JEANNE DUNNING
Jeanne Dunning was born in 1960. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College and her Masters of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her photographic, sculptural and video work explores our relationship to our own physicality, looking at the strange and unfamiliar in the body, gender and notions of normality, and death.
Dunning’s first exhibition was at Feature in Chicago in 1987. In the early 1990s, she created a series of photographs for her "Directions" exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. The work’s intent was to blur the lines of fact and fiction.
The artist’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States and Europe since the late 1980s. It has been included in major group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, and the Venice Biennale. She has had one person shows at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Konstmuseet in Malmö, Sweden and the Berkeley Art Museum and the Wattis Institute.