KATHY HOWARD JACOBSON

Kathy Howard Jacobson is a New York-based photographer whose work spans more than five decades. Working between New York and Florida, photographs move between documentary observation and abstraction, turning streets, walls, and urban surfaces into visual studies of place, texture, and time.

She began her career in commercial photography, creating audiovisual multi-image presentations, before expanding into fine art practice in the 1970s. Early projects documented New York City street life, including homelessness, Chinatown, and the garment district; over time, her work evolved into close studies of the city’s weathered surfaces and overlooked details.

The photographs in this exhibition trace encounters with New York’s streets, its people, and the energy that moves through its neighborhoods. Together, they capture unexpected moments of beauty within the city’s ever-changing landscape.

Created over decades, these photographs reflect an enduring engagement with a city I love and the ways it continues to shape how I see and create.

Jacobson’s work has been shown in the art.now.2025 exhibition sponsored by Hearst at the Hearst Tower Galleries and at Onna House between 2024 and 2026 in Palm Beach and East Hampton. In 2026, she presented a solo exhibition in West Palm Beach, Florida, featuring both new and retrospective works.