Jenny Marketou born in Athens, was educated in the United States and lives and works in New York. She attended the Corcoran School of Art in Washington D.C. where she studied sculpture and photography for her BFA, and earned her MFA at the Pratt Institute in New York City. Marketou has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art, The New School for Social Research and at CALARTS. She has received numerous international residencies, grants, and awards, as well as lectured, exhibited, and curated worldwide.