EDUCATION
2009 Master of Fine Art, Print Media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 Bachelor of Art, History of Art, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Spectral Evidence; Haus Witch; Salem, MA
2016 Sing a Funeral Song; Roman Susan; Chicago, IL
2015 Settle Down; Lease Agreement; Baltimore, MD
2014 Wait for Now; Comfort Station; Chicago, IL
2013 Black Damp; Johalla Projects; Chicago, IL
2011 But the Dust Came in; Happy Collaborationists; Chicago, IL
2011 Bad Luck to Your Mother; Anchor Graphics, Columbia College of Chicago; Chicago, IL
2010 Looks Like A Place I Came In; The Hills Esthetic Center; Chicago, IL
2009 Telling Us Stuff We Already Know; Thrones Gallery; Chicago, IL
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Apparition; 10b Projects, with veronique d’entremont; Boston, MA
2016
Holding Out for the Post Apocalypse; Demo Project Space, with Zachary Hobbs; Springfield, IL
Island Life; University of Kentucky, Bolivar Art Gallery, with Kristina Paabus; Lexington, KY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Unfinished; International Print Center New York (IPCNY); New York, NY
2021
For the Living, To the Dead; Parlour and Ramp; Chicago, IL
2020
Collective Actions; Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, NY (canceled)
2019
Word Art; Spaceus DTX; Boston, MA
The Joy of Enjoying; Temple Contemporary; Philadelphia, PA
CARE; Spaceus; Cambridge, MA
2018
CSA: Community Supported Art; Cambridge Arts Association; Cambridge, MA
Fire in the Woods; Holiday Forever; Jackson Hole, WY
Eminent Domain; ART511; New York City, NY
Alterations; Dorchester Art Project; Boston, MA
DemoDEMO; Demo Project Space; Springfield, IL
Representing Feminism(s); Lamont Gallery; Exeter, NH
2017
A Ritual Performance for the Fundamental Right of Education (WITCH Chicago); Open Engagement; University of Illinois Chicago
Beyond Ink; Northern Illinois University; DeKalb, IL
2016
Bad Habits (Remember Me); Beverly Art Center; St. Louis, MI
How Much Land; Tom McCormick Gallery; Chicago, IL
You Are Looking Good, A Real Good Looker; Chicago Artist’s Coalition; Chicago, IL
2015
Mutual Dealings; Bert Green Fine Art; Chicago, IL
Gold; Terrain Biennial, Denmark
Finocchio; The Franklin; Chicago, IL (Catalogue)
Rough Idle; Chicago Artist’s Coalition; Chicago, IL
AHaul, in conjunction with 2nd Floor Rear; Chicago, IL
2014
Midwest Multiples; Nemeth Art Center; Park Rapids, MN
Here Lies Space; Heaven Gallery; Chicago, IL
2013
Being a Woman in an All Women Show, Heaven Gallery; Chicago, IL
Let’s Build a Home; Salon; Milwaukee, WI
CMYK; Chicago Artists Coalition; Chicago, IL
Faculty Biennial; Harold Washington College; Chicago, IL
Wild Life; Jean Albano Gallery; Chicago, IL
2012
Objets Extraordinaire; Highland Park Art Center; Highland Park, IL
Circa 1970; Heaven Gallery; Chicago, IL
Nostalgia; Happy Collaborationists; Chicago, IL
Wow-house; Johalla Projects; Chicago, IL
2011
Re-Source; Jean Albano Gallery; Chicago, IL
Dominion; Eel Space; Chicago, IL
Territories; Untitled Gallery; Chicago, IL (Catalogue)
Faculty Biennial; Harold Washington College; Chicago, IL
2010
Girl, Please!; Woman Made Gallery; Chicago, IL
Chicago Printer’s Guild; Chicago Urban Arts Society; Chicago, IL
Nomadic Studio; DePaul University Art Museum; Chicago, IL (Catalogue)
Printer’s Ball; Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College; Chicago, IL
The Humboldt Park Moving Picture Show; Richmond Manor; Chicago, IL
Printervention; Chicago Cultural Center; Chicago, IL
RESIDENCIES
2022 International Print Center New York; remote residency
2019 Women’s Studio Workshop; Kingston, NY
2019 Officina Stamperia del Notaio; Tusa, Sicily
2019 Zygote Press; Cleveland, OH
2018 The Future; Minneapolis, MN
2017 The Wassaic Project; Wassaic, NY
2017 Lacawac Artist Residency; Lacawac Sanctuary Biological Field Station and Environmental Education Center, Lake Wallenpaupack, PA
2016 A.I. Kunstitalu, Estonian Artists Union: Muhu, Estonia
2014 Hatch Projects, Chicago Artists Coalition
2014 Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE)
2012 Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE)
2010 Spudnik Press, Summer Artist in Residence
2010 Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE)
LECTURES AND PANELS
2022
Print Now: Rethinking Post-Pandemic Print Curriculum, Impact, Bristol UK
Cheap and Easy: Zines, Posters, and Alternative Histories; Mid America Print Council; Kent State, OH
Sell Your Work: Books and Prints in Collections, Fairs, and More, hosted by Women’s Studio Workshop and Mid America Print Council; online
2019
Artist Talk; Zygote Press; Cleveland, OH
The Power of Independent Printing + Archiving Alternate Histories; Emerson College; Boston, MA
2018
Witches in Print; Spaceus; Cambridge, MA
Unpanel; Cincinnati Art Book Fair
A Brief History of Print and Feminism; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
Printmaking as Protest: Harnessing the Power of the Multiple; Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Las Vegas, NV
2017
Kitchen Witch: An Introduction to Harnessing the Magical Properties of Sandwiches, Sides, and Condiments; Sandwich Club; Wassaic, NY
2016
Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda (moderator); School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Artist Talk, University of Kentucky, Lexington
Artist Talk, Washington University, St. Louis
Site As Matter, Mid American Print Council Conference
Artist Talk, Chicago Artist’s Coalition
2015
The Subtly Radical Tradition of the Multiple, Artist Talk; Oberlin College
Considering the Radical Handmade; Woman Made Gallery; Chicago, IL
Feminist Parking Lot, New York University, Florence, Italy
2014
Artist Talk, Comfort Station
2011
Nostalgia, Happy Collaborationsists
2009
Young Alumni, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
WORKSHOPS
2019
Flower Procession; Spaceus; Cambridge, MA
2018
Lavender, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
Full Moon Flower Procession, The Future, Minneapolis, MN
2015
Feminist Parking Lot, Oberlin College
Feminist Parking Lot, New York University, Florence, Italy
Feminist Parking Lot, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2014
Feminist Parking Lot, Free Art School, University of Illinois at Chicago
2010
Monoprint workshop, DePaul University Art Museum
WRITING
The Estuary Projects, an Installation for Healing and Remembrance through the Apocalypse. Boston Art Review, Issue 03 Tracing Movement, Spring 2019.
Historical Amnesia, "Patriotism," and the Boston Tea Party Museum. Boston Art Review, Issue 02 Field Work, Fall 2018
Witches in Print, Or How the Patriarchy Weaponized the Printing Press to Silence Independent Women, Women’s Museum of California. October 2017
Why I No Longer Need Feminism; How Breitbart Taught Me that the Patriarchy is a Figment of my Imagination, American Flytrap No.1, Rotland Press. 2017 Discourse from the City of Broad Shoulders: Observations, Advice, and Expositions on Inequality, editor. 2016 (forthcoming)
Advice From a Feminist Killjoy on the Precipice of Losing Her Shit. Finocchio Catalog, 2015
A Very Condensed History of Women Printmakers in America, Mid America Print Council Journal, Volume 24: Printing Social Justice, Past, Present, and Future, Spring / Summer 2016.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jolie, Raechel Anne. “The Magic of What Gets Left Behind: Jessica Caponigro in the Studio.” Women’s Studio Workshop. 11 July 2019.
Volkening, Laura. “Singing Songs of Loss, A Review of Jessica Caponigro at Roman Susan.” New City. 21 March 2016.
Anastos, Elizabeth. “Jessica Caponigro, Sing a Funeral Song at Roman Susan.” Third Coast Review. 10 April 2016.
Daignault, Kristina. “Jessica Caponigro.” Inside the Artists Kitchen. 20 October 2014.
“Top Five Weekend Picks.” Bad At Sports. 1 May 2014.
Mayo, Amanda Roscoe. "Here Lies Space Group Exhibition." SFAQ Online.
Molek, Clare. “The Fog, Black Damp, and Jessica Taylor Caponigro at Johalla Projects.” 17 May 2013.
Germanos, Paul. “Chicago In Pictures: Summer 2013.” Bad At Sports. 20 August 2013.
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Hendrickson, Julia. “Notes on a Conversation.” Bad At Sports. 22 February 2011
“Top Five Weekend Picks.” Bad At Sports. 21 July 2010.
Furnari, Rachel. “Art School Unconfidential: What the city’s burgeoning MFA programs mean for the future of artists in Chicago.” New City. 26, May 2009.
COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, Special Collections; New York, NY
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
California State University; Long Beach, CA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2012 Scholarship, Artists’ Cooperative Residency & Exhibitions (ACRE)
2009 Fred A. Hilbruner Artists’ Book Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009 Excellence in Leadership Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008 Odyssey Travel Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007 Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MEMBERSHIPS
Mid America Print Council, Archivist and Board Member
Heaven Gallery, Board Member
Chicago Printers Guild