b. 1984, Sebastopol, CA
lives and works in Queens, NY

Selected Exhibitions

2024
Trading Cards 2, with 23 other artists, curated by Watercolour Society, Field of Play Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Vagabond Shoes, with Lauren Clay, Lauren Comito, Nicholas Moenich, Lucas Moran, Opal Mae Ong, Eun-Ha Paek, Peter Park, and Zuriel Waters, McBride Contemporain, Montréal, QB
Second Nature, Hyacinth Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

2023
Beautiful Night, with Karen Azoulay, Adler Guerrier, John Lehr, Reiner Leist, Daminico Lynch, Jasmine Murrell, Beuford Smith, and Jenna Westra, curated by Jude Broughan, Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Fine Materiality, with Whit Harris and Alison Kudlow, Peninsula Gallery, New York, NY
Beautiful Night, with Karen Azoulay, Adler Guerrier, John Lehr, Reiner Leist, Daminico Lynch, Jasmine Murrell, Beuford Smith, and Jenna Westra, curated by Jude Broughan, Studio Archive Project, New York, NY
Library, with 135 artists, curated by Glenn Goldberg, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY

2022
America Now, with Jake Brush, April Childers, Ben Cowan, Nick De Pirro, Zack Federbush, Alicia Gibson, Marisa Herrman, John Hinckley Jr., Judi Keeshan, Madison Lewis, Fernando Pintado, and Gil Riley, curated by Nicholas Cueva, 185 Varick St., New York, NY

2021
That Surface in Which We Are, with Greg Carideo, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, and Chris Domenick, The Catskills, New York, NY
Studio Jamz III, with Caitlin Berndt, Tess Bilhartz, Eli Bornowsky, Sam Branden, Ricardo Cabret, Jaqueline Cedar, Kat Chamberlin, Paul Corio, Christopher Dunlap, Jeff Fichera, Paul Gagner, Glenn Goldberg, John Greiner, Meredith Iszlai, Elizabeth Livingston, Daniel Mantilla, Björn Meyer-Ebrecht, Nora Maité Nieves, Jeremy Olson, Livia Ortiz, André Marcel Pagán, Camille Rouzaud, Tom Sanford, Peter Schenck, Maria Stabio, Kelli Thompson, Richard Tinkler, Jonathan Torres, Rob Ventura, Chuck Webster, and Tim Wilson, curated by Jeff Fichera, Fernando Pintado, and Peter Schenck, 46-55 Metropolitan Ave, 3rd Floor, Queens, NY

2020
Showfields x Nicholas Cueva, with Zoe Brice, Kat Chamberlin, Georgia Elrod, Priscilla Fusco, Jesse Greenberg, Robin Kang, Liz Nielsen, Gil Riley, Lily Rosen, Kathryn Shriver, Elisa Soliven, and Amanda Turner Pohan, curated by Nicholas Cueva, Showfields, New York, NY
The Fungus and the Future, with Yura Adams, Antonia Dias Leite, Daniel Fernandes, Ghost of a Dream, Sylwia Gorak, Catarina Lopes Vicente, Rachel Rampleman, and Jill Sigman, 601 Artspace, New York, NY

2019
Shows in Spaces #11, with Florencia Escudero, Ryan Michael Ford, Ritual Howls, Ryan Frank, Nicholas Norris, IrisEyris / Nicole Pivirotto, Michael Sims, Kazue Taguchi, and Martijn in ‘t Veld, curated by Brent Birnbaum, 311 Beach 73rd Street, Arverne, NY 
Viel Feind, viel Ehr, with Jerry Blackman, Lutz Braun, Andreas Bunte, Andrew Guenther, Stef Heidhues, John Hodany, Jeroen Jacobs, Valentin Just, Michael Kirkham, Johnny Mullen, Hester Oerlemans, Mike Olin, Thomas Schroeren, Marike Schuurman, Gibb Slife, Raaf van der Sman, Heidi Specker, Barbara Westermann, and Anton Zolotov, curated by Johnny Mullen and Raaf van der Sman, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

2018
Graces, with Amanda Baldwin and Georgia Elrod, curated by Nicholas Cueva, 5-50 Gallery, Queens, NY
Skip/Salvage, with Fannie Allié, Vincent Dermody, Jason Douglas Griffin, Jack Henry, Timothy Mitchell, August Krogan Roley, and Alex Valls, curated by Audree Anid and Rachel Tretter, RATA Projects, New York, NY
Upstairs Art Fair, with Nikki Katsikas, Katherine Mangiardi, Matthias Merkel Hess, and Sophia Narrett, yours mine & ours, Amagansett, NY
BEER, SODA, CIGARETTES, AND LAMPSHADES, with Stephen Eakin, Paul Gagner, Heather Garland, Karen Lederer, Hilary Pecis, Polly Schindler, Jennifer Sullivan, and Heeseop Yoon, curated by Jessica Cannon, farbywide.com
Layers, with Aglaé Bassens, Alice Browne, and Stephanie Temma Hier, curated by Ian Giles, Global Committee, Brooklyn, NY

2017
Uneven Stones, with Andrew Gayle and Jason Kachadourian, curated by Amanda Turner Pohan, TWOFORTY, Brooklyn, NY
Savage Hotel, with Abelardo Cruz Santiago, Jeffrey Dalessandro, Annabel Daou, Olivia Divecchia, Rachel Granofsky, and Matthew Whitenack, curated by Alexander Handler and Paul Pissarro, 56 Bogart Street 3C, Brooklyn, NY
King of the Cockroaches, with Becky Brown, Daniel Lichtman, and Bill Santen, organized by Becky Brown, Hercules Project Space, New York, NY
Archipelago, with Ernesto Burgos, Robin Cameron, Kiran Chandra, David de Tscharner, Andrew Erdos, and Mariana Garibay Raeke, curated by Clara Darrason and Jennifer Houdrouge, The Chimney NYC, Brooklyn, NY
A Little Air, with Kyath Battie, Alysha Farling, Jeremy Gordaneer, Zoe Kreye, Peter Morin, and Caleb Speller, Divided Space, Young Building, Camosun College, Victoria, BC
King of the Cockroaches, with Becky Brown, Martha Clippinger, Rachel Goodwin, Daniel Lichtman, and Bill Santen, organized by Becky Brown, Guest Room Project Space, Carrboro, NC

2016
It's in the making (with exhibition catalog), with Cedric Bomford, Jim Bomford, Nathan Bomford, Nicholas Galanin, Shelley Penfold, and Angela Teng, curated by Haema Sivanesan and Nicole Stanbridge, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
Representing Rainbows, with Olivia Booth, Katherine Bradford, G. Davis Cathcart, Tim Davis, Annie Ewaskio, Anoka Faruquee, Barbara Friedman, Elliott Green, Joanne Greenbaum, Stefanie Gutheil, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Julie Heffernan, Laurie Hogan, Lisa Hoke, David Humphrey, Jon Kessler & Mika Rottenberg, Todd Knopke, Siobhan McBride, James Rieck, Ugo Rondinone, Michelle Rosenberg, Lisa Sanditz, Judith Simonian, Elena Sisto, Shinique Smith, Barbara Takenaga, Robin Tewes, Jonathan Tracy, Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda, Leslie Wayne, and Jeremy Willis, curated by Lisa Corinne Davis, GP Presents, New York, NY
Baker's Dozen, with Michael Badour, Michael Bailey-Gates, Adam Basanta, Lorna Bauer, Carly Mark, Jenine Marsh, Kristie Muller, Walter Scott, Matt Sperdakos, The Loon, VSVSVS, and Lillian Paige Walton, curated by CK2, New York, NY
Fine words butter no parsnips however fine parsnips can butter words, with Mauricio Alejo, Octavio Abundez, Rachelle Bussieres, Reiko Hamano, Dave Hardy, Julio César Morales, José Luis Córtes Santander, Abelardo Cruz-Santiago, Birgit Rathsmann, Gabriel Rico, Keith Allyn Spencer, Theresa Sterner, Zach Trow, and Letha Wilson, co-organized by Alejandro Almanza Pereda and Present Company, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY

2015
Soft Slice Corral, with Audrey Hope, Goodnight Projects, San Francisco, CA (duo)
Receptive Fields, with Farrell Brickhouse, Ariel Dill, Sarah Faux, and Clint Jukkala, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
25: Multiples Toward a Past and Future, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC
Underdonk and Friends, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY

2014
The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, an exhibition-specific multi-artist web project Deux Faces organized by Parallelograms, Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, France
Regolith, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC (solo)
Recollections of the Artist: A Portrait of Collage, curated by Gart Darley, Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC
Underdonk Selects, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Synthetic Zero, curated by Mitsu Hadeishi, BronxArtSpace, New York, NY
Conveyor Melt, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

2013
All of the Above, curated by Keena Gonzalez and Michael Berube, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, NY
Opening Show, curated by Jule Korneffel and Alfons Knogl, Zusi Graham, Cologne, Germany
Split Me Open with Devotion, with Jenna Westra, Johanna Jaeger, and Sophie Grant, Little V, New York, NY
The Amateur Astronomers Society of Voorhees Salon, curated by Emmy Catedral, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

2012
Can't Stop Rock Lobster, curated by Merkx & Gwynne, Shoot the Lobster, New York, NY

2010
Transparent Trophies, with Jonathan Tracy, 4707 Telegraph, Oakland, CA (duo)
Multi-Occulti, curated by Kara Joslyn, 4707 Telegraph, Oakland, CA
Southern Exposure's 10th Annual Monster Drawing Rally, Verdi Club, San Francisco, CA
Division of Labour, with Jonathan Tracy, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC (duo)

2009
Lost Wisdom, Bruce Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Conflation, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Buddy System, Rare Device Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Friends’ Fucked-Up Faces, The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC (solo)

Public Performances and Presentations

2025 Community Critique, with Nikki Mehle and Pablo Diaz, with poetry and performance by Adam Stoves and Daniel McKemie, curated by Eri King, Field of Play Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Visiting Artist Lecture, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
2018 Medium Emotions: a Reading/Viewing, with Natasha Marie Llorens, Printed Matter, New York, NY
2017 Nicholas Cueva in Conversation, with Maddie Reyna, Alex Sewell, and Zach Seeger, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Belong to You, a collaborative visual/audio piece developed and performed with Jule Korneffel, Hercules Project Space, New York, NY

Publication

2024 Bad Interface, Precog Magazine, Volume 8, pgs 140-143, New York, NY. Print.
2021 work included in Mnemosyne Atlas (2020) by Freya Powell, New York, NY. Print.
2018 Medium Emotions, 108 page monograph including text by Natasha Marie Llorens, published by Colpa Press, San Francisco, CA. Print.
2017 work included in It's in the making, 40 page catalogue published in conjunction with a museum exhibition of the same title at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, with Cedric, Nathan and Jim Bomford, Nicholas Galanin, Shelley Penfold, and Angela Teng, curated by Haema Sivanesan and Nicole Stanbridge, printed in Canada. Print.
2016 work included in Six Screenshots, Ginger Zine, Issue 3, pgs 34-37, New York, NY. Print and Web.
2015 work included in Mnemosyne Atlas (2014) by Freya Powell, New York, NY. Print.
2014 Two Places at Once, 32 page artist book in an edition of 100 self-published in New York NY. Print.
2012 Back-Ups, 85 page artist book self-published in New York, NY. Print.
2009 White Space/Time, 40 page artist book published in the series Buddy System by Little Paper Planes in San Francisco, CA. Print.
2005 The First Four Months, 50 page zine of art and writing self-published in Victoria, Canada and featured as one of the 4 best zines of Winter 2005 in Broken Pencil, Issue 27, page 21, Toronto, ON. Print.

Selected Press

2018 Ibarra, Genesis. “True art is a path best travelled alone.” The Hofstra Chronicle. October 29.
2018 Steinhauer, Emily. "Jess Willa Wheaton: helping us visualize the 'luscious' sounds of Sugar Candy Mountain." Beyond the Music. May 9.
2018 "Favorite Album Covers and the Artists Who Made Them." Beyond the Music. February 21.
2016 "Must Sees This Week." Canadian Art. Oct 27.
2015 Joy, Christopher and Zachary Keeting. "Jess Willa Wheaton" (video interview). Gorky's Granddaughter. May 4.

Education

2014 MFA in Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY
2009 BFA in Painting and Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 Certificate in Visual Arts, Camosun College, Victoria, BC

Awards/Honors/Residencies

2019 Sanskriti Foundation Residency, New Delhi, India
2016 nominee, Griffin Gallery International Residency, London, UK
2014 Camosun College Artist in Residence
2014 nominee, Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture
2013 Kossak MFA Travel Grant for independent study in Paris
2009 Richard K. Price Scholarship
2009 California College of the Arts Trustees’ Scholarship
2007-2009 California College of the Arts Scholarship
2007-2009 Faculty Honors Scholarship
2006 Camosun College International Endowment Award
2006 Jessie Allan Forsyth Memorial Award of Excellence in Art
2005 Monday Magazine Visual Arts Award
2002 California Governor's Scholar Award
2000 California Arts Scholar in Creative Writing Award