Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Jessi Reaves studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA degree in 2010.
“Rejecting the sleek craftsmanship of iconic midcentury design, Reaves exaggerates markers of construction to an almost aggressive abundance,” note co-curators Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks.
The Amorphous Imaginary of Gaetano Pesce", SSENSE (March 4), https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/art/its-alive-the-amorphous-imaginary-of-gaetano-pesce Rachel Hahn, “Lou Dallas Celebrated Valentine’s Day by Bringing Fragonard’s Most Famous Painting to Life”, Vogue (February 19), https://www.vogue.com/vogueworld/article/lou-dallas-raffaella-hanley-valentines-day-decor-band-jessi-reaves-live-sculpture-public-arts 2019 Leah Singer, Jessi Reaves, Apartamento Issue #24 (Fall/Winter) 169-183 Chris Wiley, “The Beguiling Work of Jessi Reaves”, Frieze (June 1), https://frieze.com/article/beguiling-work-jessi-reaves “Freedom of Expression”, RISDXYZ (Spring/Summer), 13 Tiffany Lambert, “Trash Aesthetics” Pin-Up (Spring/Summer), 250-255 Kathy Leonard Czepiel, “Unsettling In”, Daily Nutmeg (May 23), http://dailynutmeg.com/2019/05/23/perverse-furniture-artspace-unsettling-in/ Brian Slattery, “Artspace Gets Perverse”, New Haven Independent (May 22), https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/artspace_perverse_furniture/ Eliza Barry, "Jessi Reaves: II”, Brooklyn Rail (May), https://brooklynrail.org/2019/05/artseen/Jessi-Reaves-II Meredith Mendelsohn, "Jessi Reaves”, Sculpture Magazine (April 29), https://sculpturemagazine.art/jessi-reaves/ Holland Cotter, “Over 40 Art Shows to See Right Now - Spring Gallery Guide: Below and Above Canal Street”, The New York Times (April 26), https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/arts/design/gallery-guide-canal-street.html Keshav Anand, “Jessi Reaves: Bringing Eccentricity To The Domestic”, Something Curated (April 24) “Reaves’ Wondrous Wreckage” Our RISD (April 16) Alina Cohen, “5 Standout New York Exhibitions to See This April”, Artsy (April 5) “8 New York Art Exhibitions Not To Miss This April: Jessi Reaves II”, Something Curated (April 3) Johanna Fateman, “Jessi Reaves”, The New Yorker (March 28) Antonia Marsh, “Antonia Marsh: The Absurdist Sculpture of Jessi Reaves”, AnOther Magazine (March 27) “Works By Park McArthur, Alex Da Corte, Huma Bhaba, and More Enter Carnegie Museum of Art Collection”, Artforum (March 26) “9 Art Events in New York: Jessi Reaves, Gary Indiana, Barthélémy Toguo, and More”, ARTnews (March 11), http://www.artnews.com/2019/03/11/9-art-events-nyc-jessi-reaves-gary-indiana-barthelemy-toguo/ Scott Turri, “Same Ol’ Carnegie”, New Art Examiner (January/February), volume 33 2018 Maria Savostyanova, “Reaves’s Beads”, Interior+Design (October 1), 208 Alix Browne, “T Introduces Jessi Reaves”, T Magazine - The New York Times (September 9), 47-48 Glenn Adamson, “Sculpture To Dwell On”, Art in America (September), 71-77 Whitney Bauck, “If Eckhaus Latta’s Whitney Museum Exhibition Is A Scam, It’s A Good One”, Fashionista (August 8), https://fashionista.com/2018/08/eckhaus-latta-possessed-whitney-museum-exhibit Andrea Valluzzo, “Aldrich to survey tabletop art in The Domestic Plane”, Stratford Star (May 17), https://www.stratfordstar.com/80962/aldrich-to-survey-tabletop-art-in-the-domestic-plane/ Felix Burrichter, Jack Chiles, Marc Matchak, “Mental Furniture”, Pin-Up (Spring/ Summer), Issue 24 Sarah Rafson, “57th Carnegie International will bring artists who engage spatial politics around the world”, Architects Newspaper (April 23), https://archpaper.com/2018/04/57th-carnegie-international-pittsburgh/#gallery-0-slide-0 Amy Serafin, “Ottoman Empire”, Wallpaper (May), 147-153 Alex Greenberger, “Here’s the Artist List for the 2018 Carnegie International”, ArtNews (April 11), http://www.artnews.com/2018/04/11/heres-artist-list-2018-carnegie-international/ Kieron Marchese, “John Galliano Invites Sculptor Jessi Reaves to Create Raw, Deconstructed Pieces at Maison Margiela SS18”, Designboom (January 25), https://www.designboom.com/design/maison-margiela-ss18-john-galliano-jessi-reaves-01-25-2018/ Elizabeth Paton, “At Maison Margiela, a Sculptor and a Designer Unite”, The New York Times (January 24), https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/fashion/maison-margiela-john-galliano-jessi-reaves.html?referer= 2017 Silvia Sgualdini, “Jessi Reaves and Bradley Kronz Dorich House Museum/ London”, Flash Art, no.
50 (November 27) Josephine Graf, “Nicola L.”Frieze (October 23) Eliza Barry, “A Chair Is A Chair Is A Sculpture: On Jessi Reaves and the Decorative Unconscious”, Columbia University (May 24) Roberta Smith, “The Met’s Rei Kawakubo Show, Dressed for Defiance”, The New York Times (May 4) Ruba Katrib, “A Cautionary Tale by Bradley Kronz and Jessi Reaves”, Document, No.
3 (Fall/Winter), 26 - 33 by Kate Horsfield & Elizabeth Murray, Johanna Fateman & Jessi Reaves, Dancing Foxes Press/CAMH (September), issue #17, 180-183