Jessica Taylor Bellamy works at the intersection of text and image, abstraction and figuration. Rooted in her multicultural heritage, her practice navigates themes of home, belonging, and ecological transformation, constructing fragile paradises that reflect both personal and collective histories.
A rising voice in contemporary art, Jessica Taylor Bellamy creates richly layered works that blend painting, video, and text to reflect on ecology, identity, and the body in motion.
Born in 1992 in Whittier, California, Bellamy lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work is deeply inspired by the city’s landscape, where nature and urban life collide in a fragile equilibrium shaped by climate change and cultural transformation.Through bold, semi-figurative compositions, Bellamy explores how the body—often her own—interacts with machines, media, and memory. She frequently incorporates elements like sunsets, flowers, fences, or industrial materials, creating surreal visual narratives infused with irony, vulnerability, and strength.Her practice often reflects on car culture and construction tools, reinterpreting these masculine-coded spaces with a distinctly feminist sensibility.
Her recent work has been exhibited at respected institutions and galleries including GRIMM (New York), UTA Artist Space (Los Angeles), Charlie JamesGallery (Los Angeles), Make Room (Los Angeles), Lyles and King (New York), andAnat Ebgi (Los Angeles/New York). She holds an MFA from the Roski School ofArt at USC and is a recipient of the LACE Lighting Fund and the ‘In the Paint’ artist grant from the Los Angeles Lakers.
