b. Ann Arbor, Michigan
EDUCATION
2012 – MFA Photography, Hartford Art School
1998 – BA Interdisciplinary Humanities (Art History / Studio Art / Natural Science), Michigan State University
EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Old Futures Gone, Strange Paradise Gallery, Portland, OR (group)
2023 – Chicxulub, Rubus Discolor Project, Portland, OR (group)
2022 – Smart Objects / Flattened Images, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR (group)
2022 – Saccharine, Strange Paradise Gallery, Portland, OR (solo)
2021 – Atlas, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR (group)
2021 – Strange Paradise, Strange Paradise Gallery, Portland, OR (group)
2019 – Time After Time, Quaid Gallery, Tampa, FL (group)
2019 – RUMORS, Small Talk Collective, Wolff Gallery, Portland, OR (group)
2018 – Heartbreak City, Small Talk Collective, Redux, Portland, OR (group)
2018 – Conversations: A Small Talk Social, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR (group)
2018 – We're Always Touching By Underground Wires, Small Talk Collective, Pushdot Studio, Portland, OR (group)
2016 – Standard Appreciation, The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC (group)
2015 – Living in the CITY, Start Gallery, Detroit, MI (group)
2015 – Art Faculty Biennial, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA (group)
2013 – Curiouser: Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC (group)
2013 – 10th Anniversary Exhibition, The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC (group)
2012 – What Happens When You're Lost, 25 CPW, New York, NY (group)
2012 – What Happens When You're Lost, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT (group)
2011 – Points of Departure, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (group)
2010 – What Matters Most?, Ecoartspace at Exit Art, New York, NY (group)
2009 – Man vs. Nature, Fovea Exhibitions Projection Series, Beacon, NY (group)
2009 – Crooked Tree Arts 28th Juried Photo Exhibition, Petoskey, MI (honorable mention)
2008 – Vs., Spire Studios, Beacon, NY (group)
2007 – Halloween, Chthonic Clash, Beacon, NY (group)
2006 – Grand Opening, Cold Spring Artworks, Cold Spring, NY (3-person)
2005 – Grace Smith House Benefit, Spire Studios, Beacon, NY (group)
2005 – Darklight, Tea Lounge, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2005 – Darklight, Chthonic Clash, Beacon, NY (solo)
2004 – Bonaire, MART, Beacon, NY (solo)
2004 – 100 x 100, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY (group)
2004 – Bulletproof, Spire Studios, Beacon, NY (group/co-curator)
2004 – New Territory, Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY (curator)
2003 – 100 x 100, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY (group)
2003 – The Great White Oak, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY (group)
1998 – Handfull, Gallery 114, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (4-person)
1998 – Undergraduate Exhibition, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI (juried)
COLLECTIONS
King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA
AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES
2022 - Make|Learn|Build Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2018 - Visual Art Residency, PLAYA, Summer Lake, OR
2017 - Project Grant for Small Talk Collective, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2017 - Professional Development Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2012 - Directors Award, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford
2011 - Merit Scholarship, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford
LECTURES
2019 - ArtTalk Visiting Artist, a collaboration between the George Fox University's Department of Art & Design and the Chehalem Cultural Center, Newburgh, OR
2017 - Small Talk Collective: A Collective Perspective, Photography Council’s Brown Bag Lunch Series, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
PROJECTS
Founder / Editor, Covid Pictures, www.covidpictures.org
Co-founder / Co-curator, Strange Paradise Gallery / Project Space, Portland, OR
Founding Member, Small Talk Collective, Portland, OR
ARTIST BOOKS
I Found You In The Dark, 2012
PUBLICATIONS
Stem Magazine, Issue No. VI: Home, featured artist, November 2021
Small Talk Collective, Strange Paradise, featured artist / designer, August 2020
Fifth Wheel Press, Moon Soaked, featured artist, July 2020
From Hartford with Love, featured artist, June 2020
AINT—BAD, ISSUE NO.14, featured artist, September 2019
Small Talk Collective, We're Always Touching by Underground Wires, featured artist / designer, April 2018
Hartford Art School MFA Photo Class of 2012, What Happens When You're Lost, featured artist / designer, June 2012
Hartford Art School MFA Photo Class of 2012, Points of Departure, featured artist / designer, May 2011
PRESS / PRINT / WEB
Analog Forever Magazine, “Twenty Women Film Photographers You Need to Know in 2022!”, selected artist, January 2022
Lenscratch, “Covid Projects: Covid Pictures”, feature on Covid Pictures by Aline Smithson, February 2021
Booooooom, Online Feature: “Saccharine by Photographer Jennifer Timmer Trail”, November 2020
Cumulus Photo, Online Exhibition: Moon Soaked, selected artist, July 2020
Don't Take Pictures, Online Exhibition: The View From Here, May 2020
Fraction Magazine, Book Feature: Small Talk Collective, June 2018
Ain't Bad Magazine, What We've Read (Small Talk Collective), May 2017
She Shoots Film, Jennifer Timmer Trail, April 2018
Ain't Bad Magazine, Jennifer Trail, January 2018
Ain't Bad Magazine, NAVA, October 2017
Fraction Magazine, Feature: Small Talk Collective, September 2017
Ain't Bad Magazine, Audio Interview: Small Talk Collective, August 2017
Don't Take Pictures, Photo of the Day, May 2017
Fraction Magazine, Issue 98, 9th Anniversary Edition, Group 2, May 2017
What Will You Remember?, The Human Landscape: Beacons of Photolucida 2017, April 2017
What Will You Remember?, Photolucida First Glance, 2017
Oranbeg Press, NET 13: The Dark is Light Enough, 2015
The Smith Blog (Smith Journal), UnEarth, Jennifer Timmer Trail, 2013
ilovethatphoto photography magazine, Interview with Jennifer Timmer Trail, 2013
Gone At Dusk, Jennifer Timmer Trail, 2011.
A Photo Student, A Little Chat with The University of Hartford Photo MFA Program, 2011
The New York Times, “Her Best Friend Was a Pig…”, Film Review, September 15, 2005, Catsoulis, Jeanette.
Pulse Magazine, September 2005.
Beacon Dispatch, “Beacon Voices: Pete Seeger”, July 2005, Daecher, M.
Beacon Dispatch, “Memoir: Josie Teaches Me America”, June 2005, Kharshiing, L.
Beacon Dispatch, “The Cold”, June 2005, Battersby, Jeffery.
Pulse Magazine, November 2004.
The New York Times, “A World of Works…Earthy and the Ethereal”, Art Review, June 13, 2004, Lombardi, Dominick.
Putnam County News & Recorder, “Germaine Keller Gallery Hosts New Exhibit”, May 12, 2004.
Putnam County News & Recorder, “Art Center Opens Summer Art Institute Exhibit”, August 7, 2002.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019-23 – Adjunct Faculty, Integrated Media, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
2016 – Directed Study Mentor, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
2015-6 – Adjunct Faculty, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2007-8 – Digital Photography Instructor, Beacon Community Center, Beacon, NY
2007-8 – Digital Photography Instructor, Lion Sun Creative Arts Camp, Beacon, NY
2005-6 – Photography & Design Program Founder / Instructor, Philipstown Recreation, Garrison, NY
2005 – Digital Photography Instructor, Future Leaders Institute, Harlem, NY
2002 – Darkroom Instructor, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
FILMOGRAPHY
2002 – Virgin, Additional Props / Still Photographer. Directed by Deborah Kampmeier, starring Robin Wright-Penn and Elizabeth Moss (DV Feature).
2001 – Piggie, Production Designer. Directed by Alison Bagnall, starring John C. Rielly, Robert John Burke, Dean Wareham, and Savannah Haske (DV Feature).
2001 – Crooked Lines, Lead Person. Directed by Harry O’Reilly, starring Jim Breuer, Adam Trese, Burt Young and Colin Quinn, Crooked Lines Productions, LLC (35mm Feature).
2000 – Luna, Art Director. Directed by Kikuko Morimoto (16mm Short).
2000 – Ikiteru, Art Director. Directed by Seth Carmichael, Carmichael Productions (35mm Short).
2000 – Miles from Nowhere (second unit), Production Designer. Directed by David Pope, Miles from Nowhere, LLC (16mm Feature).
2000 – Miles from Nowhere, Still Photographer (second unit). Directed by David Pope, Miles from Nowhere, LLC (16mm Feature).
2000 – Bui Doi Prop Master. Directed by Roger Dick French, starring Isaac Hayes and May May Ali, Frenchy Films/ Montage Entertainment Inc. (DV Trailer).
2000 – Till Proven Innocent, Prop Master (second unit). Directed by Roberto Monticello, Trading Pictures, LLC (35mm Feature).
1999 – Miles from Nowhere, Production Designer. Directed by David Pope, Miles from Nowhere, LLC (16mm Feature).
1999 – Miles from Nowhere, Still Photographer. Dir. David Pope, Miles from Nowhere, LLC (16mm Feature).
1999 – Magic Gum, Still Photographer. Directed by Daniele Grieco, Othello Works (16mm Short).
1999 – 64 Colors, Art Director. Directed by Hannah Alejandro (16mm Short).