Jessie Mahon

Jessie grew up in the Midwest, splitting time between Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan before heading south to spend high school in Texas and Louisiana. Heavily influenced by the vividness of early 90s and 00s cartoons and video games, along with an acute familiarity of being a new kid throughout her upbringing, her colored pencil drawings explore an ever-evolving and inclusive depiction of ‘self’. By embellishing figurative outlines with dreamlike landscapes, objects, and elements, her figures act as an invitation to look beyond the circumstances of our everyday lives and engage with details of human complexity which observation alone fails to fully capture. At once unknowable and familiar, the people in her drawings live in between memory, reality, and imagination.

Jessie’s career path has been untraditional, shifting between visual art and performing arts since she was very young. Having received a BFA in Theater, she moved to New York City, where she freelanced as a Scenic Artist for six years, painting sets and backdrops for Broadway, Off-Broadway, TV, and film. Jessie now lives in Los Angeles, California, bringing her experience in storytelling to visual art, illustration, and design full-time. Her first group exhibition took pla...

University of Oklahoma | B.F.A | Norman, OK | 2015

Family Vacation, Gallery Umico, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

ALIVE, AGAIN, Gallery Umico, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

SPACELAND VII, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA (group)

HEAT, GFAA Gallery, Gainesville, FL (group)

The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA (2024 + 2023)

Flat Files, See You Next Thursday x The Front, New York, NY (group)

The Flag Project, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY (group)

Fantasy, Santa Clarita Arts, Valencia, CA (group)

Slice of Life, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC (group)