Jennifer Lewis Takahashi is a South Orange resident who has been painting for about 17 years. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts and has worked in the animation and textile design industries.

Ms. Lewis Takahashi has shown in New Jersey with the Exhibitors’ Co-op in the corporate settings of Johnson and Johnson, Nabisco, ADP and Merrill Lynch. She was in the New Jersey Fine Arts Annual in 1996 at the Morris Museum and had a solo show in Spring of 2000 at the Bruce Lewin Gallery in New York. She’s been selected for many national juried competitions including Realism in Parkersburg, West Virginia and Watercolor U.S.A. at the Art Museum of St. Louis where she has won awards.

Some of her recent shows were the International Juried show the NJ Center for the Visual Arts in Summit, at Pfizer Corporation in NY, 1978 Gallery in Maplewood, NJ., Seton Hall University’s Women in the New Millennium show, Essex Exposed 2005, the Morris County Council of the Arts inaugural "Artworks" show in 2005 in Florham Park and at Morpeth Gallery in Hopewell, N.J. She will be included in the 4th annual Maplewood/South Orange Artist's Studio Tour on June 3, 2007.

Her work is in the corporate collections of Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lifetime Cable, Pfizer Corporation and Johnson and Johnson. Her paintings may be seen in the books “Splash III” and “Make Your Watercolors Look Professional” both published by North Light books.