bio –
Jessie Mahon grew up in the American Midwest—Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan—before spending high school years in Texas and Louisiana. Her path has always felt creative and somewhat unconventional, weaving between the visual and performing arts since a young age. After earning a BFA in Theater, Jessie moved to New York City and spent six years freelancing as a Scenic Artist, painting sets and backdrops for Broadway, Off-Broadway, television, and film. Now based in Los Angeles, she works full-time in visual art, illustration, installation, and design, heavily drawing on her background in storytelling to inform her work.
By filling figurative outlines with dreamlike landscapes, objects, and elements, Jessie’s work embodies a space between memory, reality, and imagination—unknowable yet deeply familiar. Influenced by the vividness of early 90s and 00s animation and video games, along with an acute familiarity with being a new kid throughout her upbringing, her work captures an ever-evolving and inclusive depiction of ‘self.’ Her colored pencil drawings invite viewers to look beyond the circumstances of everyday life, engaging with the complexities of human experience that observation alone cannot fully capture.
Jessie’s first group exhibition was held at Rockefeller Center, sparking collaborations with gallerists, curators, editors, and art directors across the U.S. and Canada. Jessie has also joined residencies at creative institutions in Virginia, New York, and central Portugal.
Notable collaborations have ranged from designing a book cover for Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group and creating a community-driven installation for the ACLU / NYCLU to having her work featured on Netflix, HBO, and Hulu in projects like Euphoria, Better Things, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!, and The Sex Lives of College Girls. She has also designed and painted murals for Madison Wells Media and Ars Nova, and her artwork has been published in a zine and an art book through Booooooom. Currently, she is honored to be an artist ambassador for the NYCLU for the third year in a row, while developing new drawings for an upcoming exhibition.
Thank you so much for being here.
contact –
jessica.d.mahon@gmail.com
@jessiemahon_
commissions –
Jessie takes on a limited number of commissions for select private and commercial clients. If you would like to get in touch regarding a commission or special project please feel free to reach out via email.
on view –
Daylight Group Exhibition
December 14 – January 11
julian@bermudezprojects.com
press + links –
Rising Stars 2024 | Saatchi Art (featured on page 26)
A Brief Conversation Interview filmed, edited, and moderated by Christine Mai Nguyen
ARRAY zine by Booooooom (drawing on page 17, interview on page 91)
The Quiet Book by Booooooom (featured on page 31)
THE PRACTICE OF LOOKING Art Installation + Artist Ambassador Class of 2023 in collaboration with the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)
The Flag Project, Featuring 193 Different Designs Celebrating NYC, Opens In Rockefeller Center by Gothamist
Best in Show Award at 311 Gallery
Leaning into Mistakes: Intuitive Art Making class on Skillshare