Born in 1981, Silver Spring, MD. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
EDUCATION
2011
M.F.A., University of California at San Diego, San Diego CA
2003
B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Venus Effect, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Succession, curated by Viahsta Yuan, Center of International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada
2022
Reliquary, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Artissima 2019, solo presentation with Night Gallery, Turin, Italy
The marks of a stranger, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Syrinx, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
XOXO, Galerie Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
2016
Pleasures of The Dance, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
The Progress of Love, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Midnight Sun, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Night at Dunes, Night Gallery in collaboration with Dunes, Portland, ME
2023
Inside/Outside, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Singular Views: 25 Artists, The Rubell Museum, Washington, D.C.
Re-Framing the Female Gaze: Women Artists and the New Historicism, curated by Bartholomew Bland, Georgette Gouveia, and Deborah Yasinsky, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Revival I - XVIIe siècle, curated by Laura Gowen and Rachel Cole, Gowen, Geneva, Switzerland
2022
Film Noir, curated by Thelma Golden and Anne Pasternak, The Bunker, West Palm Beach, FL
La Biennale de Lyon: Manifesto of Fragility, curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Lyon, France
I’m Stepping High, I’m Drifting, and There I Go Leaping, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China
Finger Bang, curated by Genesis Belanger and Gahee Park, Perrotin, Paris, France
A Few Small Nips, Mrs., Queens, NY
A Través, James Cohan, New York, NY
2021
Mother and Child, Friends Indeed, San Francisco, CA
Therefore, I am, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
Beyond the Looking Glass, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
Song of Songs, Unit London, London, UK
X, with Elsa Sahal, Nathalie Karg, New York, NY
2020
Nasty Women, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Won't you be my neighbor, Nathalie Karg, New York, NY
Human is a five letter word, Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, Germany
myselves, curated by Joshua Friedman, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Majeure Force, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Endless Lows, Breaking High, Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany
2019
Cursives, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY
The Natural, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
European Collections: Special Presentation, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2017
Engender, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
High Anxiety, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
2014
Sargent’s Daughters, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2013
Sunburn, Night Gallery in Venice Beach, CA
Made in Space, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise / Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Made in Space, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
I love painting, Pieter, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Steve Turner’s Los Angeles Artists Map, Los Angeles, CA
This Old House, Alpine, CA
Re-turn, Louise McCagg Gallery, Barnard College, New York, NY
2010
WET PAINT 2, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Brave Man, Jefferies Projects, La Jolla, CA
Pure Painting 3, San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA
No Ordinary Sleep, UCSD Marcuse Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Confluent forms, Rose Gallery, Francis W. Parker School, San Diego, CA
2009
San Diego NOW, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Young Professional, Division of Arts and Humanities, UCSD, San Diego, CA
GLAMFA, Long Beach Galleries, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
The Dark Tower, Compactspace, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Small Works Will/Small Works Well, Barnard College, New York, NY
StudioGreen, The New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA
Satellite Ensemble No. I, AGITPROP Gallery, San Diego, CA
AWARDS
2009
Alumnae Association of Barnard College Fellowship for Graduate Study
2008
Russell Foundation Grant
2002
Joyce Kosh Kaiser Fine Arts Grant
SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Hans-Joachim and Gisa Sander Foundation, Darmstadt, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL
KRC Collection, Voorschoten, the Netherlands
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Mougins Museum, Mougins, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Xiao Museum, Rizhao, China
MONOGRAPHS & GROUP CATALOGUES
2021
X, Jesse Mockrin / Elsa Sahal, Nathalie Karg Gallery
2019
Jesse Mockrin - The Marks of a Stranger, Nathalie Karg Gallery
2018
Jesse Mockrin - Syrinx, Night Gallery
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Victoria Woodcock, “New Old Masters,” Financial Times, How To Spend It, December 2
Emily Steer, "There Is a Desire to Shift the Gaze’: Meet the Artists Reimagining Old Masters Paintings to Challenge the Narratives of the Western Canon," Artnet, October 24
Arthur Ivan Bravo, “Outside LA: Jesse Mockrin,” Artillery, October 18
Farah Abdessamad, "On View Now: Four Shows in Tribeca on Reimagined Figuration," Observer, September 18
Katie White, "In Painter Jesse Mockrin’s Neo-Baroque Hands, Mirrors Become Metaphors for Society’s Expectations for Women," Artnet, September 14
Tessa Solomon, "The Can't-Miss Gallery Shows Opening in Tribeca This Week," ARTnews, September 8
Emily Lordi, Woman to Woman, The New York Times Style Magazine, April 20
Shaquille Heath, “A Tragedy in Two Parts,” Juxtapoz, Spring
2022
Jacoba Urist, “First Look: 6 Momentous Artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022,” Cultured, November 28
Caroline Ellen Liou, "Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for June 2022," Hyperallergic, May 31
Erica Silverman May, "Jesse Mockrin Awakens the Figure of Saint Sebastian," Whitewall, May 23
Shana Nys Dambrot, "Reckoning: Arts Calendar: May 12-18," LA Weekly, May 11
Artspace Editors, "PRIME FOCUS - Jesse Mockrin," Artspace, May 11
Ravi Ghosh, “Jesse Mockrin: How Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene Has Fuelled My Latest Works,” Elephant, Janunary 12
2021
Nate Rynaski, "Mother and Child | Because the Umbilical Cord is Not Only Delicious It’s Nutritious,” Flaunt, December 15
Ekalan Hou, "Mother and Child," The Brooklyn Rail, December - January 2022 Issue
Claudio Magris, "Curving Time in Krems," Harper's Magazine, June
Mary Lynn Buchanan, “Jesse Mockrin and Elsa Sahal at Nathalie Karg Gallery,” January 21
2020
Ann Binlot, "'myselves': 4 artists on interpreting the body in the age of the pandemic,” Document Journal, September 11
Rahel Aima, "5 Things to Know about Collecting Figurative Paintings," Artsy, September 8
Beatrice Sapsford, "10 In-Demand Works on Artsy This Week," Artsy, August 3
Dodie Kazanjian, “Jesse Mockrin Paints Billie Eilish in the Style of Caravaggio for Vogue,” Vogue, February 3
2019
Paul Laster, “27 Must-See Artworks at Artissima 2019,” WhiteHot Magazine, October 29
Will Heinrich, “New York Galleries: What to See Right Now,” The New York Times, October 16
“What Makes a Figurative Painting Good?,” Artsy, Alina Cohen, April 11
“As Frieze Los Angeles Opens, Three Young California Artists Are Reinventing What Figurative Painting Can Be,” Vogue, Dodie Kazanjian, February 15
“Review: Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery,” Art in America, Travis Diehl, February
"Greek Mythology Explored in Beautiful New Show by Jesse Mockrin," Juxtapoz, January 8
2018
“Monday Gallery: Syrinx by Jesse Mockrin,” Browsings: The Harper's blog, December 31
Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, “Art Talk: Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery,” KCRW (online and radio), Dec 13
Lindsay Preston Zappas, “Snap Reviews: Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery,” Carla, Dec 13
Carolina A. Miranda, “Datebook: 2,000 years of art from Sri Lanka, Monterey Park's missing sculpture, mythological tapestries,” The Los Angeles Times, Dec 7
“In the Studio with Jesse Mockrin,” alphasixty, Feb 21
2017
Ezhra Jean Black, "Engender - Kohn Gallery," Artillery, Dec 13
Adam Lehrer, "Engender at Kohn Gallery: 8 Artists on how gender functions in their work,” Untitled Magazine, Nov 7
"Portfolios: XOXO by Jesse Mockrin," introduction by Kibum Kim, Document Journal No. 10, Spring/Summer
"Maintenant: instants, moments: Jesse Mockrin," Revue Magazine, Numero 3, Spring
Cho So Hyun, "XOXO to EXO," Vogue Korea, April
Geumyoung Kim, “Jesse Mockrin,” CNB Journal, Mar 30
Hayng-hui Lee, “Jesse Mockrin,” Maeil Business Newspaper, Mar 26
“Jesse Mockrin,”Art & Culture, March
2016
Polly Brock, “Interview with Jesse Mockrin: Romance, Fantasy, and Artifice,” Artctualité, Dec 20
Casey Lesser, “15 New York Gallery Shows You Need to See This November,” Artsy Editorial, Nov 1
Casey Lesser, “These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Figurative Painting Forward,” Artsy Editorial, Jun 11
Ruth Hickman, "Rococo Romance: Artist Jesse Mockrin in her Los Angeles Studio," The Ingénue, Issue 4
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, “Art Talk: Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery,” KCRW online and radio, April 14
Artsy Editorial: “30 Emerging Artists to Watch This Spring,” Artsy, April 13
Ann Binlot, “Jesse Mockrin Recalls the Rococo Period at Night Gallery,” Forbes, Mar 31
Leanna Robinson, “Night Gallery: Jesse Mockrin,” Artillery, Mar 30
Meg Whiteford, “Critic’s Pick: Jesse Mockrin,” Artforum online, Mar 24
Alyssa Buffenstein, “Neo-Rococo Arrives in Jesse Mockrin’s Paintings,” The Creator’s Project, VICE, Mar 23
Maxwell Williams, “Jesse Mockrin’s Cropped Rococo Paintings Break the Spell of Art History”, Artsy Editorial, Mar 18
“The 50 Gallery Shows You Need to See This Spring,” Artsy Editorial, Mar 15
Kat Herriman, “One Young Artist’s 21st-century Baroque,” T Magazine, Mar 9
Caro, “Jesse Mockrin’s Tightly-Cropped Images of Rococo Masterpieces,” Hi-Fructose, Jan 19
“Entering The Forest: Jesse Mockrin shares her sources”, Blouin Modern Painters, January
Matthew Mclean, “Highlights 2015,” Frieze, Jan 7
2014
“Sargent’s Daughters,” The New Yorker, July 18
Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, “Art Talk: New Art Downtown and at Barker Hanger,” KCRW (online and radio), Jan 30
“Past, Present, Future Time: Samara Golden and Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery,” LA I’m Yours, online, January
2013
Jonathan Griffin, “Made in Space,” Art Agenda, Mar 28
2010
Tracey Harnish, “Jesse Mockrin,” LA Art Diary online, Aug 29
Baudelaire Shepherd, "Canvas to Street," San Diego CityBeat, Aug 3
Lauren Buscemi, "San Diego NOW: Eight UCSD Visual Artists at Oceanside Museum of Art,” art ltd. Magazine, January
2009
Keli Dailey, "Emerging artist Jesse Mockrin at Oceanside Museum of Art, " San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov 20
Bryan Allen Moore, "Notes from the LA Scene: An Analysis on Flexible Identities," GLAMFA Catalog, August