santa Fe, NM
Brixton Photo Workshop, Mentor, Anastasia Taylor-Lind
2014 Juror's selection award, OPEN, Center for Fine Art Photography, Shane Lavalette
2013 Full scholarship for Emerging Photographers, LOOK3 Festival
2012 Nominated, Terry O'Neill Award
2011 Awarded, Darkroom Residency, Camera Club of New Yok
2010 Finalist, Critical Mass, Photolucida
Honorable Mention, Project Competition, CENTER
Selected, Review Santa Fe, CENTER
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 Sorgearbete, The Work of Mouring, Konsthall Bonnier, Stockholm, SE
Mourning: About Loss and Change, Kunsthalle Hamburg Museum, GR
2018 Engaged, Active, Aware – Women’s Perspectives Now, Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
Photo IS:RAEL International Photography Festival, IL
Family of No Man, Cosmos Arles Books, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, FR
36th Annual Juried Exhibition, Houston Center of Photography, TX
2017 Mirror, Mirror, Foley Gallery, NYC
Guerilla Slide Show, Visa Pour L'Image Festival, Perpignan, FR
Semblance, Refraction Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Left Behind, The Fed Galleries, Grand Rapids, MI
2016 Size Matters, Low Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Leftovers, Verge Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015 Fotonoviembre XIII Bienal Internacional, Tenerife, Spain
Body Collection, Musee du Louvre, France
Valid Foto BCN, Award Winners, Barcelona, Spain
2014 OPEN, Center for Fine Art Photography, CO
Up, Close & Personal, Fuchs Projects, NY
2013 Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, CA
United Photo Industries, Love/Hate, NY
2012 Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
Center Forward 2012, Center for Fine Art Photography, CO
18th Annual Juried Show, Griffin Museum, MA
Women in Photography, Photoville, N
PROJECT LA, Lucie Foundation, LA, CA
2011 CAMP: Visiting Day, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
2017 San Diego Museum of Art
2012 Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
Clevland Institute of Art, OH