About
As an event photographer for publications like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Vogue, Jessica Craig-Martin has carved out a distinct style while covering the world’s most financially lubricated events with unlimited access. But her cropped and obliquely angled photographs rarely allow for the identification of her subjects’ faces, thus subverting the concept of society page party pictures. Instead, they point towards the baubles, plumage and telling details which offer commentary on society’s obsession with surface. She has said “The photographs occur in the place between desire and disappointment.” Manners, social codes, and the glittering props of obscene wealth are framed with a witty, somewhat merciless eye.
She has exhibited her work widely and her work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The New Museum, New York, and The Guggenheim Museum, New York, among other public and private collections. Craig-Martin lives in New York and works wherever the party is. She is currently working on a book of anecdotes drawn from her adventures in the field and other observations on modern life.
DIARIES
W Magazine, “A Desert Oasis of Art,” May 12, 2016
W Magazine, “It’s All Greek to Her,” September 1, 2015
Vulture, “Jessica Craig-Martin’s Art-World Diary, Part 4: The Yoko MoMA Playground,” May 15, 2015
Vulture, “Jessica Craig-Martin’s Art-World Diary, Part 3: The Frieze VIP Big Top,” May 14, 2015
W Magazine, “Marina Abramovic Was Not Present,” December 3, 2013
W Magazine, “Beyond Barcelona,” October 9, 2013
W Magazine, “Postcards from Florida,” July 30, 2013
W Magazine, “Venice Biennale 2013 Photos,” June 18, 2013
PRESS
GARAGE, Max Lakin, “The Art of Dying,” March 12, 2019
The Express, Neela Debnath, “The ‘Black Mirror’ Exhibition at Saatchi Gallery,” September 2018
Beautiful Bizarre, Matt Mitchell “‘Seed’ at Paul Kasmin Gallery”, August 3, 2018
Wall Street International, “Seed,” August 1, 2018
Art New England, Sara Baker, “‘The Safety of Objects’ at the Bundy Modern”, July/August 2018
Wall Street International, “Blood Clots,” July 27, 2018
Blouin Artinfo, “‘Seed’ at Paul Kasmin Gallery”, June 26, 2018
Musée Magazine, “The Archives: Jessica Craig-Martin,” October 27, 2017
Wall Street International, “Public Relations,” March 3, 2017
Artsy, “Glamor and Excess, Under the Lens,” March 5, 2014
Elle, Misty Sidell, “Jessica Craig-Martin for 20x200,” October 24, 2011
NOWNESS, “Jessica Craig-Martin’s Horse Play,” May 13, 2010
NOWNESS, “The Secret Agent,” November 5, 2009
Privilege, Glenn O’Brien, “Conspicuous Subtleties,” October 2009
Privilege, Angus Cook, “Yes, They Have More Money,” October 2009
BOMB, Bob Holman, “Jessica Craig-Martin,” April 2007
The New York Times, David Colman, “POSSESSED; Letting Fate Take the Picture,” June 29, 2003