Jack Pierson (born 1960 in Plymouth, Massachusetts) is a photographer and an artist. Pierson is known for his photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books. His “Self-Portrait” series was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. His works are held in numerous museum collections.
Pierson’s practice embodies an array of media spanning from wall-drawings, word-pieces, installations, drawings, paintings and photographs.[1] He is considered to be part of a group of photographers known as the Boston School — David Armstrong, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Mark Morrisroe and twins Doug and Mike Starn,[2] among others. All of them knew one another in the early 1980s and photographed their immediate circle of friends in situations that were, or appeared to be, casual or intimate.[3]