Jessica Taylor Bellamy
Jessica Taylor Bellamy
- 1992
- Born in Whittier, CA
- Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
- 2022
- 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