Jenene Nagy | Joshua west Smith

Iris Project Residents: June, 2021

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Jenene Nagy is a visual artist living and working in the Inland Empire. Recent solo venues include PDX CONTEMPORARY ART (Portland), Iris Project (Los Angeles), Art on Paper (NY), University of Wisconsin - Stout, and the Minneapolis College of Art + Design (MCAD). Her work has been recognized with grants and awards from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, the Oregon Arts Commission, Colorado Creative Industries, the Ford Family Foundation, and in 2016 a nomination for the United States Artist Fellowship. Her work is held in several permanent collections including the Portland Art Museum and Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. Reviews of Nagy’s work have appeared in Monopol, the Boston Globe, The Oregonian, and Artscape Magazine.

Along with a rigorous studio practice, Nagy is one half of the curatorial team TILT Export:, an independent art initiative with no fixed location, working in partnership with a variety of venues to produce exhibitions. From 2011-12 she was the first Curator-in-Residence for Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, Oregon.

Joshua West Smith is an artist, furniture maker, and educator who lives in the Inland Empire of Southern California. Smith received his MFA from the University of California Riverside in 2016 and his BFA from the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2008. Before pursuing higher education Smith had a fine job working as a welder, fabricator, and machinist in heavy industry.