Jennie Lamensdorf is a Partnerships & Communications Lead at Open Arts, Meta. Prior to this she was Director and Curator of Time Equities Inc. Art-in-Buildings. Her work focuses on expanding audiences for the art of our time by bringing challenging and engaging work to non-traditional exhibition spaces. Recent exhibitions include solo shows with Claudia Chaseling, Caitlin Cherry, and Jebila Okongwu, and a two-person exhibition with Yashua Klos and Kambui Olujimi. Recent group shows include Venus Occults Jupiter, featuring works by Tamar Ettun, Sara Jimenez, Lily McElroy, Lily Cox Richard, Carolyn Salas, Markel Uriu, and Paula Wilson and Art/Work: An Exploration of Labor, which included Andrea Arrubla, Aram Han Sifuentes, Ben Thorp Brown, Frances Goodman, Jean Shin, Joiri Minaya, Michael Mandiberg, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Paul Anthony Smith, and Rodrigo Valenzuela.
Lamensdorf also works as an independent curator. Her most recent project, Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape, co-curated with Joan Linder, opens at the University of Buffalo Art Galleries in September 2018.
In 2016, Lamensdorf co-founded Forward Union, a coalition-building initiative connecting social justice organizations with artists and creative communities. Lamensdorf is a Board Member of Art Omi in Ghent, NY and a member of the NurtureArt Advisory Board in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.
