JenNIFER Wilkinson
Jennifer Wilkinson is a Portland-based artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramic sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute.
She currently works full-time as the lead Marketing Manager for Portland Garment Factory (PGF), an award-winning fabrication studio and creative factory, and its sister company, Oregon Natural Fiber Mill.
Part sanctuary part discovery lab her studio has allowed her to develop a unique blend of mediums and techniques including polymer clay, ceramics, carved foam, glass, paint, resin and found objects to create intricately patterned and kaleidoscopically colored lighting, sculptural homewares, paintings, wearables, and installations.
Inspired by the infinite layers of life’s complexity, her work is a celebration of biology, evolution, the microscopic, and the vast imperceptible universe honoring and examining our strange predicament within it.
While her process is largely analog, her aesthetic captures both the slick, high-chroma feel of the digital world and the blooming, tactile fluidity of organic life.
In 2023, Wilkinson held her first solo exhibition, Depo(t)asis, at Fisk Gallery in Portland, OR. Her work was also featured in Supergroup (2020), the inaugural group show from Superhouse, a New York-based art gallery focusing on contemporary and historical design. In 2024 and 2025, she contributed to the burgeoning underground music festival, Osmosis in the Trees, where she created their stage signs, festival way-finding, custom glow-in-the-dark orb stage lighting, and installed an immersive dewy crystal spider web canopy at the festivals down-tempo ‘Mizaji’ lounge.
Jennifer in the studio
Photographed by James Fink for her solo show Depo(t)asis at Fisk Gallery.
(2023)
Lamp feature in issue 16 of Broccoli Magazine
Nov. 2022
