Jennifer Cecere (born 1950, Richmond, Indiana) is an American artist primarily known for her role as an early member of the Pattern and Decoration art movement in New York City during the mid-1970s and early 1980s.
[1] After graduating from the Academy in 1969, she attended Cornell University to study painting, earning her B.F.A in 1973.
These installations have included projects for The Staten Island Ferry Terminal, The New York City Department of Transportation,[7] and Newport Beach’s Civic Center Park[8] In 2014, Cecere was selected as the winner of a national competition to design a permanent sculpture for the brand new Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority light rail station in Cleveland, Ohio.
[10] In 2019, when Pattern and Decoration saw a resurgence of scholarly attention, Cecere was one of the artists selected for the multi-country retrospective exhibition on the movement.
[11] Pattern, Crime & Decoration,[12] which traveled to Le Consortium in Dijon, France, and to MAMCO in Geneva, Switzerland, featured several of Cecere's 1980 works including her Cat Throne and Chandelier.