JEN COLLINS
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1974
Tufts University, BA, Theater, 1995
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1993-1995
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Selected Projects
2006
Many, Many Guys and Girls, All Real Beauties. Photography curated by Julian Hoeber, Circus of Books, West Hollywood, California
2005
Untitled Play, about Gravity by Krysten Cunningham, offsite production, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
At 7pm, if you know the words, sing along. Performance work by Corrina Peipon
for Celine and Julie Go Boating at Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Pirate Project, performance/installation by Paul McCarthy
Talkers Are No Good Doers, d. Julian Hoeber
2004
Beautiful
“Dear Jen”, Bad Sex, curated by Lydia Eccles, Oni Gallery, Boston, Mass.
2003
WGG (Wild Gone Girls), video by Paul McCarthy
Piccadilly Circus, performance/exhibition by Paul McCarthy
Bunker Basement, performance/video by Paul McCarthy
2002
Back & Forth, d. Julian Hoeber
“Kitty Meets the Furries”, Hans: Interspecies Love, curated by Tom Cole, Oni Gallery, Boston, Mass.
2001
Killing Friends, d. Julian Hoeber
1999
Drip, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Mass.
Headhunters, Theater in the Ground at Septic Space, Provincetown, Mass.
1998
Jaundice, The Revolving Museum, Boston, Mass.
Céline, The Revolving Museum, Boston, Mass.
1997
Kaiju Big Battel, performance group (1997 - 1998)
Whorehouse Crackhouse, The Revolving Museum, Boston, Mass.
1996
Personnel Office, The Revolving Museum, Boston, Mass.
Published Writing
2006
LAist, Synchronicity with “The Shield”
LAist, EZ Lube Still Sucks
2002
Kitty Meets the Furries, self-published book
2001
Taking It on the Chin, web diary (ongoing)
Fishwrap, “Marathon Fluid Diary”
Hermenaut, “Forever Yum”
2000
Hermenaut, “Buffalo Wings of Desire”
Selected Bibliography
2005
Boing Boing, “Looking at Los Angeles: launch at Hermès, Beverly Hills”
2004
Boing Boing, “Online surreal/comic short film: Beautiful”
Boing Boing, “Blogging death”
Fleshbot, “Accidental Bukkake Gallery”
2003
Metafilter, “One Saturday Night in Furbank” discussion
2002
The Boston Globe, “Donuts in Diaryland”
