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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 1993 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His work has recently been included in exhibitions at Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, Washington; El Rincón Social and Box 13 ArtSpace in Houston, Texas; Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois; Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland; the Festival de Arte Lanzarote in Lanzarote, Spain; and the Pingyao International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China. His photographs have been featured in publications by Soft Lightning, Plataforma Minima, Photographer’s Forum, and CNN Style. He received his BA from Millersville University of Pennsylvania in 2016 and recently completed his MFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design. Website: www.jesseegner.com; Instagram: @JesseEgner