Jesse Mineo (b. 1989) is a Sicilian-American and Nuyorican interdisciplinary artist living and working in Queens, New York. He holds a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Mineo’s practice incorporates assemblage, lens-based media, sound and lighting design, mark making and creative writing. His work often centers on personal history, sense memory, tradition, iconography, identity and the digital experience. Appropriating objects and imagery from American entertainment, and other popularly consumed objects and media, Mineo’s work marvels at the unseen ways strangers are intimately connected through space and time. In this way, his practice sits in opposition to any system or structure that would endeavor to pull us apart.
2025
‘With Love, New York’ group exhibition at Visionary Projects (New York, NY), 3/12-3/19
‘i can’t (un)see it’ group exhibition at All Street Gallery (New York, NY), 3/1-4/1
Guest Speaker, 2020-2025, Intermediate Film Production, N.Y.U. Tisch School of the Arts
2024
Summer Residency Program in Fine Arts: Contemporary Practices, School of Visual Arts (New York, NY)
Lifting Them Up, Awarded Honorable Mention, North American Photography Association in United Nations, Global Chinese New Year Photography Competition
2023
Selected for Coverfly’s Red List
Awarded Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
2022
Top 10 Finalist, Dolby Labs & GFS “Finish the Script” International Competition
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft’s TV Pilot Script Competition
2021
Top 20 Screenplays of the Month, Coverfly
2020
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft’s Sci-fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition
2017
Winner of Canon USA’s Outstanding Achievement Award (sole recipient)
2014
Haze, producer, live action short film
Grand Jury Prize Nomination, AFI Fest
Official Selection, AFI Fest
Official Selection, Atlanta Film Festival
Official Selection, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Official Selection, Dallas International Film Festival
Official Selection, Florida Film Festival
Official Selection, Maryland Film Festival
Official Selection, Sarasota Film Festival
Official Selection, Athens International Film & Video Festival
Official Selection, Cucalorus Film Festival
Vimeo Staff Pick