Diaries of Home, on view at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from November 17, 2024-February 2, 2025, was featured in the following outlets:

FORT WORTH REPORT: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth exhibition explores the meaning of home, family

Dugan’s exhibition, Jess T. Dugan: I want you to know my story, on view at The Ringling Museum in Sarasota, FL from August 17, 2024-February 22, 2025, was featured in the following outlets:

SARASOTA MAGAZINE: A New Show at The Ringling Features Jess T. Dugan’s Striking, Intimate Photo Portraits
SRQ DAILY: The Ringling Presents: Jess T. Dugan: I Want You to Know My Story
SARASOTA HERALD-TRIBUNE: Sarasota museums find creative ways to fuel the art of now

Dugan’s work was featured in “New Rules: Navigating Photography’s Unfixed Future,” published by WEPRESENT by WeTransfer.
A related article was published on WEPRESENT.

 
 

Dugan was featured in “What, exactly, is masculinity?” in FEELD Magazine.

Dugan’s exhibition, Jess T. Dugan: Look at me like you love me, on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum from June 20-September 28, 2024 was featured in Art Daily.

Dugan was featured in Bant Mag.

Dugan spoke about their video Letter to My Daughter on St. Louis Public Radio.

Dugan was featured in Heart to heart: Representations of love in SLAM’s holdings on the St. Louis Art Museum blog.

ICP at 50: From the Collection 1845-2019 at the International Center of Photography is reviewed in The New York Sun.

Dugan’s exhibition, Jess T. Dugan: I want you to know my story, on view at [CONTAINER] Turner Carroll from November 17, 2023-January 5, 2024 was featured in the following outlets:

PASATIEMPO, SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN: An Open Book
SANTA FE REPORTER: SFR Picks: Photo Realism
VISUAL ART SOURCE: Review, Jess T. Dugan: I want you to know my story

Dugan was featured in “Pictures of Us: The Exhibition Celebrating our Shared Humanity” in SHOWstudio and “Joy, tenderness and intimacy are celebrated by artists in London” in Wallpaper.

Two exhibitions including Dugan’s work were featured in “Art shows to leave the house for in December 2023” in Dazed.

Dugan was featured in “Tender Portraits of Provincetown’s Queer Community” in AnOther Magazine.

Dugan was featured in “‘Love: Still Not the Lesser’ opens today at Museum of Contemporary Photography” on ArtDaily and “All You Need Is Love: A Review of ‘LOVE: Still Not the Lesser” in NewCity Art.

Dugan was featured in “SFMOMA announces acquisition of more than 100 objects that underscore collecting priorities” on ArtDaily.

Dugan was featured in “Four exhibits set for opening of Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts” in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and “Celebrating Together: Inside the Work of Jess T. Dugan and LaToya Hobbs” in Soirée.

Dugan was featured in “Get to know some of St. Louis' most exciting visual artists” in St. Louis Magazine.

Dugan’s exhibition, Look at me like you love me, on view at CLAMP from November 3, 2022-January 7, 2023 was featured in the following outlets:

ARTNET: Before Time Runs Out in 2022, Clock These 5 Artists to Watch From the Artnet Gallery Network
PHOTOGRAPH MAGAZINE: Jess T. Dugan: Look at me like you love me at CLAMP

Kinship, on view at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC from October 28, 2022 through January 7, 2024, is featured in the following outlets:

HYPERALLERGIC: Kinship Amid a Loneliness Epidemic
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE: How These Contemporary Artists Are Redefining Family and Kinship
THE WASHINGTON POST: Smithsonian’s ‘Kinship’ ponders the meaning of personal connection
VANITY FAIR (ITALIAN EDITION): Eight contemporary artists interpret the family
VANITY FAIR (DEC 2022/ JAN 2023 PRINT EDITION): Kith and Kin

Look at me like you love me was shortlisted for the 2022 Aperture-Paris Photo PhotoBook Awards and discussed in the Aperture PhotoBook Club (February 2023).

Dugan was featured in “A Sense of Connection” in Aesthetica Magazine.

Dugan was featured in “Nineteen Women and Nonbinary Photographers Who Shaped Photography’s Past and Future” in The Luupe.

Dugan was featured on The Messy Truth, Episode 52, a podcast of conversations on photography with writer and photo director Gem Fletcher. Listen here.

Dugan is profiled in “How to build a career: Alec Soth, Poulomi Basu, Justine Kurland and Jess T. Dugan on survival strategies, adapting to change and making a living” in the British Journal of Photography.

To Survive on This Shore, on view at the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University from August 16-December 10, 2022, is available as a virtual exhibition.

Designing Motherhood at the MassArt Art Museum was reviewed in The Boston Globe, Boston Art Review, in The Mission Hill Gazette, and on Boston’s independent radio station WBUR.

Dugan was profiled on the National Endowment for the Arts.

Dugan’s work was included in Visible Love, an exhibition throughout Europe centered around queer love.

Dugan was featured on St. Louis on the Air on St. Louis Public Radio.

Dugan was featured on PhotoWork, Episode 40, a podcast hosted by art dealer Sasha Wolf featuring conversations with artists about process and practice. Listen here (Dugan was also featured on Episode 5 in 2020, which is here).

Dugan was profiled in “Brief But Spectacular” on the PBS NewsHour.

Currents 120: Jess T. Dugan at the St. Louis Art Museum is featured in Artforum, The New York Times, The St. Louis Post Dispatch and The Advocate.

Dugan is featured in SLAM in 60, a short video produced by the St. Louis Art Museum.

Dugan is featured in Analog Artisans, a series of short documentaries by filmmaker Bryan Birks.

HEC TV produced a short film about Currents 120: Jess T. Dugan at the St. Louis Art Museum, which can be viewed here or by clicking the image below.

To Survive on This Shore at the George Eastman Museum is included in “LGBTQ art shows are lighting up museums from Boston to Berlin” on NBC News and in the Rochester City Newspaper.

Inward, an exhibition curated by Dugan for the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at Colorado State University, is reviewed in Daria Mag.

Dugan’s work is included in two online exhibitions organized by The Luupe: 100 Visions of Motherhood and 100 Visions of Fatherhood.

Dugan is profiled in “Jess T. Dugan on Desire, Ageing and the Intersectional Gaze” in Elephant Magazine.

Dugan was selected as the recipient of the ChromaLuxe X Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship.

Dugan is profiled in “How Master Portraitist Jess T. Dugan Empowers Subjects to Open Up for Remarkably Intimate Photographs” on Artnet.

Dugan is featured on The Modern Art Notes Podcast.

Dugan was selected as the 2020-21 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Minneapolis Institute of Art produced several short videos about To Survive on This Shore in conjunction with Dugan’s exhibition Jess T. Dugan: Vision 2020, on view September 18, 2020-March 7, 2021. Visit the exhibition page to watch.

Dugan participated in a live recording of Focal Point, the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s podcast, with Karen Irvine, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and artist Rafael Soldi. Watch here.

Dugan’s exhibition, Vision 2020: Jess T. Dugan, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, was featured in Wallpaper and Next Avenue.

Dugan participated in a panel discussion along with Sarah Meister, David Campany, and Kris Graves for the virtual opening reception of Keeper of the Hearth at the Houston Center for Photography. Watch the program here.

Dugan is featured in “14 Artists on the Importance of Portraying Queer Love” on Artsy.

Dugan shared their work as part of Sound Bites, a concert series organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The program, which can be viewed here, includes an introduction by curator Karen Haas, an artist talk by Dugan, and a musical performance by singer songwriter Anjimile.

Dugan spoke to the International Center of Photography about working from home in “Quarantine Reflections: Jess T. Dugan.”

Dugan talks about their studio practice in “Work From Home: Inside the Artist’s Studio,” produced by the Catherine Edelman Gallery.

Dugan is one of four finalists for the Norton Museum of Art’s Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers.

In conjunction with the International Center of Photography’s 2019 Infinity Awards, MediaStorm produced a short documentary about Dugan’s work, which can be viewed here or by clicking the image below.

Dugan was featured in “Jess T. Dugan’s Moving Photos of Trans People Over 50 Enjoying Life” on Vice.

Dugan was featured in “9 Photographers Flipping the Script on Trans and Non-Binary Representation” on Vice.

Since 2018, To Survive on This Shore has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Photograph Magazine, The Strange Fire Collective, PAPER, Upworthy, Temporary Art Review, The New York Journal of Books, Photo District News, HuffPost, The Advocate, them. magazine, ze.tt, Zero.Nine Magazine, Alive Magazine, It’s Nice That, Buzzfeed, Artspace, Spiegel Online, Huck Magazine, on St. Louis Public Radio, and Next Avenue on Twin Cities PBS.

To Survive on This Shore, the book, was included in several 2018 book lists, including Women Photograph’s Photobooks of 2018, the Humble Arts Foundation’s Humble Booklist: 32 Photobooks That Dropped Our Jaws in 2018, What Will You Remember’s Our Favorite Photobooks of 2018, and PDN’s Notable Photo Books of 2018.

Dugan and collaborator Vanessa Fabbre spoke about To Survive on This Shore on WGBH, Boston’s Public Radio, on November 13, 2018. Click here to download an MP3 of the conversation, or listen here (conversation begins at 1:47:00).

Dugan was featured in “Seven Contemporary Photographers Represent Trans Communities on Their Own Terms” in Hyperallergic.

Dugan received the 2018 Women Photograph + Nikon Grant, which supports work by women and non-binary photographers working in a documentary capacity, for Every Breath We Drew. The grantees were featured on NPR's The Picture Show and in the British Journal of Photography. 

Dugan participated in a discussion focused on the representation of LGBTQ+ communities in photography, "A Rainbow of Nuances: Reporting LGBTQ+ Stories," for the Magenta Foundation's series Flash Forward Flash Back. 

Dugan was featured in Aperture Magazine 229, Winter 2017 Issue, "Future Gender."

Work from Every Breath We Drew is included in (Un)expected Families at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, featured on the New York Times Lens Blog and in The Washington Post. 

In 2015, To Survive on This Shore was featured in The New York Times, CNN, The Advocate, on Slate, on Fusion.net, on Everyday Feminism, on TakePart, and in The Boston Globe.

Dugan was chosen as a 2015 Champion of Change by the White House and was invited to speak as part of the panel "The Personal is Political: The Power of Speaking Your Truth," which took place on November 23, 2015. Watch the video here.  

Every Breath We Drew was featured on Lenscratch, The Huffington Post, The Advocate, ArtsATL, Buzzfeed, aCurator, Musee Magazine, Cosmopolitan.com, Madmoizelle.com, and Slate's Behold: The Photo Blog.

Dugan's work was featured in Musee Magazine's Issue No. 12, Controversy.

To Survive on This Shore was featured on St. Louis Public Radio as a two-part radio story. The first feature focuses on the project itself and the second feature focuses on one of the participants.   

Dugan's exhibition Every Breath We Drew, exhibited simultaneously with August Sander's Just Women, was reviewed by Edie Bresler for Photograph Magazine and by Mark Feeney for the Boston Globe. 

Every Breath We Drew was featured on the New York Times Lens Blog.

Every Breath We Drew was included in Making Pictures of People: Recent Perspectives on Photographic Portraiture, a collaboration between Flak Photo and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.