Jesse Bransford

geboren/born 1972 Atlanta, GA;
lebt und arbeitet/lives and works in Brooklyn, NY


Ausbildung/Education
2000 M.F.A. Columbia University
1996 B.A. The New School For Social Research, New York NY (Concentration: History of the Sciences)
1996 M.F.A. Parsons School of Design, New York, NY (Concentration: Painting, With academic honours)


Grants & Awards & Fellowships
 2004 Farpath Foundation Residency (Dijon, France)

Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)/Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2008 43.646944°, -79.378611° Luminato Festival of Arts (Toronto, Canada)

2007 III = 260 (Mercurius) Feature Inc. (New York, NY)

2006
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (Santa Barbara, CA)
II = 65 (Mavors) Gallerie Schmidt Maczollek (Köln, Germany)
Wallpainting and Drawings Feature Inc. (New York, NY)

2005
(1) = 111 (Sol) Kevin Bruk Gallery (Miami, FL)
Jesse Bransford and Lorenzo De Los Angeles Collaborations Feature Inc. (New York, NY)
Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art Cleveland (Cleveland, OH)
Feature Inc. (New York, NY)

2003
Collaborations with Lorenzo De Los Angeles III Feature Inc. (New York, NY)
The Void Kevin Bruk Gallery (Miami, FL)
Fiction (melancholic Landscape) Locust Projects (Miami, FL)

2002
Richard Telles Fine Art (Los Angeles, CA)
Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA)

2001
UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
Feature, Inc. (New York, NY)
Feature, Inc. (New York, NY)



Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)/Group Exhibtions (selection)

2008
Busan Biennale curated by Nancy Barton, Busan Museum of Art (Busan, Korea)*
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed curated by Rebecca Shatwell, tour:
Sensoria Festival (Sheffield, Great Britain)
The Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, Scotland)
The Sound of Music curated by Jan Van Wonsel, NYU Commons Gallery (New York, NY)

2007
Le Regard Bleu d’Arthur Rimbaud curated by Claude Jeancolas, Musée Arthur Rimbaud (Charleville/Mezieres, France)
don’t torture the rotten ducklings Institute of Visual Arts (Milwaukee, WI)
Neointegrity curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery (New York, NY)
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed curated by Rebecca Shatwell, alt.gallery (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Great Britain)
Oblique Views of Hollyhock House curated by Gabriel Cifarelli, Frank Lloyd Wright`s Hollyhock House (Los Angeles, CA)

2006
Block Party, An Exhibition of Drawings Daniel Weinberg Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Big Juicy Paintings (and More) – Highlights From the Permanent Collection Miami Art Museum (Miami, FL)
A Certain Likeness Gallery W 52 (New York, NY)
The Square Root of Drawing Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (Dublin, Ireland)

2005
Looking at Words Andrea Rosen Gallery (New York, NY)
The Most Splendid Apocalypse P.P.O.W., curated by Jason Mheison (New York, NY)
Atomica Esso Gallery and Lombard-Fried Fine Arts (New York, NY)
The sun rises in the evening. Feature Inc. (New York, NY)
Trade White Columns (New York, NY)*
Especial - Arbeiten Auf Papier Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Köln, Germany)

2004
Axxxpresssunizum Aliceday, curated by Mark Beasley and John Russell (Brussels, Belgium)
Axxxpresssunizum Vilma Gold, curated by Mark Beasley and John Russell (London, UK)
impact Pilkington, Olsoff Fine Arts, Inc. (New York, NY)

2003
Warped Space CCA Wattis Institute For contemporary Arts, curated by Ralph Rugoff (San Francisco, CA)
Now Playing D'Amelio Terras Gallery, curated by John Connelly Presents, K48
and Daniel Reich Gallery (New York, NY)
Paradise/Paradox Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, curated by Sue Canning (New Rochelle, NY)
Faking Real Leroy Nieman Gallery, Columbia University, curated by Stephen Hilger (New York, NY)
Drawing Conclusions Buena Vista Building, curated by Nina Arias (Miami, FL)

2002
K48-3: Teenage Rebel _The Bedroom Show John Connelly Presents, curated by Scott Hug (New York, NY)
Off the Grid Lehmann Maupin Gallery (New York, NY)
Guide to Trust No. 2 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, curated by ANP (San Francisco, CA)*
The Dubrow Biennial Kagan Martos Gallery, curated by Norman Dubrow (New York, NY)
Les Fables de La Fontaine, tour:
Centre pour l'Art et la Culture (Aix-en-Provence, France)
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
The Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD)
Exhibition Space of Temple University (Rome, Italy)
The Fourth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, tour:
New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY)
Clifford-Smith Gallery and O-H+T Gallery (Boston, MA)
Art Center/South Florida (Miami, FL)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA)
Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA)
Annual Benefit for White Columns White Columns (New York, NY)
Annual Benefit for Momenta Art Momenta Art (Brooklyn, NY)

2001
Not a. Lear
curated by ANP, tour:
Gracie Mansion Gallery (New York, NY)
Allston Skirt Gallery (Boston MA)
Dear Dead Person Momenta Art, curated by Banks Violette (Brooklyn, NY)
Ghost Stories Sandroni Rey, curated by Casey McKinney (Venice, CA)
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA)

2000
Greater New York PS1 Institute for Contemporary Art (Long Island City, NY)*
Not a. Lear, tour:
Torch (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Art Process (Paris, France)
Galerie S. & H. De Buck, curated by ANP (Genf, Belgium)
Two Friends and So On Andrew Kreps Gallery, curated by Jonathan Horowitz and Rob Pruitt (New York, NY)
Grok Terence McKenna Dead Feature Inc. (New York, NY)
Hairy Forearm∂s Self-Referral Feature Inc. (New York, NY)
2002, M du B, F, H & g Montreal, curated by Hudson (Quebec, Canada)
Paper Trail Pt. 2 Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art (Cleveland, OH)

1999
Drawings Feature Inc. (New York, NY)
Would have had. Cabinet Gallery, curated by Hudson (London, Great Britain)
Science Fictions White Columns, curated by Lauren Ross (New York, NY)

1998
Drawers Feature Inc. (New York, NY)
Fall Benefit (for Momenta Art) Greene Naftali, curated by Eric Heist and Laura Parnes (New York, NY)

1997
Feature Inc. (New York, NY)
Fall Benefit (for Momenta Art) White Columns, curated by Eric Heist and Laura Parnes (New York, NY)
Epicycle/Motorcycle: an Exhibition on Technology and Humanity Parsons Gallery (New York, NY)*

1994
The Freed Weed Richard Telles Fine Art, curated by Dennis Cooper (Los Angeles, CA)
Drawings Fine Arts Gallery at Parsons, curated by Ken Tisa (New York, NY)

*Katalog/catalogue