Solo Exhibitions
2020 SURFACE, Women’s Work Gallery, Detroit MI
2019 Mutiny, Norwest Gallery, Detroit, MI
2018 Voice, Curator Love & Artsy, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Unspeakable, Building Bridges Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Womxnhouse Detroit, WomxnHouse Residency Project &
Norwest Gallery of Art, Detroit, MI
Flower Therapy, Norwest Gallery of Art, Detroit, MI
Traces, April Seminar Exhibition, Circle Pro Art, Cantabria, Spain
2020 Exploring Humanity, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Purple for Alzheimers, Auburn Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Covid 19 Artist Stories, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles, CA
Mix with the Maker, Embrace Creatives & Bright Ideas, Royal Oak, MI
10th Annual Photography Exhibit, Downriver Council for the Arts,
Wyandotte, MI
2020 Exhibition of Contemporary Photography, The Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
Detroit Window Design Classic, Norwest Gallery & Design Core, Detroit, MI
Art Now: Photography ‘Nothing is Clear, Nothing is Certain’,
Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Women, Andy Art Center & Norwest Gallery, Detroit, MI
2018 Fear vs. Freedom, One One Six Two Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Place, Norwest Gallery, Detroit, MI
48 Hour Project, Focus Hope & Norwest Gallery, Detroit, MI
Detroit Design Crawl, Design Core Detroit, Detroit, MI
Creative Spaces Open Studio, Open Studios, Fisher Building, Detroit, MI
2017 Grand Opening, Floor Four Creative Space, Fisher Building, Detroit, MI
2016 We The People, Biennale Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco
RESOLUTION_The Digital Print, Jai & Jai Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 FridaMania, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2013 Generazoni, Bice Bugatti Art Foundation, Milan, Italy
3,650 Days: An Installation, CeArte Cultural Center, Ensenada, Mexico
2012 MFA 2012, Gallery 27, Santa Barbara, CA
Destination, The Fixx Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2009 XI, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL
Salt and Pepper, D’Last Gallery, Chicago, IL
Spotlight, Barbara Marx Gallery, Chicago, IL
Collections
The Rossi Foundation, Milan, Italy
Biennale Casablanca Foundation, Casablanca, Morocco
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Fine Art Photography
Brooks Institute of Photography, 2012
Bachelor of Arts, Journalism
Michigan State University, 2004
Associate of Applied Science, Photography
Harrington College of Design, 2007
Teaching & Critique
Visual Communications Dept. Adjunct, Triton College, Chicago, 2022
Women's Work Art Gallery Detroit, Critique
Workshops, 2020
Guest Critic, Senior Portfolios, College of DuPage, Chicago, 2020
Graduate Program Substitute, Brooks Institute MFA Program, 2014
Graduate Teaching Assistant & Guest Critic, Brooks Institute MFA program, 2012-13
Independent Engagements
Assembly Required, panel Series, “Self-Care and Resilience” Arizona State University, 2020
Press & Publication
STATESIDE - NPR, Michigan Public Radio, Interview, 2021
The Metro Times, Fall Arts Issue, Profile, “How Jessica DeMuro Graves is healing from loss by returning to the womb with WomxnHouse”, 2021
WXYZ ABC Channel 7, interview, ‘Flower Therapy’, 2021
Corp! Magazine, Profile, “Detroit Artist Tackles Tough Emotions in Her Work, Hopes to Teach Others to do the Same.”, 2020
BLAC Magazine, 2020
Arizona State University, ’Instructions Not Included’, Interview, 2020
The Detroit Free Press, 2018/2020
The Fashionable Lampoon Magazine, 2018
Atlantic Records, This is Not the End, Album Cover, MILCK, 2018
Atlantic Records, Quiet, Single Cover, MILCK, 2017
El País, “La bienal de arte de Casablanca airea las injusticias del mundo”, 2016
Photographers Forum, Best of Photography 2016, 2016
Venue Magazine, 2014
Diatribe Magazine, “La photografia che libera dalla violenza”, Review, 2013
Building Bridges Foundation Newsletter, “Social Activism Through Her Art”, Interview, 2013
Santa Barbara Independent, MFA 2012 exhibition review, 2012
VenusZine Magazine, 2009/2010
Today’s Chicago Women Magazine, 2009
Harrington College of Design, CTA public transit Advertisement, bus and eL train banners, 2007
Selected Awards & Honors
Featured Artist, Artsy.com, 2018
Honorable Mention, ’Best of Photography 2016’, Photographers Forum, 2016
Puffin Foundation Grant, 2014
54th Premio Internationale Bugatti Segantini Prize, The Rossi Foundation, 2013