Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. She earned a BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from Harvard University, and an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago.
Jess’s work has been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Art, the Griffin Museum of Photography, Gallery Kayafas (Boston, MA), Carroll and Sons Gallery (Boston, MA), the Schneider Gallery (Chicago, IL), Michael Mazzeo Gallery (New York, NY), JDC Fine Art (San Diego, CA), the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Leslie/Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the RayKo Photo Center, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, and at many colleges and universities nationwide.
Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Harvard Art Museum, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, the DePaul Art Museum, the Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Her work is also included in the Midwest Photographer's Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL.
In the fall of 2015, Every breath we drew will open as a solo museum exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fl and will coincide with the release of Dugan's first monograph, published by Daylight Books.
Within the museum field, Jess has worked as a collections specialist at the Harvard Art Museum, as a museum photographer at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and as a curatorial assistant and educator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL.
Jess is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, IL and Gallery Kayafas in Boston, MA
The Opening Night Gala to benefit 92nd Street Y will take place on Wednesday, April 15 from 5 - 9 p.m. The AIPAD Photography Show New York will feature more than 85 of the world’s leading photography art galleries featuring a wide range of museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern and nineteenth-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video and new media. We are pleased to showcase the work of Keliy Anderson-Staley, Daniel Beltrá, Floriane de Lassée, Jess T. Dugan, Elizabeth Ernst, Michael Itkoff, Ysabel LeMay, Sandro Miller and Gregory Scott. Please contact the gallery if there is other work you would like us to bring that is not on this list. Click here to view all the artwork and be sure to visit us at booth 204.
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Concerns about identity have risen to the forefront, as more and more people worry about privacy in the age of the Internet. Additionally, more and more people are constricted by racial and sexual classifications that no longer accommodate an evolving society. Labels such as gay, straight, bi-sexual, transgendered, white, black, African-American, Latino, Hispanic, Asian, tall, short, thin, fat, Jewish, Catholic, Atheist, are used to define us, often found on census forms, marriage licenses and medical records. Our own government issues us social security numbers through which our identity is codified.
In today’s age of gender equality, multi-racial families, and increasing security breaches, more and more artists are looking at issues of identity and classification. Identify brings together five artist whose wor...