Bio & CV
Jessica Willittes was born in 1989 in Tempe, Arizona and lived there through early adulthood. After graduating with her BFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University in 2011, Jessica relocated to Philadelphia and continued her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, earning her Certificate in Painting in 2017. She has exhibited her work throughout the city of Philadelphia, most notably in two-person show Strange Behavior at Great Far Beyond Gallery in 2017 and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum’s 2018 summer exhibition, Infinite Spaces. Her work is also included in the PAFA Museum’s permanent collection.
Select Juried Exhibitions:
• Infinite Spaces: Rediscovering PAFA’s Permanent Collection, June-September 2018
Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Philadelphia PA
• 116th Annual Student Exhibition, May 2017
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Philadelphia PA
• Strange Behavior, April 2017
Great Far Beyond Gallery, Philadelphia PA
• 115th Annual Student Exhibition, May 2016
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Philadelphia PA
• Paths That Cross, March 2016
Cameron St. Gallery, Winchester VA
• Been There, Done That, 2015
Gallery 128 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
• PAFA Emerging Artists Exhibition, 2015
Oxford Arts Alliance, Oxford PA
• LINKED in, 2015
Gallery 128 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
Collections:
• Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
39 Victory Acres Between Us & Them, 2017
Awards:
• Caldwell Museum Purchase Prize, 2017
• Hobson Pittman Prize for Experimental Work, 2016
• PAFA Alumni Fellowship Award, 2015
• Hannah Shickley Memorial Scholarship, 2014
Education:
Arizona State University, 2007 – 2011.
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2013 – 2017.
Certificate in Painting