photo: Philip Thompson
Case Jernigan is an experimental animator, narrative gamemaker, and educator. He makes art about illness and masculinity. He grew up surrounded by marsh in Charleston, South Carolina. He shares vulnerable worlds connected by hidden passages. He values play. He searches for rhythm. He spends long hours traveling on street view. He plays soccer on the dusty plains of Williamsburg. He’s injured countless body parts. He is an octopus. He loves videogame soundtracks. His best thoughts arrive on a bicycle. He’s held residencies at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Harvestworks, The Center for Book Arts, The Saltonstall Foundation and The Art Students League. Philip Pearlstein once said his work ‘is funny.’ He wasn’t smiling though. He’s making an autobiographical video game about art and anxiety through the X-Box ID Program. He’s screened at HotDocs, Hollyshorts, The Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, The Sante Fe Film Festival and #11MM Berlin. A Screen Australia grant recipient and Vimeo staff picked artist, he’s made murals, short films and illustrations for media outlets and brands like The New York Times, Vimeo, The Guardian, Pop-Up Magazine, California Sunday and adidas. He studied painting at William & Mary and the New York Studio School.
He feels lucky.