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Jess Blaustein
b. Philadelphia, PA / raised WI
lives and works in the lower Hudson Valley, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2026 Semicentennial Breakdown: Window Dressing at 50, ICOSA, Austin, TX
2025 Resisting Erasure, Good Work Institute, Kingston, NY
2025 DISTRACTION, Science Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (participatory installation)
2025 The Golden Thread 2, BravinLee programs, New York, NY (site-specific installation)
2025 KinoSaito Annual, KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY
2024 You’re Breaking Up, The Sketchbook Gallery, Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY / Traveling Exhibition: Unison Arts, New Paltz, NY
2024 Artists’ Book Month II: The World is a Scandal, BravinLee programs, New York, NY
2024 To Know the Earth Through Roots, Online exhibition, Field Projects Gallery / Curated by Danielle Johnson, Will Chan, Lisa Shilling, Jacob Rhodes and Angelica Aranda
2024 KinoSaito Annual, KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY
2023 Rethinking the Landscape, Inaugural online show, Conversations with Artists
2023 BUILT ON THE SITE of …, , Municipal Building, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY (solo site-specific installation)
2023 Miniature Monumental, The Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2023 KinoSaito Annual, KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY
2022 The Fine Art Textiles Award Gallery, The Festival of Quilts, NEC, Birmingham & The Knitting & Stitching Show, London, UK / Jurors: Annie Warburton, Esna Su, Jo Hall, Michael Brennand-Wood, Yemi Awosile, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
2022 PaperWorks 2022: Expanding Boundaries, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
2022 River Lab: Sensing the River, New York, NY / Mary Mattingly
2022 Painting at Night, Collar Works, Troy, NY / Curated by Judith Braun
2022 New Beginning: Small Works 2022, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
2021 Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety, Flux Factory at the Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY / Curated by Jeju Island Artist Collective
2021 Force Fields, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School
2020 Window Dressing VII: Rakhee Jain Desai & Jessica Blaustein, ICOSA Collective, Austin, Texas (two-person exhibition)
2019 Miniartextil 2019 POP UP, Como, Italy / Jurors: Clarita di Giovanni, Guy Boyer, Pia Ferrari, Mimmo Totaro and Giovanni Berera (with Emmanuela Albert)
2019 The GLOOB Factory, l’Observatoire: An Observatory for the Arts and Science, Singapore (participatory installation, with Emmanuela Albert)
2018 The Art of Labor, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, California / Jurors: Carole Frances Lung (Frau Fiber) and Amy DiPlacido
2018 Quilt Visions: Connections, Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts + Textiles, San Diego, CA / Jurors: Alice Beasley, Marilyn Henrion, and Michael F. Rohde
2018 The Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII, Oberlin, Ohio / Juror: Emily Zilber, Ronald L. and Anita C. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2018 Craft Forms, 23rd International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft, Wayne, PA / Juror: Nora Atkinson, Curator, Renwick Gallery Smithsonian American Art Museum
2017 10X10X10XTieton, 8th Annual International Small Works Exhibition, Tieton, Washington / Jurors: Lloyd Herman, Founding Director Renwick Gallery Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Gia Hamilton, Director of the Joan Mitchell Center
2017 Materials Hard + Soft, 30th Annual International Contemporary Craft Competition and Exhibition, Denton, Texas / Juror: JoAnn Edwards, Executive Director of The Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, California
2016 Quilt Visions: Breakout, Visions Art Museum: Contemporary Quilts + Textiles, San Diego, CA /Jurors: Elizabeth Busch, Marci Rae McDade and Katie Pasquini Masopust
2016 The Artist as Quiltmaker XVII, Oberlin, Ohio / Juror: Mark Newport, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Awards
The Fine Art Textiles Award, 2022
Artist-in-Residence, l’Observatoire: An Observatory for the Arts and Science, Singapore, 2019
Founder’s Award, The Artist as Quiltmaker XVIII, 2018
Founder’s Award, The Artist as Quiltmaker XVII 2016
The Green Fund, Research Seed Grant, The New School, 2013
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2003-2005
The Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke University, 2001-2002
Lee-Ewing Research Fellowship, Women’s Studies Program, Duke University, 2001-2002
Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 2001
Getty Research Institute, Research Grant, 2001
Publications
“Void Fill”, in The European Review of Books, Issue 1 (June 2022)
The Forest of Oldest Trees, Limited Edition Pop-up Book (STUDIOOSS, 2021)
“Minute Lines” in Woven Scores, ed. Alisa Oleva (online zine, 2021)
“Motion Sensing No. 4”, w/Dawn Scarfe, Woven Scores, Alisa Oleva ed. (online zine, 2021)
The Dining Room, Limited Edition Pop-up Book (STUDIOOSS, 2018)
Urban Media Lab: Waste | Pamphlet Series, self-published, The New School, 2011
“Stranger Relations”, in Gabi Schillig, Mediating Space: Soft Geometries, Textile Structures, Body Architecture (Akademie Schloss Solitude / merz & solitude, 2009)
“Cultural Studies” and “Sex-Education”, in The Women’s Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism, Ed. Leslie Haywood (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006)
“Cleaning House: One Nation, Indivisible,” Gender & Landscape: Renegotiating the Moral Landscape (Routledge, 2005)
“How Publics Matter: A Handbook for Alternative World-Making,” Book Review, American Quarterly (March 2004)
“Counterprivates: An Appeal to Rethink Suburban Interiority,” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies (Fall 2003)
“Thirdspacing the Institution,” Editorial, w/Jenea Tallentire & Sophie Mayer, /thirdspace/, 3:1 (November 2003)
“Critical Dwellings” in Feminist (Re)visions of the Subject: Landscapes, Ethnoscapes, and Theoryscapes (Lexington Books, 2002)
Bibliography
“Fiber Arts Take Over a Former Seaport Warehouse in NYC,” Untapped New York, April 2025
“It’s Complicated” Summer Exhibition Catalog, I Like Your Work, Curated by Erika Diamond, Boston, MA, April, 2024
Gambardella, Tom, “Installation Mines Municipal Building’s Past and Present,” Rivertowns Enterprise, April 21, 2023
“Fine Art Textile Award,” Selvedge, May 12, 2023
“Jess Blaustein Wins the Fine Textiles Award 2022,” Arte Morbida, September 14, 2022
Griffin, Amy, “Painting by Night at Collar Works Profiles Mothers as Artists,” Times Union, July 2022
Professional Activities
Co-director, PeepSpace gallery, Tarrytown, NY, 2024–present
Co-founder, STUDIOOSS Applied Arts Collective, 2018-present
Reinvisioning Branch Libraries / SITU Design Study Team, Architectural League of New York and Center for an Urban Future, 2014
Commissioning Editor, Alphabet City (The MIT Press), 2009-13
Fellowship Program Manager for research and experimental practices in public architecture, Van Alen Institute, 2006-2009
Board of Directors and Editor, /thirdspace/ a journal of feminist theory and culture, 2003-5
Visiting Artist/Critic: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Barnard and Columbia Architecture, Montclair State University, The New School / Parsons School of Design, RiverArts SummerArts
Teaching
Department of Art and Design, Montclair State University, 2022–present
The School of Media Studies, The New School, 2009-2015
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, 2003-2004
Department of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Literature Program, Duke University, 1999-2000
Education
Nomad MFA, Interdisciplinary Art, Hartford Art School
PhD, Program in Literature, Duke University, Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies
BA, English/Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis