BIO

Jennifer Panepinto is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work explores the liminal space between memory and imagination, technology and tradition, emotion and abstraction. Born in the 1970s and raised in suburban New Jersey just outside New York City, she grew up immersed in a dynamic blend of cultural influences — from coastal summers in Maine and the energy of SOHO in the 1980s to the underground rave scenes of the 1990s. Her art is a visual diary of a life deeply felt, a kaleidoscope of nostalgia, introspection, and wonder.

Jennifer's creative journey began in childhood, like many, by drawing rainbows. But what may have started as an innocent expression of color and joy evolved into a lifelong practice of visual storytelling. A self-described shy and deeply emotional person, art has always been her most natural form of communication — a way to express what words could not hold. She sees and feels the world intensely, assigning significance to textures, objects, and images that others might overlook. This acute sensitivity is the foundation of her work.

At 16, Jennifer picked up a camera and began to understand the power of image-making to tell stories. This pivotal moment led her to pursue a BFA in Photography at Pratt Institute, where she honed her skills in composition, lighting, and narrative. Later, she earned her MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts, focusing on the role of the designer as author — a philosophy that continues to inform her practice today. Her formal education cemented her interest in merging conceptual thinking with a refined visual aesthetic.

For over two decades, Jennifer worked as a professional graphic designer, contributing to iconic brands such as Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Becton Dickinson, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Toys"R"Us, before launching her own design firm, House 22 LLC, which served clients in the craft beer industry. Throughout her career, she remained deeply connected to the act of making — experimenting with color, composition, and typography, and always finding ways to infuse her commercial work with personal resonance.

Despite always creating art privately, it wasn’t until 2020 that Jennifer began to share her work publicly. The pandemic brought a global pause, and with it, an opportunity for reflection and reconnection. Through NFTs and the emerging Web3 art community, she found a vibrant and supportive ecosystem of creators who encouraged experimentation and authenticity. This digital renaissance unlocked a new phase of Jennifer’s artistic life — one in which her lifelong passion for visual expression could fully bloom.

Since then, she has exhibited her work in 13 countries and become a recognized voice in the Web3 art space, minting and selling works on platforms like SuperRare and Objkt. Her art spans a wide range of mediums — including photography, digital collage, glitch aesthetics, analog textures, painting, and AI-generated visuals — often combining them into layered, emotionally resonant compositions. While her techniques may vary, a few elements remain consistent: saturated color, intricate detail, and an ever-present tension between structure and chaos.

Jennifer’s work is often described as both ethereal and grounded — a juxtaposition of soft, dreamlike imagery with bold, graphic forms. Influenced by 1980s packaging, graffiti, 16th-century Dutch floral painting, outsider art, skate culture, and the generative aesthetics of contemporary digital tools, her pieces evoke a world where memory, mood, and materiality coexist. Rain, rainbows, ivy-covered walls, boats, deer, vintage bicycles, and blue — lots of blue — recur throughout her work like personal myths, symbols from a private yet shared dream.

Her muses are metaphysical: consciousness, the mind, existential inquiry. But her palette is deeply emotional — full of longing, melancholy, awe. She creates to express, to communicate, and sometimes simply to delight. Whether through the meditative repetition of lines, the nostalgic pull of found imagery, or the glitch of a corrupted digital bloom, her work invites viewers into a world where vulnerability is a source of strength and beauty is always laced with imperfection.

Jennifer’s artistic practice is as much about process as it is about product. She is constantly experimenting — not out of restlessness, but out of reverence for the act of discovery. She has recently sold her first physical painting and continues to expand her studio practice to include both traditional and emerging media. While digital tools have opened new frontiers in her work, she remains deeply inspired by the tactile: rocks, paper, ink, ivy, wood, thread, the smell of salt air.

Her current series, Golden Hour (also known by its Latin name Hora Aurea), is a meditative study of light, permanence, and memory through AI-generated variations. Presented as part of a growing body of AI-native work on SuperRare, the collection captures the fleeting calm of twilight — moments suspended between day and night, presence and absence. Through digital brushwork and animation play, these works echo the softness of recollection while honoring the slow burn of time. Like much of Jennifer’s work, the series channels a reverent stillness — a visual exhale — offering viewers a place to pause and reflect.

Today, Jennifer splits her time between New Jersey and the coast of Maine, where the rhythm of the tides and the solitude of the landscape offer endless inspiration. She is married and has one son, whose perspective and presence have also influenced her understanding of time, legacy, and care.

In an art world that often demands fast answers and clean narratives, Jennifer Panepinto offers something quieter, deeper: the opportunity to feel. To notice. To remember. Her work reminds us that within the noise and speed of modern life, there is still room for slowness, texture, complexity — and that the act of creating, like the act of looking, can be a form of healing.