Jennifer Y. Collins is a recent graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a BFA in Photography. Her work tells stories about the natural world through light, landscapes and abstracted forms.

She’s been published in Humana Obscura and Simmons University Magazine and exhibited at ArtsWorcester, Boomer Gallery in London, UK, Float Magazine, Lenscratch, and numerous exhibitions held within her school.

Email: jycphotography01@gmail.com

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Education

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, BFA in Photography, May 2024.

Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Study Abroad, Spring 2023.

Awards

2024

Departmental Honors, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Academic Honors, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

2022

Photography Department Award, All School Juried Show, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

Solo Exhibitions

2024

In the Wake of Night, Wellspring Gallery, North Hill, Needham, MA.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Vision(ary): Portraits of Cultures, Communities, and Environments, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.

Stories of Humanity, Vandernoot Gallery, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA.

Nature, Decode Gallery, Tucson, AZ.

What We Once Knew, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Thompson Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

MassArt Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

Colorscapes, Photo Artfolio, Virtual.

Inner World, Boomer Gallery, London, UK.

All School Juried Show, Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

Quiet Landscape, PhotoPlace Gallery, Virtual, Middlebury, VT. 

Distant Dialogue, Float Magazine, Virtual

Twentieth Annual College Show, Davis Art Gallery, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA.

The Favorite Photo You Took in 2023, Lenscratch, Virtual.

2023

Somewhere Warm, Frances Euphemia Thompson Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

Away Show, Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

Toast, Year Three Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK.

The Big Light, Photography Department Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh UK.

2022

All School Award Show, Frances Euphemia Thompson Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

All School Juried Show, Frances Euphemia Thompson Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

Publications

2024

Sidelines: Literary and Art Magazine Spring Issue, Simmons University, Page 68 , Boston, MA.

Spring 2024 Issue #8, Humana Obscura, Page 55. 

2023

Contact, Massachusetts College of Art Photography Department Zine, Pages 14-15, 26-27, Boston, MA.

Sidelines: Literary and Art Magazine Fall Issue, Simmons University, Pages 51-52, Boston, MA.


Related Experience

Framer and Printer,  Gastonart and Frame, Northborough, MA, December 2024-Present.

Framer and Designer, Big Picture Framing, Needham and Newton, MA, July 2024-December 2024.

Creative Arts Intern at North Hill, Needham, MA, January 2024-August 2024.

Cage Monitor, Photography Department, MassArt, Boston, MA, September 2022-May 2024.

Studio Intern for Barbara Bosworth and Dust Collective, Stowe, MA, June 2022-August 2022.

Museum Attendant at MassArt Art Museum, Boston, MA, August 2021-May 2022.


Volunteer Work

Catalog Production Committee, Photography Department, MassArt Boston, MA, 2024.

Book Auction Committee, Photography Department, MassArt, MA, 2023. 

Documentation Team for Toast, Year Three Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, UK, January 2022-May 2022.