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About Jen Bishop

I am a multidisciplinary artist based in Texas, working in printmaking, painting, and mixed media. I am drawn to processes that carry structure, memory, and myth - a means to explore presence, transformation, and quiet tensions.

I began drawing early, inspired by watching my dad bring ideas to life on paper and encouraged by countless library trips with my mom. I went on to study architecture at Pratt Institute in New York City, where structure, space, and process shaped a visual language I have never been able to set down. It lives in everything I make - from hand-carved reliefs to digital interfaces, where I spend my professional life as a user experience designer shaping how people move through information. Structure and flow are not just formal concerns for me - they are how I think.

Growing up mixed Japanese in the south, I have always lived between stories, memories, and myths that don't always translate cleanly across cultures or borders. My work questions where form and function exist in undefined space, working through layered texture and quiet symbolism to get at something closer to truth.

I began exhibiting, receiving commissions, and building an international freelance illustration and design practice - a thread I carry alongside my studio work today.

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Exhibitions & Press

Mar 2026

Birding Man, ArtUs Co Gallery
Austin, TX

Nov 2025

Open Print Exchange: Jackal Art Space
Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK

Oct 2025

Open Print Exchange 2025 - published

May 2025

75 Years of Flavor: Whataburger Museum of Art
Popup at SXSW, Austin, TX

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Education

2002 - 2007

Pratt Institute, New York, NY

Bachelors, of Architecture

2000 - 2001

Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX

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