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Jennifer Wynne Reeves

American painter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ20880390 ↗
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Jennifer Wynne Reeves (born 1963 in Royal Oak, Michigan – died June 22, 2014) was an American painter. She studied at the Vermont Studio School between 1984 and 1985. Her work was the subject of solo shows at the Max Protech (2001), Gorney, Bravin, and Lee (2000 in the Project Room), LittleJohn and Ramis Barquet Galleries, among other venues. She was a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. in 2008 the Worcester Art Museum held a solo exhibition of selections from the previous three years of her work.

her work is included in the collection of the Seattle Art Museum.

Reeves died from a brain tumor on June 22, 2014, at the age of 51.

In 2019, the Drawing Center exhibited her work in Jennifer Wynne Reeves: All Right for Now.

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Most recent exhibit 10/11/18 through 2/2019 at the Drawing Center, New York, New York.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jennifer Wynne Reeves” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.