Baker Artist Portfolios

Jay Gould is an artist and a member of the faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gould received his B.F.A. in photography from the University of Wisconsin and his M.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art & Design. His work, which integrates scientific topics into installation and constructed photographic projects, has won numerous national awards, such as the Berenice Abbott Prize for an emerging photographer, the Jeannie Pierce Award, the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Festival, and First Place at the Newspace Center for Photography's International Juried Exhibition. Gould's work is widely exhibited around the country, making solo and group exhibition appearances at the Fridman Gallery in NYC, the University of Notre Dame, The Julia Dean Gallery in Los Angeles, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Gould is also a longtime member of the faculty at the Maine Media Workshops, is currently serving as the Chair of the Society for Photographic Education's Mid-Atlantic region and is the Artist in Residence at Johns Hopkins University Extreme Materials Institute.