Jessie Curtis has been involved in photography since her first freelance assignment for a ColuASmbia University urban studies project. For ten years, she was a commercial photographer, working for studios in New York City. During that time, she also freelanced as a concert photographer. Her concert and theatre photographs have been published by The Music Paper, Billboard, The Villager, and other journals, as well as purchased by Profile Records. Following her first exhibition in 1981, at the Hoboken Cultural Festival, she exhibited at the Hopoghan Gallery, Hoboken. After exhibiting in a group show at the City Without Walls Gallery in Newark, New Jersey, in 1982, her work was included in a one-year national tour, called “Best of the Best.” In 1986, her photographs of residents of the Navajo and Hopi reservations, taken during the Big Mountain meetings and protests were exhibited in New York and in Minnesota.

More recent exhibits include juried works at the Nexus Gallery, New York City and in Elmira, NY in March, 2000; a one-woman show at the 7th Street Gallery, New York City, called “Conversations from New York City to Bahia” in December, 1999; and a two-woman show with painter Sue Wall in Springfield, MA, November, 1998, entitled “Unrestricted.”

Awards
PROMAX/BDA Gold Medallion (1994)
James River Company Silver (1995)

Education
Graduate Studies, New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
B.A., New Jersey City University
Sarah Lawrence College