Jessica Vaughn is an artist whose artworks are consumed by what others perceive as arbitrary, oftentimes going to sculptural lengths to encourage closer inspection of the systems that dictate where which bodies go and by what means.
She has had solo exhibitions at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; ICA-Philadelphia; and Dallas Contemporary amongst others. Vaughn received a BHA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2025-24 she was the David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and a 2021 Creative Capital grant awardee among other grants and fellowships.
“Hope Labor Flat and Folded”
Variable dimensions
6, painted and bent aluminum shapes
2021
Exhibition view: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, 2024
“We are skilled workers” (Flexion and Extension Positions)
55″x 42.5″
2 color UV Digital print on aluminum dibond panel
2025
“We Are Not Servants. We Are Not Machines” (Combined Impairment Values Charts)
55″x 42.5″
2 color UV Digital print on aluminum dibond panel
2025
Detail. “We Are Not Servants. We Are Not Machines” (Combined Impairment Values Charts)
55″x 42.5″
2 color UV Digital print on aluminum dibond panel
2025
