Jeramy Turner has enjoyed a lifelong career in public culture by working in the film industry in Chicago. Her practical education in filmmaking began by working for a tiny company, Movies to Remember Studios, in the mid 1970s. She learned and practiced documentary cinematography, editing, and film printing, long before these crafts became digitized. She went on to co-direct Facets Multimedia, an alternative cinema based in Chicago, that exhibited international, often politically controversial films.
Turner is a self-taught painter, beginning in 1986 as an attempt to create films, one frame at a time. They were large-scaled to emulate the screen in a movie theater. She began with the intention of using visual art as a tool of protest. Her paintings are most often depictions of capitalists’ vulnerability. Her work often features animals, as symbols of forces of resistance, and terrified bankers. Very rarely are there portraits of actual people.
Jeramy has taught and lectured on the conjuncture of political involvement in art and feminism at numerous universities and institutions in the US including the University of Chicago, University of Colorado/Boulder, Denver; and Cornell University. Her work has been exhibited in London, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm, Hamburg, Bergen,Norway, and at many alternative and university galleries throughout the US. Her work is represented in New York with Limner Gallery, in Vienna with Treadwell Galerie, and OKK (Organ of Critical Art) Galerie in Berlin.
She lives and makes art in Brooklyn. New York.