Jennifer Coates is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY and Lakewood, PA. She is the 2021 recipient of the John Koch Art Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2021 NYFA Award in painting, a 2019 Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and a Sharpe Walentas Studio residency (2018-2019). Recent solo shows include Untitled Art Miami 2022 with High Noon, Miami, FL; Para Pastoral at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Lesser Gods of Lakewood, PA at High Noon, NYC; and Pagan Forest, West Chester University. Recent group shows include Wonderland, curated by Elizabeth Denny and Katie Alice Fitz, Aicon Gallery, New York, NY; And So Did Pleasure Take the Hand of Sorrow and They Wandered Through the Land of Joy, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME; Psychedelic Landscape at Eric Firestone Gallery, NYC, and Post Pop Landscapes at Acquavella Galleries in NYC and Palm Beach, FL, curated by Todd Bradway. Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Art Critical, the Huffington Post, Smithsonian Journeys, and Art News, among other publications.