Jeremy Dennis

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Jeremy Dennis
Born1990
Southampton, New York
EducationStonybrook University
Known forlarge scale staged photography
Notable workOn This Site – Indigenous Long Island
Website www.jeremynative.com

Jeremy Dennis (born 1990) is a Shinnecock photographer who creates large-scale staged photographs that deal with conflicts and situations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals. He is an enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, New York.

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Education

Dennis received a BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. [1]

Work

Dennis considers his work as an exploration of "indigenous identity, cultural assimilation, and the ancestral traditional practices of my tribe, the Shinnecock Indian Nation." His process involves staging theatrical scenarios that portray the legacy of colonialism in the United States, focusing on the repressed guilt "among White settlers and their descendants." [2]

Dennis has exhibited his work at the Parrish Art Museum, [3] the Hudson River Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, among others. [4]

A profile on the artist and his work in The New Yorker described his photographic series, On This Site–Indigenous Long Island, which depicts locations where "notorious historic incidents" took place as "quiet explorations of America’s intrinsic violence." [5]

In 2021, Dennis founded Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, an artist-in-residence retreat and education center, on the Shinnecock Nation tribal lands in a house that belonged to his grandmother, Loretta A. Silva. [6]

Awards

In 2016 Dennis received a Dreamstarter grant from Running Strong for American Indian Youth to create his photographic project, On This Site – Indigenous Long Island. [7] [8] This was followed by a $50,000 Dreamstarter GOLD grant in 2020, [8] and a fellowship from Art Matters Foundation. [9] [1]

Collections

Dennis' work is held in the permanent collections of the Montclair Art Museum, [10] the Amon Carter Museum of Art, [11] the Parrish Art Museum, [12] among others.

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References

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  2. Bury, Louis. "Jeremy Dennis Makes a Farce of White Guilt". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
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  4. "Behind the lens: Jeremy Dennis on Nothing Happened Here". Amon Carter Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  5. Sullivan, Robert (17 February 2023). "A Landscape Schared by Native Americans and the One Percent". The New Yorker. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  6. Lasky, Julie (12 May 2022). "Ma's House: An Artist Fulfills His Grandmother's Dying Wish". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  7. "Parrish Road Show: Jeremy Dennis - Stories–Dreams, Myths and Experiences". Parish Art Museum. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  8. 1 2 "Running Strong Dreamstarter Jeremy Dennis Featured in Penn State's 'Movers, Shakers'". Running Strong for American Indian Youth. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  9. "Jeremy Dennis 2022 Artist2Artist Fellowship". Art Matters. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  10. "New Acquisitions: Jeremy Dennis". Montclair Art Museum. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  11. "Jeremy Dennis, 1990, Shennecock". Amon Carter Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  12. "Jeremy Dennis". Parrish Art Museum. Retrieved 25 November 2023.