Jennifer Bastian uses fibers, sculptural and photographic processes to make objects related to the labor of parenting, grieving, and making community.
Bastian received her BFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was a finalist for the Women’s Forward Fund Forward Art Prize in 2022, and her 2021 work "I have missed you (Community Care is the Intimacy I Need)" was included in the 2022 Wisconsin Biennial at the Museum of Wisconsin Art and given an Award of Merit from Wisconsin Visual Artists. Bastian is the Thurber Park Artist in Residence in Madison for 2024-2026.