EDUCATION
2003
MFA Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2001
BFA Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Organizer, as-is.la, Los Angeles, CA
2020
You Are Someone I Can Tell My Secrets To, LOCKER, John Marshall High School, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Solo Booth: NADA New York, with Michael Benevento, New York, NY
2017
Miracle Grow, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Outclassed, Campbell Hall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jesse Benson at Venice 6114, Venice 6114, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Magic Johnson Smile, Elephant, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Hedge Your Bet, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
1TB Verbatim: Los Angeles Timing 2013-2025, Gene’s Presents at Leroy's, Los Angeles, CA
Summer 25, 839, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Current, Weatherproof, Chicago, IL
2023
The man in the three-piece suit, ASHES/ASHES, New York, NY
2021
Delusionarium 5 (Adaptation), Night Gallery and as-is.la, Los Angeles, CA
2018
UNDEROVERTHROUGH, Rita Urso/Artopia Gallery, Milan, Italy (curated by Domenico de Chirico)
2017
Really?, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody)
2016
Imagine, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
2015
Condensed Matter Community, Synchrotron Radiation Center: Home of Aladdin, Stoughton, WI (curated by Evan Gruzis and Kristof Wickman)
Villa Aurora Revisited, Balice Hertling, NY (curated by Paul Soto)
2013
Shangrila (Burrito Deluxe), Shangrila, Joshua Tree, CA
Station Identification, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Museum of Temporary Art, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Prince at the Forum, Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA
2011
GREG WILKEN TORBJORN VEJVI LYNTON TALBOT CAULEEN SMITH SEACA (SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE) MARK ROEDER ANDREA ROBBINS AND MAX BECHER D’ETTE NOGLE DYLAN MARCUS BRIAN MANN TORY LOWITZ FRED LONIDIER AMY LAUGHLIN LISA LAPINSKI WILLIAM JONES DANIEL INGROFF KATIE HERZOG KEVIN HANLEY AARON GM ERIK FRYDENBORG RACHEL FOULLON TRAVIS FARMEN TOM ELLIS LUCY DODD MICHELE DI MENNA JESSE BENSON WILL BENEDICT MERWIN BELIN, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA Coup D’ Etat: A Fly in the Ointment Sweetens the Pill, Studio 180 London, UK
2010
Our Shop, Kilburn Project, London, UK
2009
Bulletinboard Blvd., Pro Choice, Vienna, Austria (curated by Will Benedict and Lucie Stahl)
Disparate Elements, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by John Knuth)
2008
Delusionarium 4, exhibition installed in 3 Los Angeles galleries simultaneously, Circus Gallery, David Salow Gallery, and Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Nothing Moments, book launch at MOCA at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA, traveling exhibition at Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, The Public Trust, Dallas, TX;
Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Printed Matter, NY, New York; Glass Pavilion, Berlin, Germany. Collaborative project in art, literature, and design (organized by Steven Hull and Tami Demaree with Annie Buckley and Jon Sueda)
2007
De Pasada por Los Angeles, Atelier als Supermedium--Artists Space for Contemporary Art, Den Haag, The Netherlands (curated by Nick Kersulis and Sergio Torres Torres)
2006
Mexi Cali Biennial, La Casa de la Tia Tina Artspace, Mexicali, Mexico (curated by Ed Gomez, Luis G.Hernandez, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas)
Delusionarium 3, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Jesse Benson and Mark Roeder, WolfSuit Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT (exhibition series organized by Jacob Rhodes)
Interactions, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2005
Next, G.O.C.A. at Slanguage, Wilmington, CA (curated by Ed Gomez)
Immodest Proposals, Buffalo Bayou Art Park, Houston, TX (curated by Jessica Minckley)
Delusionarium 2, White Box Gallery, Marina del Rey, CA
Idiolects, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA (curated by Roy Dowell and Annetta Kapon)
2004
On The Move, Sixteen:One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Delusionarium 1, Legacy Arts Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
2003
Terpicooniteen: (please) give until gone, Sixteen:One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Master of Fine Arts Exhibition 2003, Otis College, Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Making, L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA Lab), Los Angeles, CA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022
CAVE (Cali Artist Visit Exchange), (co-orgaized with Shana Lutker and Victoria Fu), artist visit exchange project, modeled after The Benefit of Friends Collected
Napkin Brain, (co-curated with Keith J. Varadi), Local 1, CDMX, Mexico
2021
Delusionarium 5 (Adaptation), (co-curated with Becky Koblick), Night Gallery and as-is.la, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Milton Quon, exhibition of works from 1938 to 2017 by a primary animator in Disney’s Fantasia and Dumbo, Santa Monica College Emeritus College Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015
Katya Kompaneyets: Tarkovsky’s Hamlet, exhibition of costume and stage designs created by Katya Kompaneyets with Georgian artist and political satirist Tengiz Mirzashvili for a theatrical production of Hamlet by Russian filmmaker
Andrei Tarkovsky in 1977, Santa Monica College Emeritus College Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Benefit of Friends Collected, Vol. 2, Project X, Organized and Edited by Jesse Benson and Shana Lutker
2013
Shangrila (Burrito Deluxe), (co-curated with Steven Bankhead), 2-night group exhibition/performance event of40+ artists, Shangrila, Joshua Tree, CA
The Benefit of Friends Collected, Vol. 1, art-writing exchange between 50 artists
Co-founder of exhibition space Assembly and sub-platform David Silver Gallery (co-organized with Becky Koblick, Brian Mann, Mark Roeder, Anthony Carfello, and Tom Jimmerson), Los Angeles, CA
2012
Guest curator for Les Figues Press annual benefit auction
Prince at the Forum, (co-curated with Steven Bankhead), group exhibition of 21 artists, Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA
2011
GREG WILKEN TORBJORN VEJVI LYNTON TALBOT CAULEEN SMITH SEACA (SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE) MARK ROEDER ANDREA ROBBINS AND MAX BECHER D’ETTE NOGLE DYLAN MARCUS BRIAN
MANN TORY LOWITZ FRED LONIDIER AMY LAUGHLIN LISA LAPINSKI WILLIAM JONES DANIEL INGROFF KATIE HERZOG KEVIN HANLEY AARON GM ERIK FRYDENBORG RACHEL FOULLON TRAVIS FARMEN TOM ELLIS LUCY
DODD MICHELE DI MENNA JESSE BENSON WILL BENEDICT MERWIN BELIN, (co-curated with Brian Mann), Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009
D’Ette Nogle: Suspended Projection, (co-curated with Becky Koblick), with publication, Room Gallery, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
2008
Delusionarium 4, group exhibition of 24 artists installed in 3 Los Angeles galleries simultaneously, Circus Gallery, David Salow Gallery, and Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Building Up From The Left Over, (co-organized with Becky Koblick) group exhibition of 4 artists, Phantom Galleries at the Pacific Electric Lofts, Gallery Row, Los Angeles, CA
Delusionarium 3, group exhibition of 20 artists, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2005
Delusionarium 2, group exhibition of 19 artists, White Box Gallery, Marina del Rey, CA
2004
On The Move, group exhibition of 6 artists, Sixteen:One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Delusionarium 1, group exhibition of 13 artists, Legacy Arts Gallery, Santa Ana, CA