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, SoloGrace Street Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA

Colors, Two-person with Abigail EllisArtful 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 selectionIridian 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 selectionDel 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 TalkJane Sandelin Gallery, Richmond, VA

2018    Guest Artist for PHTO 243: DarkroomVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Companion Planting Artist Talk, Arts Council of the Valley, Harrisonburg, VA

Panelist for Advice from Alumni Panel DiscussionJames Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

2017    Nevermore: CVPA Undergraduate Research PresentationJames Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

BFA Senior Capstone Artist TalkJames 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 ‘15https://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

 

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