Jennifer Reeder, 1971
Writers · January 1, 1971
Jennifer Reeder
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Jennifer Reeder is 55 years old, born January 1, 1971 in United States · Capricorn.
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About
Jennifer Reeder makes experimental films about adolescent girls and lower-income white culture in America. Born in Ohio in 1971, she gained early notice through performance and video work as the fictional character "White Trash Girl," exploring identity and socioeconomic perception. Her short film A Million Miles Away screened at Sundance and earned a Tiger Award nomination at Rotterdam. A Capricorn born in 1971, Reeder now teaches moving image at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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Biography
Jennifer Reeder is an American artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter born in Ohio in 1971. Her early career centered on performance and video work under the persona "White Trash Girl," through which she explored lower-income white culture and identity in the United States. Her short film A Million Miles Away, released in 2014, was nominated for a Tiger Award for Short Films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Reeder has received significant institutional support: a Rockefeller Grant for New Media in 2002, a Creative Capital grant in 2015 for her first experimental feature-length film Knives and Skin, a 2018–19 SFFILM Rainin Grant for scriptwriting, and a 2021 United States Artists Fellowship. Her work has shown at major venues including the Whitney Biennial, the 48th International Venice Biennial, the Criterion Channel, and the Whitney Video Festival. Her recent films explore how adolescent girls use music, slang, and fashion to express identity and emotional experience. Reeder holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1996) and currently teaches as Associate Professor of Moving Image in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She founded Tracers Book Club, a social justice group focused on feminist issues. As a screenwriter born under Capricorn, Reeder carries a life-path number of 2, often associated with collaboration and balance—fitting for her roles in academia and community organizing.
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Before Fame
Reeder received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Early in her career, she conducted a solo screening at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2003, establishing herself in the international art and film circuit. Her foundational work as "White Trash Girl" emerged during this period, a performance and video-based practice that would define her early reputation and thematic interests.
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Trivia
- Reeder was interviewed by Northwestern University professor and writer Laura Kipnis for the anthology White Trash: Race and Class in America, discussing her artistic exploration of lower-income white identity.
- Her films have screened at the Whitney Biennial and the 48th International Venice Biennial, among other major international art and film venues.
- She founded Tracers Book Club, a social justice organization focused on feminist issues.
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Numerology
LIFE-PATH NUMBER
The Diplomat
Cooperative and intuitive. Jennifer Reeder read rooms quickly and often build careers around partnerships, mediation, or paired creative work.
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