Graham Krenz

Jinx 1–17

February 12–28, 2026

Rutgers Mason Gross Gallery

33 Livingston Ave

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Rutgers Mason Gross Gallery presents Jinx 1-17, a new body of sculptural work by Graham Krenz. The exhibition examines desire as a condition and imperative, using sculptural metaphor and mutation as mechanisms. His work personifies Want as beings within a construct of voids and emptiness, stripped of agency and fulfillment. 

The work centers on the mesopredator, the eater that is eaten in turn. Krenz turns to the coyote as a figure through which to consider hunger, linking historical and literary references to place this being in time and lived experience. 

In Jinx 1–17, the coyote is fundamentally altered. A three-jawed mouth will always be hungry, the tongue and lips dry and open. Paws become grasping human fingers. Anatomy destabilizes, skin and bone collapse into one another, erasing markers that point concretely to aliveness. The body is structured by appetite and denial. 

Desire is unresolvable, and here it persists, stretched and desiccated. 

Graham Krenz (b. 1986, Calgary, AB) is a sculptor based in New Jersey and Montréal. His work investigates the personification of sensation, with particular focus on want, longing, and desire. He has exhibited in the United States and Canada, including The Zimmerli Museum (New Brunswick, NJ), The Re Institute (Millerton, NY), Primary Projects (Miami, FL), Hawkins HQ (Atlanta, GA), Galerie Nicolas Robert (Montréal, QC), and a recent solo exhibition at ArtCite (Windsor, ON). He is currently completing his MFA at Rutgers University.