Jennifer Cross

Jennifer Cross is an artist who lives and works in East Hampton, New York. A native of the Midwest, she earned a BFA degree from the University of Minnesota, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. Following graduation, she traveled extensively in Mexico and Central America and later moved to New York to pursue a MFA degree in Painting from Pratt Institute. She is the recipient of a number of awards including a Ford Foundation Grant, a Jerome Foundation Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Painting. 

Jennifer began exhibiting her work in Soho and the East Village in the 1980s before relocating to East Hampton. Over the years, she has shown her work in numerous galleries and museums in New York City and on the East End of Long Island, including in group exhibitions at the Tripoli Gallery, the Sara Nightingale Gallery. the Leiber Collection, and the Southampton Art Center. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery in New York City, and at Peter Marcelle Projects, MM Fine Arts, and the Art Center at Duck Creek in the Hamptons.  

Over the years Jennifer worked as a curator and art educator.  From 1985-1990, she was the Director of the non-profit East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art where she organized over 30 exhibitions. Her teaching career includes positions at the University of Minnesota, the Southampton campus of Long Island University, the Ross School in East Hampton where she served as Dean of Visual Art and most recently as an art instructor at the Victor D'Amico Institute of Art.

Her work is represented in the collection of Guild Hall Museum, the Islip Museum of Art and many private collections.