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Jennifer Lillis is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, educator, and administrator based in Northern Virginia. She received her MFA in Visual Art and Technology from George Mason University, and her BA in Studio Art from Marymount University. Jennifer is the Assistant Curator and Gallery Manager at the McLean Project for the Arts, teaches Printmaking at George Mason University, co-producer of Paper Cuts, and founder of the print and book collective ELEMENTS.  

 

Professional Experience

Assistant Curator, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA. 2022

Gallery Manager, McLean Project for the Arts. 2015-2019Coordinating Committee, MPAartfest Artist Liaison. 2016-2021

Adjunct Faculty, Printmaking, George Mason University, 2019-2024

Graduate Lecturer, Printmaking I, George Mason University. Fall 2018, Spring 2019

Instructor, Drawing Basics, Hand Printing, Bookbinding. McLean Project for the Arts. 2019-2021

Co-Producer/Host, Paper Cuts Zines Podcast and Publishing. Washington D.C. 2018-2021

Graduate Professional Assistant, Fenwick Gallery 2017-2018

Co-Curator, Call and Response: Fenwick Gallery. 2017, 2018

Art Edititor, So to Speak. 2016

Guest Lecture: Printmaking 101: Fundamentals of Lino-Cuts. Marymount University February 2016

Exhibitions, Fairs, Collections

MFA Thesis Exhibition, unearth, March 26-April 2, 2019. George Mason University School of Art. Fairfax, Va

Transformer Auction, Katzen Art Center, Washington, D.C. 2023

Metamorphosis, Jennifer Lillis and Christopher Kardambikis, Fenwick Gallery, Fairfax, VA. 2024

Metamorphosis, Jennifer Lillis and Christopher Kardambikis, The Writers Center, Bethesda, MD. 2023

Common Misconceptions: Idealized Notions of a Pre-Historic World, Fenwick Gallery, Fairfax, VA. 2022

Thomas J Watsons Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Common Misconceptions”, New York, New York, 2022

Ohio State University, Special Collections, “Sequence In Reduction, vol. II”, Columbus, OH, 2020

Paper Cuts:

Printer Matter LA Art Book Fair, 2023

San Fransisco Art Book Fair, 2023

Capital Art Book Fair, Washington, D.C. 2023

Jersey Art Book Fair, Jersey City, NJ 2023, 2024

Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024

Chicago Art Book Fair, 2019

ELEMENTS/ SOLO

Asheville Zine Fest, Asheville, NC June 2022

Cincinnati Art Book Fair, Cincinnati, OH. 2021

An Art Book Fair, Columbus College of Art and Design, 2020

DC Art Book Fair, with ELEMENTS, National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington, DC. July 2019

Richmond Art Book Fair, with ELEMENTS, Studio TwoThree. Richmond, VA. April, 2019

Pyramid Art Book Fair, with ELEMENTS Hyattsville, MD. 2018

Current Art Book Fair, with ELEMENTS Richmond, VA. 2018

Banner Art Project: hosted by Historic Manassas, Inc. Manassas, VA. April 2015

Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Over the Edge: Paperwork Unbound Exhibition. (Part I and Part II) Brooklyn, NY. October 2014- January 2015

Anacostia Arts Center, “Cheap Thrills.” Washington, D.C. September 2014

email: jennifer.a.lillis@gmail.com