Jessica Taylor Bellamy Temperature Check, 2025, Anat Ebgi, Installation view
About
Jessica Taylor Bellamy is an artist of juxtapositions: image and text, abstraction and figuration, handmade and mass produced, reality and fantasy, sunshine and noir. A native Angeleno, born and raised in Whittier to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and an Afro-Cuban father, Bellamy’s practice considers this particular familial history to address notions of home, homeland, and landscape. The artist’s work is rooted in her observations living at the edge of a precarious paradise of shifting ecological tensions.
Jessica Taylor Bellamy (b. 1992, Whittier, CA) received an MFA from the Roski School of Art at the University of Southern California in 2022 and a BA in Political Science from the University of Southern California in 2014. Bellamy’s work has been featured in exhibitions with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles / New York; UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA; GRIMM, New York, NY; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Make Room LA, Los Angeles, CA; Superposition Gallery hosted at Ochi Aux, Los Angeles, CA; and Lyles and King Gallery, New York, NY. Bellamy is the recipient of artist grants from Los Angeles Lakers sponsored ‘In the Paint’ art program 2024-25 and LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) Lighting Fund 2025. Her forthcoming solo exhibition will take place at Anat Ebgi in New York in March 2026. Bellamy lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Captured Realities Are Never Fully What They Seem
Bellamy's dense visual language melds personal memory, mass media and inherited histories to produce images that feel legible before slipping into instability. — Elisa Carollo
A native Angeleno, Bellamy’s practice serves as a poetic meditation on the precarious beauty of a city shaped by both utopian dreams and underlying instability. —Courtney Killough
Jessica Taylor Bellamy Receives LACE Lighting Fund Award
"Reincarnating the Domain collects and records stories of interest, combining the audio with video and paint-on-glass animation techniques to tell a history of LA grounded in memory, with visuals that reflect magical realism and the transformation of a place. I seek to organize these stories geographically, with a framework loosely pulled from Reyner Banhams Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Surfurbia, Foothills, The Plains of ID, Ecology IV, Autopia)." —Jessica Taylor Bellamy
Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Temperature Check Captures the Fragility of Southern California
For those interested in experiencing Bellamy’s distinct perspective on place, memory, and transformation, the exhibition offers an immersive journey through her intricate, layered world. —Jesse James
Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s ‘Temperature Check’ is a portrait of LA
“Temperature Check” is a thought-provoking exhibit on what it means to live in L.A. — to love it, to critique it and to grapple with its ever-changing identity. —Lara Graves
Jessica Taylor Bellamy featured in Lakers’ free exhibition showcasing artists of color
Jessica Taylor Bellamy will receive a $10,000 grant from the Lakers Youth Foundation and will be celebrated at Monday’s home game versus the Utah Jazz at Crypto.com Arena. —Ashely Lee
Must See Shows | THE WAVE and Jessica Taylor Bellamy: Temperature Check
Alongside The Wave, the gallery will exhibit Jessica Taylor Bellamy: Temperature Check, a solo show of paintings by the LA-born artist that focuses on the delicate balancing act between nature and culture that defines the city, and which climate change threatens with further precarity. —Matt Stromberg
Jessica Taylor Bellamy Selected for LA Lakers ‘In the Paint’ Program
"With art and sports, you see someone's passion and you see how much time they put into their craft or their game, but also you really get to see what someone's flair is," said multidisciplinary artist Jessica Taylor Bellamy who was selected for the 2024-25 In the Paint program. "I love that when I see a certain artist, I may not know exactly if it's their work, but I can guess and it's like leaving their mark. That similar indelible thing can happen in sports and certain athletes." —The Los Angeles Lakers
Unknown Landscapes: Jessica Taylor Bellamy Explores the Wetlands
Bellamy tells both macroscopic and microscopic stories about agency and oppression, collected and constructed from her lived experience and intimate observations. She helps instruct us on how we might feel the ground exhale. —Lauren Guilford
Frieze Week: Meet Four Artists Exploring the “Sunshine and Noir” of L.A.
“I have this huge pile of [newspapers] in my studio. A lot of the things I’m collecting are specific stories that might be about the climate or they might be visual indicators of change like temperature maps.” —Jessica Taylor Bellamy
Los Angeles is a city of paradoxes, where the fantasy and glamor of Hollywood often overshadows the grimy reality of daily life. Artist Jessica Taylor Bellamy, who grew up in Los Angeles, isn’t interested in the public’s obsession with celebrity. Instead, she tunes into the ordinariness of everyday occurrences and captures the strange truth of L.A.'s many contradictions. — Sahir Ahmed
Exploring Identity Through Place: Artist Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Love Letter To L.A.
"Conceptually, the screen plays a role as an interruption, as this actual veil that either you need to see past part of the painting to see what could be the rest of the screen or you need to confront the screen before seeing the rest of the painting." —Jessica Taylor Bellamy
Jessica Taylor Bellamy and Suzanne Lacy Channel the Topography of Los Angeles
Ahead of Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s first solo show, the emerging painter and multidisciplinary artist connects with her friend and mentor, the artist Suzanne Lacy, for a conversation about archiving the city, social practice, and car culture. — Annie Lyall Slaughter
Bonus Round: ‘Jessica Taylor Bellamy: Endnotes for Sunshine’
This native Angeleno juxtaposes stunning Southern California landscapes with daunting realities —displayed through newspaper clippings with headlines about the effects of catastrophes like global warming. —Steven Vargas
"I try to see if my color palette can escape the sunset, and it can’t. Even if it’s a sunset of smokey skies, and there’s a warning and it's bad, or polluted, that is something that is always going to come through in my work." —Jessica Taylor Bellamy
More concretely delineated but no less magical are two works by Jessica Taylor Bellamy, her ethereal resin and wire “Palm Veil” suspended over “Ecology IV: Horizons of Manic Striving and Photogenic Decline,” an impressive sculpture of a repurposed BMW bumper, video projected images of city scape, and dried wildflowers. —Diversions LA
The Art of Optimistic Nihilism: Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Beautiful Destruction
Jessica Taylor Bellamy is finding the grotesque beauty in impending doom. Bellamy’s best pieces capture the unfettered 21st-century anxiety of living through ever-worsening ecological disaster, and all the contradictory feelings that come with it. —Wesley Stenzel
Rejection of the Monoculture – Statement And Paintings By Jessica Taylor Bellamy
"By portraying them on fire or as alternative bouquets, for example, I attempt to re-contextualize, individualize and personify this highly recognizable form." —Jessica Taylor Bellamy
MFA, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2014
BA, Political Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Semblance, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
2025
Temperature Check, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Vanities Come to Dust: From Havana to Los Angeles, With Love, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Endnotes for Sunshine, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Present Myth, Future Fantasy, MFA Thesis Exhibition, USC Roski Graduate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tender Haze, Curtain of Sky, Superposition, Ochi Projects Aux, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2026
Love to Hate, Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Into the Pluriverse, Sovern LA, Los Angeles, CA
It is written in the sand, Superposition Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
Space Between, Xela Institute of Art, Long Beach, CA
SEE ME - Unapologetic Voices in Sisterhood, Weinstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025
Line, Smudge, Shade, Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Mami Wata, Superposition Gallery, Eastville Community Historical Society, Heritage House Museum, Sag Habor, NY
Out of LA: Contemporary Voices, Opa Projects, Miami, Florida
Head in The Clouds, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
Echoes of the Unseen, Opa Projects, Miami, FL
2024
Coping With Paradise, OCHI Gallery, Ketchum, ID
A Treatise on Color: Vols. I–IV, curated by J.E. Azmi (FKA James E. Bartlett) Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
Navigating with Nature, Ngã Artspace, Hanoi, Vietnam
Vampire::Mother, Curated by Jasmine Wahi, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
The First Taste, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
2023
Ahorita!, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Well June, Moosey Art, London, UK
The Moon and I, GRIMM Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Distinguishing Us, Soho House, Los Angeles, CA
LA WOMEN, Phillips, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Unsettling California, Glass Box Gallery, University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Lascape, PRJCTLA, Los Angeles, CA
LA Currents, The Big New Projects, Los Angeles, CA
LA Dreams: Light Touch, CF Hill, Stockholm, Sweden
Resilience, Superposition, Eastville Museum, Sag Harbor, NY
YOU ME ME YOU, Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA
Killer Cute: In Two Parts, De Boer Gallery, Los Angeles CA
The Tale Their Terror Tells, Lyles & King, New York, NY
Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA
Radical Dawn: Solid Forms & Paradigm Shifts, Luna Anais Gallery, Inglewood, CA
California Dystopia, USC Doheny Library Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
GLAMFA 2022: Connectivity, California State University, Long Beach
2021
Urban Whispers part 2, Make Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Urban Whispers part I, WOAW Gallery, Central Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2020
In Cahoots: Artists and Curators at USC Roski, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles CA
Celebrate Longevity, Superposition Gallery, Amagansett, NY
Going Home, TZ Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Made In California, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
Parallel Realities and Unpopular Truths, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Boiling Point, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Save Mr. Wisdom’s Auction (Keep Slauson Fresh), Nous Tous Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Global Inheritance: TRASHed Coachella, House of Machines DTLA & Empire Polo Fields; Indio, CA
GIFC, The Costume House; Toronto, ON, Canada
2018
GIFC LA, 0-0 LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
2025
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) Lighting Fund Grant
2024
Fountainhead Residency
Los Angeles Lakers 'In the Paint' Artist Grant
2022
Macomber Travel Grant, University of Southern California. Destination Cuba
Press
2026
Carollo, Elisa "Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Captured Realities Are Never Fully What They Seem," Observer, April, 2026
Westall, Mark "Frieze Los Angeles 2026 Closes with Strong Sales and Major Museum Acquisitions" FAD Magazine, March 2, 2026
Boucher, Bryan "Dealers Are Abuzz at Frieze LA’s VIP Day: ‘It’s a Frenzy’" Artnet News, February 26, 2026
"Who Won What: Acquisition Funds at Frieze Los Angeles 2026" Frieze, February 27, 2026
2025
Killough, Courtney “5 ARTISTS TO SEE THIS YEAR AT FRIEZE LA 2025” , FAD Magazine, February 21, 2025
“‘Temperature Check’ is a portrait of Los Angeles” , Daily Trojan, February 10, 2025
Gelt, Jessica and Lee, Ashley, “Lakers’ free exhibition showcasing artists of color, and more L.A. arts and culture this weekend” , Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2025
“Paradise and Precarity Merge in Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Paintings of Los Angeles Life” , Colossal, February 7, 2025
Stromberg, Matt “Must See Shows in Los Angeles this February” , Hyperallergic, February 3, 2025
“Announcing the 2025 Lightning Fund and Jacki Apple Awards” , LACE, January 25, 2025
2024
2024 Carivia, Alexia, “How Jessica Taylor Bellamy Marks Time with Hidden Text” , Fountainhead Arts TV, September 18, 2024
2023
Guilford, Lauren, "Unknown Landscapes: Jessica taylor Bellamy Explores the Wetlands", Artillery, May 9, 2023 (Link)
Pener, Degen. "Art That Looks at L.A.: 'Full of Substance and Surface'." The Hollywood Reporter, February 15, 2023.
Holcomb, Shelley, "Exploring Identity Through Place: Artist Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Love Letter To L.A.", Curator LA, January 20, 2023 (Link)
Amed, Sahir, "Jessica Taylor Bellamy: Endnotes for Sunshine", Office Magazine, January 21, 2023 (Link)
Slaughter, Annie Lyall, "Jessica Taylor Bellamy and Suzanne Lacy Channel the Topography of Los Angeles", Cultured Magazine, January 19, 2023 (Link)
"The rainbow after the storm: Dance Camera West and more events for your rain-free weekend", Los Angeles Times, January 18, 2023 (Link)
Chiotakis, Steve, "Endnotes for Sunshine’ exhibition focuses on LA’s changing environment, politics", KCRW, January 11, 2023 (Link)
2022
“UNSETTLING CALIFORNIA”, The Current, October 24, 2022 (Link)
“10 MFA GRADS ON THE RISE IN 2022”, Artsy.com, August 11, 2022 (Link)
“THE ART OF OPTIMISTIC NIHILISM: JESSICA TAYLOR BELLAMY’S BEAUTIFUL DESTRUCTION”, Ampersandla.com, May 5, 2022 (Link)
2021
“MIAMI ART WEEK ARTILLERY REPORT: DAY 3”, Artillery, December 3, 2021. (Link)
“A POLITICAL SCIENCE ALUMNA SPEAKER HER MIND ON THE CANVAS”, USC Dornsife Magazine, June 28, 2021. (Link)
“RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE”, Roski Mag Issue 11 Metamorphosis, Spring 2021 (Link)
2020
“IN CELEBRATION OF SUPERPOSITION GALLERY’S SECOND ANNIVERSARY: NOTES ON THE HAMPTONS, SUPERPOSITION AND SANS," Cultured Mag, September 18, 2020 (Link)
“REJECTION OF THE MONOCULTURE,” Mixed Life Media, April 13, 2020 (Link)
2019
“ART NEEDS AND READS ISSUE 10: IN THE STUDIO WITH JESSICA TAYLOR BELLAMY,” Penske Projects, November 13, 2019
“SUPERPOSITION ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY,” PARISLA, August 22, 2019
“Meet Jessica Bellamy of Jbellzamy in Playa del Rey”, Interview in Voyage LA, December 11, 2018 (Link)
Collections
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Linear Burn." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 50" x 30" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (127 x 76.2 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Oil and acrylic on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1091_1752780202.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Pastime Paradise." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 50" x 38 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (127 x 97.79 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1051_1752780214.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Foliage Gas Pump." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 38" x 51" [HxW] (96.52 x 129.54 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas on panel, carbon fiber, automotive paint, video.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1072_1739918697.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "No Ordinary Traveler." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 50 ¹⁄₂" x 38 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (128.27 x 97.79 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1057_1739918787.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Mantis." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 40" x 120" x 48" [HxWxD] (101.6 x 304.8 x 121.92 cm). Its medium is Polylactic acid, bondo, fiberglass, resin, and automotive paint.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1085_1739918684.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Mobilized gaze." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 25 ¹⁄₂" x 56" [HxW] (64.77 x 142.24 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas on panel, carbon fiber, automotive paint, video.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1064_1739918722.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Uncommon Blue." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 56 ¹⁄₂" x 47 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (143.51 x 120.65 cm). Its medium is not known.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1053_1739918708.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Objects in Mirror." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Each: 7" x 8" x 10" [HxWxD] (17.78 x 20.32 x 25.4 cm). Its medium is Video, sound, polylactic acid, resin, automotive paint.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1086_1739918982.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Hallucinatory Vignettes I." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 26" x 20" [HxW] (66.04 x 50.8 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1079_1739918690.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Redact & Recline." This artwork was created in 2024 and measures 45" x 65 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (114.3 x 166.37 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1050_1739918784.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Informational Hand Fan." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 35 ¹⁄₂" x 31 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (90.17 x 80.01 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1027_1731612892.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "American Airlines Passenger Ticket 2 (after Warhol)." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 32" x 60" [HxW] (81.28 x 152.4 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1035_1696447889.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "A Subspecies of Journalism." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 59" x 43 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (149.86 x 110.49 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1028_1696447854.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Playa Larga (Coquina Combination Pill Pack)." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 23 ³⁄₄" x 42 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (60.33 x 107.95 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1024_1696447857.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Warm Light." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 68" x 49" [HxW] (172.72 x 124.46 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1010_1676061848.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Land of the Sundown Sea." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 35 ¹⁄₂" x 31 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (90.17 x 80.01 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1002_1676061862.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "Proving Ground." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 35 ¹⁄₂" x 31 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (90.17 x 80.01 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1001_1676061868.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "No Trick of Light." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 30" x 24" [HxW] (76.2 x 60.96 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1008_1676061855.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Jessica Taylor Bellamy titled "A Slight Exaggeration." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 38" x 51" [HxW] (96.52 x 129.54 cm). Its medium is Oil on canvas.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Jessica-Taylor-Bellamy_JTB1006_1676061859.jpg)
