Jen DeNike is an artist and director whose practice consistently examines the embedded corporeality of gender as a platform of intervention and how the absence or presence of legibility contributes to the construction of female empowerment as a metaphysical, theoretical, and visual site for advocacy.

Her new short film Prelude will premiere at international film festival MoMA Doc Fortnight 2025. DeNike will begin shooting on location later this year for her first feature length non-fiction film entitled Weightless Memory an exploration into the gender politics of women in the space industry.

DeNike’s work has been exhibited internationally at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; The Brooklyn Museum; MoMA PS1; The Bronx Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Participant Inc, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Deichtorhallen, Tensta Konsthall, 54th Venice Biennale, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; MOCA Toronto; MACRO ROMA; Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart; Red Line Contemporary Art Center, CCS Bard Museum, MEF Museo Ettore Fico, Schauspiel Köln Opera House; Art Basel Miami Art Public; Art Basel Miami Film Sector; and Wallis Annenberg Center For the Performing Arts, Los Angeles. She is currently a DPhil (PhD) researcher at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford funded by an Oxford Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award and St John’s Scholarship. She holds an MFA from Bard College, where she also completed an additional two year Master Class with Stephen Shore. Her work is held in the permanent collections of; The Museum of Modern Art, Julia Stoschek Foundation, ICA Miami, The Bunker West Palm Beach, and Birmingham Art Museum.