Jessica Puma

Merchantville, NJ

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About Jessica Puma:

Jessica Puma (b. 1976, Philadelphia) is an American painter of Italian and Dutch heritage whose work moves between abstraction and representation. Her architectural paintings explore space, memory, and emotional resonance, while her new work, Consolation Flowers, meditates on solace in grief and the fleeting beauty of nature. For Puma, painting is a practice of listening — to the echoes of a place, the weight of memory, and the quiet poetry of everyday life.

She earned her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Maryland at College Park, with study abroad in Calcutta and Paris shaping her layered, contemplative approach.

 

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Selected exhibitions
Education
  • Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts - Philadelphia, PA,2004 
  • University of Maryland at College Park, Bachelor of Art, Studio Art - College Park, MD,1998 
Press Accolades
  • Artist Residency, Chateau de Cerisay, France - October 2026
  • Catholic Artists Connection, Issue #443, "Meet Jessica Puma" - https://catholicartistconnection.com/blog/jessica-puma
  • NJ PBS, “NJ TV Learning Live.” - April 20, 2020 https://www.pbs.org/video/one-point-perspective-jessica-melchiorre-fifth-grade-c3phez/
  • Philly.com Colin Kerrigan, Philly.com. “Open House; Bonnie and Paul in Pennsport,” - http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/home_and_design/Open-House-Bonnie-and-Paul.html
  • Naomi Beckwith & Lilianna Milkova. “On Memory, Sites, Migrations and Maps” from Points of Departure: Inner and Outer Journeys in Contemporary Art, Univ. of Pennsylvania - June, 2007
  • New American Paintings, 57th Edition - April, 2005
  • Byrd Elkins Award, University of Maryland at College Park - May 1998

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