Candy Jernigan lived and worked in New York (d.1991). Solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2019); Commercial Street, Provincetown (2019); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2017); Greene Naftali, New York (2014); Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown (2002); New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania (1990); Dance Theater Workshop, New York (1989 and 1985); and Lumen Travo, Amsterdam (1985). Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina.