Born 1975, USA
Lives and works in Philadelphia
Education
2006 MFA, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2003 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio Art/Painting, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1997 Bachelor of Arts, Chinese Language and Cultural Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1996 Semester abroad, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Books | Zines | Songs
2021 Wish You Were Here (with Sharlene Leurig and others)
2020 Nancy and Barbara (a song)
A Tiny Guide for HOW White People Can Show Up for Racial Justice at Marches + Protests with BIPOC
The ABCs of Handwashing
Write A Book
What’s in It for YOU? The Green New Deal
Stop and Smell The Roses
2019 Tips for Flying
Get Out of Jail for the Price of Your Home, Your Dog, Your Job, and Your KID
My Rules for Sleeping
2018 How to Cut The Cheese
The Men in Your Life: A Zine on Mass Incarceration
Whatcha Sayin, Dog?
TOGETHER (a song)
How to Meet Neighbors
2017 What's in It for You? A Zine for Possibilitarians (collaboration with Sebastien Leclercq)
#1 For Deep Sleep (a song)
The Less Gooey Truth about Condoms
2016 What's in It for You? A Zine for Men
We: A Zine for Humans
2014 Sticker Book (for John C. Gonzalez)
2013 ≥ Ten Years of Fun
2011 The Final Destination Used to Be My Main Question. ISBN: 978-1-257-09148-5
2011 I ________ Bumpkin Island Art Encampment. ISBN: 978-1-257-11656-0
2010 We are ______. ISBN: 978-0-557-14420-4
One Person Exhibitions | Performances | Interventions
2018 VOTE, postering the night before the election, Brooklyn, NY (documented by Stuck Up Piece of Crap)
2014-19 Ivy Heart P, Sidewalks of Brooklyn, NY
2013 Living Room Host (for Lee Mingwei), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2012 For You I Feel Lucky, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Compass Program, Boston, MA
For You I Feel Lucky, AS220 (The Empire Black Box), Providence, RI
Living Room Host (for Lee Mingwei), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
For You I Feel Lucky, The Hallway Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2011 For You I Feel Lucky, The Hallway Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
For You | [W]Rapper, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
The World Famous Secretary For You, Rebekah Templeton, Philadelphia, PA
For You I Feel Lucky, New England Art Awards, Somerville, MA
2010 For You I Feel Lucky, Effectus, Boston, MA
For You, Beautiful, Samson Projects, Boston, MA In perpetuity at: bit.ly/4UBeautiful
For You | [W]Rapper, Mobius Art Space, Boston, MA
The World Famous Secretary For You, MEME, Cambridge, MA | www.theworldfamoussecretary.com
2009 For You, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2007 Every atom belonging to me as sure belongs to you, the wink, Cambridge,MA
Even the highest mind... On Death and Dying, Rockingham Free Public Library, Bellows Falls,VT
Dedication of the Leurig Collection, The Mini Maritime Museum, Cambridge, MA
2006 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Paine & Bakalar Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2005 ≥ Hippasus of Metapontum, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Even the highest mind... Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2001 My Skinniest Friends, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions | Performances | Interventions
2022 5 Million Strong, USA
2021 Using Food As A Force for Good, South Philly Food Coop, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Order of the Gingerbread (Open) House (with Patrick Jacobs, Raj Kottamasu, Dan Miller, Dan Waller, and Xo Wood), BK, NY
Works well with others, upon invitation of John C. Gonzalez, Brown University, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence RI
2015-20 Receiving Coordinator, Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY
A French Off, Duo, Kingston, NY
2015 To Feel Things with Others | Performancy Forum Quinquennial (with Alice Vogler), Grace Space, Brooklyn, NY
2014 surprise guest dinner series (with John C. Gonzalez), Brooklyn, NY
Supermarket Art Fair, Grafik i Väst, Stockholm, Sweden
Time Body Space Objects 3, Difibrillator, Chicago, IL
2013 Home Depot House (for John C. Gonzalez), deCordova Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA
J’s Tub Tape – Don’t Touch Ever! (w/ Sue Murad & John C. Gonzalez), Boston, MA
I Always Knew You Were a Witch (w/ Sue Murad, Alice Vogler & Vela Phelan), Boston, MA
PINK, The Good Sugar (with Sue Murad, Christo Wood, et al), Boston, MA
lamb, The Good Sugar (with Sue Murad & Christo Wood), Boston, MA
Iced Tea Picnic! (with DEAD ART STAR), Larz Anderson Park, Brookline, MA
Tree University (with Futurefarmers), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
wood, The Good Sugar, Boston, MA
Margaritaville (with Sue Murad, Jordan Tynes & Taylor McVay), Boston, MA
Near Death Performance Art Experience Feast (with Alice Vogler and Vela Phelan), Roxbury, MA
PEEPS (with Sue Murad), Boston, MA
Black & White (with Sue Murad), Boston, MA
Red (with Zayde Buti), The Good Sugar, Boston, MA
Upsodown, The New Art Center, Newton, MA
2012 Violet, The Good Sugar, Boston, MA
Big, Red & __________, Big, Red Shindig, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
On Sincerity, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA (co-curated by Lynne Cooney and Liz Munsell)
For You, Figment Boston, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA
deCordova Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalog)
Campaign for Good, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA (with Christo Wood, Matt Shanley and Karen Stein)
2011- Kindness Is Contagious, Boston, MA; Portland, OR; Doha, Qatar; Götebörg, Sweden; Lima, Peru
Everything But Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Postcards From the Edge, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Flourish: Alumni Works on Paper, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (catalogs)
Bumpkin Forward [I ______ Bumpkin Island Art Encampment], Mobius, Boston, MA
The 22nd Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (catalog)
Swap Meet, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 Everything But Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Boston Related, Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA
I _____ Bumpkin Island Art Encampment, Berwick Research Institute | Studio Soto, Boston, MA
For You | [W]Rapper, for Artrages in collaboration with Mobius, East Boston, MA
Labyrint 09 - Writings and Observations, Botkyrka konsthall, Tumba, Sweden (catalog)
Color Isn’t Matter (for William Pope L.), Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Buried (for Sue Murad), Park Street Church, Boston, MA
The 21st Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (catalog)
2009 Everything But Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Figurative (Movement in the MFA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Postcards From the Edge, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
2008 The Annual AIDS Benefit 2008, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Celebration of the Arts, The Emerson Center for Arts & Culture, Bozeman, MT
The 19th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (catalog)
2007 the 1950 ford show, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Project YUM, Union Square, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA
2006 Salon d’Atelier Haricots Verts, Stringbean Artspace, Somerville, MA
2005 Systems, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2004 Midway Show, Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Endo/Ecto, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2003 Paper Dolls, Lux Gallery, Somerville, MA
2000 100 Cameras Project, Hewlett-Packard, www.hp.com/100cameras
1995 Juried Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Press
2023 Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts Quarterly Journal: Q40. “Compost”
2021 Orion Magazine: Spring 2021. “Wish You Were Here: Postcards from The Future”
2015 Performance is Alive: Artist Feature with Faith Johnson
2014 Landfill Quarterly: Issue 4
2013 Big, Red & Shiny Blog: April 1, Anulfo Baez.”Covering Performance Art through the Years on Big, Red & Shiny”
2012 Big, Red & Shiny Blog: December 5, Leah Triplett.”On/Sincerity”
2012 Two Coats of Paint: November 24, Sharon Butler.”Quick Study: forgotten, lost, missed and sincere”
2012 Big, Red & Shiny Blog: September 26, the Editors.”Big Red Shindig Performance Previews”
2012 WGBH Arts: July 18, Mary Tinti. “Kindness is Contagious at Figment Boston”
2012 Boston Globe: March 28, Milva Didomizio. “The Campaign for Good; Positively Positive”
2012 Stuff Magazine: March 14, Stuff Boston. “Stuff We Love”
2012 Artscope: March/April, J. Fatima Martins. “The 2012 deCordova Biennial”
2012 littleyellowbirds.blogspot.com: February 21, Joetta Muae. “the other biennial?”
2012 The Evolving Critic: January 26, Anulfo Baez. “My Best Art(s) of 2011 List”
2011 Boston Urban Safari: November 14, Cristy Maldonado. “#42: For You I Feel Lucky at The Hallway JP”
2011 The Evolving Critic: November 11, Anulfo Baez. “For You I Feel Lucky”
2011 Boston Globe: October 7, Cate McQuaid. “2012 deCordova Biennial adds a new point of view to explore ‘hybrid practices’”
2011 Emmons, Didi. Wild Flavors; One Chef’s Transformative Year Cooking from Eva’s Farm. Chelsea Green.
2011 the artblog: August 25, Andreea Bailuc. “Jessica Gath’s Gift Giving Without a Registry’’
2011 the artblog: August 15, Roberta Fallon. “One night wonders at Grizzly and Vox and other things worth seeing at August First Friday”
2011 Philadelphia Weekly: August 3, Katherine Rochester. “August First Friday Picks”
2011 Boston Phoenix: July 11, Greg Cook. “Thinking Locally: The MCC Awards at Tufts, ‘Flourish’ at MassArt, and ‘The Cave Project’’
2011 Philadelphia Weekly: March 23, Roberta Fallon. “The Secretary Will See You Now”
2011 Philadelphia Metro: March 3, Monica Weymouth. “Celebrating the Art of the Letter”
2010 Cambridge Day, Arts + Culture: June 29, Mark Levy. “Performing a temp job that is anything but routine”
2010 Big, Red & Shiny, Our Daily Red: January 16, Christian Holland
2007 Bellows Falls Town Crier [VT], Vol. 48, No. 16: October 19, David Blistein. “Life Really Does Spring Eternal!”
2007 The Message, Vol. 34, No. 42: October 17-23, Rockingham Free Public Library. “Jessica Gath Art at RFPL”
2001 Pedersen, B. Martin. Top Ten in Advertising. New York: Graphis, 2001
Residencies
2015 AIR Serenbe, Chattahoochee Hills, GA
2009 Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center at the Friday Harbor Laboratories, Friday Harbor, WA
Visiting Artist/Lectureship
2014 TIME (for Andi Sutton), Studio Foundations, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Senior Sculpture Seminar, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2013 Department of Art Practice (ceramics), University of California, Berkeley
Studio for Interrelated Media Major Studio, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2012 Art Education Portfolio, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Sculpture Studio, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2011 Senior Sculpture Seminar (with Ralph Helmick), Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2010 Senior Sculpture Seminar, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2008 Hyde Square Task Force, Series on Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2007 Rockingham Free Public Library, Series on Death and Dying, Bellows Falls, VT
2006 China Middle School, China, ME