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Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum is a designer, graphic designer, artist, and writer. He has led and contributed to numerous exhibition, signage, and art installation projects for museum, cultural, academic, and commercial clients. As a member of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates and VSBA Architects & Planners, he has led marketing and public relations while contributing to many architectural projects.
Jeremy has designed museum and gallery exhibitions around the world. He created the Downtown Denise Scott Brown major retrospective exhibition for the Architekturzentrum in Vienna, Austria. In London, his exhibition design was featured in the Lethaby Gallery of the University of the Arts Central Saint Martins. He managed design of the Wayward Eye photography exhibition at the Venice Biennale, designed a travelling exhibition in Spain, contributed to a traveling exhibition in Amsterdam, contributed to an exhibition at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, and designed From Archive to Our Current at the University of Pennsylvania’s Architectural Archives.
Jeremy designed a permanent mixed-media digital storefront for the Fabric Workshop and Museum; a three-story main façade mural for the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara; exterior mural and lobby graphics for the Museum Place Post Office in Fort Worth, TX; conceptual ideas for Len Davidson’s Neon Museum; the inaugural exhibition for new display cases at Philadelphia International Airport; interpretive signage at the Millville Army Air Field Museum; a graphic library entrance at Philadelphia’s Charter High School for Architecture and Design; three Canstruction builds supporting Philabundance; an urban Parking Day installation; and a theme design for Google’s Chrome browser.
Jeremy’s work also includes a series of projects for New Jersey’s Cumberland County Cultural and Heritage Commission, including innovative interpretive installation for the Bayshore Center in Bivalve, NJ; the West Jersey Time Traveler initiative, an interpretive signage system spanning fifteen historic sites; and, for the Cumberland Mall, a large-scale graphic installation and conceptual design for their County Store.
Jeremy has contributed to VSBA’s planning for a new Philadelphia city health center; transformation of an apartment building as new graduate student housing at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, as well at the design of COVID-19 signage for campus; renovations at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts; the South Philadelphia Community Health and Literacy Center; conceptual planning and visitor guide design for Storm King Art Center; the Allentown Art Museum’s expansion and renovation; Wellesley College’s consolidated program planning; and rehabilitation of historic Guild House, among many other projects. Jeremy designed VSBA’s website and maintains its tech systems.
Jeremy designed dozens of large-scale storefront window exhibitions for VSBA’s office in Philadelphia, often collaborating with outside institutions and artists such as the Philadelphia Association for Public Art, the Fairmount Park Art Association, the Children’s Aid Society, Philadelphia’s Charter High School for Architecture and Design, and fashion designer Nicole Miller. VSBA’s storefront windows won a 2010 Jury Award from the Society for Environmental Graphic Design.
As a publication designer, Jeremy has written and designed the Hintergrund 56 guidebook for Downtown Denise Scott Brown, designed the exhibition catalog Samara Golden: Upstairs at Steve’s for the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and created several literary journals. He designed the jacket for a facsimile of Learning from Las Vegas’s first edition and has created graphics for many publications, articles, posters, videos, advertisements, and other print and web productions.
As a visual artist, Jeremy has exhibited his illustrative work, photography, poster design, and installations in galleries, public venues, and publications. His work has featured in You Are What You Read by Steve Kroeter, Faith and Form Magazine (with Denise Scott Brown), Sign and Digital Graphics, Moon Travel Guide: Philadelphia, The Columbia Poetry Review of Columbia College, Prosodia of the New College of California, and Seven Arts (“Best New Writers of Philadelphia”). He is the founder and co-editor of SORTES literary and arts magazine.
Jeremy also works independently with commercial and institutional clients to craft signage, advertisements, branding, and websites. Jeremy is working with the Neon Museum of Philadelphia to strategically organize and manage the growing institution, and he designed their new website.
DESIGN
COVID-19 Campus Signage, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2020
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Permanent Mixed-Media Digital Storefront, Philadelphia, 2015
Millville Army Air Field Museum, Interpretive Graphics (design only), Millville, NJ, 2015
Museum Place Post Office, Main Façade Mural and Lobby Graphics, Fort Worth, TX, 2009
Google Chrome, Theme Graphic, 2007
University of California, Santa Barbara, California NanoSystems Institute, Main Façade Mural, Santa Barbara, CA, 2006
Charter High School for Architecture and Design, Library Entry Graphics, Philadelphia, PA 2004
Cumberland County Cultural and Heritage Commission:
County Store Conceptual Interior Design, Cumberland Mall, Vineland, NJ, 2018
The Oculus, Bayshore Center, Bivalve, NJ, 2016
“I [Heart] Cumberland County” Display, Cumberland Mall, Vineland, NJ, 2016
West Jersey Time Traveler Signage, various locations, Cumberland County, NJ, 2013
Contributions to VSBA projects including City Health Center planning; Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Meta Christy House; University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Sachs Arts Initiative Hub; South Philadelphia Community Health and Literacy Center; Storm King Art Center planning and graphics; Allentown Art Museum expansion and renovation; Wellesley College, Consolidated Program Planning; Guild House rehabilitation
Websites for the Neon Museum of Philadelphia, Calliope Music, Common Time Music School, DIGS
EXHIBITION DESIGN AND CURATION
From Kreuzberg’s Oranienstraße to Philadelphia’s South Street, Berlin, Germany, 2021
Traveling with Denise, El Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Girona, Spain, 2021
Learning to See : Denise Scott Brown, Temple Gallery, Temple University, 2021
Wayward Denise Scott Brown, Lethaby Gallery storefront, University of the Arts Central Saint Martins, 2019
See The Light, Neon Museum of Philadelphia, Drexel University, signage design, 2017
Downtown Denise Scott Brown, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2018
Wayward Eye, Venice Biennale, design contribution and installation management, Venice, Italy, 2016
Gold Medal display, AIA National Convention, Philadelphia, 2016
From Archive to Our Current, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
VSBAville: A Fantasy City, Philadelphia International Airport, 2006
Storefront window design for Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates; The Fabric Workshop and Museum; Nicole Miller; Calliope Music
PUBLISHING
SORTES magazine, founder and coeditor, 2020-present
Contributing Author, “So You'd Like To See The World?” photo essay in Denise Scott Brown: In Other Eyes, 2022
Wayward Eye, Denise Scott Brown, contributing editor, ongoing
Samara Golden: Upstairs at Steve’s, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2020
“Saving South Street,” Hidden City Philadelphia, author, 2020
“I Was a Circus Horse Rider,” Architect’s Newspaper, contributing author and illustrator, 2019
Your Guide to Downtown Denise Scott Brown (Hintergrund 56), Park Books, author and book designer, 2018
Learning From Las Vegas, first edition facsimile, design contributor, MIT Press, 2017
You Are What You Read, Designers & Books, contributing photographer, 2016
“DevOut of the Ordinary,” Faith and Form Magazine, author (with Denise Scott Brown), 2010
The Columbia Poetry Review, Columbia College, 1999; 2000
Prosodia, New College of California, 1998
Seven Arts (“Best New Writers of Philadelphia”), 1995
EDUCATION
Villanova University, Bachelor of Arts, 1996
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member, Board of Directors, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2020-present
Member, Society for Commercial Archeology, 2017-present
Member, Society for Experiential Graphic Design, 2013-2020
TEACHING
Guest Critic, Jefferson University, 2019
Juror, Ize Prize, Drexel University, 2018
Instructor, Saturday School Program, University of the Arts, 1996-2000
ACTIVITIES
Touriscape 2: International Scientific Conference Transversal Tourism and Landscape, panelist, 2020
Learning from Bob and Denise, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, presenter, 2014
VSBA Canstruction, team member, 2008-2010
Parking Day, team member, 2009
AWARDS
Jury Award, Society for Environmental Graphic Design, for VSBA’s Storefront Window Displays, 2010