ABOUT
THE ARTIST
Jess English is an Australian artist and curator working and living in New York City. She is the founder and President of the New Australian American Contemporary Art Project launched in 2013 as part of her tenure as the 2013 AusArt Fellow.
Jessie works across the mediums of photography, video, sculpture, installation and sound to tackle subjects of gender politics, national identity, subjectivity and the new social landscape of virtual interactions.
Her curatorial practices are concerned with the promotion and development of emerging and early career artists and creating a dialogue between the cultural centers of Australia and the United States.
EDUCATION
2013 MFA Vis Arts Parsons The New School
2002-2006 Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Blowback, Brooklynphoto One Night Only Art Series, Brooklyn.
2014 Shape Color Feel, Crema, Nashville.
2012 iturnedbuttherewasnobodytheresaveformyshadow, BPS gallery, Brooklyn.
2011
Devil in the Details, Tapped&Packed Gallery, London.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
ASTRAY, Chasm Gallery, Brooklyn
2014
FE:BODY 25 East Gallery, NYC
2013
Surveillance, 25 East Gallery, NYC
2010
Fancy That!, Camera Club Sydney
2008
Exquisite Corpse, A Visual Research Collaboration, Sheila & Arnold Aronsen Galleries, NYC
2007
Exquisite Corpse, A Visual Research Collaboration, SCA Galleries, Sydney
2006
Cambodia Fundraiser, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Jabiluka, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Graduation, SCA Galleries, Sydney
2005
Outsiders , School of Design, Malmo
Rundgang, Universitat Der Kunst, Berlin
Wet Patch 3, Taylor’s Sq, Sydney
If You See Something, Say Something, Newspace, Sydney
2004
Urst, Warpstanza, Bathurst
Wet Patch 2, Bat & Ball, Sydney
Subcultures, Newspace, Sydney
2003
The Red Room, Warpstanza, Bathurst
Noughtie, SCA, Sydney
Rumble, Newspace, Sydney