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San Francisco, United States of America
Jesse Schlesinger (b. 1979, Kentucky) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in San Francisco. He has exhibited widely both domestically and internationally including exhibitions at 6018North, Chicago, IL; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Curator’s Cube, Tokyo,Japan; Gallery Hiroo Tokyo, Japan; Governor’s Mansion, Sacramento, CA; Kadist, San Francisco, CA; Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, CA. His recent commissions include “Pacific Transit” (2025), 10 monumental carved beach stone sculptures on Judah Street and 43rd Avenue in San Francisco, sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission.
He has also had numerous residencies both nationally and abroad, including Think Green Produce, Tokyo, Japan, (2013); 6018 North, Chicago,IL, (2012) and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, (2012). Amongst his recent awards are the US-Japan Artists Exchange Fellowship, NEA and JUSFC (both in 2019-21 and 2018-19).
What I hope resonates with viewers in my work, is this lifetime of engagement with, & profound appreciation for, wood as a material and as a living thing. A consequence of this experience is a fundamental commitment to, and knowledge of, the material; its characteristics and idiosyncrasies, histories and potential, its exceptional beauty.
