Jennifer Monroe

I'm interested in exploring and challenging the perceptions around what and how we eat, what the recent explosion of commodified splashy food imagery says about the role and value of food, and what food aesthetics reveal about us.

Untitled, 2018. Materials: leek, grapes, cauliflower, yogurt, agar jelly, cucumber, tapioca, starfruit, wax bean, lime, plexiglass. Photo by Corey Olsen. thumbnail - Untitled, 2019. Materials: jelly, candy, seaweed, fishtank gravel. Photo by Henry Hargreaves.

Jen Monroe is a chef and artist whose project, Bad Taste, is committed to exploring new ways of thinking about food and consumption, approaching food as fantasy and as a transportive medium. Past work has included a dinner about the honey bee health crisis, a 100 square foot edible map of New York City, food installations for fashion week presentations, experimental cotton candy, concept pop-up dinners, a rendering of a futuristic seafood menu in response to climate change, and a series of immersive, monochromatic ten course "color meals." Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, and Dazed.