Jen Blazina resides and has a studio in Philadelphia where she is a working artist exhibiting with solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.

In 2008, she will have two upcoming solo exhibitions: Radford University, Radford, VA and Gallery Imperato of Baltimore, MD. Jen has recently been awarded two residencies in 2008 at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant to attend a fellowship at The Women’s Studio Workshop.

In 2007, Blazina will have multiple solo exhibitions: Kunstoffice in Berlin, Germany; Project Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; Washington Square Windows, New York University in New York City, NY; Bridge International during Art Chicago, Chicago, IL and Glass Weekend at Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ, represented by Marx Saunders Gallery of Chicago. She has also been included in a two person exhibition entitled, “Historia, Jen Blazina and Michael Markwick, “ at Pictura in Dordrecht, Netherlands.

She has been awarded numerous residencies including: Women’s Studio Workshop in New York, in 2006; Scuola di Grafica in Venice, Italy; Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, in 2005 and 2007; The Creative Glass Center of America’s Residency Fellowship for 2003 in New Jersey; Millay Colony for the Arts in New York. She has also been awarded numerous grants including the Leeway Foundation Grant, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Independence Foundation Grant.