| 1993 | Brown University, Providence, RI, B.A. cum laude, phi beta kappa, Literature and Society |
| 1998 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, M.F.A. Film Department |
| 1998-1999 | Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY, 1998-99 |
| Currently | Lives and works in New York, NY |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2017 | The Long Sleepers, Simon Preston Gallery, New York |
| 2015 | Open Sentence, Baruch College, New York |
| 2014 | One Hundred Sinkholes, Simon Preston Gallery, New York |
| 2013 | The Same Moon Everywhere, Galerija P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia The Same Moon Everywhere, Galerie M+R Fricke Berlin |
| 2012 | Funes, Simon Preston Gallery, NY |
| 2011 | Leads, Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin The Perlin Papers, Quadrennial, Rijeka, Croatia The Object of Society Is, Bard College, CCS, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
| 2010 | Mimeograph, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden |
| 2009 | Different Intonations, Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin, Germany |
| 2008 | Sequence, Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York |
| 2006-7 | Transcript, The Kitchen, New York |
| 2006 | Transcript, Galerie M+R Fricke, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2005 | Possible Models, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS Sight Reading, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sight Reading, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Schumann Tree, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 2004 | A worry-free life or your money back, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, IL |
| 2002 | Art Statements, Annet Gelink Gallery, Art Miami/Basel, Miami, FL White Noise, Annet Gelink Gallery, the Bakery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Perseverance, Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA |
| 2019 | Nature as Measure, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China |
| 2018 | Becoming American, San Juan Islands National Historical Park, WA not long ago, in another life, CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Manifesto, Pitzer College Art galleries, Claremont, CA Reconstitution, LAXART, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2017 | More than Just Words, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria |
| 2016 | Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY |
| 2015 | Sinkhole and Rubble Mountain, Magdeburg Museum, Germany Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia Forum Expanded, Berlin Film Festival, Germany Wunderkammer, Pitzer College Galleries, Los Angeles |
| 2012-15 | Independent Curators International Touring Program |
| 2014 | The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, New York The Silent Way, Simon Preston Gallery, New York Covert Operations, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona |
| 2013 | Kool-Aid Wino, Franklin Street Works, Hartford, CT Jenny Perlin/Steve Roden, Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio |
| 2012 | Agency of Unrealized Projects, daadgalerie, Berlin Drawing Stories, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany |
| 2011 | Jewish Museum of Brussels, Belgium Guggenheim Museum, New York An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Cabinet/Mass MoCA, Brooklyn/North Adams, MA |
| 2010 | Everyday Ideologies, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany Substitute Teacher, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA Bringing Up Knowledge, MUSAC, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2009 | This-Has-Been, On Stellar Rays Gallery, New York, NY PNCA, Portland, OR Soft Manipulation, 3,14 space, Bergen, Norway |
| 2008 | Soft Manipulation, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg Farewell to Postcolonialism, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art Drawing on Film, The Drawing Center, NY & Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 3 Visions: Jenny Perlin/Peter Sarkisian/Hiraki Sawa, Knoxville Museum, Tennessee Videoform/Filmform, Hamburg, Germany (awarded First Prize) |
| 2007 | The Long-Distance Runner, Den Frie Udstillningsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark How Soon is Now? Luis Seoane Foundation, La Coruna, Spain Off the record. Re-viewing side effects of cultural memory, CCA, San Francisco, CA News from Abroad, Murray Guy, New York Negatec, Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina (curated by Luis Camnitzer) |
| 2006 | Animation Biennial, Centre Pour l’Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland The Golden Hour, Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY Alrededor de todos juntos, una entre tantas, ProjecteSD Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Forum Expanded, Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany Beautiful Stranger, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia When Artists Say ‘WE’, Artists Space, New York, NY The Only Book, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Carrie Mae Weems, Carolee Schneemann, Jenny Perlin, Jack Tilton Gallery, NY Drawing the Line, M+R Fricke Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany Post-Everything, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Emisiones la Culpable, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela/Buenos Aires, Argentina Imaginary is Potential, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Log Cabin, Artists Space, New York, NY Strangely Familiar, AR/GE Kunst Museum, Bolzano, Italy Between You and Me, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX Imaginary is Potential, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark |
| 2004 | A Perfect Union...more or less, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL The Book as Object and Performance, Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY Minority Report/Alien4, Aarhus, Denmar Aldrich at the Movies, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT All the Numbers I Know, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York, NY Video Rental, Eflux, New York, NY Retrospective, Galerie Piano Nobile, Geneva, Switzerland Tribute to the messenger, PR 04, San Juan/Rincon, Puerto Rico Alien5, FLACC, Gent, Belgium Quicksand, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Initial Encounters, Drawing Center/Arts Center of Capital Region, NY |
| 2003 | Someone To Share My Life With, The Approach Gallery, London, UK Animations, KunstWerke, Berlin, Germany 24/7, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania Identité en Deplacement/The Displaced Identity, Grenoble, France Trannie: Rhetorics of Identity in Transition, White Box Annex, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Alien2, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA Open Studios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency, Brooklyn, NY The Research Room, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Germany View from Elsewhere, Le jardin de la violence, Expo 02, Morat, Switzerland 25th Anniversary, Drawing Center, New York, NY |
| 2001 | Animations, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY 12 Views, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Pedigree Pal, Shedhalle, Zurich Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY 24x24, Exedra Center for Contemporary Art, Hilversum, The Netherlands Minimal Provocation, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2000 | Open Studios, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, NY Once Removed, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA Carnival in the Eye of the Storm, PNCA, Portland, OR |
| 1999 | Wight Biennial, UCLA New Wight Galleries, Los Angeles, CA Arrested Ambition, Apex Art, New York, NY Open Studios, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY |
| Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland |
| DeBruin Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Dommering Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Five College Film Collection, Amherst, Massachusetts |
| Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
| Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg |
| Oberlin College, Ohio |
| Seattle Art Museum, Washington |
| Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. |
| University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Wellesley College, Massachusetts |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Additional private collections in the U.S., Spain, Germany, and The Netherlands |