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 evocative forms, 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 received a BA from UC Berkeley, an MA from UCLA, and a BFA from the California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Craft in America Center in Los Angeles, the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, the Oakland Museum of California, and the American Craft Council show in San Francisco. Her work has also been featured in Handful of Salt, a Bay Area design magazine focused on the craft of modern design, and on the KCRW Design & Architecture blog out of Los Angeles.

EXHIBITIONS

2024-2025

• Slice: A Juried Exhibit of Regional Art, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA (July 11 - August 17, 2025)

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

• 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

• 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

2023-2021

• 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

2017–2016

• 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

2015–2011

• 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)