Exhibition Gallery Installs
Crossing Over: Immigration Stories
Exhibition Installations
THP Gallery © 2019 CJ Harker 
THP Gallery © 2019 CJ Harker 
THP Gallery © 2019 CJ Harker 
2019 ECC Venice Biennale 
2019 ECC Venice Biennale 
2019 ECC Venice Biennale 
2019 ECC Venice Biennale 
2019 ECC Venice Biennale 
2019 ECC Venice Biennale 
Palmer Gallery © 2018 Monica d. Church 
Palmer Gallery © 2018 Monica d. Church 
Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology 
Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology 
Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology 
Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology 
Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology 
Governors Island 
Governors Island 
Mission, Texas Border Install 
Mission, Texas Border Install
#SubwaySeries
Exhibition Installations
For Minor Sky
Exhibition Installations
Crossing Over: Immigration Stories – Italy
https://archive.storycorps.org/communities/crossing-over-immigration-stories/
SJU Merion Gallery
5600 City Ave
Philadelphia, PA
2021
OPEN SPACE Exhibition
Giardini della Marinaressa
Vernissage Opening August 28, 2020 10:00-17:00
August 29-February 16, 2021
Crossing Over: Immigration Stories consists of individual banner portraits that when exhibited hang like stately banner flags throughout the exhibition space. Each portrait is a beautiful representation imprint of each participant in the project, and is accompanied by an audio interview regarding individual experiences revolving around the theme of immigration and border crossings.
Currently, the body of work consists of 45 participants with a majority from Mexico and North and West Africa. In the coming months, with funding, the body of work will expand to include a new and parallel series of portraits and interviews taken of refugee immigrants living in Europe seeking asylum. The first body of work was created while on residency on the Texas-Mexico border on residency, and in Mexico while on another residency. The next body of work will be created on artist residency in Valletta, Malta in September 2022.
These two bodies of work are intended to be shown together to weave overlapping stories together, and to draw ties between the two and to the visitors. The fabric cyanotypes are best shown hanging from the ceiling and low enough for visitors to walk among them; though look majestic hanging above head height as well. The audio will need to edited, and woven together to be played within the exhibition, as present as an audio overlay.
Crossing Over: Immigration Stories
– Cyanotype portraits and oral history created by Jackie Neale
ON VIEW:
May 11-Nov 24, 2019 – ECC Palazzo Mora, 2019 Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
Knowledge is neither immediate nor inherent. Discovery is never-ending.
Yesterday’s stranger is today’s friend.
What feels more comfortable, leaving a door open for growth or keeping it closed?
Pushing past the uncomfortable yields great rewards.
In times of great change I turn to my artwork to embrace persistent uncertainty, for that is what teaches us to prevail. The possibilities to learn built my courage.
Crossing Over is an artwork first intended to open minds, and then to connect us through abstract thinking about human form, human values, and human likeness, which transcends status, color, shape, culture.
Throughout this project’s progress, I have continued to think about how, through this striking abstract connection, amid a new community, among strangers who are not so strange, I remain curious to know, to learn more about individual people. I became invested in their story, and they in mine.
We all have experiences to share about what it is to be a human in our time.
Crossing Over may help us realize that the idea and reality of borders are outmoded constructs we establish out of fear? The constructs of borders, flags, countries, wars, and boundaries were created to suit the needs of people in the past, people we have never known. Are they establishing order? Ask yourself, are they created to secure prosperity for all, or to impose order that serves those who can impose it?
Crossing Over became an opportunity to learn from people I did not know, to hear about their lives and travails in a time that we all share: right now, the early 21st century. All people are important. All stories are meaningful. When one listens, one learns. When one learns, one begins to see a deeper humanity, a common thread, a shared ground. I present Crossing Over: Immigration Stories as a way to connect people through abstract ideas of self.
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Jackie Neale, a former Online Publications Imaging Director at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a photographic artist, documentary photographer, author, and teacher. She prefers to feature diverse communities throughout the United States and abroad. Through affiliations with arts institutions, she completed residencies and commissioned projects in New York City, Philadelphia, in Mission, Texas, as well as in Calabria and Milano, Italy.
Jackie began Crossing Over: Immigration Stories to gain greater insight about the impact on lives by U.S.-Mexico immigration and border policies which extended into looking at immigration policy in her family’s country of origin, Italy. Her project revealed a higher plane of connection as well, the images being ethereal, and therefore spiritual. When one makes the choice to leave their family, to immigrate to another country for a better life, it feels the same in so many ways as leaving one body/form of self to go to another.
Artist Statement:
Crossing Over: Immigration Stories consists of individual banner portraits that when exhibited hang like stately banner flags throughout the exhibition space. Each portrait is a beautiful representation imprint of each participant in the project, and is accompanied by an audio interview regarding individual experiences revolving around the theme of immigration and border crossings. Currently, the body of work consists of 45 participants with a majority from Mexico and North and West Africa.
These two bodies of work are intended to be shown together to weave overlapping stories together, and to draw ties between the two and to the visitors. The fabric cyanotypes are best shown hanging from the ceiling and low enough for visitors to walk among them; though look majestic hanging above head height as well. The audio will need to be edited, and woven together to be played within the exhibition, as present as whispers.
Common Ground Tacony
Common Ground Tacony is an oral history project.
As a Summer 2018 Artist-in-Residence with Mural Arts Philadelphia at their Tacony Arts Lab location, I conducted a cumulative series of interviews with Philadelphians from the Northeast of Philadelphia, specifically with memories of Tacony. Each interview is coupled with portraits made as large fabric cyanotypes. The cyanotypes hang on exhibition and will travel, while the audio interviews are available for listening on StoryCorps.org.
In the future, these audio interviews ideally will be woven together as a 30 minute highlight reel of the interviews (I am seeking funding to support these intricate edits, so they will remain unedited until funding is found).
All of the unedited interviews are archived with the US Library of Congress once they are uploaded to the StoryCorps website (see links of audio below). Announcements of new interviews are made on my Instagram @jackiephotog and Facebook – http://facebook.com/jackiephoto
Common Ground Tacony was created at the Tacony LAB Community Arts Center, a project of Mural Arts Philadelphia and the Office of Councilman Bobby Henon. The Tacony LAB is made possible by support from the City of Philadelphia, Division of Housing and Community Development. Special thanks to Maria Möller, LAB Project Manager, and Barb Baur, LAB Coordinator. Â
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Current Exhibitions and Appearances:
March 1–30, 2021
Crossing Over: Immigration Stories
Faculty Exhibition 2021
Saint Joseph’s University
5600 City Line Ave
Merion Hall
Philadelphia, PA
November 28, 2020
Presenting Abstraction, Listening, & EmpathyÂ
in the Conference
Paris College of Art and ECC Italy
Present Blurring the Lines
Venice, Italy
August, 2020–February 2021
Crossing Over: Immigration Stories
Open Space
at Giardini della Marinaressa
Venice, Italy
October–December 2020
Apparitions of the Death & Co. & #SubwaySeries
Revolution
809 Haddon Ave
Collingswood Greater Philadelphia 08108
September 2020
Crossing Over and Common Ground Tacony
Big Day Film Collective
Collingswood 08108
March–August, 2020
#SubwaySeries
17 Battery Place
New York, NY 10012
September 12–22, 2019
PHOTOVILLE
Container 54 – NYFA FAYN Exhibition of Faculty & Students
Crossing Over: Immigration Stories – Jorida
Brooklyn Bridge Park
NYC
May–November 24, 2019
Venice – Crossing Over: Immigration Stories
20+ Large Format Fabric Cyanotype Portraits
Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibitions
Palazzo Mora, 3659 Strada Nova, Venezia, IT
May 11–November 24, 2019
New York University Faculty and Alumni Exhibition
NYC – Common Ground Tacony: Cyril
Large Format Cyanotype Portrait
721 Broadway
8th Floor
New York, NY
June 12, 2019–January 3, 2020
Opening October 2, 2019 6–8pm
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Coming Soon
ARTIST BIO
Jackie Neale is a photographic artist, author, instructor, and former Imaging Producer of Online Features at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jackie is a multi-skilled creative, visual storyteller and photographer adept at conveying a sense of community with impact and energy. Jackie leads, shoots, edits, and produces visual storytelling projects both small and large. She provides technical and creative expertise, and find pleasure contributing original and adaptive content to projects.
Jackie Neale is an award-winning New York | Philadelphia based photographic artist, photographer, imaging specialist, photo director and producer, and author with a passion for historical processes and black and white film photography. Jackie has a long history in digital photography dating back to Adobe Photoshop version 3 working in high-end digital imaging, with a personal bend in unrestricted base level digitally compressed photographic explorations. These varied experiences and expertise have lended themselves to a wide variety of multi-media still and time-based projects over the years. Jackie is most well known for her activist work chronicling Immigration in the U.S. and Europe, Crossing Over: Immigration Stories, and her unique approach to oral history and portraiture such as in her work Common Ground Tacony, and her documents of NYC quotidian in over 800+ photographs of the underground, #SubwaySeries. But she also heavily involved in award-winning featured productions to be seen on projects such as The Artist Project,  ArtNews,  82nd and Fifth and Connections, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art (to name only a few). Further, Jackie has presented at arts conferences worldwide, most recently at Paris College of Art’s Blurring the Lines Photography Conference in Venice, Italy in 2020, and is a contributing author to 30-Second Photography. Jackie successfully fundraised via Hatchfund.org to self-publish her book, #SubwaySeries, published in April 2015, and is actively exhibiting Crossing Over: Immigration Stories, #SubwaySeries, Apparitions of the Death & Co. in Philadelphia, New York City, and Italy.
Jackie considers herself first and foremost a film-based photographer working with the most interesting people on some of the most fantastic projects. She believes in ghosts, dreams, curiosity, acceptance, and the reliability of human behavior. Her studio and gallery, Big Day Film Collective, is based in Collingswood, NJ (btwn Philadelphia and New York City), and serves art buyers and editors internationally. Jackie enables art buyers and editors to use a classic medium in modern media by delivering first-class, full-production photography services. Jackie provides a large knowledge base for arts professionals wanting the look of film based images with the production turn around and expertise of digital.
Jackie has been awarded the Artist Residency at Mural Arts Philadelphia, Guapamacataro Center for Art & Ecology, and the Mission EDC STEAM Artist Expert in Residence in Mission, TX on the Mexican Border. While on residency on the Mexico-Texas border and in Mexico Jackie produced life-size cyanotypes of People of the Rio Grande Valley Border Towns, Crossing Over: US–Mexico Immigration Oral Histories and furthered the project working with immigrants and asylum seekers in Milan and Southern Italy.
Jackie Neale is the former Director of Communications of Professional Women Photographers. She has appeared The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s CONNECTIONS Online Feature, on NPR/WNYC and in the documentary Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid; has given lectures and artist talks on photography in Philadelphia and New York City, published both online and in print, and exhibited throughout the U.S. Jackie has photographed over 310 curators, conservators, and blue-chip artists. Reviews of Jackie’s work have appeared in Flint Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Courier-Post.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2020 – Apparitions of the Death and Company & #SubwaySeriesII – Revolution, Greater Philadelphia, PA
2020 – Crossing Over: Immigration Stories – Glou Gallery – New York, NY
2020 – #SubwaySeriesII – 17 Battery, New York, NY
2020 – #SubwaySeriesII – Big Day Film Collective – Greater Philadelphia, PA, Collingswood
2018 – Mural Arts Philadelphia Tacony – Philadelphia, PA
2017 – People of the Valley Border Towns – Governors Island, NYC
2017 – People of the Valley Border Towns – CEED – Mission, TX
2017 – #SubwaySeriesII – CEED – Mission, TX
2017 – People of the Valley Border Towns – McAllen Arts Walk
2017 – #SubwaySeriesII – University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley, Texas
2016 – #SubwaySeriesII – Gallery Bushwick Community Darkroom – New York, NY
2016 – #SubwaySeries – Prints & Pictures Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA
2015 – 2016 – Apparitions of the Death and Company – Humboldt and Jackson Gallery – Brooklyn, NY
GROUP
2021 – Open Space, European Cultural Centre, Giardini della Marinaressa – Venice, IT
2020 – Crossing Over: Immigration Stories – ArtExpo NY – New York, NY
2020 – PhotoLA – NYFA – Los Angeles, CA
2019 – 2019 Venice Biennial Collateral Exhibition at Palazzo Mora – ECC GAA Foundation, Venice, IT
2019 – Photoville NYC, NYFA – New York, NY
2019 – FAYN Deconstruction – NYFA LA Photo, Los Angeles, CA
2019 – Alumni and Faculty Show – Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
2019 – Storied Forms – The Halide Project Invitational, Philadelphia, PA
2019 – Beyond Addiction: Reframing Recovery – Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York, NY
2018 – Society of Photographic Education Northeast – Tipping Points, Poughkeepsie, NY
2018 – Off The Wall Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
2018 – Open Show #25, Bronx Documentary Center – New York, NY
2018 – Guapamacataro Winter Residence Exhibition – Maravatio, Mexico
2017 – Capturing the Lower East Side Oral Histories & Photos – New York, New York
2017 – #SubwaySeriesIV Art In Action, Figment NYC – New York, NY
2017 – #SubwaySeriesIII EXQUISITE CORPSE – Markeim Center for the Arts – Haddonfield, NJ
2016 – EVERYONE KNOWS /YOU ASKED FOR IT – Forward Union Fair – Political Arts Activism – New York, NY
2016 – EVERYONE KNOWS /YOU ASKED FOR IT – Humboldt and Jackson Short Film Festival – New York, NY
2016 – #SubwaySeriesII – October 17 – 24, 2016 | Con Artist Collective Gallery Ludlow Street, New York, NY
2016 – EVERYONE KNOWS /YOU ASKED FOR IT – June 27 day long arts installation-performance piece demonstration in NYC
2016 – #SubwaySeriesII – March | Greenpoint Gallery – New York, NY
2015 – 2016 – #SubwaySeriesII – PAC Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, NY
2014 – FOR MINOR SKY – PAC Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, NY
2013 – February 9 – March 23 | FOR MINOR SKY Perkins Center For The Arts, Collingswood
2012 – Sept. 8-9 | The Brooklyn Museum GO! Brooklyn Open Studios – New York, NY
2012 – August 7-19 | PAC exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, NY
2012 – Northside Art | Open Studio – New York, NY
2012 – Photography 31 | Perkins Center For The Arts – Moorestown, NJ
2011 – Callahan Gallery at St. Francis – New York, NY
2010 – PAC Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, NY
2010 – Ramscale Gallery, “Apparitions of the Death and Company” – New York, NY
2010 – Manhattan Cocktail Classic, “Apparitions of the Death and Company” – New York, NY
2009 – Art From the Heart, The Vanderbilt Foundation, Calumet Gallery – New York, NY
2008 – Darko Maver Exhibition, Williamsburg, Brooklyn – New York, NY
2008 – Present, Photographs on view, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Education Department
2007 – Brooklyn Historical Society, “The Urban Memory Project 2007” – New York, NY
2006 – Lost In Transition: Williamsburg and Carroll Gardens The Municipal Art Society of New York – New York, NY
2006 – New Visions for Public Schools – New York, NY
2006 – MadArts Studios, Park Slope, Brooklyn – New York, NY
2005 – Positive Focus, DUMBO, Brooklyn – New York, NY
2005 – PAC The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, NY
2005 – D’Fine Arts / Hudson Guild, Chelsea, – New York, NY
2003 – PAC The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, NY
2002 to 2008 – Art4Love.com – New York, NY
2002 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, PAC Exhibit – New York, NY
2002 – “Responses” New York University, Tisch School of the Arts – New York, NY
2002 – Bauhaus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 – The SoHo Triad Gallery, – New York, NY
2001 – “Virtual Union Square” The Museum of the City of New York – New York, NY
2000 – “The Truth Is In The Context” La Tazza Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1998 – The Griffith Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1994 – “Photography 13” The Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
COLLECTIONS
Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, NY
Mission CEED, Mission, TX
Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Private Collection, Ridgewood, CT
Private Collection, Brooklyn, NY
Private Collection, Brooklyn, NY
Private Collection, New York, NY
Private Collection, New York, NY
Private Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Private Collection, Mission, TX
Private Collection, Austin, TX
Private Collection, Collingswood, NJ
Private Collection, New York, NY
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Photography and Imaging, New York, NY
Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Emkan Gallery, Photo Book Tehran Archive, Tehran, Iran
ACCLAIMED PROJECTS
The Timeline of Art History | Best in Art | Webby Awards – 2017
The Artist Project | MUSE Gold Award | The American Alliance of Museums – 2016
The Artist Project | Silver World Medal | INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION & FILM AWARD – 2016
The Artist Project | Official Honoree Best Use of Video/Moving Image | The 20th Annual Webby Awards – 2016
82nd & Fifth | Silver World Medal | INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION & FILM AWARD – 2014
82nd & Fifth | Gold: Online Presence | MUSE Awards (American Alliance of Museums) – 2013
Connections | Gold: Online Presence | MUSE Awards – 2011
The Timeline of Art History | Best Research Site | Museums and the Web – 2005
Press, Outreach, Publications and Appearances
2020 “Abstraction, Listening, and Empathy,†presented at Paris College of Art’s 2nd International Photography Conference Blurring the Lines: Photography and Education: Formal, Non-Formal, and Informal Education in Venice, Italy (November 28, 2020)
2020 “Le tele di Neale nella quiete dei Giardini della Marinaressa,†Sempione News, by Mauro Bianchini (24 November, 2020)
2020 “Women & The Music Industry,†moderator for Big Day Film Collective’s virtual panel discussion in conjunction with Ebru Yildiz’s exhibition: For the Record: An Ongoing Portrait Series of Women Who Work Behind the Scenes of the Music Industry (November 20, 2020)
2020 “Photography in Service of Conservation,†moderator for Big Day Film Collective online panel discussion in conjunction with Dale Rio’s exhibition Faces of Conservation: Maasai Olympics (October 31, 2020)
2020 “Black Lives Matter Movement Has Impact on Artists – and They Have Our Attention,†Courier Post, by Celeste Whitaker (October 9, 2020)
2020 “Crossing Over: Using Alternative Processes and Hybrid Media for Community Storytelling with Jackie Neale,†presented on Six Feet Weekly Photography Forum (September 24th, 2020)
2020 “Artists on Coping: Jackie Neale,†Art Spiel, by Catherine Kirkpatrick (June 4, 2020)
2019 “Artist Without Borders: Catching Up With Jackie Neale,†Art Spiel, by Catherine Kirkpatrick (April 16, 2019)
2018 “Finding Common Ground in Tacony,†Mural Arts Philadelphia, by Laura Kochman (August 24, 2018)
2017 “The Artist Project: What Artists See When They Look at Art,†book, authored by Thomas P. Campbell and Christopher Noey, published by Phaidon (October 9, 2017)
2016 “Art Workers Organize a Fair for Political Action,†Hyperallergic (Dec 15, 2016)
 “Collingswood Photographer Stops Time with #SubwaySeries,” Courier-Post, By Tammy Paolino (April 15, 2016)
2014 30-Second Photography: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Photographers, Styles & Techniques, Each Explained in Half a Minute, book, authored by Brian Dilg and Adiva Koenigsberg, published by Ilex (Oct 6, 2014)
 Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid, documentary film, directed by Grant Hamilton (August 4, 2014)
2006 “Student Development,” podcast, WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show (August 16, 2006)
Additional Honors & Awards
2020 NYU CLACS Teaching Fellowship Awardee 2020-2021
2020 The Photoville Teaching Artist Microgrant, generously supported in partnership with PhotoWingsÂ
2020 La Rivoluzione delle Seppie – Crossings – Calabria, IT
2020 Torre Sant Antonio – Calabria, IT
2019 NYFA Professional Development Grant AwardedÂ
2019 Artist Exhibition: 2019 Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibition GAA FoundationÂ
2018 Artist-in-Residence: Scuola Popolare Migranti Milan-Calabria, Italy
Artist-in-Residence: Mural Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Exhibition: 48 Blocks, Atlantic City, NJ
Artist-in-Residence: Guapamacataro Arts and Ecology Center, Maravatio, Michoacan, MX
2017 Artist / Expert-in-Residence: STEAM (Science, Technology, Education, Arts, and Math), Mission, TX
2011 Award: Volunteer of the Year, Director of Professional Women Photographers, New York, NY
2007 Grant: Curating Artist, Lost In Transition: Williamsburg and Carroll Gardens, New Visions For Public Schools, New York, NY
2005–7 Artist Residency: The Urban Memory Project, Williamsburg Prep HS, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Recognition Award: Positive Focus, Brooklyn, NY
CLIENTS AND COMMISSIONS:
- Ilex Publications
- Ditlev Films
- Phaidon
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Sterling Publishing
- Big Brothers Big Sisters/National Chapter, Phila., PA
- 141 Integrated Communications
- Spring Design Partners
- Lanac.com
- Los Angeles Times Magazine
- International Creative Management
- Deussen Global Communications
- Local Exploration Publishing
- Stereopticon Pictures
- Clark McDowall Brand Architects
- CityPaper of Philadelphia
- 11211 Magazine
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Child Magazine
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