Jennifer Reeder (born 1971, Ohio) is an American artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Her short filmA Million Miles Away (2014) was nominated for a Tiger Award for Short Films at theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam[1] and screened at the 2015Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Short Narrative Films category.[2][3] In 2003, she had a solo screening atModerna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.[4] She received a Rockefeller Grant for New Media in 2002 and aCreative Capital grant in 2015 to support the production of her first experimental feature-length film,Knives and Skin.[5][6] She won a 2018–19 SFFILM Rainin Grant for scriptwriting, and was the 2019 recipient of the Alpert Film Award residency at the MacDowell Colony.[7] In 2021, she was awarded aUnited States Artists (USA) Fellowship.[8]
Reeder attracted notice early in her career for her performance and video work as "White Trash Girl," a fictional identity through which the artist explored lower-income white culture in the United States.[9] Interviewed by writer and Northwestern University professorLaura Kipnis for the anthologyWhite Trash: Race and Class in America, Reeder said that white trash "describes a certain esthetic, but I think it's also a socioeconomic situation, and a way of perceiving the world around you and your own place in the world."[10] Her more recent films explore the lives of adolescent girls and their use of music, slang, and fashion to express their identities and aspects of their emotional world.[11][12]
Reeder currently teaches in the School of Art and Art History at theUniversity of Illinois, Chicago and holds the position of Associate Professor Moving Image.[15][16] She is the founder of the social justice group Tracers Book Club, which focuses on feminist issues.[17] Reeder received an MFA fromThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and was represented by the Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.[18]
^Kipnis, Laura (1997). "White Trash Girl: The Interview". In Wray, Matt; Newitz, Annalee (eds.).White Trash: Race and Class in America. New York: Routledge. pp. 113–30.ISBN0415916917.
^"Jennifer K Reeder".School of Art & Art History. University of Illinois at Chicago.Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved9 March 2015.
