BIO

Jessica Corr is a product designer based in New York City. Her work spans accessories, furniture, lighting and exhibition design. She is a founding member of the group Collaborative, a design collective whose work combines talents in art, architecture, product design and graphic design to create experimental and inspirational projects. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions such as the Barcelona Forum 2004, the Biennale Internationale in St. Etienne, France in 2002 and the National Design Triennial 2003 at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, with Collaborative. She was selected in 2003 to be a participant in the Surface Magazine T.A.G. exhibition, an industry-renowned feature profiling the top industrial designers working in the United States. In addition to her independent projects, Corr consults for other designers and architects on product and material development. Her involvement in the industry led her to conceive and co-curate Transformation: New International Design, a juried exhibition to promote women working in product design which opened at Parsons School of Design in may 2003. She has been a panelist on several public programs, including, Material Pioneers, moderated by Christopher Mount and hosted by Material Connexion in collaboration with the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Corr is a part time faculty member at Parsons School of Design where she earned her BFA in 1995.

EXHIBITIONS

May 2004
Love, Why?
Barcelona Forum 2004

June 2003
Summer Hype
Felissimo Design House, NYC

June 2003
Nachgeschaut
galerieXprssns, Hamburg

May 2003
TAG: Industrial Design Showcase
Surface Magazine at ICFF, NYC

April 2003
Inside Design Now: 2003 Design Triennial
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, NYC,

April 2003
TAG: Industrial Design Showcase, Surface Magazine,
Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milano

November 2002
Biennale Saint-Etienne 2002
representing design from the United States

May 2002
I saw I was I
Collaborative installation at Shelly Steffee, ICFF, NYC

May 2001
Mutations
Collaborative installation at Selvedge, ICFF, NYC

Feb.1998
Exquisite Cannibals
Bakalar Gallery, Boston,

PUBLICATIONS

Dish: International Design: range of work, 2005

Surface Magazine, (US) The New Garde, 2004

Contemporary Magazine (UK) Collaborative feature, 2004

ID Magazine (US) interview: review of baby products, 2004

GRAPHIS (International) Product 3

Inside Design Now: The Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial 2003

Surface Magazine, (US) TAG Industrial Design Showcase, 2003

Abitare (IT) 15 Countries, 15 Designers, 2003

BEople (BE) News: 2003

World of Interiors (UK): Antennae 2002

Interior Design (US): Spring Market 2002

Interior Design (US): Lighting 2002

Elle Decor (UK) 2001

Frame (NL) “Experts' Choice” ICFF 2001

Interni (IT) "Giovanni Designers” ICFF 2001

Core 77 (US) Best of ICFF 2001

Interiors (US) New Office Designs 2000

RETAIL

The Cooper-Hewitt Shop, NYC
Whitney Museum Store, NYC
Sublime American Design, NYC
The Future Perfect, NYC
Ige Design, LA
GalerieXprssns, Hamburg