Jesse Waugh

Jesse Waugh is an artist who champions Beauty as the purpose of art, according to the tenets of his proprietary art movement - Pulchrism.

His work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and at various galleries and venues. His artist monograph has been archived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Britain, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art, Agnes Gund Collection, and others. Jesse Waugh's art manifesto The Pulchrist Manifesto has been recognized as a significant historical art manifesto.

Employing painting and video as his primary media, Jesse Waugh has had his work broadcast on the BBC, National Geographic, and also Peruvian television. His work has been the subject of academic study at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Brown University in Rhode Island, and Los Angeles City College in Hollywood.

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MA Fine Art - University of Brighton, England, UK

BA Art & Humanities - San Francisco State University, California, USA

1995 Art film screening, El Angel, Hollywood, California

1997 Solo exhibition, FENP Gallery Los Angeles

1997 Group exhibition, L.A. Freewaves, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

"El Angel" was exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) as part of the L.A. Freewaves exhibition, and also at the following:

Exhibition Venues
Acme Gallery (West Hollywood)
Otis Gallery (West Side)
L.A. Contemporary Exhibitions (Hollywood)
MOCA, Geffen Contemporary (Downtown)
CSU Northridge (Valley)
Art Center (Pasadena)
CSU Los Angeles (East L.A.)
UC Irvine, Beall Center (Orange County)

Screening Venues
J. Paul Getty Museum (West L.A.)
Loyola Marymount University (West Side)
Otis Gallery (West Side)
Santa Monica Museum (Santa Monica)
UCLA (West L.A.)
Side Street Projects (Downtown)
USC (Downtown)
CSU Northridge (Valley)
Armory Center (Pasadena)
DA Center (Pomona)
The Rose Bowl (Pasadena)
California Museum of Photography (Riverside)
Long Beach Museum (Long Beach)
Laguna Art Museum (Orange County)

1997 Art film screening, Gray, Los Angeles City College, Hollywood

1999 Site-specific installation, Test, Querétaro, Mexico

2000 Art film screening, El Angel, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn...