Jesse Genepi (b. 1995) is a Los Angeles-based artist. He received a BFA from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from the University of California, Davis. His paintings explore the psychic and perceptual conditions of contemporary life through layered surfaces composed of resin, oil, iridescent materials, and collage. Shifting with light, angle, and duration, the works operate as unstable fields where color, texture, and spatial illusion register emotional entanglement, technological saturation, and systems in states of collapse or convergence. Drawing from cosmology, visionary art, and digital aesthetics, Genepi’s paintings function less as fixed images than as material records of perception unfolding within an increasingly fragmented and accelerated world.
Genepi’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL (2025), 12.26, Los Angeles, CA (2025) Elsa Lee Bruno, Los Angeles, CA (2025); Noon Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Island Gallery, New York, NY (2023); the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA (2021); b. Sakata, Sacramento, CA (2021); below grand, New York, NY (2021); among others.