B. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Lives and works in Madison, WI
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of Design Studies | Kay Vaughan Faculty Fellow of Design + Innovation, University of Wisconsin, Madison
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Golden Hour. The Bruce Museum. Greenwich, CT. (*forthcoming)
2024 Flying Jewels & Other Lofty Insects. Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. Grand Rapids, MI.
2022 Eat Me, Drink Me. Kimball Art Center. Park City, UT.
2022 A is for Ant, B is for Bug, C is for Cicada. Wyoming Valley School. Spring Green, WI.
2021 The Other Side. Paine Art Center. Oshkosh, WI.
2021 Magicicada. Staten Island Museum. Staten Island, NY.
2021 Sanctuary. Weil Gallery, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Corpus Christi, TX.
2020 The Museum of All Things. Mattress Factory Museum. Pittsburgh, PA.
2019 The Grasshopper & the Ant & Other Fables. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, FL. (catalogue)
2019 Otherworldly. Bolivar Gallery, University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY.
2018 Wonder(ing). Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Oshkosh, WI.
2017 Super Natural. MadArt. Seattle, WA.
2017 Lookabout. Multi-site installation sponsored by ARTsPLACE. Annapolis Royal, NS, Canada.
2016 Hope is the Only Bee. Acadia University Gallery. Wolfville, NS, Canada.
2016 A Wing and a Prayer. Emory and Henry College. Emory, VA.
2016 Silver Wings and Golden Scales. Esperson Gallery. Houston, TX. (catalogue)
2015 Creepy Crawly: An Entomological Investigation of Textile Pattern. Textile Center. Minneapolis, MN.
2015 Permanent Installation. 2nd floor Anderson Building, Book Making and Print Dep’t, University of the Arts. Philadelphia, PA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Wishful Wild, Fragile Earth. Invited Artist, Brandywine Museum. Chadds Ford, PA.
2021 Orchids: Attraction & Deception. Invited Artist, Barry Art Museum. Norfolk, VA.
2020 Surreal Gallery. Invited Artist, Museum of Wisconsin Art. West Bend, WI.
2020 Chazen Museum of Art Faculty Exhibition 2020. Juried Exhibition, Chazen Museum of Art. Madison, WI.
2019 Fragile Earth. Invited Artist, Florence Griswold Museum. Old Lyme, CT. (catalogue)
2018 Neo Victorians. Invited Artist, Hudson River Museum. Yonkers, NY.
2018 In the Garden. Invited Artist, Shelburne Museum. Shelburne, CT.
2017 Cross Pollination. Invited Artist, 516 Arts. Albuquerque, NM. (catalogue)
2017 Keep Watch on Habitat. Projective Eye Gallery, University of North Carolina. Charlotte, NC. (catalogue)
2017 Just the Facts. Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Milwaukee, WI.
2016 An Unnamed Need: Pattern & Beauty in Art. Lawrence University Gallery. Appleton, WI.
2016 Super Natural. Invited Artist, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
2016 Pass the Orange. Invited Artist, Redline Denver. Denver, CO.
2016 All Around Us. Invited Artist, Wood Street Galleries. Pittsburgh, PA.
2015 Wonder. Invited Artist, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Washington, D.C.. (catalogue)
2015 Beauty and Beasts. Invited Artist, Dunedin Fine Art Center. Dunedin, FL.
SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2022 4W Innovation Award. 4W Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
2022 Kay Vaughan Innovation Faculty Fellowship. School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
2022 Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award. Division of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
2022 4W Innovation Award. 4W Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
2019 Forward Art Prize. Women Artists Forward Fund. Madison, WI.
2019 Artist in Residence. Florence Griswold Museum. Old Lyme, CT.
3.5 month residency in preparation for installation in original Griswold house for Fragile Earth exhibition.
2018 Community Based Research Award. Wisconsin Without Borders, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
2017 Visual Arts Project Grant. Canada Council for the Arts. Ottawa, Canada.
2017 MadArt Residency. MadArt. Seattle, WA.
3 months at the MadArt space with an exhibition at the conclusion of the residency to coincide with the Seattle Art Fair.
2017 ARTsPLACE Residency. ARTsPLACE. Annapolis Royal, NS, Canada.
1 month residency to create a multi-site installation in celebration of Canada’s sesquicentennial.
2017 4W Innovation Award. 4W Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
2016 360 Xochi Quetzal Residency. 360 Xochi Quetzal. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico.
Competitive call for 1 month residency award.
2016 Kellett Mid Career Award. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
2015 Von Hess Print Residency. University of the Arts. Philadelphia, PA.
2015 Tandem Press Residency. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
.2015 Rothermel Bascom Professorship. School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
SELECTED REVIEWS, NOTES & MEDIA NOTICE
2022 Artist & UW-Madison professor bugs out with her art. Wisconsin Life, PBS. September 13, 2022.
2022 Beetles, butterflies and cicadas invade Frank Lloyd Wright's Wyoming Valley School, by Barry Adams. Wisconsin State Journal. March 28, 2022.
2022 The Brief and Wondrous Lives of Cicadas. NPR Science Friday Conversion. March 25, 2022.
2021 Art and Arthropods. Science Friday Mini Doc. December 15, 2021.
2021 The Creepy, Crawling History of Insect Art, by Greg Miller. Smithsonian Magazine. Dec 23, 2021.
2021 The Alien Beauty and Creepy Fascination of Insect Art, by Greg Miller. Knowable Magazine. Dec 22, 2021.
2021 Cicadas’ arrival is music to artist’s ears, by Kari Knutson. News | UW-Madison. July 27, 2021.
2021 ART: Orchid Fascination, by Jeff Maisey. Veer Magazine. February 18, 2021.
2020 MOWA Exhibition Offers Insect Insights, by Michael Muckian. Shepherd Express. Nov 20, 2020.
2020 Mattress Factory delves into the fantastic and macabre with two new exhibitions, by Amanda Waltz. Pittsburgh City Paper. August 27, 2020.
2020 Shikeith and Jennifer Angus Installations Debut at Mattress Factory. Art & Object. August 25, 2020.
2020 Mattress Factory installations explore race, sexuality, ecology, by Shirly McMarlin. Trib Live. August 21, 2020.
2020 Moments of wonder – and thousands of insects, by Michael Muckian Isthmus. February 13, 2020.
2019 Natural Wonders, by Maggie Duffy. Tampa Bay Times, p 33, 33W, 34W. November 7, 2019.
2019 First Forward Art Prizes, Announced by Gayle Worland. Wisconsin State Journal. November 10, 2019.
2019 Dakota Mace, Jennifer Angus named as first two $10K winners of Forward Art Prize by Lindsay Christians. Capitol Times. November 11, 2019.
2019 Making Art with Insects, by Gayle Worland. Wisconsin State Journal. November 10, 2019.
2019 Jennifer Angus’ largest insect art installation dazzles at the MFA, St. Petersburgh. Art Daily. October 22, 2019.
2019 You could spend the rest of 2019 exploring MFA St. Pete’s Jennifer Angus ‘Grasshopper’ exhibition, by Jennifer Ring. Creative Loafing. October 21, 2019.
2019 Jungle Bugs Infesting Old Lyme Art Colony, by Tom Sobeleski. Ink, Vol15, Issue 163, Cover & p. 40-47. June, 2019.
2019 Insects swarm over Flo-Gris as part of “Fragile Earth” exhibit, by Susan Dunne. Hartford Courant. June 6, 2019.
2019 Interview on Otherworldly at Bolivar Gallery, University of Kentucky-Lexington. Soundcloud.com. February, 2019.
2018 Jennifer Angus, Dying of Curiosity at the Hudson River Museum, short film produced by the Hudson River Museum. February 5, 2018.
2018 Looking Closely at Wonder, short film produced by the Chipstone Foundation. Milwaukee, WI. March 19, 2018.
2018 Art Review: In the Garden” Shelburne Museum, by Pamela Polson. Seven Days. May 5, 2018.
2018 Bitten by the Same Bug: In the Garden at Shelburne, by Marta Pauer-Tursi. Artscope. May 3, 2018.
2018 Meet Jennifer Angus, the university professor who creates extraordinary art using insects. Colour Quotient. June 20, 2018.
2017 Flicker and Border Blur, by Gil McElroy. Sculpture.org. February 22, 2017.
2017 Insects, Both Patterned and Chaotic: ‘Cross Pollination’ at 516 Arts, by Josie Lopez. Pyragraph. August 16, 2017.
2017 Boxes of Bugs, The Science and Art of Collecting, by Kristina Lyn Heitkamp. Muse magazine. January, 2017.
2017 Of Butterflies and Curio Cabinets, by Lynn Moar. The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, NS. June 8, 2017.