Jennifer Mao is an artist based in NYC.  Her practice spans across weaving, natural dyeing, embroidery, and cyanotype printmaking, with a focus on handmade processes.

Jennifer's work explores how everyday objects, photographs, text, and printed materials carry memory, meaning, and personal history. She is interested in the stories we attach to the things around us, and how those stories shape our understanding of ourselves, our communities, and the world we share. Her work explores themes of reciprocity, collective wisdom, alternative economies, and individual agency within a deeply interconnected world.

Working across photography, printmaking, text, and textile-based processes, she creates pieces that invite viewers to make their own connections between language, images, and lived experience. Rather than offering fixed meanings, her work leaves room for interpretation and conversation.

Jennifer sees the way artwork is shared as part of the work itself. Her pay-what-you-wish project and monthly print club are ongoing experiments in making original art more affordable, more approachable, and part of everyday life.

Rather than accepting the traditional art market as the only model, these projects are practical alternatives to rethinking how artwork might be valued, shared, and supported.