Jessica Wynne is an American photographer, born in 1972. She received an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1999 and a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994.
Wynne’s first monograph Do Not Erase, was published by Princeton University Press in June of 2021. And in 2023 Do Not Erase was translated and published in Korea, Japan, and Germany. Her work is also included in several other books: Turn Shake Flip: Celebrate Contemporary Art, Eyestorm Books (2001) and 25 and Under: Photographers, W.W. Norton & The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (1996). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Morgan Library & Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Wynne's photographs have been exhibited at The Morgan Library and Museum, The Triennale di Milano, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Edwynn Houk Gallery, The Armory Show and Art Basel. She is a 2022 MacDowell Fellow, a 2023 Prix Pictet nominee, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Scientific American among many
others.
Wynne currently lives and works in New York City. She is a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery.
Education
1999 Yale University School of Art
1994 San Francisco Art Institute
Exhibitions
2025 Expostion Général, Fondation Cartier, Paris France
2025 Art Basel, Miami, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Miami FL
2025 University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
2025 The Armory Show, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Paris Photo, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Paris, France
2023 The Morgan Library & Museum, Uncommon Denominator, New York, NY
2023 Art Basel, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2022 Triennale di Milano, “Unknown, Unknowns: An Introduction to Mysteries”, Milan, Italy
2021 Art Basel, Miami, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Miami FL
2021 Paris Photo, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Paris, France
2021 The Armory Show, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Art Basel, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2021 Expo Chicago, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Online Viewing Room
2021 Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2021 The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
2020 The Armory Show, Edwynn Houk Gallery Booth, New York, NY
2020 Art Basel, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Online Viewing Room
2018 Summer of Love, Arts and Leisure Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Social Photography V, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Truro, Taft School: Mark Potter Gallery, Watertown, CT
2015 Collections Show, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2015 The Dreams That I Gave Her, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Artist-in-Residency Show, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2010 Lightness, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY
2000 Gym Culture 2000, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
2000 Gym Culture 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2000 Insites: Interior Spaces, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
1999 Surfing the Surface, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
1999 MFA Exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1997 25 and Under, Juanita Kreps Gallery, Durham, NC
1997 New Photography, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Lectures
2025 Università di Siena, Conference on Complex Systems, Invited Speaker
2025 Mandell Photography Salon, San Francisco, CA
2025 Kansas State University, Art and Math Seminar, Lecturer
2023 Bridges Conference, Joint Mathematics Meeting, Helsinki, Finland
2021 Henri Poincare Institute and Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Paris, France
2021 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ
2021 Princeton University, Visual Representations of Teaching and Learning, moderated by Katherine Bussard, Princeton NJ
Residencies
2022 Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
2022 MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2020 DNA, Provincetown, MA
Publications
2025 Expostion Général Catalog, Fondation Cartier, October 2025
2025 Do Not Erase, Japanese edition, Sōshisha Press
2024 Do Not Erase, Chinese edition, Shanghai Scientific and Technical
2023 Bitte Nicht Wegwischen (German edition of Do Not Erase), Kunstmann Press
2021 Do Not Erase, Princeton University Press, June 2021
2002 Turn Shake Flip: Celebrate Contemporary Art, Eye Storm Books
1996 25 and Under: Photographs, WW Norton and The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Collections
2024 University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
2023 Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
2021 The MIT Student Lending Art Program, Cambridge, MA
2021 American Math Society, Providence, RI
2019 The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
2004 The Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Howard Stein Collection
1998 The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Articles & Reviews
2021 University of Chicago Magazine, “Beauty on the Blackboard: New book captures mathematicians’ chalk experiments”, December 20, 2021
2021 American Scientist, “Chalkophilia”, September-October 2021
2021 Harvard Magazine, “Off the Shelf”, October 2021
2021 University of Michigan, “The artistry of mathematical models”, September 30, 2021
2021 Times Higher Education, “Tall blackboards and best chalk ‘still vital for mathematicians’”, June 20, 2021
2021 Financial Times of London, “Snapshot: ‘Do Not Erase’ by Jessica Wynne” , June 2021
2021 Scientific American, “The Art of Mathematics in Chalk”, May. 1, 2021
2021 National Geographic, “The Timeless Beauty of Mathematician’s Chalkboards”, April 2021
2021 The Taft Bulletin, “Alumni Spotlight: Beguiling Equations”, Fall 2020
2020 Columbia Magazine, “The Case for the Classic Chalkboard”, Winter 2019-2020
2020 Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, Die Rechner der Tafelrunde, January 2, 2020
2019 Fortune Magazine, “This FIT Photography Professor Finds Art in Mathematician’s Chalkboards”, December 23, 2019
2019 The New York Times, “Where Theory Meets Chalk: Dust Flies”, September 24, 2019
2019 The Guardian (London), “Why Mathematicians Just Can’t QuitTheir Blackboards”, October 12, 2019
2019 Colossal, “A Photographic Survey by Jessica Wynne of Chalkboards Filled by Mathematicians”, October 6, 2019
2019 Sabato, “Au tableau! Ode aux génies des mathématiques”, October 22, 2019
2019 Boing Boing, “Do Not Erase: Jessica Wynne’s beautiful photos of mathematicians’ chalkboards”, September 27, 2019