She received her BA from Brown University in 2001 and attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. She has had solo exhibitions at the The Aldrich Contemporary Arts Museum, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and her work also has been included in exhibitions at MASS MoCA and MCA Denver. Genger has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, Modern Painters, ArtNews, The Village Voice, and The New York Times, among others.