Jess T. Dugan

Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of identity, gender, sexuality, and community through photographic portraiture. They hold a BFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a master of liberal arts in museum studies from Harvard University, and an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago. Their work has been widely exhibited at venues including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the San Diego Museum of Art; Aperture Foundation, New York; the Transformer Station, Cleveland; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Dugan’s books include Every Breath We Drew (Daylight Books, 2015) and To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults with Vanessa Fabbre (Kehrer Verlag, 2018). They are the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and were selected by the White House as a Champion of Change. They also won the 2019 Infinity Award for Emerging Photographer from ICP. They are represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago.