Name

Jennifer Sanzaro-Nishimura

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Active

Active by 2004

Occupations

Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Australia (QLD).

NGA IRN

46660

Context

Australia

Biography

JENNY SANZARO - NISHIMURA (DVA,GCHE, BVA Hons) born 1954, first exhibited 1980, paintings. Jennifer has been a printmaker for over 26 years and has been lecturing in print-media at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University since 2004, Griffith College since 2016 and is also a Flying Art Alliance facilitator. She was president of Impress Printmakers Studio Brisbane from 2008 - 14, facilitating their transition into Kedron Substation 8. Nishimura works across most forms of print media including relief, intaglio, lithography in various forms, monograph, seriograph and digital. She has completed residencies in Manila, Vanuatu, and held solo exhibitions in Hawaii, Manilla, Philadelphia and Australia. As a master printer she has been commissioned to print for Judy Watson, Inkahoots and worked with community groups to facilitate workshops. For her sharing skills and collaboration facilitated understanding between people of all cultures. She is coordinator and curator of international print exchange exhibitions Vie de Pacific a quadrennial print exchange between countries in and around the Pacific. Jennifer exhibits regularly in group and solo shows, her work is held in public and private collections nationally and internationally. She works from her studio Cursing Crows Press and is a founding member of Migaloo Press, a group of women artists who collaborate on projects. [Impress Printmakers, 2019].