George Gessert is one of the best-known artists in the contemporary art movement known as bio-art a/k/a BioArt.
Beginning in the 1980s, Gessert's work focused on the overlap between art and genetics, and he has exhibited a series of installations of hybrids and documentation of breeding projects.
Gessert creates his artistic irises by hybridizing wild varieties and discarding undesirable results.
Gessert calls his practice "genetic folk art," and his work points to the way nature is interpreted—even authored—by humans.
[2] Gessert is also an Editorial Board Member of Leonardo Journal published by MIT Press for Leonardo/ISAST, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.