Jenn Kitagawa is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist who grew up in the city of Edmonton as well as the southern farmlands surrounding Taber, Alberta. She is of Japanese descent and is 4th generation, or Yonsei and Scottish. Graduating from MacEwan University (Edmonton, Alberta) and the Alberta College of Art & Design (Calgary, Alberta), she studied graphic design, illustration and printmaking. Shortly after receiving her Bachelors of Design, Kitagawa lived in New York where she interned for artist Mike Perry and for the fashion magazine Nylon. She has also lived and worked in Berlin, Toronto and currently resides in Montreal. She has exhibited in Canada and internationally at the Murmurs Festival in Berlin, Germany, Long Winter Festival in Toronto, Ontario and Creative Type at the Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto, Ontario.
