Jesse Egner

Jesse Egner is an artist working primarily with photography and video. Often taking the form of playful and absurd portraiture of himself and other individuals, his work explores themes of queerness, disidentification, queer corporeality, and the uncanny. Egner was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His work has recently been included in exhibitions at Seigfred Gallery, Emerge Gallery, Filter Photo, Photographic Center Northwest, El Rincón Social, Box 13 ArtSpace, Columbia College Chicago, Academy Art Museum, the Festival de Arte Lanzarote, and the Pingyao International Photography Festival. His photographs have been featured in publications by Soft Lightning, Plataforma Minima, Photographer’s Forum, Cumulus Photo, PUBLIC Journal, and CNN Style. He received his BA from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and his MFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design.