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

‘i can’t (un)see it’ group exhibition at All Street Gallery (New York, NY), 3/1-4/2

‘With Love, New York’ group exhibition at Visionary Projects (New York, NY), 3/12-3/19

Finalist, Awarded Top 10% Overall Screenplay out of 174,569 projects, Coverfly

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
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