Jessica Yatrofsky

• Name — Jessica Yatrofsky • Born — 18 June 1981 • Birthplace — East Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. • Birth Name — Jessica Lee Yatrofsky • Years Active — 2002–present • Occupation — * Director • photographer • performance artist Jessica Yatrofsky (born June 18, 1981) is an American artist, photographer, and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, New York.

Jessica Yatrofsky was born in East Brunswick, New Jersey and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, the youngest of two daughters. She studied Fine Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 2002 to 2006 and later received her master's degree in photography in 2009 from Parsons the New School for Design. She moved to New York in 2006 where she began photographing both men and women, friends, peers, art models, and other acquaintances. In 2012, "she turned her camera to the women around her, taking portraits of dozens of female friends who in turn suggested more and more women for Yatrofsky to shoot."

Yatrofsky is known for her intimate film and photographic work with female and male subjects. She first gained public notice for her work on I Heart Boy, a photo blog dedicated to picturing young men in sweetly provocative ways, which was later adapted into a photography monograph published by PowerHouse Books in 2010 titled I Heart Boy. Yatrofsky developed a following while contributing to the online publication East Village Boys. Her artwork includes live performances as well as films that explore beauty, gender, body politics, and perception. Yatrofsky wrote and directed her first film, Sun In My Mouth, in 2010 which premiered at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn, New York. In 2014, Yatrofsky directed a fashion film for French designer Jean Paul Gaultier that premiered during men's Fashion Week in Paris. In 2017 her fashion film for Canadian designer Laura Siegel was featured in an article on the Vogue website. In 2015, Yatrofsky published her follow-up photography monograph titled, I Heart Girl, a collection of photographs of women that explore the complexity of gender identification and its latest collective shifts. In 2016, Strand Bookstore hosted Yatrofsky's touring panel discussion "Gender Beauty & the Camera." Guest panelist have included activist and model Rain Dove. From 2012 to 2017, Yatrofsky has been a guest lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, International Center for Photography, School of Visual Arts, Pratt University, Parsons the New School for Design, Östra Grevie Folkhögskola, University of Central Oklahoma and University of Nevada Las Vegas. In 2018 Yatrofsky was a panelist for "PULSE PERSPECTIVES: Meditating, Art and the Creative Process" discussion about Transcendental Meditation (TM) hosted with the David Lynch Foundation and moderated by Surface Magazine's Executive Editor William Hanley. In 2017, Yatrofsky published Pink Privacy, a collection of feminist poems. She performed poetry during Miami Art Basel at the Satellite Art Fair and Performance is Alive with her art collective NY Fem Factory. Yatrofsky read from Pink Privacy for Nylon Magazine's Open Mic Series and her debut music single "Cunt Keeper" was featured on i-D in 2017. Yatrofsky photographed actress Uzo Aduba for the cover of Brooklyn Magazine in 2016 and actress Emily Mortimer in 2011 and actress Jessica Williams in 2017.

In 2011, Yatrofsky exhibited the series I Heart Boy with Kontor Projects in Copenhagen, Denmark. In recent years her photographic and film work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. Yatrofsky has had solo shows with Christian Berst Art Brut in New York City, Galerie Koll in Berlin, Galleri Vasli Souza in Malmo, and Third Space in Copenhagen. Yatrofsky's I Heart Girl series was included in the group exhibition Medium of Desire in 2015 with the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City. In 2015, her series I Heart Boy was exhibited in "Camera Work" at The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design. In 2016 Yatrofsky's I Heart Boy and I Heart Girl series was exhibited together for the first time in a solo exhibition in Ghent, Belgium at Watt Factory titled "I Heart Boy/Girl." Photographic work from her series "Venus as a Boy" was part of the group exhibition "High Summer" in 2016 with Foley Gallery in New York City. Yatrofsky's film, Photography is a History of Masturbation was part of the NSFW: Female Gaze exhibition in 2017 at the Museum of Sex in New York City. In 2017, Yatrofsky was awarded a residency with the Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin, Germany where she curated group exhibitions with Brooklyn-based collectives Alt Esc and NY Fem Factory. In 2018, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center included Yatrofsky's work in the group exhibition "Role Reversal" alongside Lissa Rivera in Denver, Colorado. Yatrofsky's art collective NY Fem Factory was part of PULSE Miami Beach 2018 "Projects" Series. The installation titled "NY FEM FACTORY x JESSICA YATROFSKY Presents Pink Privacy" included the works of poet Elaine Khan and recording artist Drum & Lace.

• Sun in My Mouth (2009) • Photography, A History of Masturbation (2010) • Emily Mortimer for Brooklyn Magazine (2011) • Prêt-à-Porter Homme - Printemps-Eté 2014 for Jean Paul Gaultier (2013) • Flowers and Balloons for Bent Van Loovy (2014) • Shaun Ross x Jessica Yatrofsky (2014) • Laura Siegel SS16 (2016) • Laura Siegel FW17 for Vogue Runway (2017)

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