Visiting Artist Lecture Series - Jessamyn Lovell

The School of Art welcomes visual artist Jessamyn Lovell to the visiting artist lecture series. Jessamyn Lovell (b. 1977, Syracuse, New York) is a visual artist working with photography, video, and surveillance as tools to document her own life experiences making connections between class and personal identity. Lovell holds a B.F.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an M.F.A. from California College of the Arts. Lovell is a lecturer in the Art and Art History Department at the University of New Mexico. Lovell’s work has been exhibited nationally, and she is the recipient of several awards, including the Aperture Portfolio Prize and the CENTER Excellence in Teaching Award. Lovell has received international recognition for her most recent work “Dear Erin Hart,” for which she found, followed, and photographed her identity thief.