Jeanne Conte

Jeanne Conte has been photographing in and around New York for more than thirty years.
Two subjects have held her for years: women and water — figures floating, submerged, dissolving into color — and black-ground studies of the figure, where the body reads as form.
She learned in a darkroom in Norwalk, Connecticut, spending four years there and coming to understand that editing mattered as much as technique.
Peter MacGill hung her first group show, at the Candace Perich Gallery. "Still Heads in August" was among the images The New York Times chose to run with its review of "Summer in America," alongside a Harry Callahan. In 2006 "Black Bathing Suit Strap" was auctioned at Sotheby's for Riverkeeper.
Her commercial work is represented by Gallery Stock in New York and London. Her photographs have appeared in the Paris editions of Musée Magazine and Psychologies, and on the cover of Neil Jordan's novel Mistaken. She was the creator, publisher and photographer of hipStyle Magazine from 2004 to 2009.
Most images are made on film, some on digital. Prints are archival pigment on paper, in limited editions of 100.

Saint Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont
The School of Visual Arts

Arbor Gallery, 2025
Raymond Lawrence Gallery, 2016
Handwright Gallery, "The Ways of Water," 2015
Art to the Avenue, Greenwich, CT, 2015
Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, "Overlooked," September–October 2014
Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, August 2014
Baboo Gallery, January 2014
Candace Perich Gallery, 1998
Candace Perich Gallery, "Summer in America," 1996