Gispert
Jessica (Yesica) Gispert is a visual artist from Miami, FL. Her work interconnects themes of identity, spirituality and corporeality, speaking a language of personal and cross-cultural symbols conveyed through various mediums. Gispert uses transformative materials and processes to confront the instability and complexity of contemporary life, forming narratives that interrogate existence, loss and ritual. Her exploration of Caribbean and Latin American mythology, science and literature shape her artworks’ engagement with what we consider reality and the unseen. Contemplating life’s fleeting connections through material experimentations with wax, metallurgy and photochemistry, Gispert uses such substance as conduits to unknowable realms.
Education
2021 Post-graduate degree, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, DE
2012 MFA, Studio Art, New York University Steinhardt School, New York, NY
2007 BFA, Studio Art & Art History, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
2021
ESPINA, Under the bridge Art Space, North Miami, FL
Unseen, Mélange, Cologne, DE
2016
10,000 Island Spiral, Noguchi Breton, Miami, FL
2015
Sense of Selfed ,Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, DE
The Big Ass Affair, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE
Heartspace (sitting still within, sitting still without), Melange, Cologne, DE
2014
Stone Is Not Stone, Between Arrival & Departure, Düsseldorf, DE
2012
NO LOVE, Goldrush Fine Arts, Skowhegan Residency, Skowhegan, Maine
2008
Limpiezas (GisMo Girls collective), Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami, FL
Awards, Public Art Commisions, & Lectures
2023
Corral & Cathers Artist Award, Coral Gables Community Foundation
2022
Vaina Invoca, Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, Brisas del Este II Allapattah
Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Stipend Program
2021
Oolite Art's Ellies Creator Award
2020
Artist Talk for MFA candidates, Class of Cash Regona at Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2019
Traveling Artist Award Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
2015
Visual Artist Award, Kunststiftung NRW, Germany
2013
Group panel discussion mediated by Susanne Titz and Diango Hernandez for the exhibition Lonelyfingers: KONVERSATIONSSTÜCKE, Museum Abteiburg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Kunsthochschule Mainz
2010
NYU Steinhardt Honorarium for selected feminist artist colloquium Panelist at Helene Cixous’ Laugh of the Medusa Colloquium with Kathe Burkhardt, Nancy Barton, Marlene McCarty, Avital Ronell, and Andy Slemenda
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Vernacular Spectacular: Art of the Contemporary Caribbean Diaspora curated by Marie Vickles & William Cordova, Miramar Cultural Center Gallery, FL
2022
The BluPrnt curated by Robert Chambers, Bridge Red Studios, North Miami, FL
PRIZM Selections curated by William Cordova and Mikhaile Solomon at PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL
Chambers, curated by Lukas Schmenger & Alfons Knogl at FLATS, Brussels
This is the Time and a Record of the Time, curated by Carlos Rigau at Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2021
Unique New Work curated by Alan Gutierrez for Miami Beach Open House Project during Art Week Miami
Unseen, performance with Joseph Chesson & book launch at Paradis Books, North Miami, FL
Cabinet of Kaput, Galerie Mieke van Schaijk, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
2020
AIM Biennial, curated by William Cordova, Gene Moreno, Marie Vickles and Mikhaile Solomon Miami, FL
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration., curated by Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, MoMA PS1
2019
Everything Ordinary, PiK Deutz in Kunstwerk Köln, DE
LOFT at Studio 2.63 in Quartier am Hafen, curated by Jan-Ole Schiemann & Carmen Lenhart, Köln, DE
2018
I caught a rat, we caught some air, curated by Mélange + Markus Lutgen at Art Düsseldorf
2016
No Soy Sincero, curated by Patricia Hernandez, Orgy Park, Brooklyn NY
Surface Imagery, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, FL
Honey: Bread & Butter, Jessica Gispert & Melike Kara, Komplot Brussels,
2015
New Positions, Melange Cologne at Cologne Fine Art Contemporaries, Germany
Fair Jahresgabe, Dortumnder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany
NNN NNN, curated by Sonja Engelhardt, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin
BAD DATA, curated by Alice Wang, Wolfart, Rotterdam, NL
Translating Transformers, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
Object Manipulating Economy / Economy Manipulating Object, curated by Aman Sandhu & Swapnaa Tamhane with Kultubüro Mönchengladbach
2014
Jahresgabe-Ausstellung, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Another Place / Another Space / Quadriennale Düsseldorf
The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
2013
Ein ahnungsloser Traum vom Park, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
DSNY in Stamsund, Norway, Galleri 2, Stamsund, Norway
Lonelyfingers KONVERSATIONSSTÜCKE, Museum Abteiberg
2012
O Fortuna, curated in collaboration with Laurent Pellissier Paris; Düsseldorf; New York, NY; Berlin, DE
#D, curated by Giselle Zatonyl, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
2011
2009
Re-Framing the Feminine, Girls Club Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Apogee, ISCP Salon curated by Elmar Hermann, Brooklyn, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, 80WSE Gallery, New York University, NY
Memoria percibida, Museo de Arte Moderno, Guatemala City, Guatemala
LANDMARKS: Works by Ali Prosch and the GisMo Collective, curated by Jillian Hernandez, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
Selected Bibliography
2021
UNSEEN, artist book funded in part by the Künsthochschule für Medien Köln, Edition 150
2020
Brett Sokol, "Art Basel Miami Beach Was Canceled, but the Show Goes On, New York Times, Nov 27
Zion Sealy, “Alumnae use art to empower incarcerated teenage girls," FIU News, Nov 16
2018
I caught a rat, we caught some air, publication by Mélange + Markus Lutgen
2016
Katherine Sperber, “Q&A: Jessica Gispert”, Strange Fire Collective, January
2015
Rolf Pfeiffer, “Venus am Strand,” Westfälischer Anzeiger, August
2014
Elodie Evers, “Alle Türen stehen offen,” Monopol Magazin, September
Christina Irrang, “über Stephanie Seidels “BETWEEN ARRIVAL & DEPARTURE,” Kuba Paris, July
2013
Monica Uszerowicz, “Art: The Female Form”, BRACEDigital, August 28
Re-framing the Feminie: photography from the collection of Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz, Exhibition Catalouge
2011
nüans (Anna Heidnhaim, Elmar Hermann, and Maki Umehara), APOGEE - a compilation of solitude, ecology and recreation.
2008
Jillian Hernandez, Performing Identity in Miami: A Case Study of Women Artists, Florida without Borders: Women at the Intersections of the Local and Global