Jessica Hankey

Jessica Hankey studied at La Escuela de Artes Plásticas in Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico for a year before attending Bard College in 1998. She graduated from Bard in 2002 with a double-major in Studio Art and Latin American and Iberian Studies. During her time at Bard, Hankey studied at El Taller Experimental de Gráfica in Havana, Cuba and La Complutense in Madrid, Spain. Since moving to New York, Jessica Hankey has been working on a video on the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005	"Museum of Modern Art Staff Art Show", MoMA, New York
2004	"5 X 5 Acarigua-New York", Curated by Juana Valdes, Museo de Arte de Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela
2003	"Night of a Thousand Drawings," Artist's Space, New York, New York "Summer Salon," Dumbo Art Collective, Brooklyn, New York
2002	"The Pasadena Art Museum: 1924-1975," Woods Studio, Bard College, Annandale, New York
2000	"Club Art 2000," Fisher Gallery, Bard College, Annandale, New York

GRANTS/AWARDS
1999 Resident, el Taller Experimental de Gráfica, Habana, Cuba
2001 Bard Junior Fellow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Artist's Statement
".And there was so much talk about the building. The building was at fault. The building was an actor in the plot, and it was responsible for fatal problems. If only they hadn't left that old building and built the new one. But I didn't know the plot and it was difficult to piece it together from each of the different interviews. After listening to about five hours of tape I began to understand that the museum had failed somehow-that it no longer existed- and that each of the interviewees was attempting to explain how and why it had failed. Behind each of the interviewer's questions about the details of running various fundraising events lay this lingering.why? Why had this happened? How might it have been prevented? And it seemed like it had been neglected. The museum folded, and then it was mostly forgotten."

email info: jessicahankey@hotmail.com