BIOGRAPHY

An internationally recognized photographer and Provincetown resident, Jane Paradise captures the profound and intimate connections between people and their environments.

She is represented by Alden Gallery in Provincetown MA and Galatea Fine Art in Boston. Her photographs have been featured and exhibited in solo shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester MA, Art Space in Raleigh NC, Gallery Ehva in Provincetown, Simmons College in Boston MA and Houston Center for Photography. Internationally Paradise has shown at the International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography (Argentina, Spain and Germany), and the Gallery of Photography in Ireland. Paradise was a 2017 and 2014 Photolucida finalist.

Paradise’s work has been included and received honors in numerous juried shows including at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography, Danforth Art New England Photo Biennial, Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, the Center for Fine Art Photography, the Worldwide Photo Biennial and RayKo Gallery in San Francisco.

She has curated shows at Galatea Fine Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum including the 2022 "Rowland Scherman: Spirit of the 60’s", 2016 "Elman + Holt: The Outer Cape Colony" as well as the 2015 "After Images" show by Amy Arbus and the upcoming 2023 show of artist Elisabeth Pearl.

Her photographs have been published in magazines and are published in the book Strength and Grace: Elegy for Love and in Summertime, a Chronicle book. Her Provincetown dune shack portfolio was featured in Still Points Arts Quarterly.

Her photographs are in the collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography and in many private collections in the United States and Europe.

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RESUME (PDF available for download at the end of the page)

Solo Exhibitions

2022 - "Provincetown Dune Shacks", Alden Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2021 - "Provincetown, From Dusk till Dawn", Alden Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2021 - "American Landscape: Two Views", Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2020 – “Eat. Drink. Provincetown”, Alden Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2019 - “Classic Provincetown”, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2019 - “Not Quite Strangers”, Alden Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2019 - “Here Today”, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

2018 - “Herring Cove and Classic PTown”, Alden Gallery and Hatches Harbor, Provincetown, MA

2018 - “The Tip: Images of the Outer Cape”, The Gallery UPSTAIRS, Orleans, MA

2018 - “Dune Shacks of Provincetown: Series 1”, Salt Pond Visitors Center, Eastham, MA

2018 - “Dune Shacks of Provincetown: Series 1”, Westport Art Guild, Westport, MA

2017 - “Dune Shacks of Provincetown: Series 1”, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2017 - “Dune Shacks of Provincetown: Series 1”, Gallery 444, Provincetown, MA

2015 - “This is Your Future: Women and Aging”, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2015 - “Carpe Diem”, Artspace, Raleigh, NC, three person exhibition

2015 - “Women and Aging”, Simmons College, Boston, MA

2015 - “Here and There”, Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, MA, two person exhibition

2014 - “When I was Young, I was Considered Beautiful”, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital, Lebanon, NH

2013 - “When I was Young, I was Considered Beautiful”, Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, MA

2013 - “When I was Young, I was Considered Beautiful”, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA

2012 - “Herring Cove”, Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, MA, two person exhibition

2011 - “Saturday Night Swim”, Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, MA

2010 - “Not Quite Strangers”, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

2009 - “The Prime Years”, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 - Community Healing, Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA

2020 – “Light from Above”, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2020- “In Your Mother Tongue”, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston

2020 - “Water” A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX

2019 - “Primary Source”, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston

2019 - National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, MA

2019 -“She”, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX

2018 - “Annual Group Show”, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY

2018 - “5th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography”, Barcelona, Spain

2018 - “Healing Nature”, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

2018 - “Water”, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2018 - “Portraits”, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX

2018 - “Tree Talk”, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA

2018 - “Light”, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2017 - “Portraits 2017", Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2017 - “The Art of Structure”, Still Point Art Gallery, ME

2017 - Juried Show, Texas Photographic Society, Frisco, TX

2017 - “New England Collective 8”, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2017 - “Narrative Photography”, Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR

2017 - “The National”, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA

2017 - “Wanderlust”, Dickerman Prints and Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017 - “Aviary”, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA

2017 - “Intimate Portraits”, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT

2017 - “The Photograph” and “Lighting” Cape Cod Art Association, and Bob Korn Gallery, Orleans, MA

2017 - Juried Show, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2017 - “Summertime”, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX

2016 - “4th Int’l Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography”, Berlin, Germany

2016 - “The Nor’Easter”, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Juried Show

2016 - Members’ Juried Shows, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA

2015 - “Waterfall” and “Currents”, Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, MA

2015 - “Empty beds: an installation”, AS220 Project Space, Providence, RI

2015 - “Dune Shack ART Show”, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, MA

2014 - “3rd Int’l. Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography”, Malaga, Spain

2014 - “12th National Prize Show”, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2014 - “Home”, 4x5 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013 - “New England Collective IV”, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2013 - “New England Photo Biennial”, The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

2013 - “Spring Competition”, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2013 - “Light and Dark: Photography Now”, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA

2013 - “Community of Artists”, Danforth Art, Framingham, MA

2013 - “(Un)Clothed”, “Water” and “Family”, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2013 - “Magic of Light”, Vermont PhotoPlace, Middlebury, VT

2012 - “2nd Int’l Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2012 - “Portraits”, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2012 - “Big Picture Show”, Cape Cod Art Association, Cotuit Center for the Arts, MA

2012-2010 - Various juried shows, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

2012-2008 - “Annual Invitational Auction”, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, MA

2011 - “The Prime Years”, The Photographer’s Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2011 - “SNAP: A Photography Exhibition”, Bedford Galley, Walnut Creek CA, Juror Award

2011 - “For Japan by Architecture for Humanity”, Hotshoe Gallery, London, UK

2011 - “Life Support Japan”, Wallspace Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2011 - “New England Photo Biennial”, The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

2012 – “Spring Competition”, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2010 - “For Terminally Ill Children”, Angelight Films, New York City, NY

2009 - “Highlights from the Permanent Collection”, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, FL

Awards

2021- 26th Winner, "All about Photo"

2020 - Honorable Mention, 16th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Award

2018 - Honorable Mention, 11th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Award

2017 - Finalist, Photolucida Critical Mass

2017 - Honorable Mention, “Patterns and Shadows”, New York Center for Photographic Art

2017 - Merit Award, “All About Photo”, (top 20 out of 4,000)

2017 - Honorable Mention, “A Touch of Color”, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA

2014 - Juror Award, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2014 - Finalist, Photolucida Critical Mass

2013 - Juror Selection, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2013 - Best Photograph, Still Point Gallery, Brunswick, ME

2013 - Honorable Mention, National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, MA

2013 - Second Prize, National Prize, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA

2013 - First Prize, “Breath of Spring,” Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA

2012 - Juror Award, “The Big Picture”, Cape Cod Art Association, Cotuit Center for the Arts, MA

2011 - 2nd Prize and Gold (top 2%), Worldwide GALA Awards: Inter-Regional Honorable Mention

2011 - Juror Award, “SNAP: A National Juried Photography Exhibition”, Bedford Galley, Walnut Creek, CA

2006 - Runner-Up, The Environmental Photography Invitational, “Environment at Risk”, Seattle, WA

2005 - Runner-Up in 3 categories, The Lucie Awards (International Photography Awards)

Books/Magazines

2020-2021 “Signs of COVID” Provincetown Arts, Vol 35 annual issue, Provincetown MA

2017 “Dune Shacks of Provincetown: Photographs of Jane Paradise” Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 28-page catalog

2015 “Of Strength and Grace: Elegy for Love”, Shanti Arts Press, Brunswick, ME

2014 Still Point Arts Quarterly Fall, featured photographer

2014 “Summertime”, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA

2013 Still Point Arts Quarterly Winter, featured photographer

2013 “When I Was Young I Was Considered Beautiful”, Solo show catalog, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

2010 “Not Quite Strangers”, self-published photographic series

2005 “The Saturday Night Swim”, self-published photographic series

Photos in Selected Publications

2020, 2019 Provincetown Independent newspaper, MA

2019 Provincetown Banner newspaper, MA

2014 Cape Cod Times Newspaper, MA

2012 Provincetown Arts Magazine, MA

2011-2009 Boston Globe newspaper, MA

2011 Frontispiece for “The Magic Tower and Other One Act Plays”, Tennessee Williams, introduction by Terrance McNally, A New Directions Books, NY

2010 The Atlantic, The Daily Dish blog, “Face of the Day”

Artist Residency

2011 Outer Cape Artist Residency Consortium, art residency in a historic dune shack, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown, MA

Speaking Engagements

2022 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Barnstable, MA

2017 Open University, Wellfleet, MA, “Cape Cod Contemporary Artists”

2017 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, “Women and Aging”

2013 Danforth Art, Framingham, MA, “The Dune Shacks of Provincetown”

2011 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, “When I Was Young”

Press

2020 Provincetown Banner, “Art and Caregiving One Step at a Time”, Provincetown, MA

2020 Provincetown Independent, Provincetown, MA

2017 Artscope, Boston, MA

2017 WOMR Radio Interview with Jane Paradise, Provincetown, MA

2016 and 2017 Prime magazine, CT

2016 Cada dia un fotografo blog, Spain

2015 Omen magazine, No 14

2015 Boston Globe, MA, featured exhibit

2013 Cambridge Art Association, MA, “12th National Prize book”

2013 The Daily Beast, “The Dish” with Andrew Sullivan

2011 The MetroWest Daily News, MA, “Danforth Biennial showcases diverse work”

Curator

2022 “Rowland Scherman: Spirit of the 60’s” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA

2021 "Heroes and Villains" Galatea Fine Art, Boston

2020 “Art from the Heart” Galatea Fine Art, Boston

2020 “Provincetown 400” Pilgrim Monument and Museum, MA, co-curator

2019 “Home” Galatea Fine Art, Boston

2016 “Ray Elman and Norma Holt” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA, co-curator

2015 “Amy Arbus After Images” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA, co-curator

Education

1999-2009 Photography coursework: UC Berkeley, CA. Fine Arts Works Center, Provincetown MA. Tuscany Photography Workshop, Italy

Studied with Alex Webb, Jeff Jacobson, Constantine Manos, Douglas Kirkland, Amy Arbus, David Hilliard, Joanne Dugan

2003-2004 Photography Studies, City of Westminster College, London, England

B.A. Psychology, University of Hartford, Bloomfield, CT

Professional Affiliations

2012 - Juried Artist Member, Cape Cod Art Association, MA

2012 - Invited Member, Art Photo Index, NM

2017-2011 - Trustee, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA

2011-2006 - Advisory Board member, Fotovision, CA, documentary photography non-profit

2002-2001 - Deputy Director, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA

Collection

Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL and private collections worldwide

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