Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Jessie Mott

Visual Artist

Jessie Mott is a Chicago-based visual artist whose work spans an array of media, including drawing, painting, and collaborative projects. Mott’s portraits examine sexuality, power and vulnerability inherent in the permeable boundaries of human/animal, corporeal/fantastical and gender categories. Mott’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently at Goldfinch in Chicago, IL; with Diane Christiansen at the Arts Club of Chicago and Hawthorn Contemporary in Milwaukee, WI; with queer scholar and writer Chantal Nadeau via their collaboration Like Queer Animals at the Epiphany Center for the Arts in Chicago, IL; and collaborative animations with artist and writer Steve Reinke, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, VIDEOEX International Experimental Film and Video Festival in Zürich and the Whitney Biennial. Mott has also participated in numerous art residencies, group and solo shows throughout the United States and abroad. Mott received a B.S. from New York University, an MFA from the department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University, and an MSW from Loyola University of Chicago.