Born in Denver, Colorado
Lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 2006
BA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Nora Jean Petersen: Time is the Substance, Light & Wire Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
The Garden of Forking Paths, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA
2005
NOS, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA
2004
End Holocene, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Lustige Gruppenausstellung, Five Thirty Three Gallery, Los Angeles
Light & Wire Gallery @ Circus Gallery, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles
1999, China Art Objects at Cottage Home, Los Angeles
Maximum Art n Art, 380, Los Angeles
Emergence Enchanted, Phantom Galleries LA, Long Beach, California (Catalog)
2008
Mystery of the Invisible Clock, Curated by Joshua Nathanson, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery at Hudson Salon, Los Angeles
2007
Where Was I? All About the Edges, Bag of Pockets, The Art of Semi-Autonomy, Curated by Joshua Nathanson, Pauline, Los Angeles
Melvins at the Mandrake, Curated by Bob Nickas, The Mandrake, Los Angeles
2006
Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
Super/Sonic, Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2005
American Whale-Wolves in Hamburg, Galerie Nomadenoase, Hamburg, Germany
2004
Pulp, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
M2, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2003
Allergy, 1308, Dallas, TX
Jeffery Swanson/Nora Jean Petersen, Guadalupe Arts, Austin, TX
2002
Group Show, Blue Genie, Austin, TX
1998
Collision, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
Group Show, Williamsburg Art and Histiorical Center, Brooklyn, NY