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 person, 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), selected for the work ENGRAM_000222714.holo, upcoming 3/1-4/2
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, Honorable Mention, North American Photography Association in United Nations, Global Chinese New Year Photography Competition
2023
Proma, Selected for Coverfly’s Red List
Proma, Honorable Mention, Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
2022
Truth Keepers, Top 10 Finalist, Dolby Labs & GFS “Finish the Script” International Competition
Origins, Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft’s TV Pilot Script Competition
2021
Origins, Top 20 Screenplays of the Month, Coverfly
2020
Origins, Semifinalist, ScreenCraft’s Sci-fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition
2012-2019
Canon, Professional Market Specialist & Cinema EOS Partner Manager
Winner of Canon USA’s 2017 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
2012
Discourse News, editing and technical support for Christian Jankowski. Exhibited at Friedrich Petzel Gallery (Manhattan, NY)
2011
Mario Joyner Project, director of photography, live action short film starring Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, George Wallace, Colin Quinn and Mario Joyner
2010
MOVE! at MoMA PS1, director/editor of Micro Doc Series covering works by Kalup Linzy and Diane von Furstenberg; Rob Pruitt and Marc Jacobs; Terence Koh and Italo Zucchelli (Calvin Klein Collection); Tauba Auerbach and Ohne Titel; Olaf Breuning and Cynthia Rowley; Brody Condon and Rodarte; Rashaad Newsome and Alexander Wang; Dan Colen and Proenza Schouler; David Blaine and Adam Kimmel; Jonah Bokaer and Narciso Rodriguez; The Cheryls and American Apparel; Ryan McNamara and Robert Geller; and TELFAR + Lizzie Fitch, Rhett LaRue, Fatima Al Qadiri, Ryan Trecartin, and Leilah Weinraub
2009
Glass, documentary with artist edison Osorio Zapata. Exhibited at UrbanGlass (Brooklyn, NY)