Ceysson & Bénétière

Born in 1980, in Saint Paul, USA.

Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.

Jesse Willenbring is a dual citizen from Luxembourg and United States of America.

   Presentation

Jesse Willenbring (b. 1980) lives and works between Phoenix and Greer, Arizona. He received his BFA (2006) and MFA (2010) from Hunter College, New York. His work has been the subject of several solo presentations at Ceysson & Bénétière (Paris, Saint-Étienne and New York); Thomas Duncan Gallery (Los Angeles); and Laurel Gitlen (New York). Willenbring has also been featured in numerous group and collaborative exhibitions, including recent presentations at Rainbow is Spanish, Los Angeles; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; Non-Objectif Sud, Tullette, France; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. This past fall, he inaugurated The Sunset Spot, an artist-led project space in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the designer of numerous artist books, working closely with Darren Bader, Justin Beal, and Karl Haendel, among others. In conjunction with this exhibition, Willenbring is releasing a collaborative zine, Shaman (edition of 100), with artist Joseph Montgomery on Montgromery’s publishing imprint, Lie Lay Lain.

   Education

2010     MFA, Hunter College, New York, USA

2006     BFA, Hunter College, New York, USA

Jesse Willenbring's painting gives a savvy but facile example of what has yet to be done with modernism's painterly lineage. His balmy brushwork, pastel tone, and sophisticated color sensibility recalls Sonia Delaunay's motifs. The pictures themselves and their graphic content are brilliantly assembled by using simplest tools as pencil, charcoal, and paper.

Jesse Willenbring received an MFA from Hunter College in 2010 and has recent solo exhibitions at Thomas Duncan Gallery and Laurel Gitlen Gallery. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Gavin Brown's enterprise and Lehmann Maupin. Bernard Ceysson Gallery will organize next year a solo show by Willenbring in Paris.

Solo shows at Ceysson Gallery
Jesse Willenbring, New York
January 16 - March 13, 2021

Jesse Willenbring, Saint-Etienne
December 20, 2019 - February 14, 2020

Jesse Willenbring, New York
May 04 - June 30, 2018

Jesse Willenbring, Paris
February 09 - March 18, 2017


Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
To Lean Into, New York
March 05 - April 16, 2022

“The lines of life are various, like roads and the contours of the mountains…”, Wandhaff
September 10 - October 29, 2016

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Solo shows

2021

Family Landscapes, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, USA

2018
Day Care, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, USA

2017
Don't fall in the lotus vortex because clops might just devour you!,Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France

2016
Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2015
Landline, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA

2014
Observation Location, Thomas Duncan Gallery , Los Angeles, USA
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with Darren Bader, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Exhaustion, with Justin Beal, Locust Projects, Miami, USA

2013
JWDB Billboard, with Darren Bader, Gavin Brown's Entreprise, New York, USA
#I am just living to be dying by your side, with Darren Bader, Franco Noero Gallery, Turin, Italy
Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2012
WimlpeNrsGonSat!ion, with Ara Dymond, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA

2011
Left to the Darkness, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA

2009
Interiors & Landscapes Meour, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA

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Group shows

2017
LA Intersections, Fabien Castanier Gallery, California, USA
Meaning and Difference, curated by Darren Baden, Power Station, Dallas, USA

2016
Diverses sont les lignes de la vie... Hölderlin, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Wandhaff, Luxembourg

2013
You Must Stand This While Reading There, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis, USA

2012
Needles in the Camel's Eye, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
First Among Equals, with P.& Co, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA

2010
Painting and Sculpture, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, USA

2009
The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown's Entreprise, New York, USA
ARE YOU WITH ME?, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA

2007
MOMA @ Passerby: Leger/Hartley in a Boat and Dutch Elm Disease, GBE @ Passerby, New York, USA

2005
Me, You, You (a ventriloquy), Small A Projects, Portland, USA
Signs of Some Precarity, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, USA
Put it in Your Mouth/I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Prune, Irvington Arms, New York, USA

Press and publications

2012
Harren, Natilee. “Needles in the Camel’s Eye.” Artforum, October 2012, pp. 274-275
P & Co. and New Jerseyy, “Bilateral Talks: P & Co. and New Jersey Talk Vegas, Lies and Zeitgeist,” Flash Art, January/February.

2011
J.W. Diagrams, limited edition artist book, 24 pages.

2009
Alan Reid, “Landscapes & Interiors Meour” (review), Big Red & Shiny, November 17.
Tyler Coburn, “ARE YOU WITH ME?” (review) Art Review, April.
Cameron Shaw, “ARE YOU WITH ME?” (review) Artforum.com, February.
“ARE YOU WITH ME?” (review), Bones' Beats, Village Voice, February.

2008
“First Supper,” Artforum.com, Diary (Rose Colored Glasses), February 4. Fancy American Ipseity, book, 52 pages, 3 essays, 6 graphic illustrations.

2006
GRUPEbook, limited edition book in conjunction with group exhibition, 96 pages.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2008
Don’t Perish, co-curator with Joseph Montgomery, Leo Koenig Projekte, New York

2007
Rose Colored Glasses: Dinner and a Group Show, co-curator with Joseph Montgomery, GBE @ Passerby, New York

2006
GRUPE, (co-curator), GBE @ Passerby, New York; and Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA