Baker Artist Portfolios

Jenee Mateer is a photographer and video artist born in 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. in English/Modern Studies from the University of Virginia in 1987 and her M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1996. In 2007, she joined the faculty of Towson University, where she is currently Professor of Photo Imaging. Referencing art, nature, religion, and science, she uses color and layering to create hybrid images made possible by digital technologies.

Her artwork has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the ArtHamptons Art Fair, Biggs Museum of American Art, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Jordan Faye Contemporary in Baltimore, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Masur Museum of Art, Newport Museum, Rhode Island Foundation, San Francisco Art Market, Scope International Art Fair in Miami, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston and FotoNostrum in Barcelona Spain. She is the author of Break Boundary Places Real and Imagined (2018), Fairy Tale (2023), The Serpent’s Last Waltz (2023), The Animals (2012), her essays and photographs have appeared in Home-Lived Experiences (2022) , the 1st and 5th International Photography Annual (2012, 2018), Alphabet (2016), Philosophy of Photography, Vol. 4 (2013), The Photo Review (2012), Masters of Photography (2012), and This is Visual Poetry (2011) and her photographs are in numerous private collections, including China Trust Bank.  She resides in Baltimore, Maryland, with her son, Alex, and her husband Lawrence.