Jaimie Warren

Jaimie Warren (born 1980) is an American photographer and performance artist who is based in Kansas City, Missouri and New York City. She is also the co-creator and co-director of Whoop Dee Doo, a non-profit faux public access television show that creates large-scale commissioned projects for museums and festivals.
From 2000 to 2012, Warren worked to aid the growth of the Kansas City, Missouri art community, curating numerous exhibitions, public events and youth-oriented programs and classes. Warren worked with and received support from organizations such as the Charlotte Street Foundation, Review Magazine, ArtsKC, Artist, Inc., The Gallucci Creative Fund, The Lighton International Artist Exchange Program, and Studios, Inc. In 2011, Warren received a United States Presidential Scholars Program Teacher Recognition Award presented by Barack Obama in Washington, D.C.

Exhibitions

Warren’s work has appeared in many museum and gallery exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at the Kennedy Museum of Art (Athens, OH), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO) and at the Miami Dade College Museum of Art & Design and exhibitions at Beida University (Beijing), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), Showroom for Media and Moving Art (Rotterdam), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, (Kansas City, MO), San Diego Museum of Art, (San Diego), and Senda Gallery (Barcelona), among others.

Her work has predominantly been featured in New York, with her first solo exhibition at Higher Pictures in 2009, which was reviewed in Artforum and many other well-known publications. The Huffington Post commented on her most recent exhibition “The WOAHS of Female Tragedy II”: “We don't know what we love most about Jaimie Warren: her knack for puns, her obsession with "Toddlers & Tiaras" or her endless devotion to Roseanne Barr…Warren, like a Reddit-crazed Cindy Sherman, inserts her self-portraits into the best and most bizarre memes, channeling everything from Picasso's "Demoiselles" to the celebrity spoof, "Lasagna Del Rey."

Publications

Warren’s photography has been published in a variety of publications, including Vice Magazine (New York), Complex (New York), Nylon (New York), Missbehave (New York), The Fader (New York), SPIN (New York), XLR8R (New York), URB (New York), Village Voice (New York), Foam Magazine (The Netherlands), Dossier Journal (New York), NY Arts Magazine (New York), artnet (New York and Berlin), Paper (New York), Dazed & Confused (London), Interview (New York), and Oyster (Sydney).

Warren’s first monograph Don't You Feel Better was published by Aperture in New York in 2008.

Video and Performance Work

In more recent years, Jaimie’s work has transitioned from low-fi photography based self-portraits to more elaborate and referential performance and video work. This work has been partly inspired by working under the direction of Cody Critcheloe of the SSION. Warren appeared in numerous SSION music videos and live performances nationally from 2002 to 2012 including the MoMA PS1 PopRally performance “BENT” in 2011 at MOMA PS1.

In June 2013 Jaimie had her first performance-only exhibition involving a live self-transformation from Little Richard to GG Allin. In past show openings, such as The Whoas of Female Tragedy I & II, Jaimie had included a performance video postcard for the exhibition, as well as a live performance component to her work, often performing alongside her photography

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