Jenna Gribbon was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1978. She received a BFA from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and a MFA from Hunter College in New York, New York. 

Gribbon's recent solo and group exhibitions include "Rainbows in Shadow" at MASSIMODECARLO in Milan, Italy (2025); "She Said, She Said: Contemporary Women Artists" at Akron Art Museum in Akron, Ohio (2025); "Erotic City" at Eric Firestone Gallery in New York, New York (2025); "The Human Situation: Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh" at Lévy Gorvy Dayan in New York, New York (2025); "Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200" at Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York (2025); "Making Their Mark" at Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri (2025); "Like Looking in a Mirror" at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2024); "A New Subjectivity 1974/2024" at Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York (2024); "Day for Night: New American Realism" organized by the Aishti Foundation at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, Italy (2024); "Making Their Mark" at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California (2024); "Jenna Gribbon: The Honeymoon Show!" at Lévy Gorvy Dayan in New York, New York (2023); "A Domestic Cast" at MASSIMODECARLO in Hong Kong, China (2023); "The Emotional Show" at Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas, Nevada (2023); "Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, New York, New York (2023); "Friends & Lovers" at FLAG Art Foundation in New York, New York (2023); "Dreaming of Home" at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York, New York (2023) "Brigid Berlin: The Heaviest" curated by Alison M. Gingeras at Vito Schnabel Gallery in New York, New York (2023); "20" at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, California (2023); "Dreaming of Eden" at Timothy Taylor in New York, New York (2023); "Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters" at the Frick Collection in New York, New York (2023); "Women Painting Women" curated by Andrea Karnes at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas (2023); "I Do My Own Stunts" curated by Jack Siebert and Caio Twombly at Spazio Amanita in Los Angeles, California (2023); "Mirages" at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy (2022); "Light Holding" at MASSIMODECARLO in London, United Kingdom (2022); "Uscapes" at Fredericks & Freiser in New York, New York (2021); "Agnes V. par Jenna G." at Sim Smith in London, United Kingdom (2021); and Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery in New York, New York (2020). 

Work by Gribbon is held in numerous public collections including Kunstmuseum Den Haag in The Hague, Netherlands; Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in San Francisco, California; New Orleans Museum of Art in New Orleans, Louisiana; Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg, Germany; Rubell Museum in Miami, Florida; and FLAG Art Foundation in New York, New York.

Jenna Gribbon lives and works in New York, New York.