EDUCATION:
2023 MFA Candidate, Photography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2017 BFA, Studio Art with Photography concentration, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
SOLO + TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2023 I Think We Could’ve Been Something: MFA Thesis Exhibition (upcoming), Solo, Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI
2022 Would You Lie With Me: MFA Qualifier Exhibition, Solo, Art Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI
2021 Sending my love, J + A, Two-person with Annmarie Suglio, Toula Gallery, Online Exhibition
2019 Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going…, Solo, Jane Sandelin Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018 [re]construction, Solo, VALET Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017 Nevermore, Solo, The Gallery at Laughing Dog, Harrisonburg, VA
2016 Easily Bruised: BFA Capstone Exhibition, Solo, Grace Street Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
Colors, Two-person with Abigail Ellis, Artful Dodger, Harrisonburg, VA
2015 Damaged, Solo, artWorks Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 LOVE Still Not the Lesser (upcoming), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Lens 2023 (upcoming), Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
2022 See Me: LGBTQ+ Community Art Exhibition, The River Arts Center Gallery, Prairie du Sac, WI
Handle with Care: Photo Area Graduate Exhibition, Art Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI
Emerging Vision: Biennial Student Show, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
New Tides: 2022 FotoFocus Biennial Exhibition, Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
You Think You Know, But You Have No Idea, Art Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI
Center Forward 2022, Honorable Mention, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
In Color, Decode Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2021 In Search of Relevance? – Photo Area Graduate Exhibition, Art Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI
Emerging Photographers Exhibition, Backspace Gallery, Madison, WI
SECURA Fine Arts Exhibition, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
Anything and Everything Has Happened: First-Year MFA Cohort Exhibition, Backspace Gallery, Madison, WI
Context 2021, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
Group Show 4, SHRINE, Online Exhibition, New York, NY
2020 The Photography Exhibition 2020, Backspace Gallery, Art Lofts, Madison, WI
Arbitrary Ground: Queers and Complacency: Photo Area Grad Exhibition, Backspace Gallery, Madison, WI
2019 Radiance, Best in Show selection, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA
Priority Mail: 2019 Mail Art Biennial, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Secluded Spaces, Pop-up Art Collective, Harrisonburg, VA
New Beginnings, Viewer’s Choice Award selection, Del Ray Artisan Gallery, Alexandria, VA
The Naked Print, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2018 Creatures of the Night, The Camel, Richmond, VA
Companion Planting, Arts Council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA
2017 JMU Undergraduate Juried Show, artWorks Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
Internal Dialogues, artWorks Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
2016 Kappa Pi Pop-Up Exhibition, BadWolf Brewing Company, Manassas, VA
Larkin Arts Regional Juried Show, Pegasus Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
Exploring Lent in Black & White, 292 North Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
Mystical Evolution, artWorks Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
2015 Prague Study Abroad Studio Exhibition, Grace Street Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
Fully Human, Warren Hall Ballroom, Harrisonburg, VA
2014 Alchemical Correlative: Photography Department Show, artWorks Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
Kappa Pi Group Exhibition, Artful Dodger, Harrisonburg, VA
AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS + FELLOWSHIPS:
2022 University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Chazen Prize Finalist
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Advanced Opportunity Fellowship for Third Year MFA
Eugene F. Dana Graduate Student Scholarship in Art
2021 Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s Paddle Raise Scholarship
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Professional Artist Grant
2020 University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Advanced Opportunity Fellowship for First Year MFA
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts’ Work-Study Scholarship (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019 Penland School of Craft’s Windgate Scholarship
2017 James Madison University’s School of Art, Design, and Art History’s Senior Art Achievement Award for Photography
2016 James Madison University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts Undergraduate Research Grant
James Madison University’s School of Art, Design, and Art History’s Junior Art Achievement Award Nominee
LECTURES:
2022 Visiting Artist Colloquium: UW-Madison MFA Candidates, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Would You Lie With Me: Finding Intimacy and Connection Through Portraiture, SPE Midwest Conference, Cincinnati, OH
Guest Artist for Imaging Self, Badger Precollege Program, Madison, WI
Center Forward 2022 Artist Talk, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Guest Artist for ART 476: Intermediate Photography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2021 Guest Artist for Imaging Self: Photography and the Mediated Image, Badger Precollege Program, Madison, WI
2020 Virtual Guest Artist for ART 103: 3D Design, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
2019 Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going Artist Talk, Jane Sandelin Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018 Guest Artist for PHTO 243: Darkroom, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Companion Planting Artist Talk, Arts Council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA
Panelist for Advice from Alumni Panel Discussion, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
2017 Nevermore: CVPA Undergraduate Research Presentation, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
BFA Senior Capstone Artist Talk, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
RESIDENCIES + WORKSHOPS:
2021 The Intimate Portrait, Instructor: Jess T. Dugan, One-week course, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2019 Experimental Camera and Wet-Plate Photography, Instructors: Lou Krueger & David Emit Adams, Two-week course, Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC
2019 Artist-in-residence, One-week residency, AZULE, Hot Springs, NC
2018 Artist-in-residence, One-week residency, VALET Gallery, Richmond, VA
PUBLICATIONS:
2023 Wrath and Love Magazine, https://www.wrathandlove.com/pagejorgearielescobar
2016 Gardy Loo Art & Literary Magazine, Fall ‘16, https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/gardyloo201019/11/
2015 Gardy Loo Art & Literary Magazine, Fall ‘15, https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/gardyloo201019/9/
Gardy Loo Art & Literary Magazine, Spring ’15, https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/gardyloo201019/8/
2014 Gardy Loo Art & Literary Magazine, Fall ‘14, https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/gardyloo201019/7/
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
2020 – Present Society for Photographic Education, Midwest Chapter
2013 – 17 Kappa Pi Honorary Art & Art History Society, Gamma Kappa Chapter