Jane Jerardi is a time-based artist, who creates choreographies, performances, videos, installations, and audience encounters. She has created projects for a range of contexts –- from theaters and galleries to record store listening booths, public subway escalators, and projected videos –- in work that moves fluidly between media.
A frequent collaborator, she has been fortunate to work with performers Hee Ran Lee, Ginger Wagg, Elise Cowin, Nora Sharp, Brian Buck, Keisha Janae, Precious Jennings, Chih-Hsien Lin; musicians Mitsu Salmon, Amy Farina (of The Evens), Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud), and Lucas Zarwell; and visual artists Michael Wichita and Agata Olek, among many others, on her projects.
Her work has been presented by spaces such as the Joyce Soho, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, the LUMEN Festival (in New York); Links Hall, 6018North, Sector 2337, and defibrillator performance gallery (Chicago); at Transformer, The Warehouse, Dance Place, and the Kennedy Center (in DC), among others.
photograph by: Matthew Gregory Hollis.
A recipient of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities' Artist Fellowship and a three-time recipient of its Young Emerging Artist award, she has also received support through its New Media grant program. Her work has been commissioned by the Creative Communities Fund and the Washington Performing Arts Society and supported through creative residencies at Links Hall and Sector 2337. In 2019, she received a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist award.
She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Performance and a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she studied choreography, art history, and literature. She is currently on faculty and staff at the Dance Center at Columbia College, Chicago.