Jennifer Bartlett was born in Long Beach California in 1941. In 1963 she received her BA from Mills College in Oakland, California. While studying at Mills College in Oakland she met mixed media sculptor Elizabeth Murray. In 1965 Bartlett received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and Architecture. During this time minimalism was at a high point. Jennifer is considered to be a conceptual artist.
Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints that contain subjects that are considered be me mundane such as houses. They are treated both as realistic and also abstract. In 1981 Jennifer created a 200 foot mural for the Federal Building in Atlanta Georgia. Bartlett has work in many collections such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum, The Tate Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art just to name a few.
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