About

Jessica Doyle is an artist and writer whose work moves between drawing, painting, artist books, and large-scale installation. Her work is rooted in observation but often slips into memory and imagination, bringing together figures, animals, landscapes, and fragments of language.

Doyle works across very different scales, from intimate ink drawings and portraits to expansive paintings and drawings made directly on walls. Across these forms, she is interested in what happens when familiar things become slightly uncertain: a face, a landscape, a remembered place, a sentence that seems to arrive from somewhere else.

Her process is intuitive and exploratory. Rather than beginning with a fixed narrative or philosophical idea, she allows images and associations to develop through making. Her background in philosophy and aesthetics informs the work without determining it, alongside influences from literature, music, lived experience, and close observation of the world around her.

Doyle received her MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in Philosophy, Art Theory, and Aesthetics from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions in Philadelphia and group exhibitions in New York, Rome, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.