Jenny Byer has put her degree to the test, working in such capacities as the assistant to the directors at Oakland's Royal NoneSuch Gallery, a volunteer at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), and as prime research assistant to art historian Susan Landauer, where she researched in several different archives -- including American Art Archives and the House Un-American Committee Records -- for the author’s upcoming monograph on Bay Area artist Hassel Smith.

She has curated two exhibitions at CCA's College Avenue Galleries: a group show Volatile Bodies and an undergraduate exhibition, three pounds of blood, dream, and electric.

Byer currently works as a production associate at Garner Printing in Des Moines as well as docent at the Des Moines Art Center and tour guide at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park, and coordinates an ongoing performance exhibition for artist Gabriel Lueders (for whom she also designed and produced the website).