Meet Jess!
Jess Wilcox (she/her, b. Berkeley, CA 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist who identifies as a golden retriever trapped in a human body.
Wilcox’s work is playfully subversive, utilizing painting, sculpture and time-based media to investigate social conventions. Her use of humor is a disarming device to excavate the limits and unfulfilled desires of heteronormativity, gender scripts, and established social expectations under the umbrella of the female gaze.
Jess works in Los Angeles and received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2025. She holds a BA in Psychology from Occidental College located in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles. She has shown work at Good Mother Gallery, Peggy Phelps Gallery, The Other Art Fair, BFG Big Gay Fest, among others.
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Education
2023 MFA in Fine Art - Otis College of Art and Design - LA, CA
2013-2017 BA in Psychology - Occidental College - LA, CA
Group Exhibitions
2025 Love Letter Show - Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, CA
2025 Somebody’s Something - Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2025 The Other Art Fair - Los Angeles, CA
2024 MFAs of LA exhibition - Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 SoCal MFA Group Exhibition - Claremont Graduate University
2024 Big Gay Festival BGF - Vitawood x stnky, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Mid Residency - Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Happiness - Biafarin and Exhibizone Online Exhibit
Press
Hyperallergic - Otis College MFA Students Remake Los Angeles
Voyage LA - Conversations with Jessica Wilcox