Jerry Birchfield (b. 1985) holds an MFA from Cornell University (2014) and a BFA in Photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art (2009). Recent solo exhibitions include Jerry Birchfield: Asleep in the Dust at the Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Stagger When Seeing Visions organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art at the Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH; and You Are Not, Except As A Joke, Blaming Them at Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH. In Cleveland, his work has been included in group exhibitions at Abattoir, the Museum of Contemporary Art, 2731 Prospect; and SPACES as well as Riffe Gallery and ROYGBIV in Columbus, the Print Center in Philadelphia, and Schema Projects and Foley Gallery in New York. He lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio and is a Lecturer in Photography at Case Western Reserve University.