Jay Simple
Exhibiting Artist
Jay Simple is a visual artist and scholar from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the Executive Director of The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative and he is also the Founder and Director of The Photographers Green Book, a resource for inclusion, equity, and diversity within the photographic medium. He has previously served as an Assistant Professor of Photography at The New School and Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at Longwood University. Working through photography and a variety of mediums, Simple creates introspective and at times playful musings that morph, examine, and critique social and cultural systems that surround him. As a producer and cinematographer he continues to collaborate to create documentary films that examine arts and culture nationally and internationally. Simple holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, a Master of Liberal Art from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Hampden Sydney College, and Longwood University. Simple has shown in group exhibitions at Silver Eye Center for Photography(2021), Candela Books + Gallery(2020), and Jamestown Art Center(2020). Published through The Photographer’s Green Book he authored Vol.1 an anthology of contemporary research in photography, and his research and practice has been included in contemporary and scholarly publications like True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis) by Zora J Murff or Driving The Green Book by Alvin Hall.
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