Jenny Pickett is a member of the artists' collective and cultural project: APO33, and realised various collective works both in contemporary music and visual arts including; GIASO : Great International Streaming Orchestra, Chaoslab and BOT project. Pickett has established and coordinated cross-border collaborations with other artist-run organisations. This has recently led to European grants being awarded to Opensound – a partnership project between 7 countries including UK, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Norway and We Have a Situation… with partners in Austria, Germany, France, The Netherlands, and the UK
Notable Exhibitions include : Il y à de la soupe dans mes cheveux, Gallery A, Denée (FR) - 2015/ Swallow, Blow, FLow - Kjersten Kjer Museum, Frostrup (DK) - 2015 / BOT : Multiplication du Phénoméne, La Gaterie, Roche sur Yon (FR) - 2014 / EXO-ART, L’Atelier (1 rue de Chateaubriand) – Nantes (FR) - 2013 / Opensound-London, Avairy Studios – London (UK) - 2013 / Screen Compositions 8, New York (US) - 2012 / Une Mouche dans la tête, la Garenen Lemot – Clisson (FR) - 2012 / Dislocated Flesh, Tenderpixel Gallery – London (UK) - 2011 / the engine room, Morely Gallery – London (UK) - 2011 / Nu Alongé, Beyond Signal#3 – Nantes (FR) - 2010 / Mal Au Pixel , Mains d’Oeuvres – Paris (FR) - 2009 / Hearing Ghosts, La Maison rouge - Paris (FR) - 2008
Pickett performs with DIY electronics, prepared guitar and percussion in the projects “Cellule de Bass” and “Solar Return”, “ORGONE” (contemporary percussion group) and “ONsemble” (contemporary musique ensemble).
Selected Performances : WORM - Rotterdam (NL) - 2015, Washington Street art gallery - Boston (US) -2015, Avatar, Quebec (CA) - 2015, Musée des beaux arts, Nantes (FR) - 2014, HTMlles Festival-Montreal (CA) - 2014, Networked Music Festival-Birmingham (UK) - 2014, LE 102, Grenoble (FR) - 2014 ,Hab Gallery - Nantes (FR) - 2013, Metasonic-Lisbon (PT) - 2012 …
Jenny Pickett has Collaborated & Performed with: Julien Ottavi, Romain Papion, Julien Poidevin, Kasper Toeplitz, Eva Ursprung, Phill Niblock, Keith Rowe, John Tilbury, Christian Wolff, Shu Lea Cheang, Shelly Knotts, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Kadet Kuhne, Keiko Uenishi, Seamus O’Donnell, Sunshine Frere, Emmanuelle Gibello, Soizic Lebrat, Jerome Joy, Erin Sexton, Phillippe Cavaleri, Helen Varley Jamieson, and others…
Pickett holds a first class BA Honours in Fine Art from Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall and an MA in Interactive media: Critical theory and practice with Distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London, studing with Dr Matthew Fuller, Dr Luciana Parisi. She has co-authored articles published by Errant Bodies and IG Kultur Steiermark and has work included in the book Beyond Contemporary Art - by Etan Ilfeld (Vivays Publishing Ltd). Her work is held by various private collectors and she has also released sound works on experimental music labels: FIBRR Records and HUM.REC.