JESSIE MOTT
Born in NYC
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
MFA, Art Theory & Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
MSW, Loyola University School of Social Work, Chicago, IL
BS, Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY
SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Scissors is Our Love Language. with Diane Christiansen. Hawthorn Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI
2022
We Hold Your Gaze_Remix. with Chantal Nadeau. MAWA, Winnipeg, Canada
2021
Like Queer Animals: We Hold Your Gaze. with Chantal Nadeau. Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
Natural History. with Iris Bernblum. HF Johnson Gallery, Carthage, WI
2017
A Wish to Repair, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2016
Talisman (with Em Kettner), Fernwey Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015
What Creature Deserves Such Devotion, devening projects + editions, Chicago, IL
2012
A Day for Cake and Accidents, threewalls, Chicago, IL
2010, 2020
Works on Paper, Center on Halsted, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Let’s Play a LoveGame, RUSCHMAN, Chicago, IL
A Flatfiles Show, Goldfinch, Chicago, IL
Feral, Trash Lamb Gallery, San Diego, CA
2022
Everything But the Kitchen Sink, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The 68th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
International Women's Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
2021
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2020
With Renewed Urgency, Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL
Best of CUFF Virtual Festival, Chicago, IL
2019
Transistors, Ralph Arnold Gallery, Chicago, IL
Wild You, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL
2018
The Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
2017
21st Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, REDCAT, Los Angeles Block Cinema, Chicago Pioneer Works, Brooklyn Grace Street Theater, Richmond
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, B.C.
64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
Sketch Organs, DEMO Project, Springfield, IL
2016
Pegasus and Mermaids, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Your Body is a Battleground, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago IL
Eyeworks Festival, Union Cinema, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI Grace Street Theater, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA
2015
Black and White Mike, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
Curated by Benjamin Weissman (tribute show to Mike Kelley)
2014
The Whitney Biennial (Steve Reinke with Jessie Mott), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Rocket Run, Abstraction from Chicago, Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, curated by Alexander Herzog, Lincoln, NE
Iffy Conditions, GAG GAllery, Curated by Daniel Bruttig, Chicago, IL
The Salon Series, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Salon Series at Kinmont (with Chefs John Clark and Beverly Kim), Chicago, IL
BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, London, England
21st Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Roving Room, Habersham Mills, GA
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
2013
30th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
E-Motion Capture Space Station Sixty-Five, video screening curated by Kim L. Pace, London, England
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Animated Fears and Desires, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium
Video screening of recent works by two artists duos - Steve Reinke & Jessie Mott and Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby
Alive! Commodity, Zombie, Avatar, Fetish, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, curated by Ginger Krebs Chicago, IL
The 26th Annual Polari Film Festival, Austin, TX
Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
EDITION Chicago Art Fair, Abryant Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012
Impakt Festival 2012, Utrecht, The Netherlands
The 29th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
Portrait Project - Industry of the Ordinary, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Suitable Video #5: Hits and Holiday Dance Party, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY, video screening curated by Scott Wolniak
2011
The Winners - Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, Russia
Animation Fornication - The Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
18th Chicago Underground Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
The 24. Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, Swimming Pool Project Space booth, Chicago, IL
The Swimsuit Edition, Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago, IL, curated by Lisa Majer
Animality, DOVA Temporary, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, curated by Zachary Cahill
Invisible Exports, A Project by Philip von Zweck, NADA, Hudson, NY
2010
Steve Reinke - The Tiny Ventriloquist, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Not Just Another Pretty Face IV, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
VIDEOEX International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zürich, Switzerland
The 13th Annual Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada
Decibelle Music and Culture Festival: Objects and Personifications, curated by Latham Owen Zearfoss, Chicago, IL
BEN RUSSELL: UR, curated by Ben Russell, Chicago, IL
The Sydney Underground Festival, Sydney, Australia
Animal Drag Kingdom, The Power Plant/Pleasure Dome, Toronto, ON, Canada
The Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary, AB, Canada
Ground Floor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
17th Chicago Underground Film Festival (Best Animation Award), Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
CFC Worldwide Shortfilm Festival, Toronto, Canada
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Cinema X: I Like to Watch, Curated by Paco Barrágan, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Presented in conjunction with the 23rd Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2009
Impakt Festival 2009, Utrecht, Netherlands
video_dumbo, Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy Art Under the Bridge Festival, powerhouse Arena, D.U.M.B.O. Brooklyn, NY
Empathy is a Tool for Making the Cruelty More Precise, Film and video program curated by Abina Manning and Steve Reinke. Block Cinema, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL
How to Die Like an Animal, Film and video program curated by Steve Reinke. Keno Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin, Germany
No More Worlds, Curated by Corinna Kirsch and Katherine Pill Concertina Gallery, Chicago, IL
MaxMultiple, Curated by Dan Devening. devening projects + editions, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. Evanston, IL
2008
Paper Love, Curated by Dan Devening, devening projects + editions, Chicago, IL
The Vega Caucus, Curated by Roxane Hopper and Julie Rudder, Vega Estates, Chicago, IL
2007
Neointegrity, Curated by Keith Mayerson. Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Anthropomorphism, Juried by Laurie Hogin, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002
Neointegrity: This is Your Dinner, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
Permanent Vacation , NYU Senior Thesis Exhibition, Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Neointegrity: This Land is Your Land, Kosher Pickle Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY
2001
The Young Americans, Curated by Hiroshi Sunairi, galleri sunairi, New York, NY
Is the Revolution Over Yet?, Curated by David Rimanelli, Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
COLLABORATIONS
Steve Reinke, 2009-present
Like Queer Animals with Chantal Nadeau, 2019-present
Ten x Ten with Trevor Watkin, 2020
FSG Originals, Jessica Friedman, 2018
FELLOWSHIPS
2016-17
Field Trip / Field Notes / Field Guide
RESIDENCIES
2020. Leighton Studios Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada, with Chantal Nadeau. Project: Like Queer Animals: A Surreal Bestiary
2013. Artist-in-Residence at The Salon Series Projects at FLATS Studio Chicago, IL
2011. Harold Arts, Chesterhill, OH
PUBLICATIONS
Les Trouées (Chantal Nadeau). cover art. Hamac, December 2020
New American Paintings, No. 137, Midwest Issue. 2018
Field Guide, Volume 11. Field Trip | Field Notes | Field Guide, 2017
Poetry Magazine, cover art, November 2016
Animals Dreaming, Soberscove Press Artist Board Book series. 2014
Poetry Magazine, cover art, January 2014
Scrapped Magazine, Issue 1: Hit It, pp. 32-33, Summer 2012
Blast Counterblast, “Dialogue Between Animals". Edited by Anthony Elms and Steve Reinke. The University of Chicago Press, distributed for WhiteWalls, February 2012. Print.
NEWCITY ART, "Art Break: Winter Palette". February 14, 2011
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Krahn, Jessie. “Like Queer Animals — a bestiary of anthropomorphic creatures and poetry”, The Manitoban, October 2022
Foumberg, Jason. “Artist Jessie Mott Explores Gender Using Hybrid Beasts.” January 17, 2017
Reinke, Steve. “Pots”, April 2015
Foumberg, Jason. "A Visit to the Studio of Jessie Mott" chicagomag.com, March 2014
Foumberg, Jason. "Four Chicago Artists to Watch at the Whitney Biennial" Chicago Magazine, March 2014
Foumberg, Jason. “There are 17 Chicago Artists in the 2014 Whitney Biennial”. Chicago Magazine, November 2013
Foumberg, Jason. "Five Chicago Artists Explain Picasso’s Impact and Genius", Chicago Magazine, March 2013
Ruiz, Steve. "Interview - Jessie Mott," Chicago Art Review, September 28, 2010.
Viera, Lauren. "Making Way For What's Coming Next," Chicago Tribune, September 24, 2010.
Weber, Candace. "No More Worlds," Time Out Chicago, Issue 240, Oct 1-7, 2009.
Weinberg, Lauren. "Paper Love," Time Out Chicago, Issue 177, Jul 17–23, 2008.
Cotter, Holland. "NeoIntegrity: Go Ahead, Expect Surprises," New York Times, August 9, 2007.
“Portraitists We Love,” domino magazine/October 2005.
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