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, 42nd St. & 6th Ave. Station, NY, NY, Tech Time Capsule, public art installation, Jan 2020 - May 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, Solo Exhibition, Bachelor Pads, 2012
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Solo Exhibition, Easy on the Eyes, 2009
Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Fertility in the Age of A.R.T., 2008
Illini Union Gallery, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Fertility in the Age of A.R.T., 2007

Recent Group Exhibitions

Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, Consumed, November 20, 2025 - March 26, 2026
Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Altarpieces, 2024
Princeton University Art Museum, Art on Hulfish, Princeton, NJ, Art About Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings, curated by Ronni Baer, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer, 2023
The National Arts Club, New York, NY, Affiliation, curated by JoAnne McFarland, 2023
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2022
Giertz Gallery, Parkland College, Champaign, IL, Family Ties, 2022
F22 Fine Art Prints, Chicago, IL, West Town Pop-Up Project Exhibition, 2022
Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Curious Devices & Other Objects, 3-Person Exhibition, 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, curated by Art Martin, 2019
Filter Space, Chicago, IL, Re/member/construct, curator Lisa Volpe, 2018
The Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Beautiful Obsolescence, 3-Person Exhibition, curator Amanda McDonald Crowley, 2018
BASE Milano, Milan, Italy, FUTURO PRESENTE, Public Screening for Digital Week curated by ArtsFor_, March 15-18, 2018
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, Photography Now 2017, curator William Ewing, 2017
Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Vanitas, 2-Person Exhibition with Kimberly Witham, 2017
Bronx Council on the Arts, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, Noir: Defining the Melodrama, curator Juanita Lanzo, 2017
Field Projects, pop-up exhibit at 5 Anderson St., New Rochelle, NY, Ghosts, curator Beth Livensperger, 2016
SpaceCamp, Baltimore, MD, Fathers, Brothers, Sons, curated by Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Curatorial Practice '17, 2016
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA), NY, NY, Exhibition #15 New Artists, curator Natalia Nakazawa, 2015
On the Ground Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Feminist Sex Shoppe, curator Malika Ali, 2015
Katzen Museum, American University, 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, curator Karen Marshall, 2014
OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY, Illuminators, 2013
Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ, No Man is an Island, curator Sarah Schmerler, 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
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, Man as Object – Reversing the Gaze, curator Tanya Augsburg, Ph.D., 2011
Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, 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 Rocîo Aranda-Alvarado, 2008
Heineman-Myers Contemporary Art, Bethesda, MD, Faux/Real, 2-Person Exhibition, 2008
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NY, The Feminine Mystique, curator Rocîo Aranda-Alvarado, 2007

Collections

Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Contemporary Photography Collection, Fort Wayne, IN
Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware, OH
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT
Schingoethe Center, Aurora University Art Collection, Aurora, IL
Mattatuck Museum, Art Collection, 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
Mark and Ora Pescovitz Collection

Selected Bibliography

Float Photo Magazine, More/Less, 2025, online exhibition & printed zine
Side of Culture, May 6, 2025, “Public Art Matters More Than We May Realize,” by Victoria Larson
Musée Magazine, October 30, 2023, “Art About Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings,” by Madeline Lerner
Art & Archaeology News, Princeton University, September 27, 2023, “Contemporary Artists Recalibrate Early Modern Masterpieces” (PDF)
SmithsonianMag.com, August 25, 2023, “See How Photographers Reimagine Old Master Paintings,” by Teresa Nowakowski (PDF)
Artnet.com News, August 21, 2023, “Photographers Recreate Old Master Paintings in Witty and Profound Ways,” by Taylor Dafoe (PDF)
Missouri Review, Vol 46, #2, Summer 2023, "Vanitas: The Art of Death and Decay,” article by Kristine Somerville
Dodho Magazine, June 2023, "In Conversation with Jeanette May,” interview on Dodho website (PDF)
Voices of Photography, Issue 34, Optical Toys, 2023, Artist’s Showcase feature on Jeanette May, in print and digital editions
Dodho Magazine, Issue 23, December 2022, "Curious Devices," feature on Jeanette May, in print and digital editions
Aesthetica Magazine, January 14, 2022, "Technological Vanitas," feature on Jeanette May, in Magazine New Artists page (PDF)
Audubon Magazine, Winter 2021, photographs for “Where Have All the Rare Bird Alerts Gone?” by Dan Koeppel
The Express, Lock Haven, PA, November 4, 2021, “Photography exhibit explores anxious array of technology at Penn College”
Side of Culture, July 7, 2020, “MTA in NYC Boosts Community Spirt with Art and Installations,” review
PHOTOFAIRS, February 18, 2020, “Jeanette May, Vanitas of the Digital Age,” Artist Takeover
HOOKfabrica, August 22, 2019, "Only modern talents feel negative and nothing? “Voids” in the history of art,” review
LENSCRATCH, July 19, 2019, "Jeanette May: Tech Vanitas," feature and interview with Daniel George (PDF)
Barbara magazine, Issue #31, December 2018, “It should look like an accident,” photo feature on “Morbidity & Mortality” series
Amica, March 15, 2018, "Milano Digital Week: Futuro Presente" public exhibition/screening, daily tips
PDN Photo District News, September 2017, "Finding Beauty in Flip Phones and Land Lines," PDNews article by Rebecca Robertson
LENSCRATCH, May 10, 2017, "Jeanette May and Kimberly Witham: Vanitas at Klompching Gallery," feature by Aline Smithson
GUP Magazine, May 7, 2017, "Toying with Tradition: Contemporary Vanitas on Display at Klompching," exhibition review
Light Leaked, May 2017, "Morbidity & Mortality" photos in "Constructing Narrative" issue by Dana Stirling and Yoav Friedlander
Lunch Ticket, Literary & Art Journal of Antioch University, LA, CA, February 15, 2016, “Morbidity & Mortality” Amuse-Bouche feature
45 Years at OK Harris, 2015, by Marilynn Karp, Suzanne Kreps, and Ron Weis, Randem Publishing
FloatMagazine.us, September 2015, “Morbidity & Mortality” featured in Portfolios page
Jeanette May's Easy on the Eyes: Photographs for a Female Audience, 2015, master thesis by Danielle de Hoog, Leiden University, Netherlands
Readymade@100, 2014, exhibition catalog, “Readymade@100,” essay by Mark Cameron Boyd
TheDailyBeast.com, January 23, 2014, “Bachelor Pads,” Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik
Photodigest.be, November 4, 2013, featured exhibit, “Morbidity & Mortality: Jeanette May @New York”
There is No Place Like Home, 2013, exhibition catalog, “Home?” essay by Anonda Bell
The New York Photo Review, May 16-22, 2012, “Crime Scenes” review by Mohammad Chowdhury
The Brooklyn Paper, April 27, 2012, “Victim’s Close-Up,” review by Will Bredderman
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
Eventseekr blog, November 14, 2011, “Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze—Is a Naked Man Enough?” exhibition review by Julia Glosemeyer
Arbetarbladet, Sweden, June 20, 2011, “New York Spanar in Sandviken,” review by Lars Halvarsson (English translation PDF)

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

Critical Mass Photography Competition, Photo Lucida, Top 200 Finalist, 2021
Clarence John Laughlin Award, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Finalist, 2020
14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Still Life category winner, 2019
Critical Mass Photography Competition, Photo Lucida, Top 200 Finalist, 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
A Shenere Velt Gallery, Régime Change Exhibition, Best of Show, 2004
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
City of Chicago, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Visual Arts, C.A.A.P. Grant, 1992
Illinois Arts Council, Individual Artists' Fellowship Award, Photography, 1990