Jessica Chappe
jessica.chappe@gmail.com / @jess_chappe / 310-883-5176 / Catskill, NY
BORN
1994 Santa Monica, CA
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 blueprint, Hudson-as-Muse Artist in Residence, Basilica Hudson, NY
2020 Personal Utopias, Bolivar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017 Personal Utopias, Bolivar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017 Personal Utopias, Un-Gallery, Mar Vista CA
2016 Personal Utopias, Senior Thesis, Bard College, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Selected Photos, Muyingo Events, Roseroom, Venice, CA
2018 Cielo, Group show, Gather Exhibition, Kingston, NY
2017 Selected Photo from At Play, Los Angeles Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Twelve Tribes, 4D, Rhinebeck, NY
JOURNALISM
2023 Times Union Hudson Valley (photos) – For some Ukrainians fleeing war, the Hudson Valley is a refuge
2022 Times Union Hudson Valley - The magical mystery tour of Lucid Dream Minigolf
2022 Times Union Hudson Valley - The Hot Air Balloon Festival
2022 Times Union Hudson Valley - The Faces of a Changing Hudson
2021 Times Union Hudson Valley - A Look Inside Poughkeepsie's Witchcraft District
2021 New York Magazine - Inside a 22-Person Pandemic Pod in a Hudson Valley Hotel
ONLINE FEATURE INTERVIEWS
2022 How a Hudson Valley B&B became a 22-person Pandemic Pod, Time Union Hudson Valley
2020 Beloved Community, Art and Cake
2020 Inside World, Style Carrot
2020 Inside World, Shoebox PR
2017 Personal Utopias, Lenscratch
FILM COMMISSIONS
2019 Tierra Antigua, Tierra Antigua, Oaxaca, México
2018 Cielo, Cielo Hammock, Merida, Yucatan
2018 The Hill, Richard Schulhof, CEO of the Los Angeles County Arboretum
FILM/PHOTOGRAPHY PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
2022 Photography Assistant for David Hume Kennerly, NDA, Amman, Jordan
2022 Photography Assistant, Bank of America Commercial, NYC, NY
2022 Art Direction Assistant, Kids Bop, H5 Pay Inc, Poughkeepsie, NY
2022 Production Assistant, Wayfair photoshoot, AM Creative NY, Pine Plains, NY
2020 Editor and Cinematography with Bec Pecaut, Medium Baby, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Photography Assistant for David Hume Kennerly, set of Veep, Los Angeles, CA
PRESENTATIONS
2023 Inside a 22-Person Pandemic Pod in a Hudson Valley Hotel, Harvard University, Graduate School in Design – featured by Jenny French – Architecture Lecture on Community Living, Cambridge, MA
2022 Oral History guide and project coordinator for The Future of Small Cities student led community interviews, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
2020 - Creative Assistant, leading Oral Historian and Archivist - Melissa Auf der Maur’s memoir and parallel projects, Hudson, NY
2021 - Branding Strategist for Pete Mauney
2021 Social media for Basilica Hudson
2020-21 Archivist for Wendy Ewald
2020 Communications, Event Planning, and Digital Archiving- Kayne Griffin Corcoran
2017-19 Archivist/photographer/Podcaster for Metabolic Studio,
2017-19 Printer/Photoshop technician/archival /photo assistant for David Hume Kennerly
AWARDS/RESIDENCY
2022 Hudson-as-Muse Artist Residency, Basilica Hudson, NY
2019-20 Teaching artist in residence/assistant mentee, Rabbit Hole Screenings, LA High School, CA
2020 Shortlist, Open competition, Motion, 2020 Sony World Photography Awards, online
2020 Shortlist, Alpha Female Award, 2020 Sony World Photography Awards, Online
EDUCATION
2016 Bachelor of Arts in Photography and Human Rights, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2022 Oral History Summer School Workshop, training, Hudson, NY
References available upon request.