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 and installation, 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.

email: info[at]jessemineo[dot]com
instagram: @jesse.mineo

2025

New York Foundation for the Arts, Queens Art Fund, Grant Recipient

Small Art Supersized, group exhibition at AlterWork Studios (Queens, NY), 5/3-5/31

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

2024

Summer Residency Program in Fine Arts: Contemporary Practices, S.V.A. (New York, NY)

Awarded Honorable Mention, North American Photography Association at the 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 & G.F.S. ‘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

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, Cucalorus Film Festival
Official Selection, Athens International Film & Video Festival