Jessica Wee is a Korean American Canadian artist who grew up in Paris and Montreal. Wee’s work explores the experience of navigating life between cultures, crafting alternate worlds that connect the multifaceted layers of her identity. She weaves together personal experiences, art historical references and fantasy, with an underlying sense of mystery and playful disruption. Her paintings depict domestic scenes and quotidian moments featuring characters who appear to transform, multiply, or divide. These alter-egos exude a sense of mischief, independence and freedom, soaring through space or peering through windows as if slipping in from another dimension.

She received her MFA at Concordia University in Montreal and previously studied classical realist oil painting at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Her work has been exhibited at Kiaf SEOUL, Maison de la Culture NDG in Montreal, Steve Turner Gallery in Los Angeles, Latitude Gallery in New York, and Spring Break Art Show in New York, and has been featured in Hyperallergic and Artnet.

Portrait by Katya Konioukhova