Jesse Mockrin
Jesse Mockrin is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work primarily consists of figurative paintings.
Education
In 2003, Mockrin received her Bachelor's of Arts at Barnard College. She continued her education, and in 2011 received her MFA at the University of California in San Diego.Career
Mockrin is represented by Night Gallery in Los Angeles, where she had solo exhibitions in 2014 and 2016. Her 2016 show, titled “The Progress of Love,” included paintings inspired by Rococo and men's fashion; the resulting works demonstrated the artist's interest in “the fluidity of gender.” In November 2016, she presented a solo exhibition at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York, titled “The Pleasures of Dance.” In March 2017, she presented a solo show titled “XOXO” at Galerie Perrotin, Seoul, in collaboration with Night Gallery, which consisted of a new series of tondo paintings depicting the K-Pop group EXO.Her work has been written about in The New Yorker, T Magazine, Modern Painters, Art Agenda, and The Paris Review, among other publications.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Midnight sun - Night Gallery, 2014Progress of Love - Night Gallery, 2016 Pleasures of the Dance- Nathalie Karg Gallery, 2016 XOXO - Perrotin Gallery, 2017Syrinx - Night Gallery, 2018-2019Artissima- Solo presentation with Night Gallery, Turin Italy, 2019The marks of a stranger - Nathalie Karg Gallery, 2019X - Two-person exhibition with Elsa Sahal, Nathalie Karg Gallery, 2021Reliquary - Night Gallery, 2022Succession - Center of International Contemporary Art, 2022 The Venus Effect- James Cohan Gallery'', 2023''Group Exhibitions
- Made in Space-Night Gallery, 2013Made in Space - Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan, 2013Sunburn- Night Gallery, 2013Sargent’s Daughters- Sargent’s Daughters, 2014High Anxiety -Rubell Family Collection, 2016Engender - Kohn GalleryCursives -Marinaro GalleryEuropean Collection Special Presentation- Dallas Museum of Art, 2019The natural-Franklin Parrasch Gallery, 2019Endless lows, breaking high - Galerie Rolando Anselmi, 2020 Majeure Force-Night Gallery - Night Gallery, 2020Human is a five letter word - Galerie Droste, 2020* A Few Small Nips - Mrs, 2022Singular Views : 25 Artists- Rubell Museum 2023-2024