Jessica Backhaus
(Cuxhaven, Germany, 1970 - )
German
Backhaus was born in Cuxhaven, Germany, in 1970, and raised in an artistic family. At the age of sixteen, she moved to Paris, where she later studied photography and visual
communications. In 1995 her passion for photography drew her to New York, where she assisted photographers, pursued her own projects, and lived until 2009. Since 2009 she has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin and the Kunsthalle Erfurt. Her photographs have been published in ten artist books, including Jesus and the Cherries, 2005, What Still Remains, 2008, One Day in November, 2008, I Wanted to See the World, 2010, Once, still and forever, 2012, Six degrees of freedom, 2015, A TRILOGY, 2017, Far away but Close, 2019 and Cut Outs, 2021. Backhaus’ photographs are in many prominent art collections including Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany, ING Art Collection, Belgium, Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA and the Margulies Collection, Miami, USA.
Paris, France
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