Jennifer Gradecki was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As an undergraduate, she attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, earning a double major in Sculpture and Experimental Social Psychology and a minor in Art History, with an emphasis on Modern and Contemporary art. Gradecki is a currently an MFA candidate in New Genres at UCLA.

Her artistic practice lies at the intersection of art, experimental psychology and philosophy. Gradecki conducts psychology experiments in the field of art that are either not possible in the field of psychology because of ethical restrictions, or they are better suited to the field of art conceptually. Her performance/experiment/installations have focused on the subjects of perception, power relations and objectification. Gradecki performs conceptual systems that rigorously and tautologically consider the function of art and it’s social conventions.