{{Short description|Shinnecock photographer}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Jeremy Dennis | honorific_suffix = | image = <!-- use the image's pagename; do not include the "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and do not use brackets--> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 1990 <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living artists, {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} for dead. For living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB. Treat such cases as if only the year is known, so use {{birth year and age|YYYY}} or a similar option. --> | birth_place = Southampton, New York | baptised = <!-- will not display if birth_date is entered --> | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | education = Stonybrook University | alma_mater = | known_for = large scale staged photography | notable_works = ''On This Site – Indigenous Long Island'' | style = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = | family = | awards = <!-- {{awd|award|year|title|role|name}} (optional) --> | signature = | signature_type = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = {{URL|https://www.jeremynative.com}} | module = }} '''Jeremy Dennis''' (born 1990) is a Shinnecock photographer who creates large-scale staged photographs that deal with conflicts and situations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals. He is an enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, New York.

==Education== Dennis received a BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University.<ref name="website" />

==Work== Dennis considers his work as an exploration of "indigenous identity, cultural assimilation, and the ancestral traditional practices of my tribe, the Shinnecock Indian Nation." His process involves staging theatrical scenarios that portray the legacy of colonialism in the United States, focusing on the repressed guilt "among White settlers and their descendants."<ref name="Hyper">{{cite web |last1=Bury |first1=Louis |title=Jeremy Dennis Makes a Farce of White Guilt |url=https://hyperallergic.com/857733/jeremy-dennis-makes-a-farce-of-white-guilt |website=Hyperallergic |date=22 November 2023 |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

Dennis has exhibited his work at the Parrish Art Museum,<ref name="PAM">{{cite web |title=Telling Stories: Jeremy Dennis |url=https://parrishart.org/jeremy-dennis/ |website=Parrish Art Museum |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref> the Hudson River Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, among others.<ref name="ACMA">{{cite web |title=Behind the lens: Jeremy Dennis on Nothing Happened Here |url=https://www.cartermuseum.org/blog/behind-lens-jeremy-dennis-nothing-happened-here |website=Amon Carter Museum of Art |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

A profile on the artist and his work in The New Yorker described his photographic series, ''On This Site–Indigenous Long Island'', which depicts locations where "notorious historic incidents" took place as "quiet explorations of America’s intrinsic violence."<ref name="NYer">{{cite magazine |last1=Sullivan |first1=Robert |title=A Landscape Schared by Native Americans and the One Percent |magazine=The New Yorker |date=17 February 2023 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-landscape-shared-by-native-americans-and-the-one-per-cent |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

In 2021, Dennis founded Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, an artist-in-residence retreat and education center, on the Shinnecock Nation tribal lands in a house that belonged to his grandmother, Loretta A. Silva.<ref name="NYT-Ma's">{{cite news |last1=Lasky |first1=Julie |title=Ma's House: An Artist Fulfills His Grandmother's Dying Wish |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/realestate/mas-house-bipoc-art-studio-hamptons.html |access-date=25 November 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=12 May 2022}}</ref>

==Awards== In 2016 Dennis received a Dreamstarter grant from Running Strong for American Indian Youth to create his photographic project, ''On This Site – Indigenous Long Island''.<ref name="PAM-2">{{cite web |title=Parrish Road Show: Jeremy Dennis - Stories–Dreams, Myths and Experiences |url=https://parrishart.org/exhibitions/parrish-road-show-jeremy-dennis/ |website=Parish Art Museum |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="RS">{{cite web |title=Running Strong Dreamstarter Jeremy Dennis Featured in Penn State's 'Movers, Shakers' |url=https://indianyouth.org/running-strong-dreamstarter-jeremy-dennis-featured-in-penn-states-movers-shakers/ |website=Running Strong for American Indian Youth |date=2 February 2022 |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref> This was followed by a $50,000 Dreamstarter GOLD grant in 2020,<ref name="RS" /> and a fellowship from Art Matters Foundation.<ref name="AM grant">{{cite web |title=Jeremy Dennis 2022 Artist2Artist Fellowship |url=https://www.artmattersfoundation.org/grantees/jeremy-dennis-2022 |website=Art Matters |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="website">{{cite web |title=About Me |url=https://www.jeremynative.com/about/ |website=Jeremy Dennis |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

==Collections== Dennis' work is held in the permanent collections of the Montclair Art Museum,<ref name="MAM">{{cite web |title=New Acquisitions: Jeremy Dennis |url=https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/exhibition/new-acquisitions-jeremy-dennis |website=Montclair Art Museum |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref> the Amon Carter Museum of Art,<ref name="ACMA-col">{{cite web |title=Jeremy Dennis, 1990, Shennecock |url=https://www.cartermuseum.org/artists/jeremy-dennis |website=Amon Carter Museum of Art |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref> the Parrish Art Museum,<ref name="PAM-3">{{cite web |title=Jeremy Dennis |url=https://parrishart.org/artist-stories/#/collection/10906913 |website=Parrish Art Museum |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref> among others.

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==External links== * [https://www.jeremynative.com Official website]

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