Jen Bervin

Jen Bervin is a multidisciplinary artist whose work results from poetic and conceptual investigations of material, and research and collaboration with artists and specialists ranging from material scientists to literary scholars. Her collaborative works activate the intersections of art and scholarship; text and textiles; reading, writing, and listening; as well as those of culture, craft, and technology. Bervin’s work has been exhibited internationally throughout Europe, North America and, Australia. Her publications include ten books and artist books, including the widely taught book Nets (Ugly Duckling Presse) and The Silver Book (UDP), but most recently Silk Poems—a long-form poem presented both as a book (Nightboat Books) and as an implantable biosensor made from liquefied silk developed in collaboration with Tufts University’s Silk Lab. Other books include Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems with Marta Werner (Christine Burgin/New Directions), a Book of the Year selection by The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, and Hyperallergic. Bervin has earned numerous awards, fellowships and grants from SETI Institute (2016–2019), the Foundation for Contemporary Art (2017), and The Rauschenberg Residency (2016).