Contact Information
Studio Address: Industry City, Suite B331, 67 35th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Email: JM@JeanetteMay.com
Education
MFA Photography, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
BFA Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Solo Exhibitions
Gallery Photoland, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, Curious Devices, 2026
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, Curious Devices, 2025
The Gallery at Penn College, Williamsport, PA, Tech Vanitas, 2021
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, Tech Vanitas, 2021
MTA Arts & Design Lightbox Project, Bryant Park Subway Station, NY, NY, Tech Time Capsule, public art installation, 2020-2021
Alter Gallery, Shanghai, China, Tech Vanitas, 2019
Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH, Tech Vanitas, 2019
University of Maine, Farmington, ME, Tech Vanitas, 2019
OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY, Morbidity & Mortality, 2013
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Bachelor Pads, 2012
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Easy on the Eyes, 2009
Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Fertility in the Age of A.R.T., 2008
Illini Union Art Gallery, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Fertility in the Age of A.R.T., 2007
Selected Group Exhibitions
Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, Consumed, November 2025 - March 2026
Princeton University Art Museum, Art on Hulfish, Princeton, NJ, Art About Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings, curator Ronni Baer, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer, 2023
The National Arts Club, New York, NY, Affiliation, curator JoAnne McFarland, 2023
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2022, featured artist, 2022
Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 3-person exhibition, Curious Devices & Other Objects, 2021
Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, Selections from the Mark and Ora Pescovitz Collection, 2021
Gallery FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain, 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards exhibition, 2020
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, Undying Traditions: Memento Mori, curator Art Martin, 2019
Filter Space, Chicago, IL, Re/member/construct, juror Lisa Volpe, 2018
The Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Beautiful Obsolescence, 3-person exhibition, 2018
BASE Milano, Milan, Italy, FUTURO PRESENTE, Public Screening, curated by ArtsFor_, 2018
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, Photography Now 2017, juror William Ewing
Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Vanitas, Jeanette May and Kimberly Witham, 2017
Bronx Council on the Arts, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, Noir, curator Juanita Lanzo, 2017
On the Ground Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Feminist Sex Shoppe, curator Malika Ali, 2015
Katzen Museum, American Univ, Washington, DC, Readymade@100, curator Mark Cameron Boyd, 2014
Power Plant Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC, Picture Books, 2014
International Center of Photography (ICP) Educ. Gallery, NY, NY, Stories in the Social Landscape, 2014
OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY, Illuminators, 2013
Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, No Place Like Home, curator Anonda Bell, 2013
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, DIY Photographers & Books, curator Barbara Tannenbaum, 2012
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI, Take Care: Biomedical Ethics in the 21st Century, 2012
Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN, Take Care: Biomedical Ethics in the 21st Century, 2011
Konsthallen, Sandviken, Sweden, Vestige: Traces of Reality, curator Jill Conner, 2011
New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, Photography & Literature, 2010
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, Flo: art, text, new media, curator Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, 2009
Heineman-Myers Contemporary Art, Bethesda, MD, Faux/Real, 2-Person Exhibition, 2008
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, Structured Incidents, curator Charlotta Kotik, 2008
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, The Feminine Mystique, curator Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, 2007
Collections
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Contemporary Photography Collection, Fort Wayne, IN
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT
Schingoethe Center, Aurora University, Aurora, IL
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Oakland Museum of California, Works on Paper Collection, Oakland, CA
MTA Arts & Design, Metropolitan Transit Authority Art Collection, NY, NY
Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives, Brooklyn, NY
Duke University Library, Special Collections, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Durham, NC
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Johns Hopkins University, Center for Communication Programs, Media/Materials Clearinghouse, Baltimore, MD
National Institutes of Health, History of Medicine Collection, Posters
Bibliography
Float Photo Magazine, “More/Less,” online exhibition & printed zine, 2025
Musée Magazine, October 30, 2023, “Art About Art” exhibition review by Madeline Lerner
Artnet.com News, August 21, 2023,“Photographers Recreate Old Master Paintings in Witty and Profound Ways in a New Show at a Princeton University Art Gallery,” by Taylor Dafoe
SmithsonianMag.com, August 25, 2023, “See How Photographers Reimagine Old Master Paintings,” exhibition review by Teresa Nowakowski
Missouri Review, Vol 46, #2, 2023, "Vanitas: The Art of Death and Decay,” by Kristine Somerville
Dodho Magazine, June 2023, "In Conversation with Jeanette May,” interview on Dodho.com
Voices of Photography, Issue 34, Optical Toys, 2023, Artist’s Showcase, in print and digital edition
Aesthetica Magazine, January 14, 2022, "Technological Vanitas," feature on Jeanette May
Audubon Magazine, Winter 2021, photographs for “Where Have All the Rare Bird Alerts Gone?”
PHOTOFAIRS, February 18, 2020, “Jeanette May, Vanitas of the Digital Age,” Artist Takeover
LENSCRATCH, July 19, 2019, “Jeanette May: Tech Vanitas,” feature and interview with Daniel George
Barbara magazine, Issue #31, December 2018, “It should look like an accident,” photo feature on “Morbidity & Mortality” series
PDN Photo District News, September 2017, PDNews feature by Photo Editor Rebecca Robertson
FloatMagazine.us, September 2015, “Morbidity & Mortality” featured in Portfolios page
45 Years at OK Harris, 2015, by Marilynn Karp, Suzanne Kreps, and Ron Weis, Randem Publishing
TheDailyBeast.com, January 23, 2014, “Bachelor Pads,” Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik
There is No Place Like Home, 2013, exhibition catalog, “Home?” essay by Anonda Bell
Time Out New York, February 1, 2012, “Bachelor Pads” exhibit Critics’ pick: This week in New York
Curbed.com, January 18, 2012, “Direct Your Longing Gaze at These Men in Their Bachelor Pads,” by Dave Hogarty
Contemporary Humanism, 2009, exhibition essay by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado.
Washington Post, August 24, 2007, “At Area Galleries, Singularly Focused Groups,” review.
Fellowships, Grants & Awards
Critical Mass Photography Competition, Photo Lucida, Top 200 Finalist, 2019, 2021
Clarence John Laughlin Award, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Finalist, 2020
14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Still Life Photography, 2019
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Fund, 2018
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program, 2015 - 2022
Forward Thinking Museum, 2010 1st Quarter Finalist, JGS Photography Contest, 2010
Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize, Semi-Finalist, 2007
Ms. Foundation, Project Grant, Girl Germs Poster Project, 1998
Illinois Arts Council, Individual Artists' Fellowship Finalist, Photography, 1994
NEA Regional Artists Projects Grant, No More Nice Girls Project, 1992
Illinois Arts Council, Individual Artists' Fellowship Award, Photography, 1990