Jennifer Karady's current project involves a study of humans whose lives are inexorably entwined with the lives of animals. After conducting extensive interviews with each subject, Karady scouts locations and props. She then stages a professional, controlled photo shoot that both contextualizes and problematizes the people and their lifestyles. Influenced by the drama, color and light found in tableaux painting, these works indulge viewers in an aesthetic world where fabrication and humor lead us seamlessly into pathos. Likewise, the bourgeois history of allegorical painting melds seamlessly with a privileged world where animals and humans symbiotically exist, dependant on each other not only for immediate financial and emotional support - but also for cultural self-worth, for purpose and meaning.

Karady graduated Brown University with honors in literature and society in 1989 and attended Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University where she received her MFA with a concentration in photography and video in 1998. She had a solo exhibition at The Print Center in Philadelphia in 2001. Karady's recent exhibitions include a White Room exhibition at White Columns, New York, in 2004. Recent group exhibitions include Von Lintel and Nusser in New York and Kohler Art Center in Wisconsin.