Jack Pierson
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Jack Pierson was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1960. He is a photographer He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Mr. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings, and artists books. His "Self-Portrait" series was recently shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and his works are collected by major museums worldwide. Jack Pierson currently divides his time between his home and studio in the Southern California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and New York. He has photographed many well-known celebrities and models. These include:
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- Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
- CAPC, Bordeaux, France
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- FRAC, Korsika
- Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
- Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Norsk Museum of Fotografi, Preus Fotomuseum, Horten
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
- Seattle Art Museum
- The Walker Art Center, Minneapolic, MN
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
