USA Projects

Jen Urso creates performance, video and drawings that explore endurance, persistence, change, and ignored or forgotten moments and places. Jen Urso is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient and has exhibited in Arizona, New York, Colorado, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro. Jen received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has attended artist residencies in Virginia and Wisconsin.

After spending years in the humidity and greenery of Reading, Lansdale, and Pittsburgh, PA, Jen shifted locations to the desert of Phoenix, AZ. Here, she spends a lot of time searching for and documenting the numerous vacant lots of the city's downtown and stealing cactus from the now defunct Amtrak station. She often reflects on the perceived emptiness of the desert in her work as an example of how complexity and density can be anywhere.