Jessica Fairfax Hirst

Jessica is a multi-disciplinary artist from the United States, although for the past ten years she was living abroad in Nicaragua, Spain and the Dominican Republic.  She creates performances, dances, installations, videos, collages, sculptures and paintings.  She has performed in France, Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, India, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, the United States and Chile. Jessica has had four solo exhibitions and numerous collective exhibitions.  She has curated the Independence.DOM performance festival in the Dominican Republic and the exhibition "Zimbabwe" of Eliu Almonte.  She has studied art at Metafora in Barcelona, performance with Valentin Torrens, and dance with Celeste Miller, Ed Tyler, and Rennie Harris.  She has just begun a Master of Fine Arts in Public Practice at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.