Jennifer Pazienza

Award winning painter, educator and art advocate, Jennifer Pazienza, born into an Italian American New Jersey family, began making art in her mother’s garden. The last 30+ years has seen her painting from her Keswick Ridge, NB studio. Retired University of New Brunswick art education professor, Pazienza holds a Bachelor’s degree from William Paterson University, New Jersey (1976). Her MEd (1985) and PhD in art education from the Pennsylvania State University (1989) are accompanied by minors in painting having studied with American landscape painter Richard Mayhew. Mayhew encouraged her to let the wisdom of the natural world guide her practice. While continually redefining the parameters of landscape art.

Jennifer has approached painting this way ever since.  

With over 40 solo and groups shows to her credit in Canada, the US and Italy, Jennifer was one of nine Canadian artists chosen by Curator Francesca Valente for the juried 2023, Luciano Benetton Imago Mundi permanent exhibition, Art Theorema #3, of which there were 200 works by 170 international artists.

Jennifer’s paintings reside in permanent, public and private collections in Canada, the US and Europe including, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB, McCain Corporation, Florenceville, NB, White Plains Hospital, White Plains, NY, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, and Misterbianco, Sicily. Jennifer Pazienza is represented by Gallery 78, Fredericton, NB, Galerie 12, Moncton, NB and Alex Ferrone Gallery, Long Island, NY.