Jesse Stecklow
*1993, United States
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, United States
Biography
Jesse Stecklow's practice is rooted in data collection; each of his sculptures is a link in a recursive chain in which each work references a past work or foretells a future work. Stecklow extracts data from exhibition sites, using it as inspiration for materials and forms in new works. Elements brought together from diverse sources repeat, shift forms, and reveal unexpected connections; themes from earlier projects are reinvented and recast in different constellations with each following presentation.
Stecklow (*1993, United States) lives and works in Los Angeles. He has presented two solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, most recently in 2023. His exhibition Terminal took place at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna in 2022, and was accompanied by a catalogue. His work has also recently been included in exhibitions at the Capc Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, and the Kunstverein Braunschweig. Stecklow received a degree in Media Arts from UCLA, Los Angeles, in 2014.
Selected Texts
Exhibitions
Artworks
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 2014 | BA, Media Design Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States |
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
| 2024 | Timekeepers, Dracula’s Revenge, New York, NY, United States |
| 2023 | Floor to Ceiling, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| 2022 | Terminal, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna, Austria |
| 2021 | Components in the Air, Art@Bainbridge, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, United States |
| 2019 | Ditto, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 | Staging Grounds, M+B, Los Angeles, CA, United States |
| 2017 | Collection Sites, Chicken Coop Contemporary, Portland, OR, United States |
| 2016 | Cir Squirrel, VI Dancer, San Francisco, CA, United States |
| The Multi-Directional Elevator, Chapter NY, New York, NY, United States | |
| Two Clocks, LOYAL, Stockholm | |
| 2014 | Potential Derivatives, M+B, Los Angeles, CA, United States |
| Trios, Retrospective, Hudson, NY, United States |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2025 | An Harangue, Timeshare, Los Angeles, CA, United States |
| 2024 | Air de repos, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France |
| Scupper, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA, United States | |
| After Images, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2023 | Digits and Numbers, Stereo, Warsaw, Poland |
| 2022 | Before I met you the world seemed like such a big place… now there is only this shop, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| 2021 | The Living House, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany |
| Read Desert, Rockaway Artists Alliance, Rockaway Point, NY, United States | |
| The Position of the Sun in the Sky (Online), curated by Bridget Finn, White Columns, NY, New York | |
| 2020 | Dust: The Plates of the Present, curated by Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
| Portable Documents Formatted for Home Use, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA, United States | |
| Beast on its Back, curated by Anna Frost, Malibu, CA, United States | |
| 2019 | Transmissions, curated by Alex Bacon, VIN VIN, Vienna, Austria |
| 2017 | The Plates of the Present, So Far, curated by Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France |
| 2016 | Default, curated by Eden Phair, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA, United States |
| Pure Boar Bristle and Nylon Tufts, PODIUM, Oslo, Norway | |
| 2015 | The Plates of the Present, The Dust, Paris, France |
| After Babel, “Poetry will be made by all!”, curated by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Russian Doll, M+B, Los Angeles, CA, United States | |
| The Printed Room: Poems 1990-2001, curated by Harry Burke, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland | |
| The Reason We No Longer Speak, curated by Martha Kirszenbaum, Fahrenheit, Los Angeles, CA, United States | |
| 2014 | Me and Benjamin, Galerie Xippas, Paris |
| Liminal Sunday, curated by Paulina Samborska, Satellite Space, Los Angeles, CA, United States | |
| Slippery, curated by Taylor Trabulus, Martos Gallery, New York, NY, United States | |
| Special Madness, David Shelton Gallery, Houston | |
| New Systems, New Structures 001, William Arnold, New York, NY, United States | |
| Arena Showcase, Kansas City, MO, United States | |
| The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, CLEARING, New York, NY, United States | |
| Too Soon, Perry Rubenstein, Los Angeles, CA, United States | |
| 2013 | Surface Area, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, CA, United States |
Selected Press
| 2024 | Payal Uttam, Mining data for art, Art Basel, November 27 |
| Rob Goyanes, Discover eight fresh voices at Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel, November 8 | |
| Jenny Wu, Jesse Stecklow at Dracula’s Revenge, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, August | |
| Travis Diehl, Shows to See During New York’s Frieze Week, Frieze, May 8 | |
| 2023 | Jesse Stecklow at Sweetwater, Contemporary Art Writing Daily, April 15 |
| Jesse Stecklow at Sweetwater, Contemporary Art Daily, April 15 | |
| Lara Brörken, Aus der Luft gegriffen ‘Floor to Ceiling’ - Jesse Stecklow bei Sweetwater, gallerytalk.net, April 6 | |
| 2022 | Travis Diehl, Jesse Stecklow entwines biography and biometrics in 'Terminal', Artforum, August 8 |
| 2018 | Kathryn Poindexter, Review: Jesse Stecklow, Artillery Magazine, July 2 |
| Tiffany Foundation Announces Recipients of 2017 Biennial Grants, Artforum, February 15 | |
| 2016 | Jesse Stecklow: Cir Squirrel at VI Dancer', Sex Magazine |
| Emily Wells, These are the Things that Keep Us Alive, Flaunt, July 14 | |
| Nathan Hogan, Frequencies, Flash Art, Issue 309, June | |
| Jesse Stecklow at Chapter NY, Contemporary Art Daily, June 9 | |
| Sam Korman, Armory Show and Independent, Art Agenda, March 4 | |
| 2015 | Christie Chu, 10 Exceptional Millennial Artists to Watch, artnet News, May 20 |
| K.r.m. Mooney, Nice to Meet You, Mousse Magazine, Issue 48, April | |
| Andrew M. Goldstein, 10 of the Best Artworks of the 2015 Armory Show, Artspace, March 8 | |
| David Shelton, The Armory Show with David Shelton: Day 3, Papercity, March 7 | |
| 2014 | Travis Diehl, Passive Collect, Artforum Critics’ Picks, July 31 |
| Martha Schwendener, Chasing a Dream and an Unalloyed Ethos: A Critic’s Picks in Brooklyn, an Embattled Utopia, The New York Times, April 3 | |
| 2013 | Kyle Fitzpatrick, Artistic information: An Interview with Jesse Stecklow, Los Angeles I’m Yours, August 19 |
Residencies, Grants and Awards
| 2017 | Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant |
Public Collections
| 2022 | Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna |