Jen Hitchings
Artist Profile
Jen Hitchings (b. 1988, New Jersey, USA). Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Jen Hitchings paints imagined landscapes of mountains, waterfalls, rivers, suns and moons, organised around natural and bodily cycles: lunar, solar, seasonal, menstrual and botanical. Working mainly in oil, sometimes with acrylic, on canvas and panel, she draws on Japanese ukiyo-e prints, the Hudson River School and spiritualist imagery.
Her palettes are vivid and often close to monochrome, each keyed to a time of day, a temperature or a season. She applies paint by hand without tape or tools, staining it thinly, wiping it back or building it into contoured ridges of impasto. Compositions rely on symmetry, mirroring and repetition: twin suns, doubled peaks, and waterfalls falling in regular bands. No people appear. Some scenes are invented, while others are based on places of personal significance, from the American northeast where she grew up to the drought-affected valleys of southern California. Works range from small panels of 28 x 35.5 cm to canvases such as Mount Menses with Mourning Glories (2021), at 152.5 x 122 cm. She also makes watercolours and large outdoor murals.
Hitchings received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Purchase College, State University of New York, in 2011. Her solo exhibitions include Cycles at Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2023), Seven Suns at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2023), and Lunacy at Gaa Gallery, New York (2024). She has completed residencies at Studio Kura in Japan, the Vermont Studio Center and DNA in Provincetown, and received a New Works Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts in 2018. Between 2013 and 2020 she co-directed the Brooklyn galleries Associated and Transmitter.
Her work is held in the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, the Morgan Stanley Collection and the Intuit Corporate Collection.
Selected Exhibitions & CV
Education
Certificate in Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA (2018)
Art as a Global Business, Sotheby’s Institute of Art (2015)
BFA Painting and Drawing, Purchase College, State University of New York, USA (2011)
Dingle Summer Art, Dingle, Ireland (2010)
Awards
New Works Grant, Queens Council on the Arts, New York, USA (2018)
Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, USA (2013)
Best in Show, SUNY-Wide Art Competition, New York State Museum, Albany, USA (2011)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Lunacy, Gaa Gallery, New York, USA (2024)
Seven Suns, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA (2023)
Cycles, Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2023)
Deep Life in Heat, Taymour Grahne Projects, online (2022)
Double Vision, One River School, Englewood, USA (2019)
Cry Me a River, MEN Gallery, New York, USA (2018)
Fork in the Road, PROTO Gallery, Hoboken, USA (2018)
Ctrl+alt+reality, Ideal Glass, New York, USA (2017)
Exposed Roots, Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan (2014)
Not Everyday, Sunset Surf Club (now OUTLET Fine Art), Brooklyn, USA (2012)
Two-Person Exhibitions
The Production of Place, with Leah Beeferman, Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, USA (2020)
Selected Group Exhibitions
Desert Island, Good Naked at Don’t Look Projects Annex, Los Angeles, USA (2026)
99¢, organised by Deitch Projects and The Hole, Los Angeles, USA (2025)
The Volcano Lover, GALERIST, Istanbul, Turkey (2025)
Enchanted Lands, with Amy Lincoln and Anna Ortiz, Johansson Projects, Oakland, USA (2024)
I look at the moon like a fellow traveler, Lamb Gallery, London (2024)
Rising Tide, Anat Ebgi and Chen Projects, Louisa Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan (2023)
If you forget my name, you will go astray, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA (2022)
Lugar, Ana Mas Projects, Barcelona, Spain (2021)
Art Fairs
Future Fair, Exhibition A, New York, USA (2026)
SF Art Fair, Goodmother Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2025)
Dallas Art Fair, Anat Ebgi, Dallas, USA (2023)
Felix Art Fair, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA (2023)
Commissions
Two outdoor murals, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, USA (2021)
Ctrl+alt+reality, outdoor mural, Ideal Glass, New York, USA (2017)
Residencies
Colstoun Arts, East Lothian, Scotland (2024)
Adventure Painting, Livingston and Yellowstone National Park, USA (2023)
DNA Residency, Provincetown, USA (2021)
Highly Authorized, Ellenville, USA (2017, 2019)
Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan (2014)
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, USA (2013)
Selected Collections
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection
Morgan Stanley Collection
Intuit Corporate Collection, New York, USA
Colstoun Arts, Scotland