Jennifer Thoreson

Thoreson was born in 1979 in Weatherford, Texas. When she was still a child, her family moved to a small, conservative town in rural Texas where Thoreson spent her early years. She was raised extremely creative, and began to experiment with many things during her adult life. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Arlington with her bachelor's degree in fine arts in 2001, and later went on to receive her masters in fine arts from the University of New Mexico in 2014. Since then she has taught at the University of New Mexico and the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, as well as housing informal workshops, both in person and online, in Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and Nevada.

Thoreson's six major photo series are Medic, Flora, Traveler, Baptism, Testament, and Coming of Age. Each one is meant to exemplify a different stage in her life and therefore, each series has a different tone and color scheme.

Since her work is most concerned with portraying a message and telling a narrative, Thoreson's work fits into the genre of Conceptual/Fine-art photography most cleanly. Her inclusion of installment, staging, and editing creates images that almost resemble paintings and results in a mixed media piece. She takes elements of what is predominantly thought of as Fine Art, painting and sculpture, and applies it to photography. Her use of everyday objects borrows heavily from Marcel Duchamp and the concept of ready-made art, but her approach is significantly different.

• Baptism, Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM • Faith, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA • Baptism, Zone Zero, ZoneZero.com • Into the Light, Wallspace, Santa Barbara, CA

• Medic, Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, PA • Baptism, Red Filter Gallery, Lambertville, NJ • Alternate Realities, Verve gallery of photography, Santa Fe, NM • Critical Mass Exhibition, Traveling Exhibition • Faith, SCA, Albuquerque, NM • At First Sight, Gallery AC2, Albuquerque, NM • 40th Anniversary Show, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA • Processes and Dreams, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA • Winter Salon, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

• The Diffusion Exhibition, Luz Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada • Medic, JDC Gallery, San Diego, CA • The Finite Passing of Infinite Passion, SCA Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

• Medic, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA • Away We Go, Harwood Arts Center, Albuquerque, NM • UNM Juried Graduate Exhibition, Albuquerque, NM

• The Diffusion Exhibition, Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, NM • Who Is Magdalena, New Orleans, LA • 21st Century Monochrome, Boston, MA

• Losing Love, Denver, CO • Close to the Heart, Laguna Beach, CA • At The Walker, Garnett, KS • Testament, Solo Exhibition, Gallery 76102, Fort Worth, TX • Women’s Works, Woodstock, IL • INSight Women’s Photography Exhibition, Albuquerque, NM • ReGeneration 3, L’Ecole De L’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland • String Along, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA

• 2023 Dec: ‘‘Musée Magazine’’, “Jennifer Thoreson”. • 2020: Installation Magazine, Featured Artist, Los Angeles, CA. • 2020: Infringe Magazine, Featured Portfolio, London, United Kingdom. • 2017: Gente di Fotografia, Jennifer Thoreson, Dissonanza e Proliferazione, Modena, Italy. • 2015: Larry Lytle, “Jennifer Thoreson’s Machines: The Better Angels of Our Nature?”, Black & White Magazine, UK.