Jessica D. Brier

Jess Brier is a writer, curator, and historian of art and design, with a focus on the intermediality of photography, print, graphics, and architecture. Her projects emphasize the interconnectedness of theory, materiality, and form in artistic practice and reception. Her most recent exhibition, On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print (2022) surveyed photography, prints, and artist books from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, offering a new understanding of the grid as both an oppressive scopic regime and liberatory tool of Western culture. She currently serves as Deknatel Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, and previously held positions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of Southern California and an MA in curatorial practice from the California College of the Arts.