Jennifer Formica is a photographic artist based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She holds a B.F.A. in Photography from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, and an M.F.A. in Photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally. Notable exhibitions include Flora-Fauna at the Islip Art Museum in Islip, New York; WOWbug & Other Micro-Nature at Khaki Gallery in Boston; She Blinded Me with Science at Gallery 138 in New York, New York; Micro Nature at the Pelham Art Center in Pelham, New York; and See Nymph at Monohoro Gallery in Athens, Greece.
Formica's vibrant color photography has been featured in Robert Hirsch's books Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age and Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels. One of her photographs, "COVID-19 Discarded Glove with Spring Blossoms," was displayed in the exhibition #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her work has also been published in The New Yorker, BBC, The Boston Globe, Buffalo News and City Journal. She was awarded the Oseroff Memorial Purchase Prize by the CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
Formica has been an educator in photography for over two decades. She currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Photography at York College, (City University of New York), New York Institute of Technology, and New Jersey City University.