Jessie Edelman (b.1986 Milwaukee, WI) is a New York based oil painter who creates portals into dream interiors and landscapes. Her work explores our contemporary sense of space, voyeurism, and how we can live in harmony with our world. Perspective, abstraction and scale oscillate and shift. The paintings can perhaps be seen as windows, screens, film stills, polaroids, or postcards, as their outside-looking-in framing creates a sense of distance and desire. Edelman draws from a mix of found images, her own photos and memories. The result is a non-specific but familiar synthesis of the everyday, light-filled architecture and longings for nature. Her work references Impression, Post-Impressionism and Post-War Abstraction. Her paintings tinged with a bit of melancholy are painterly, colorful and playful.
She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include Invitations at ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), Getaway at Denny Dimin Gallery (New York, NY). She was featured in recent group exhibitions at Denny Gallery (New York, NY), ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), Denny Dimin Gallery (Hong Kong), 0.0 Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Dirimart (Istanbul, Turkey), Bahamas Biennale (Detroit, MI), Anahita Art Gallery (Tehran, Iran), and Circuit 12 Contemporary (Dallas, TX). She has exhibited at art fairs in Seoul, Miami, Aspen, San Francisco and Kyoto. The gallery will present her paintings at NADA New York this coming May. She has been reviewed or featured in Mousse Magazine, The New York Times, i-D Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Vice, Brooklyn Magazine, Artnet News, and Vogue. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections.
Born 1986, Milwaukee
Lives and Works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2013
MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2011
Post-Bac, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2008
BA, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Invitations, ANDREW RAFACZ, Chicago, IL
2022
Getaway, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Golden Hour, ANDREW RAFACZ, Chicago, IL
2018
Muse, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Stills from The End of Summer, Denny Gallery, NYC, NY
Jessie Edelman and David Humphrey, The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI
Los Enigmas, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
2015
Day Gazers, Robert Blumenthal Gallery
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The First Ten Years, Denny Gallery, 2023
2022
The Wild and the Tame, Denny Dimin Gallery, NYC, NY
2020
Wish You Were Here, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019
On the Map, Denny Dimin Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2017
Summer in the City: The Brooklyn Show, Paula Estey Gallery, Newburyport, MA
As Worlds Collide, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
Group show, Surf Lodge, Montauk, NY
Whitney Houston Biennial, New York, NY
2016
Avoir Une Peur Bleue, Bahamas Biennale, Detroit, MI
2015
The Landscape Changes 30 Times, Anahita Art Gallery, Tehran, IR
PRTY PPL, Curated by Josh Reames, Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2013
Splendor in the Grass, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Painting Thesis, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2011
First Year Show, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
AWARDS
2012
New American Painting, Northeast #98
2011
James Brandess Scholarship, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
2008
Benee Van DeWater Memorial Award in Painting, Skidmore College
2007
Sara Bennett Memorial Prize, Skidmore College
FAIRS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
2023
Jessie Edelman, Denny Gallery, KIAF, Seoul, South Korea
Jessie Edelman, Julia Bland, Krystle Lemonias, ANDREW RAFACZ, NADA NY
2022
Art Collaboration Kyoto, Denny Dimin Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
UNTITLED, Denny Dimin Gallery, Miami, FL
2019
Intersect, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Denny Dimin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2017
UNTITLED, Denny Dimin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
UNTITLED, Denny Dimin Gallery, Miami, FL
2015
UNTITLED, ANDREW RAFACZ,, Miami, FL
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
Pocaro, Alan, “Pictures Within Pictures: A Review of Jessie Edelman at Andrew Rafacz,” Newcity Ary, May 2023.
“Chicago Ooph,” Mousse Magazine, April 2023.
Roffino, Sara, “Creating Worlds: Jessie Edelman” BOMB Magazine, Feb, 2022.
Smith, Roberta, “What to see in N.Y.C Galleries Right Now, New York Times, January, 2022.
Cascone, Sara, “Editor’s Picks: 9 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Etel Adnan’s Final Paintings to Surrealist Art from Beyond Europe,” Artnet, January 2022.
Corbett, Rachel, “Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From All-Day Chelsea ‘Openings’ to a Van Gogh-Themed Corn Maze” Artnet, September 7,2020.
Cardoza, Kerry, “Art Top 5: April 2020,” Newcity, March 31, 2020.
Battaglia, Andy, “We Want to Invest in the Region’: FOG and Untitled Fairs Bring Out
Dealers, Collectors in San Francisco” ARTnews, January 18, 2019.
Thackara, Tess, “Dealers Cash in on San Francisco’s Wealth of Museums at Untitled Art and Fog Fairs,” The Art Newspaper, January 21, 2019.
DeMarcox, Nicole, “5 gallery shows we love at lower east side art week,” i-D, Vice, October 18, 2018.
Ashby, Arianna, “Lower East Side Art Week Celebrates Female Artists,” UNTITLED Magazine, October 19, 2018.
“Inaugural Lower East Side Art Week Kicks Off Today,” Artforum.com, October 17, 2018.
Angeleti, Gabriella, “Galleries on New York’s Lower East Side band together to boost foot traffic,” The Art Newspaper October 16, 2018.
“Five Must-See Shows at the Inaugural Lower East Side Art Week,” Elephant, October 15. 2018.
“Inaugural Lower East Side (L.E.S.) Art Week 2018; Over 20 galleries will present female artists.” ArtDaily, August 23, 2018.
“Muse,” Catalog Essay by Michelle Grabner, Published by Denny Dimin Gallery
Genc, Kaya, Celebration of color and form at Dirimart Nisantasi, Daily Sabah, October 21, 2017.
Steinhauer, Jillian, “The Greatest Biennial of All,” Hyperallergic, March 20, 2017.
Casone, Sarah, “The All-Woman ‘Whitney Houston Biennial’ is Back and It’s No Joke” Artnet March 15, 2017.
Feitelberg, Rosemary, “Whitney Houston Biennial 2017 Features 125 Female Artists in New York City” WWD, March 27, 2017.
De Pressigny, Clementine, “The Whitney Houston Biennial is Real,” i-D Vice, March 16, 2017.
Roffino, Sara, “The Art World Hits the Streets,” BLOUINARTINFO
Hajmiragha, Sholeh, “Jessie Edelman,” Sholeh Hajmiragha, Work in Progress January 17, 2017.
“Art Basel Miami Gazette: Diddy at the Fair, Gmurzynska’s Hot-Ticket Dinner,” Artnet, December 1, 2016
Miller, Rachel, “Scene Stealer: Jessie Edelman,” Brooklyn Magazine
Neuedorf, Henri, “Jessie Edelman on Being a Painter in the Digital Media Age,” Artnet
Miller, Rachel, “This Weekend: The Best Art Openings,” Brooklyn Magazine, October 4, 2016.
Kazanjian, Dodie, “Fall Art Guide: 13 Shows to See This Season,” Vogue, September 9, 2016.
Schumacher, Mary Luise “Grabner, Killam open second Suburban in Walker’s Point,” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 23, 2016.
Modae, Jara, “Check Out Art by Wild Belle’s Elliot Bergman: Praxis,” 93XRT
“Jessie Edelman’s first solo show with Robert Blumenthal Gallery opens in New York,” artdaily, May 15, 2015.
“Jessie Edelman’s DAY GAZER paintings on View 5/15-6/16 at Robert Blumenthal Gallery,” Broadway World
“Jessie Edelman ‘Day Gazer’” Michelle Grabner Essay
Sufro, Cathy, “First person: Grads—and parents—speak out on their big day,” Yale Alumni Magazine