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Biographical note
Jessica Oler is a visual artist, writer, poet, and scholar from Northern California. She is currently a third year PhD student in the Gender Studies Program at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her photography, photographic collage, poetry, autoethnographic writing, and painting explore themes of meaning-making, memory, and abstraction as method. Oler’s personhood and artistic practice continues to be grounded in transgressive Black feminist thought. Her work has been shown at California College of the Arts; Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts and History; Chautauqua, Rochester, and Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Miami, Florida; Lawrenceville and Atlanta, Georgia; Alameda, Oakland, and San Francisco, California; and Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia.