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, including 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 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 & Video Festival in Zürich and the Whitney Biennial.