Jennifer Sakai is a fine art photographer, museum curator, and professor who resides in Washington, D.C. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in fine art photography and her BFA in fine art design in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has taught at the Park School of Communication at Ithaca College, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and the Corcoran School of Art and Design. She currently teaches in the MFA program at American University.
Her artistic practice examines the landscape as a reflection of interior moments in life, often separated by years yet unraveling and overlapping to inform new narratives. Her images chronicle how the topographies and spaces we inhabit influence and resonate long after we pass through them, and how one can be mesmerized by a place even in its absence.
Ms. Sakai is on the Board of Directors for the Transformer Gallery in Washington, D.C. She has served on committees for the IMF/World Bank Photographic Society, juried for ExposedDC and the VCU School of Art thesis program, received distinction from FotoWeek DC in the Fine Art Photography category, and is the winner of the 16th Annual Exposed DC Photographic Contest 2022. Ms. Sakai’s curation of "Vertiginous Matter" at the Katzen Museum was listed as number five in the top eight museum shows for 2022 by CityPaper in Washington, D.C. She has presented numerous curatorial and professional lectures.
Jennifer is a selected artist for the Bonfire Air Artist Residency. Jennifer is a multiple recipient of a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Grant for her photographic practice.
