Born in Bangor, Maine in 1980, Jessica Singerman lived in France and the United States during her early life. Singerman earned her BA magna cum laude with Highest Honors in 2002 from the College of William & Mary, Virginia, and her Masters of Fine Arts in 2004 from the University of Delaware while on a fellowship. Her watercolors are the subject of a book published in 2017, Little Watercolor Squares, and her award-winning paintings and drawings are exhibited and collected internationally.
In previous lives, Singerman taught yoga and worked as a guide leading epic bicycle tours all over Europe, Central America, and Australia. She rides bikes and runs, and lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with her husband and their son.
Honors & Awards
2018 Duke Energy Regional Artist Project Grant, Arts Council of Winston Salem and Forsyth County 2016 Honorable Mention, SCOPE, The Southern Landscape, Juried Exhibition, VAE, Raleigh, NC 2015 Honorable Mention, Carolina’s Got Art, Juried Exhibition, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2012 Bike Art Adelaide Grant for public art project, Adelaide, Australia
2002-2004 Full Fellowship, Department of Art, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Of Stones and Earth and Air, Sechrest Gallery of Art, High Point University, NC 2020 Hold us in the light, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC
2019 I must love you very much, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC 2018 The Shape of the Sky, Velma Mason Davis Gallery, Elberson Fine Arts Center, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
2017 Among the Weeds and Other Blossoming Things, Sawtooth School for Visual Art, Winston-Salem, NC 2016 Sweeping Green Blue Air, Allenton Gallery, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC 2005 Naiad’s Walk, Hyacinths and Dragonflies Gallery, Newark, DE
2003 Dialogue, Agilent Technologies Gallery, Wilmington, DE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Beyond the Mountain, Two-person show with Martha Armstrong, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC
Faculty Exhibition, Diggs Gallery, Winston Salem State University, NC
2018 Winter Show, Invitational Exhibition, Greenhill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC Art & Art History Alumnae Exhibition, Andrews Gallery, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
March Invitational, Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC
2017 Intersections + Transformation, Juried Exhibition, Womble Carlyle Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC 2016 SCOPE, The Southern Landscape, Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Exchange, Raleigh, NC Winter Show, Invitational Exhibition, Greenhill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC 2015 Carolina’s Got Art, Juried Exhibition, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2014 Outside, Two-person show, Providence Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Mini-Works on Paper, 35th Annual Juried Exhibition, Hammond Hall Gallery, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL
85 Years 85 Artists, Menlo College, Atherton, CA (catalogue)
2013 A Fine Line: Contemporary Drawing, National Juried Exhibition, Morehead State University, KY Marks, National Juried Drawing Exhibition, Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University, PA (catalogue)
2012 Bike Art Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
2011 RiAus Adelaide REEF, The Science Exchange, Adelaide, Australia
VPAP@PIFA (Virtual Public Art Project @ Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts), Philadelphia, PA (in collaboration with Tim Bowman)
2006 Surfacings, Hopkins House Gallery, Haddon Township, NJ (in collaboration with Tim Bowman) 2005 Mini-Works on Paper, 26th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Jacksonville State University, AL 2004 Women, Art, and Memory, National Juried Exhibition, Arts & Literature Lab, New Haven, CT 2003 Works on Paper, Annual Juried Exhibition, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ Emerging Artists, 13th Annual Juried Exhibition, City Gallery, Baltimore, MD
On the Table, Juried Show, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA
2002 Woman Image : Image of Women, National Juried Show, The Gallery at Dodds Hall, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
Commissions/Public Art Projects
2020 Long Branch Trail Mural, commissioned by Innovation Quarter, Winston-Salem, NC