Jessica Schwind

New Haven, CT

  Jessie@jessicaschwind.com

Education

2001    MFA, University of Connecticut

1998    BA, State University of New York at Cortland

Selected Exhibitions

            2011    NUTUREart 2011 Benefit, Chelsea Art Museum, NY, NY

House, Re-Interpreted, Pardee-Morris House, East Haven, CT

                        Yale Photo Now, online exhibition (http://photonow.sites.yale.edu/galleries/yale-photo-now)

                        Marie Celeste, Artspace, New Haven, CT

Alumni Biennial (two), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

            2010    Sameness-Difference-Variance, West Cove Studios, West Haven, CT

                        Things are Expanding, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA

Cultivated Castaways, Middlesex Community College, CT

                        I WANT Candy: The Sweet Stuff in American Art, traveling exhibition:

                                    -Historic City Hall and Cultural Center, Lake Charles, LA

                                    -Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI

            2009    I WANT Candy: The Sweet Stuff in American Art, traveling exhibition:                                            
                                    -Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA

                                    -The Nicolaysen Art Museum, Caspar, WY

            2008    Plush!, Hello my name is Gallery, CT

            2007    Implode, Hello my name is Gallery, CT

                        Conflux Festival, (trifocal projects) Brooklyn, NY

                        Convergence, (trifocal projects) Akus Gallery, ECSU, CT

                        I WANT Candy, The Hudson River Museum, NY

                        CT Contemporary, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, CT

                        Sugar Buzz, Lehman College, NY
            2006    The Love Show, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT

2005     Haskins Laboratory / Artspace Flat file Show, Yale University, CT

2004     Object Endowment, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT

             Secret Life, Artspace, New Haven, CT

            Apples and Oranges, trifocal projects, City Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT

                        Shifting Affinities, Yale Art School Gallery, Arts and Ideas Festival, New Haven, CT

            Suspended Animation, tri-focal projects @ Grand Projects, New Haven, CT

                        New Acquisitions, Artspace, New Haven, CT

2003    Like Life, Hygienic Gallery, New London, CT

                        Xim Xim, tri-focal Projects, City Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT

2002    Wal Art, tri-focal projects, City Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT

            First Time Out, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT

Solo Exhibitions

2010    Cultivated Castaways, Middlesex Community College, CT

2004    Magniflora, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT

                        Necessary Sound, Artspace, New Haven, CT

Curatorial Projects

            2008    Thoughts of You, Artspace, New Haven, CT
            2005    Thread, Curated by trifocal projects, Artspace, New Haven, CT

  Collaborative Projects

            2008    Camera Obscura/ 2-day Project, co-taught with Joseph Smolinski,

Academy of Culture and Communication at Pleasant Valley, Elementary School, Schenectady, NY

2002-2007

trifocal projects (Todd Jokl, Joseph Smolinski, Jessica Schwind)

Collaborative artist projects/Installation

                        Co-founder/artist

Employment

            2009-Present

                        Documentation Photographer

                        Yale University Art Gallery

Press

            Benjamin Genocchio, “A Contemporary Showcase at Wadsworth Atheneum.” New YorkTimes June 3, 2007.

            Donna Doherty. „Hanging by a Thread.“ New Haven Register May 21, 2006.

Benjamin Genocchio. “Love, Without Makeup.” New York Times April 9, 2006.

            Alex French. „A Forest froma Flower.“ Hartford Advocate July 29, 2004