Photo by Wouter Le Duc
Jesse Siegel (b. 1984 in Cancun, Mexico) lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jesse is a multidisciplinary artist who works with video, installation, and 3D rendering. His practice is concerned with the spread of a "global default" across built environments and mirrored in social constructs. He focuses on "New Towns" like Cancun, examining the erasure and creation of urbanized cultures, and exploring how identities are constructed not from uniqueness, but sameness. Jesse uses the corporate visual language of prefabrication and design, employing stock footage, 3D software, and narrative storytelling to tease out the opaque middle ground in these overlaps, where newness and nostalgia coexist and pulls us in.
Jesse holds a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, OR (USA) and an MA in Artistic Research from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague (NL).
As an artist, he has exhibited work in the United States and Europe, and has also held curatorial and administrative positions in both continents.