Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Making Women

Jennifer Ling Datchuk was born in Warren, Ohio, and currently lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.

As the child of a Chinese immigrant and grandchild of Russian and Irish immigrants, the family histories of conflict she has inherited are a perpetual source for her work. She captures this conflict by exploring the emotive power of domestic objects and rituals that fix, organize, soothe, and beautify our lives.

Trained in ceramics, her works often use a myriad of materials ranging from porcelain to fabric or embroidery and lately human hair. Datchuk holds an MFA in Artisanry from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a BFA in Crafts from Kent State University. She has received grants from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio as well as Artpace to research the birthplace of porcelain in Jingdezhen, China. Her installation in the Pedrotti Case at the art museum is entitled Making Women and consists of 9 sculptures made of white and blush-glazed porcelain and human hair of a wide variety of color and texture.

In 2016, she was awarded a residency through the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany and was a Black Cube Nomadic Museum Artist Fellow. Recently, she completed a residency at the European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands and was awarded the Emerging Voices Award from the American Craft Council.