Jeremy Dennis

Jeremy Dennis (born 1990) is a Shinnecock photographer who creates large-scale staged photographs that deal with conflicts and situations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals. He is an enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, New York.

Education Dennis received a BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University.

Dennis has exhibited his work at the Parrish Art Museum, the Hudson River Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, among others.

A profile on the artist and his work in The New Yorker described his photographic series, On This Site–Indigenous Long Island, which depicts locations where "notorious historic incidents" took place as "quiet explorations of America’s intrinsic violence."

In 2021, Dennis founded Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, an artist-in-residence retreat and education center, on the Shinnecock Nation tribal lands in a house that belonged to his grandmother, Loretta A. Silva.

Awards In 2016 Dennis received a Dreamstarter grant from Running Strong for American Indian Youth to create his photographic project, On This Site – Indigenous Long Island. This was followed by a $50,000 Dreamstarter GOLD grant in 2020,

Collections Dennis' work is held in the permanent collections of the Montclair Art Museum, the Amon Carter Museum of Art, the Parrish Art Museum, among others.