Jessica Cannon was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn in 1979. She has exhibited her work at Honey Ramka (Brooklyn, NY), Not Gallery (Austin, TX), Crush Curatorial (Amagansett, NY), Big Medium (Austin, TX), The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Tinlark (Los Angeles, CA), Atelier Seruse (Marseille, FR), and elsewhere.
She is a past recipient of The Brooklyn Arts Council’s Community Arts Fund Grant and been awarded residencies at the Jentel Foundation in Banner, WY, RAiR Foundation's Historic Studios in Roswell, NM, Vermont Studio Center, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s SwingSpace Program on Governor’s Island. Select press and publications include: The New York Times, Flaunt Magazine, phaidon.com, Maake Magazine, New American Paintings, Dovetail, and Hyperallergic.
In Fall 2017 Jessica founded Far By Wide, an ongoing series of exhibitions online and in pop-up spaces to support social and environmental justice organizations. She received a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Parsons School of Design. She currently teaches at Parsons School of Design and CUNY Queens College.
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Upcoming (Sept), Winston's, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Sometimes Wave, Sometimes Sea, Davis Originals, Online @Artsy2018 Another Ground, Not Gallery, Austin, TX (two person)
2017 Rapid Cycle, Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Double Up, First Wave, My Pet Ram, Santa Barbara, CA, curated by Marcello Ricci
Upcoming Jung Show, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jennifer Sullivan and Jack Arthur Wood
Towards The Light, Kate Oh Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Pema Rinzin
2019
Was It Worth It? Red Line Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
Beekman Arts Club, Beacon, NY, curated by Gemma Kahng
Bring Something Pink, Atelier Seruse, Marseille, France, curated by Yifat Gat
Chromaphilia, ArtSpace New Haven, curated by Erin Antonak
2018
Untitled Projects, Crush Curatorial, May 5, Amagansett, NY, curated by Karen Flatow and Catherine Haggarty
Hyper School, Big Medium, Austin, TX, curated by Max Manning
Master Class: Color, The Manes Center for Contemporary Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, curated by Reem Hussein and Dr. Charles Riley
2017
Under The Paving Stones, Far x Wide, presented @ Monti Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY *curator
Fresh Ink, Wonderfair, Lawrence, KS, curated by Jeffrey Dell
Truth, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
10 x 10, YoungSpace.com, curated by Kate Mothes
2016
If You Build It, The Willows, New York, NY, curated by Sharona Eliassaf and Emily Weiner
+1, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Melissa Staiger
Match Game: New Selections from Artspace's Flatfile, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Heather Darcy Bhandari
2015
Sextant, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Marco Antonini
Vancouver Art/Book Fair, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Volume 2015, Artspace, Sydney, Australia, presented by Printed Matter
FLUID, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, NY, curated by Jesse Hamerman
BABZ, Bushwick Artbook Zine Fair @Signal Gallery, curated by NURTUREart, Brooklyn, New York
2014
TEN, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Colette Robbins
Photos of Paint selected for sale at Printed Matter, New York, NY
NURTUREart Benefit, The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY
2013
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2021 RAiR Foundation Historic Studios, Roswell, NM
2020 Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY
2020 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS
-Risberg, Mia "Artists Support Ukraine through Visual Arts Fundraisers", Current Magazine, April 6, 2022
-New American Paintings, Issue #146, juried by Jerry Saltz, Winter 2020
-"Inner Life Forms", Dovetail Magazine, Issue #1, July 2020
-Maake Magazine, Issue 10, curated by Nickola Pottinger, Fall 2019
-Work featured in Lumina, Issue 10, arts and literary journal of Sarah Lawrence College, Fall 2019
-"Conversation on Another Ground" w/Alex Diamond, Jack Arthur Wood, AEQAI, March / April 2018
-Wood, Jack Arthur "An Interview with Jessica Cannon about Far x Wide" AEQAI, January / February 2018
-Cobb, Chris "Embracing Feeling Over Logic in Two Artists Fragmented Worlds" Hyperallergic, November 30, 2017
-Work selected for Issue #122 of New American Paintings, Feb / Mar 2016
-Sutton, Benjamin "Your Concise Guide to the 2015 Bushwick Open Studios" Hyperallergic, June 1, 2015
-Work featured in Hausfrau Magazine Vol. 2, Issue 3, May-June 2015
-Parsons School for Design, Assistant Professor, 2006-Present
-Queens College, Adjunct Faculty, Fall 2017-Present
-Keene State College, Visiting Artist and Printmaking Collaboration w/Michael Smoot, January 30, 2020
-SVA MFA Program, Guest Artist, Sept 21, 2018
-Guest Artist for Bucknell University NY Arts Tour, April 14, 2018
-Paint Night inspired by Wolf Kahn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island, NY, April 10, 2018
-SxSWedu Popup Portfolio, Austin, TX March 2016
-Museum of The Moving Image, NYCMER 2014 Conference, Panel Participant, May 12, 2014
FAR x WIDE
-Founded in October 2017 to present thematic selections of artwork online and in available spaces to benefit social and environmental justice causes.