About

Working primarily in mixed media, her practice moves between collage, relief, and minimalist abstraction, exploring how form, light, and spatial rhythm shape perception. Influenced by both natural systems and modernist design, she builds compositions that invite slow looking, balancing geometry and texture with conceptual clarity.

Using materials like wood and paper, Jessie engages in a process of material restraint to distill visual language. Through repetition, negative space, and structural nuance, she investigates how minimal means can produce complex sensory experiences in response to an image-saturated culture.

Jessie Laura is a Peruvian visual artist and creative director based in San Francisco, CA.

Biography

JESSIE LAURA (B. 1987, Lima, Peru) is a visual artist living and working in San Francisco. She studied Film at the School of Visual Arts in New York (SVA NYC) and holds a BA in Arts and Design from the San Ignacio de Loyola University, Peru. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions across the U.S. including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and in Japan.

Laura has completed artist residencies at Rule Gallery in Marfa, Texas, and Art Warehouse in Delray Beach, Florida. Her work has been featured in The Other Art Fair’s Director’s Pick (2023) and in Apartment Therapy (2021), and is held in private and corporate collections in the U.S. and U.K.

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Modernist Utopia, The Sea Ranch Lodge, Sea Ranch, CA

2022
Visual Whispers, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL

Select Group Exhibitions

2025
Spring Greetings Art Fundraiser, Wildflower Art Residency, Tottori, Japan

2024
Responsive Eye, Tint Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2023
The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Retrospective: In a new light, Tint Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022
Into the Beyond, Tint Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2021
Opening Show, Common Space, San Francisco, CA
West Coast Craft, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

2019
Collage Now, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Feed your Walls, BCC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Collage, Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL

2018 
BCC / Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
PaperWorks: Refolded, La Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
The Collage Show by Undercurrents Projects on Artsy.net
BCC Website Launch, Pop up Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Shakers: Women Who Shake Things Up, Living Gallery, New York, NY
ConArtist v. BCC, ConArtist Gallery New York, NY 
Life/Lines: Abstract Geometry by Women, Gowanus Lab Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2017 
Brooklyn Collage Collective. vs. Sydney C.S., Chinatown Soup, New York, NY
Meatspace, BCC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Artist in Residence

2021
Residency Program, Rule Gallery, Marfa, TX

2019
Residency Exchange Program: Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL

Workshops & Speaking Engagements

2024
Artist Talk, Tint Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Artist Talk, Sea Ranch Lodge, Sea Ranch, CA
Surreal Playground: Collage Workshop, WaveSpace Collective, San Francisco, CA

2023
Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL

2019 
Surreal Playground: Collage Workshop, Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL

2018
Live Collage Session, La Brea Gallery, CA

2017
Surreal Playground: Collage Workshop, Living Gallery LES, New York, NY

Selected Bibliography

Education

2016
BFA Film, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2011
BA, Arts & Design, San Ignacio de Loyola School, Lima, Perú