Jay Wolke

Jay Wolke is an artist and educator living in Chicago, Illinois. His photographic monographs include All Around the House: Photographs of American-Jewish Communal Life, 1998; Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway, 2004; and Architecture of Resignation: Photographs from the Mezzogiorno, 2011. His works have been exhibited internationally and are in the permanent print collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the...See more

Jay Wolke is an artist and educator living in Chicago, Illinois. His photographic monographs include All Around the House: Photographs of American-Jewish Communal Life, 1998; Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway, 2004; and Architecture of Resignation: Photographs from the Mezzogiorno, 2011. His works have been exhibited internationally and are in the permanent print collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco MoMA, among others. His photographs have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, Geo France, Exposure, Newsweek, Fortune, and The Village Voice. From 1992 to 1999 he was coordinator of graduate documentary photography at the IIT Institute of Design. In 1999 - 2000 he served as head of art and graduate studies at Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy. He is currently professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago, where he was chair of the Art and Design Department from 2000 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2013. See less