Jenny Rosen is a Bay Area ceramic artist whose work is grounded in justice, exploring the interplay of individual and collective memory. Often rooted in mold-making and casting techniques, her practice captures moments metaphorically and physically — preserving fragments of time to create works that serve as both reflections of meaning and expressions of unheard voices. Whether casting or hand-building, she seeks to capture and transform personal experience into one that is less particular and speaks to a shared, perhaps uncomfortable, human experience. At the intersection of memory, emotion, beauty, and justice, her work reveals personal truths and invites broader conversation.

Jenny holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MA from UCLA, and a BFA from California College of the Arts. Her work has been shown at the Craft in America Center (Los Angeles), American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona), Bedford Gallery, Pence Gallery, Oakland Museum of California, and the American Craft Council show (San Francisco). Features include Handful of Salt, a Bay Area design magazine, and the KCRW Design & Architecture blog (Los Angeles).

EXHIBITIONS

2025

• Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA (October 25 - December 21)

• Pint Size 3, Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA (September 18 - November 11)

• Beyond Color: The Language of Black and White, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA (July 12 – September 15)

• Slice: A Juried Exhibit of Regional Art, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA

• People in Places Doing Things: How Artists Examine Culture, Art Gallery at the Orinda Library, Orinda, CA

• Off Center 2025, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA

• Crocker Kingsley Exhibition 2025, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA

2021-2024

• Spell It Out: A Juried Exploration of Art and Language, Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA

• Politically Charged, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA

• The End Times, The Starving Artist (Virtual)

• Stories We Tell, Art Gallery at the Orinda Library, Orinda, CA

• 78th Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (collaboration with Nancy Selvin)

• Sh1ft, Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, CA

• That’s Effin Funny, Shoebox Projects (Virtual; Third Place), Los Angeles, CA

2016–2020

• Commencement Exhibition, CCA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

• Sad, Quiet, and Loaded, BFA Exhibition, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA

• Lineage: Mentorship & Learning, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA

• Ceramics | Heart | Books, Meyer Library, CCA, Oakland, CA

• CA CCA Made, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

• California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA

• Socks and Rocks, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA

2011–2015

• Seeing Red (Solo), Icebox, Treadwell, CCA, Oakland, CA

• Rock, Silica, Soapbox, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA

• American Craft Council Show, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA (multiple years)

• Crafting the Cocktail, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA

• All the Small Things, The Rockridge Library, Group Show, Oakland, CA

• Slipping Away (Solo), Icebox, Treadwell, CCA, Oakland, CA

• CCA Ceramics Guild Shows, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA

• California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA (multiple years)