Jen Blazina resides and has a studio in Philadelphia where she is a working artist exhibiting with solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally

In 2008, she will have two upcoming solo exhibitions: Radford University, Radford, Va, and Gallery Imperato of Baltimore, Md. Jen has recently been awarded two residencies in 2008 at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant to attend a fellowship at The Women's Studio Workshop.

In 2007, Blazina will have multiple solo exhibitions: Kunstoffice in Berlin, Germany; Projects Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; Washington Square Windows, New York University in New York City, NY; Bridge International during Art Chicago, Chicago, IL and Glass Weekend at Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ, represented by Marx Saunders Gallery of Chicago. She has also been included in a two person exhibition entitled, "Historia, Jen Blazina and Michael Markwick" at Pictura in Dordrecht, Netherlands.

She has been awarded numerous residencies including: Women's Studio Workshop in New York, in 2006; Scuola di Grafica in Venice, Italy; Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, in 2005 and 2007; The Creative Glass Center of America's Residency Fellowship for 2003 in New Jersey; Millay Colony for the Arts in New York. She has also been awarded numerous grants including the Leeway Foundation Grant, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Independence Foundation Grant.

Jen Blazina received her M.F.A. in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1996, her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in New York in 1991 and her B.F.A., cum laude, from the State University of New York at Purchase College in 1994. She is a currently a professor of fine arts at Drexel University.