Jenny Rosen is a Bay Area ceramic artist whose practice is grounded in questions of justice and the interplay of individual and collective memory. Her work preserves fragments of time—materially and metaphorically—to serve as both reflections of meaning and expressions of unheard voices. She transforms personal experience into forms that speak to shared, perhaps uncomfortable, human realities. Text plays a central role in her work, appearing through imprinting, screen printing, or decals and approached with attentiveness to its aesthetic qualities and awareness of its power. 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), the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona), the Bedford Gallery, the Pence Gallery, Arc Gallery, 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

2025-2026

• Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA (June 27–November 29, 2026)

• Word Play, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA (November 15 - January 10)

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

• Sausalito Center for the Arts Open, Sausalito Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

• Pint Size 3, Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA

• Beyond Color: The Language of Black and White, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

• 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)