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ABOUT

Jean Tschanz-Egger is a multidisciplinary designer based in Bern, Switzerland. She received her BA in Studio Art from Smith College and her MFA in 2D Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has worked internationally as a designer and printmaker. In 2016 she received an Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region Juror’s Choice Award from the Hyde Collection, and her design work has been published in: Machine Project: The Platinum Collection, the PPC Zine, and Erik Brandt's Ficciones Typografika 1642. Her work is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as well as the Tang Teaching Museum. She designed the catalog Borrowed Light: Selections from the Jack Shear Collection, and the artist book Tel_ by Kamau Amu Patton. Her freelance work includes projects for DMY Berlin and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2019 she won two awards from the American Alliance of Museums for poster design and exhibition collateral material design.

EDUCATION

Cranbrook Academy of Art

ISIA/URBINO Werkplaats Summer School

Basel Art & Design Summer School

Smith College

CONTACT

jean.l.egger@gmail.com

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December, 2020

Skidmore College article about exhibition title treatment collaboration between the Tang Museum and the IdeaLab written by Michael Janairo

September, 2020

Dona Nelson: Stand Alone Paintings exhibiton catalogue is published (Dona Nelson)

October, 2019

Awarded two American Alliance of Museums Publication Competition Awards; 1st place for poster design, 2nd place for exhibtion collateral material

July, 2019

Poster published in Erik Brandt's Ficciones Typografika 1642 tome

June, 2019

Co-curated the exhibtion Elevator Music 39: Bug with Associate Curator Rebecca McNamara and advised by design and technology firm Linked by Air.

Fall, 2018

Adjunct Professor in Media & Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

July, 2018

Poster acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

December, 2017

Borrowed Light: Selections from the Jack Shear Collection, exhibition catalogue is published

September, 2016

Juror's choice award at the Mohawk Regional regional art show