Amy Jenkins is a multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on familial relationships and gender identity. She was recently awarded the 2026 Ford Foundation JustFilms Grant, a 2024 Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, the 2023 Sundance Documentary Film Grant, the 2023 Robert Flaherty Fellowship, the 2023 Harvard Film Study Center–LEF Fellowship, the 2019 Ewing Award for Interdisciplinary Art, and the 2018 New Hampshire Film Festival Filmmaker of the Year. Her films have also been supported by LEF Foundation, Points North Institute, Perspective Fund, Center for Independent Documentary, and The Gotham.

Her artwork has been presented at museums including Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Akron Art Museum, and Palm Beach ICA. Her first documentary feature, INSTRUCTIONS ON PARTING, premiered at MoMA Doc Fortnight 2018 and won Best Feature Documentary at the Athens International Film and Video Festival (OH). Her short film WISHES premiered at the Camden International Film Festival in 2019 and screened at festivals including Salem, New Orleans, Ashland Independent, Frameline, OutfestLA, Sidewalk, NewFest, and Wicked Queer, among others. Her artwork has been reviewed in publications including The New York Times, ARTnews, Bomb Magazine, Artcritical, Performing Arts Journal, and The Village Voice.