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ABOUT

Born in Wichita, Kansas in 1976, Jessica Burke was raised on a steady diet of Saturday morning cartoons and sugary cereals. She left the University of North Carolina in 2005 armed with a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting and just enough charm to be dangerous. Jessica has been a faculty member of the Art Department at Western Oregon University since August 2008. She maintains a small, but productive studio in Salem, Oregon.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

    2010
  • Vintage Vices, Artspace, Richmond, VA (two-person show with Jessica Sims)
  • The Confounding Conflict, Streff Gallery, Marylehurst University, Marylehurst, OR
    2009
  • Cerebral Spaces, Lane Community College Main Gallery, Eugene, OR
  • Odd Girl Out, Gallery Q, Portland, OR
  • Jessica Burke: All Things Considered, Project Space Contemporary Gallery, Salem, OR
    2008
  • Jessica Burke: Beauty and the Beholder, Theater Art Gallery, High Point, NC
  • Excavation, Multicultural Center Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
  • Gender Narratives, Looking Glass Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
  • The Painted Face, Sticht Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
    2007
  • The Sum of All Parts, Get S'Mart Gallery, Bluefield, WV
    2006
  • Offensive, Harry Krug Gallery, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
    2005
  • Assertive Identity, Elliott Center Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

GROUP

    2010
  • Wild Women IX, River Gallery, Independence, Oregon (Best in Show)
  • Desire .10 Exhibition, Logsdon 1909 Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    2009
  • Birmingham Queer Open, Shout Festival, Projection Series, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
  • Pacific Northwest Art Annual, Adell McMillan Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
  • Expressions West 2009, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon
  • Heart + Art Proposition Exhibition, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • A Pinch and A Dash, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY
  • Life, Love, Lust, Werner University Center, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
    2008
  • Women, Power and Politics, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA
  • National Small Works Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists Gallery, New York, NY
  • Art Faculty Biennial, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
    2007
  • Visual Art Faculty Exhibit, Sawtooth School for Visual Art, Winston-Salem, NC
  • Opposing Identity, Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission's Exhibition Series, Town Hall, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Radius 250, Artspace Plant Zero Gallery, Richmond, VA
  • Faculty Exhibition, Sechrest Gallery, High Point University, High Point, NC
    2006
  • Cuerpo y Revolucion: The Queer Latina Body, National Queer Arts Festival, The Women's Building, San Francisco, CA
  • More Art, More Selfish, Elliott University Center Gallery, Greensboro, NC (Two-person exhibit with Jessica L. Sims)
  • The Doll Revolt, The Girls and Their Allies Caucus of the National Women's Studies Association, Oakland, CA
  • Through Women's Eyes, By Women's Hands, Women's Center, Chapel Hill, NC