Jen Brown

Jen Brown was born near Toronto, Canada in 1978. She holds a Master’s Degree in Art History and a Curatorial Diploma from York University in Toronto (class of 2004). She has lived in Japan and Mexico, and currently resides in Portland, OR, where she is very active in the art community hosting a monthly salon, curating independently, lecturing at the People’s Colloquium, and exhibiting her work regularly. She is a self-taught painter; however her education in Art History bears insight into the subject and style of her narrative paintings. Brown was a finalist in the 2018 Art Renewal Center’s annual Salon Competition and is exhibiting with Poets&Artists at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) in 2019. Her work can be found in private collections in the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK, and Australia.

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