Jennifer Goya is a Honolulu-born new media artist whose work moves between reality and simulation, exploring how technology reshapes memory and perception. Working across video, web, and audiovisual programming, she creates quiet spaces where lived experience meets the digital, inviting reflection on what is real, remembered, and remade.
Her interactive installation on Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death, honored with the John Young Award at the Honolulu Museum of Art’s Artists of Hawaiʻi Now (2021), embodies her interest in fragile ecologies and the unseen systems that connect place and image. Goya’s multimedia works have appeared in juried exhibitions across the United States, tracing the emotional and environmental undercurrents of digital culture.
She holds a BA in Video from Hampshire College (Amherst, MA) and an MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts (New York, NY). For over fifteen years, she has worked in digital art education and is currently an Assistant Professor of Multimedia at Hawaiʻi Pacific University.
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EDUCATION
MFA Computer Art, School of Visual Arts (New York, NY)
BA Video, Hampshire College (Amherst, MA)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Digital Art Society of Hawaii, Chaminade University(Honolulu, HI), March 30-April 24, 2026
Boston Cyberarts – CyberFrames (Jamaica Plain, MA), July 21-September 2025
Foothills Art Association – Digital Art Gallery (La Mesa, CA), July 10 – Aug 15 and May 15 – June 2025
Chaminade University – Sullivan Library (Honolulu, HI), December 9, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Chaminade University – Sullivan Library (Honolulu, HI), June 15-July 15, 2024
Mosesian Center for the Arts (Watertown, MA), May 17-June 21, 2024
Artists of Hawaii, Downtown Art Center (Honolulu, HI), November 3-25, 2023
Gallery on the Pali (Honolulu, HI), November 2-30, 2023
Video Sound Archive – Season 8, Premiere October 6, 2023 @ 3PM HST
Digital Art Society of Hawaii, Ho’omaluhi’a Botanical Garden Art Gallery, July 1-31 2023
Las Laguna Art Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA), Jan 2023
Digital Art Society of Hawaii, Pauahi Tower (Honolulu, HI), Sept – Nov 2022
Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Museum of Art (Honolulu, HI), Sept 2021-Jan 2022
Misbits Retrospective, Powerhouse Community Art Center / Yoknapatawpha Arts Council (Oxford, MS), Mar-Apr 2020
Honolulu Printmakers 92nd Annual Exhibition, Honolulu Museum of Art School (Honolulu, HI), Jan-Feb 2020
Selections from Contact 3017, The ARTS at Marks Garage (Honolulu, Hawaii 2017)
Contact 3017, Honolulu Museum of Art School (Honolulu, Hawaii 2017)
Westside Gallery (New York, New York 2010)
User Generated, SVA Gallery (New York, New York 2009)
MonkeyTown (Brooklyn, New York 2009)
Hawaii International Film Festival (Honolulu, Hawaii 2003)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Misbits Gallery (Oxford, Mississippi 2017)
+Lecturer, Leeward Community College (Spring 2020-May 2023)
+Digital Art Instructor, Mid-Pacific Institute (2010-2022)
+Digital Media Arts Program Head, Mid-Pacific Institute (2010-2016)
+Lecturer, Hawaii Pacific University (2013)
+Web Production Assistant, The Daily Beast (New York, 2008-2010)
+Video Editor, Tribeca Film Institute: Tribeca Teaches (Bronx, 2008)
+Senior Coordinator, StoryCorps (Brooklyn, 2006-2008)
Paula Rhodes Award for Excellence in Computer Art (2010)
School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art A/V Lab Assistantship (2008-09)
School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art Scholarship (2008-10)
Shelia Cook Award (2004)
Broderick, D., Meyer, M., Emi, M., & Tengan, J. (2021). Contact 2014-2019.
Artists of Hawaii Now. (2021). Honolulu Museum of Art, Sept-Oct-Nov.
“New art exhibit showcasing issues of urgency in Hawaii.” Kamaka Pili. KHON2, October 21, 2021. Television.
“New HoMA Exhibit Explores Hawaii’s Social Issues Through Art and Technology.” Catherine Cruz. Hawaii Public Radio, September, 23, 2021. Radio.