Jenny Marketou was born in Athens, Greece where she studied English Literature at Kapodestrian University in Athens  before she moved to New York City to study Fine Art and received her MFA at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Since 1993 she is  a New York based artist, cultural initiator and art educator working across different  media and platforms which encourage cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange. In her work Marketou uses close circuit cameras and other surveillace systems of control to create video installations which function in the  Intersection of art and technology of a disquieting mixture of fact and fiction utopian and dystopian. Her involvement in long-term projects and commitment to collaborative working processes, show an awareness of art’s ability to permeate and affect different institutional and social structures. She is the author of the photography  book  The Great Longing:The Greeks of Astoria with an introduction by Duane Michaels.  

 

Marketou has previously taught  at Cooper Union School of Art in New York and currently as a visiting faculty at Media and Photography at the Art Dept at CalArts Valencia in CA .Since 2014 as a member for the Artists Committee (SAC) at College Art Association (CAA) she has curated art programs  at the Media Lounge  during the annual CAA conference in Chicago ,New York and Washington DC. In recent years, she has given talks and lecture-performances  at the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington DC, Circuits and Currents in Athens, Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greek Film Archives, Athens, CAA International Conference in New York , Paul Brach Lecture Series at CalArts in CA ,Goethe Institute in Ankara, Turkey ,Reina Sophia Museum in Madrid ,Spain among other internationl venues

 

Marketou’s work has been widely exhibited  internationally, in solo and group Exhibitions. Marketou represented Greece at the Biennial of Sao Paolo in Brazil and in Manifesta International European Biennial at Withe de With, Rotterdam.  Her solo projects have been commissioned by the 1st International Biennial of Art of Cartagena de Indias ,Colombia, the Greek Film Archives in Athens, MORE Art & High Line Park in NYC , Foundation Claudio Buziol, Venice, Italy ,Goethe Institute, Athens/Berlin, Onassis Cultural Center,Athens, Greece , PRAXIS , Artium Museum of Contemporary Art , Vitoria, Spain  ,Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia  for the European Capital of Culture , Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester,UK among others. Furthermore her videos ,installations  and collaborative projects have been shown in international venues such as Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland, the 4th and 5th Biennial of Athens, Greece, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, the 3rd Biennial of Seville ,Spain, New Museum  of Contemporary Art in New York City , Reina Sofia Museum of Contemporary Art,Madrid, The Queens Museum ,New York, Apex Art,New York ,The National Museum of Contemporary Art  (EMST) Athens,Greece, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas , Strozinna Center for Contemporary Art, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Rose Art Museum, Boston.

 

Marketou has received nominations for several awards most recently she has been the recipient of  OutSet International Fund Award  for her mixed media research project with focus on the topic of  “Assemblies” 2015-2016 which will be presented as part of the 5th Biennial of Athens including the exhibition P.I.G.S which is currently on view at ARTIUM Museum in Vitoria Spain . In 2015 she has been a recipient of the HIAP artist in residence in Helsinki, Finland and before that at  Eyebeam in NYC and Banff in Alberta,Canada. Her art practice and works has been praised in articles and reviews  that have appeared in publications such as Leonardo Electronic Almanac (The MIT Press), Frieze,  Artforum, Avianca en Revista , ART21Magazine, n.Paradoxa, artsy.net, FORA TV. The Art Newspaper, El País and El Mundo.

 

Her artworks, and ideas have been presented in the following publications: Gender, Artwork and the Global Imperative: A Materialist Feminist Critique edited by Angela Dimitrakaki, Manchester University Press,Manchester,UK Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: 40 Essays by 40 working artists, edited by Sharon Louden, Intellect Books, Bristol, UK/Chicago, USA; “SmellBytes: The Smells of My Imagination” On Smell, Performance Research, September 2003, Rutledge; “Jenny Marketou: Taystes.net, Art in Multiplicity”, Dana Altman, Amedeo Publishers, New York, 2008; NeTNeTNeT, Jenny Marketou, “Introduction to Chris.053”, edited by Jason Brown, CalArts, School of Arts, Valencia, California, 2003.