Bio
Jane Paradise is a San Francisco and Cape Cod based photographic artist.
Her photographs are in the collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography and many private collections in the United States and Europe. Paradise shows regularly at Gallery Ehva in Provincetown and in group shows at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
Paradise’s recent work include a series on women in their 90’s aging in America that reflects both beauty and sadness irrespective of physical circumstances. She is also working on a body of work called “Not Quite Strangers” photographing private moments in public places and “The Blue Comma” a series on Provincetown MA. Most of her work deals with people, their inner landscape, and how they are situated in their environment.
Recent exhibitions include: “Big Picture” show, Cape Cod Artist Association, the Worldwide Photo Biennial in Buenos Aires, SNAP exhibit at the Bedford Gallery in California, the New England Photo Biennial at the Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts, and The Prime Years exhibit in Houston and Dublin Ireland. Paradise’s work has also been included in group shows at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Minneapolis Photo Center, PhotoPlace in Middlebury Vermont and RayKo Gallery in San Francisco.
Paradise was the recipient of a juror award from the Cape Cod Art Association Big Pictue show, Gold and honorable mention awards in the Worldwide Gala Awards; and received three honorable mentions in the Lucie (International Photography Awards) contest.
In addition to the frontispiece of “The Magic Tower”, her photographs have been published in the Provincetown Arts Magazine, Boston Globe, Sailing World, The Newsletter for San Francisco City Guides, and other publications.
She has studied photography with, among others, Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, Constantine Manos, David Hilliard, and Amy Arbus and for one year in London at the City of Westminster College.
Paradise is a trustee of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) and former Deputy Director of the International Museum of Women.
