Benrubi Gallery is honored to present a memorial exhibition for our beloved Jed Devine.

Born on August 31, 1944, Jed grew up in Pleasantville, NY, the middle of three brothers. He attended Pleasantville High School, Deerfield Academy, and Yale, where he captained the baseball team and received his BA in fine arts and MFA in graphic design.

After graduate school, Jed focused on photography, notably the black-and-white palladium prints for which he is known, and later for his color digital prints. He exhibited with Daniel Wolf and then with our founder Bonni Benrubi from 1987 on. Jed has been an integral part of our gallery's story and legacy, shaping how we have seen pictures since our very inception as an organization. In 1986, Jed received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his photographs of Central Park’s Bethesda Terrace.

Jed’s work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Eastman House, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery, the Aldrich Contemporary Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of art, the San Francisco Museum of art and the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, among other private and public collections.

Jed Devine—photographer, teacher, husband, father, and grandfather—passed away on October 29, 2024. He died at home on Martha’s Vineyard, surrounded by his wife Barbara Kassel, his son Jesse Devine, and his daughter Siobhan Devine. We invite you to join us for this celebration of life and throughout the summer as Jed fills our gallery with his eternal sense of humor, love and poetry.