'Untitled - Amtrak Waiting Room', Reno, NV is part of my 'Imag[in]ing America' project that depicts a series of locations in the United States as a residue of cultural memory and inheritance. It is a metaphorical memoir, a narrative re-telling of facts and fictions and a discovery of the dreamland that still is America.
Jennifer Garza-Cuen is a photographer from the Pacific Northwest. Currently Assistant Professor of Photography in the Department of Art+Design at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, she received her MFA in photography and MA in the History of Art and Visual Culture with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. Her BA summa cum laude in comparative literature was completed at the American University in Cairo. Garza-Cuen is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Awards John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2019
Critical Mass top 50, Photo Lucida, Portland, OR 2018 and 2019
First Prize, Texas National 2019, SFA University, Nacogdoches, TX
Fresh 2019, Honorable Mention, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Best in Show - Maxwell Mays Award, America, Now, Juror Dr. Elliot Bostwick Davis of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Providence, RI 2018
Juror's Choice Award, April M. Watson, Curator of Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Filter Photo, Chicago, IL 2018
All About Photo Awards 2018, Jury’s Merit Gallery, Miami, FL
PDN's 30 2018: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, New York, NY
2nd Place Winner, Photogrvphy Grant 2017, London, UNITED KINGDOM
National Photography Award 2017, Finalist, Texas Photographic Society, Houston, TX
2nd Prize Award, 7th Annual Juried Show, Gallery 110, Juror Maiza Hixson, Seattle, WA
Robert Rauschenberg Residency Award, Photo Lucida, Portland, OR 2016
