Jacq Groves is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in Queens, New York. Their installation-based practice draws on trans theory, crip theory, and queer ecology to examine the entanglements between urban and natural ecologies and complex bodily systems. Working across sculpture, installation, printmaking, and alternative photographic methods, Groves investigates how surrounding infrastructural and ecology systems can either mediate and inhibit experiences of embodiment, transformation, and interdependence.

Groves' conceptual inquiry and material sensibilities are deeply informed by their background in microbiology. They previously held a post-baccalaureate fellowship studying immunology at the National Institutes of Health and later researched biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. This scientific training guides their practice, manifesting in a reliance on rigorous observation, a discontent with binary thought, and an exploration of data, systems, and microscopic worlds.

Their work has been exhibited in New York-based exhibitions including a solo, site-specific installation at Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space in the Bronx (2023) and group shows at Springs Projects (2025), Essex Flowers (2023), The Jewish Museum (2022), The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University (2022), and Half Gallery (2022). Nationally, Groves has exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, 2014), White Page Gallery (Minneapolis, 2019), Edgewood Gallery at Yale University (2022), and other venues. Groves has been an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center (VT), NARS Foundation (NY), Stove Works (TN), and Loghaven Artist Residency (TN). In 2024, Groves received a Queens Arts Fund grant from NYFA to support early development of Embodied Infrastructure, a sculptural installation exploring invisible disability through industrial forms.

Groves recently completed a three-year appointment as the Foundation Fellow in Arts + Sciences at Pratt Institute, where they led interdisciplinary initiatives linking art, design, and the natural sciences through teaching, research, and programming in the Foundations Lab. Groves earned their MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University (2022) and a BA in Studio Art and Biology from Grinnell College (2009).