The Rose Art Museum will present "Jenna Gribbon: Entwined" in 2026, the first major solo museum exhibition of painter Jenna Gribbon. The show brings together over forty works from 2001 to the present, including new canvases, tracing the evolution of her figurative style. Gribbon is known for intimate portrayals of family, friends, and her wife, musician Mackenzie Scott (TORRES), exploring themes of love, desire, memory, and perception through luminous color and emotionally charged imagery.
The exhibition matters because it positions Gribbon as a significant contemporary figurative painter and reframes her work beyond queer domestic life, arguing that love and intimacy are foundational to her artistic practice. Co-curated by Chad Sirois and Gannit Ankori, the show is supported by major foundations and galleries, signaling institutional validation for an artist whose work blurs boundaries between artist and subject, observation and performance.