• Jen DeLuna (b. 1999) lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. DeLuna is a painter who explores the moments of vulnerability that are confessed through figures and animals.

    She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 2021. She was included in Art in America’s 2025 New Talent selections. Her most recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at Storage Gallery (Manhattan, NY) and Laisun Keane (Boston, MA). She has been included in group exhibitions at The Hole (Los Angeles, CA), Platform, and Storage Gallery at NADA Miami.

    Jen DeLuna explores the moments of intimacy that are confessed through objects and photographs. Her collection of found and family photos creates the basis for her paintings, as she is drawn to moments that capture intimate spaces and close connections. At their core, DeLuna’s paintings draw upon familiar cultural subjects to subvert the gaze. She distorts these classic representations of beauty, femininity, love, and peril to depict them as memories. Some are wistfully fading, some are disembodied from space, while others are stuck in a glossy state of film or porcelain. The paintings distill memory into nostalgia: perilous beauties, cast figurines, and moments that expose vulnerability.

  • 2021 BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2025 2024 Bite of the Bitch, Lai Sun Keane, Boston, MA

    Dust and Sweat and Feigning Grace, Storage Gallery, New York City, NY

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2025 2024 2023 2021 Soft Focus, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

    Storage Gallery at NADA Miami

    Artworks $2,500 and Under, Platform

    Obsessed, Zepster Gallery, New York City, NY

    Forest Bathing, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

    Ghost Dance, IRL Gallery, New York City, NY

    Middle Ground, 81 Leonard Gallery, New York City, NY

    Small Works, Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    TsingHua ICADE 2021, TsingHua University, Beijing, China

    Desynchronized, The Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA,

    AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

    2025 PLOP February Resident, London, England

    2023 Scholarship Artist, Manhattan Graphic Center, New York City, NY

    2021 School of Art Leadership Award, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA