Jessica Ciocci (born 1976) is an American artist working in a range of mediums including animation and video,

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, crafting, digital online projects, comics, mixtapes, performance, painting, drawing and sculpture. Ciocci was a founding member of art collective

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. She has exhibited at the New Museum, the Migros Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Deitch Projects, and Foxy Production. She has spoken and/or performed at Bard College, Columbia College, SVA, and Smith College. Her work has been reviewed by

Holland Cotter Holland Cotter is an art critic with ''The New York Times''. In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Life and work Cotter was born in Connecticut and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his A.B. from Harvard College in 1970, wh ...

, Ken Johnson and

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in the ''

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Ed Halter Ed Halter is a film programmer, writer, and founder of Light Industry, a microcinema in Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches at Bard College, where he is Critic in Residence. Criticism His writing has been featured in ''Artforum'', '' The ...

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''. She holds a BA in psychology and art from

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Living people 20th-century American women artists Place of birth missing (living people) Paper Rad 1976 births 21st-century American women artists Wellesley College alumni {{US-artist-stub