Jen Urso is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient and has exhibited, performed and curated shows in locations such as The Icehouse, eye lounge, Modified Arts (all Phoenix, AZ), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, AZ), Dinnerware Contemporary Arts (Tucson, AZ) and Durex Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, has attended artist residencies in Virginia and Wisconsin and is currently pursuing her MFA in Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

After spending years in the humidity and greenery of Reading, Lansdale, and Pittsburgh, PA, Jen shifted locations to the desert of Phoenix, AZ. Here, she spends a lot of time searching for and documenting the numerous vacant lots of the city's downtown and stealing cactus from the now defunct Amtrak station. She often reflects on the perceived emptiness of the desert in her work as an example of how complexity and density can be anywhere.