Jennifer Halli was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, raised in South Carolina and immigrated to New Zealand in 1998. She studied Ceramics, Printmaking and Metalsmithing and earned a BA in Art Education from East Tennessee State University and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts|Dartmouth in 2019 as a Distinguished Art Fellow.

She has worked with world-renowned artists from the USA, UK and Australia and exhibited in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Jersey, New Zealand, Taiwan and the USA. She has been a resident artist at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Driving Creek Potteries and worked with the Morning Boat on the island of Jersey (UK). 

In 2025 Halli was a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards and in 2023, she won the New Zealand Printmaking and Painting Awards top prize for Printmaking and noteworthy publications include: Meet the Maker, NZ House & Garden, Imprint magazine, Print Council of Australia, the other side of better, by Michelle Elvy, Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand, Otago University Press, Neue Keramik/New Ceramics magazine and SchoolArts Magazine (USA).

Jennifer  Hali

Halli Spring Frost on the Allegheny

Fool Hardy

To Frame Kāwhia Wharf

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