Jessica Todd HARPER

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022 Kinship, The National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian

Here, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

Here, Le Centre Claude Cahun, Nantes, France

2018 AIPAD, Rick Wester Fine Art

The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2018 at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. One of 3 invited artists.

The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, The National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian

2017-16 The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, The National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian

Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography (catalog), The McNay Art Museum

The Home Stage, Galerie Confluence, Nantes, France

2015 The Home Stage, The Print Center, Philadelphia

The Home Stage, Galerie Confluence, Nantes, France

2014 Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40, The Portland Art Museum

The Female Gaze: A Survey of Photographs by Women from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, Haverford College

The Home Stage, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2013 International Museum of Photography & Film The Gender Show, The George Eastman House

2012 Exposure, Galerie Confluence, Nantes, France Interior

Philadelphia More Photos About Buildings and Food, Gallery 339

Philadelphia Photographic Arts Center 3rd Annual Photography Exhibition, First Prize winner. Jurors: Kathy Ryan (NYT Mag) & Natasha Egan (Museum of Contemporary Photography)

2011 New Orleans Museum of Art The Art of Caring. Two year national tour with accompanying book. Curated by Dr. Cynthia Goodman.

Australia100 Portraits, Australian Centre for Photography Installation, Sydney

2010 Corcoran Gallery of Art 100 Portraits curated by Flak Photo’s Andy Adams

Photographic Center North West, Portland, OR. Photolucida’s Critical Mass 2009 Top Finalists Maine Media Workshops Arnold Newman and his Legacy

2009 Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography a traveling exhibition, The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film

What We’re Collecting Now: The Family Photographed, The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film

Philadelphia Personal Views, Gallery 339

Pilner International Photography Awards Competition International tour. Best in Show. curated by Bill Hunt from among NY Photo Festival winners

2008 Interior Exposure, Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, NY

The Museum of Art, Ball State University Conversation Piece, (catalog)

2007 Houston Photo Forum, The Museum of Fine Arts

The Cooper Union Indwelling juried by Joyce Tenneson

Generations of Caring curated by Anne Tucker, Center for Performing Arts, Houston

2006 The Hunderdon Museum of Art Risky Business

Seattle Portraits from Private Spaces, Photographic Center Northwest

Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, Group Portrait

2005 Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition of Gallery Artists

Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Several Artists Consider Books

Jessica Todd Harper, Notre Dame University

The Silver Eye Center For Photography Fellowship

2004 The Woodmere Triennial (catalog), The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia

The Silver Eye Center For Photography Fellowship

2003 PA Portraits from Private Spaces, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh

The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts The 2003 Biennial (catalog)

The Silver Eye Center For Photography Fellowship

2002 Blue Sky Gallery- Portland, OR, David Hilliard and Jessica Todd Harper, (catalog)

NY Legacy, The Hartnett Gallery- The University of Rochester, Rochester

TX Scenes from a Marriage Diary, Houston Center for Photography- Houston

PA Scenes from a Marriage Diary (catalog), Allentown Art Museum- Allentown

The Silver Eye Center For Photography Fellowship

2001 The Silver Eye Center For Photography Fellowship

Rochester Institute of Technology MFA Thesis Show- Legacy

SELECTED AWARDS

2016 Outwin Boocheever Portrait Prize Finalist

Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize Finalist

2015 Paris Photo Prize, First Place

International Photography Awards, First Place Lucie Award for The Home Stage (Damiani Editore)

Winner of the Print Center’s 88th Annual International Competition

Prix de la Photographie- Silver Medalist

2010 Society of Publication Designers 45th Annual Print Awards Silver Medalist

2009 PA Council on the Arts Fellowship

PDN winner for Best Book for Interior Exposure (Damiani Editore)

Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top Finalist

2008 First Place Lucie Award, for Interior Exposure (Damiani Editore)

New York Photo Festival Award Winner: “Best Fine Art Photograph”

New York Photo Festival Finalist for “Best Book” for Interior Exposure (Damiani Editore)

Oprah Magazine’s Recommended Books of 2008, Interior Exposure (Damiani Editore)

2007 AP (American Photography) winner for best of published photography

2006 Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top Finalist

2005 “PDN’s 30: Our Choice of Photographers to Watch”

Santa Fe Prize “Juror’s Choice” winner, (Juror: Susan Smith, National Geographic)

Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top Finalist

2002 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship

2000 First Prize Merit Scholarship, R.I.T. Graduate Program

Collections

The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

Haverford College, Haverford, PA

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Philadelphia, PA

The Wallace Library, Rochester, NY

The Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

INVITED LECTURES

The George Eastman Museum, Art and Motherhood Panel Discussion with Rania Matar and Bea Nettles, 2020

Bryn Mawr College- Bryn Mawr, PA, 2017

Galerie Confluence, Nantes, France, 2016

The School of Visual Arts, NYC, 2015

Arcadia University, Philadelphia, PA, 2015

Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, 2015

Society of Photographic Education-National Conference, New Orleans, LA, The Home Stage, 2015

The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, The Home Stage, 2015

San Francisco Camerawork, SF, CA The Home Stage, 2015

Galerie Confluence, Nantes, France, 2012

Princeton University- Interior Exposure, 2009

Society of Photographic Education-National Conference, Dallas, TX, Interior Exposure, 2009

Google Headquarters, Palo Alto, CA, Author Talks Series, Interior Exposure, 2008

Aperture Gallery, “Aperture Talks”, NYC, Interior Exposure, 2008

Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, Jessica Todd Harper, 2007

International Center for Photography, NYC, Jessica Todd Harper, 2006

Society of Photographic Education, National Conference, Austin, TX, Legacy, 2003

Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA, Portraits from Private Spaces, 2003

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Portraits from Private Spaces, 2003

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, Legacy, 2002

Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Scenes from a Marriage Diary, 2001

COLLECTIONS

The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film - Rochester, NY

The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX

The Allentown Art Museum - Allentown, PA

Haverford College- Haverford PA

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, private collection - Philadelphia, PA

The Wallace Library, RIT - Rochester, NY

The Photographic Center Northwest – Seattle, WA

The International Center for Photography, New York

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art: 2004-2012

International Center for Photography, New York, NY, Faculty: Fall 2007

Haverford College, Haverford, PA, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Art: 2003-2004

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2022 Vanity Fair Italia, “Contemporary Artists Interpret the Family”, August 2022

2021 Marie Claire Italy, Dec-Jan Issue. Photography Portfolio “Grandi Celebrazioni”

2018 Gente di Fotografia no. 70, cover story with 10 images

2016 Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, McNay Art Museum. Essays by René Paul Barilleaux, Auriel Garza, Gregory J. Harris, and Lucy Soutter

Family Photography Now, Thames and Hudson, edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren CNN.com, 

2015 The New Yorker, “Galleries: Uptown”, by Vince Aletti, January 6th.

Book Forum, Family Ties: The Home Stage, Spring/Summer issue

Photo District News, Fine Art on Demand, July issue

Madame Magazine, Die Blicke der Frauen, February issue

Lenscratch, “Jessica Todd Harper”, by Aline Smithson

2014 The Home Stage Damiani Editore

Alain de Botton and John Armstrong, Art as Therapy: The True Purpose of Art, Phaidon.

2012 Alain de Botton, How to Think More About Sex, Macmillan.

2011 Die Zeit Literatur Magazine, October 6, 2011

Nido Magazine (Germany), April issue

Exploring Color Photography Fifth Edition: From Film to Pixels, Robert Hirsch. Focal Press

2010 New York Magazine, July 2010 “All Joy, No Fun” (cover story)

2009 Photo District News (May, The Photo Annual), “Best Photography Books”

Adbusters, October 2009

Real Simple, November 2009

The New York Photo Awards 2008 Annual, the winners of The New York Photo Awards.

O, The Oprah Magazine, (March) “The Gift”, p. 197-201.

O, The Oprah Magazine, (January) The Reading Room

The Art of Caring:A Look At Life Through Photography. Cynthia Goodman. Ruder-Finn Press

2008 Photo District News (November), “Best Photography Books of 2008”, review by Reuel Golden

Interior Exposure, Damiani Editore. Foreword by Larry Fink, Interview by Sarah Anne McNear

Newsweek, “Women & Leadership”, p.54-71. October 13.

The New Yorker, “Galleries: Uptown”, by Vince Aletti, May 12

O, The Oprah Magazine, review of Interior Exposure by Francine Prose, 8/08

Newsweek, “Gourmets Go Underground”, by Gina Pace. June 9.

2007 Light and Lens, Photography in the Digital Age, Focal Press. Edited by Robert Hirsch, 2007. Contributing artist.

Newsweek, Jogging Your Memory, December 10, p.68

O, The Oprah Magazine, September, Connections, p.281

O, The Oprah Magazine, August, The Reading Room, p.154

2006 Fotografia Magazine, August 22 issue cover story, by Ireneusz Zjezdzalka

Shots Magazine #91 (Spring, 2006), p. 27

Art News, Altered States, by Richard B. Woodward, March, p. 108

Photo District News (February) The 50 States Issue, Pennsylvania, p.52

2005 Photo District News (March) Our Choice Of Emerging Photographers to Watch: PDN’s 30

Photo District News (March) End Frame: Art Appreciation

2004 Exploring Color Photography, Forth Edition, McGraw-Hill. Edited by Robert Hirsch, 2004. Contributing Artist.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jessica Todd Harper:Familien – Fest im Fokus, by Husch Josten. Easter Sunday (4/11), p.59.

Camera Austria No. 85, FORUM section. March 2004.

2002 The Portland Mercury, First Thursday Preview, by Karrin Ellertson. Vol 2 No. 47 (5/8)

The Sunday Oregonian, Our Picks of the Week for May 26- June 1, 2002, by Stan Hall. (5/26)

Blue Sky #35 - Published by Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2002.

2001 Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas,Materials, & Processes, (2nd ed) Focal Press. Edited by Robert Hirsch, 2001. Contributing artist.

SELECTED ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

Two Way Lens: Interviews with Contemporary Photographers. “Jessica Todd Harper”, by Michael Werner

Lenscratch, “Jessica Todd Harper”, by Aline Smithson

Fraction Magazine, issue #13. Edited by David Bram. “Jessica Todd Harper”

EDUCATION

2001 MFA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

1997 Bryn Mawr College, BA, cum laude, in Art History

1996 Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs, (coursework in art history and fine art), Paris, France

1997 - 99 Larry Fink Studio- Martins Creek, PA: Assistant and Studio Manager