Jo Fish, born in Michigan, United States in 1996. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2019 with a major in Urban Design. She lives and works in New York.
Jo Fish artistic practices mixes painting, collage and drawing to develop an artistic language between figuration and semi-abstraction where the human body often takes center relevance, accompanied by details of the mundane, a sandal, a phone, food, or furniture. Drawing from her past as an athlete and echoing the unique way in which De Kooning portrays human movement and action in his compositions, Jo Fish’s interest for the body and its form and movements manifests in her work.
On the canvas, the body is disassembled, contorted, patched together and stretched obsessively into impossible gestures. Once a physical reality that controlled the life of the artist, the body becomes now an object that can be controlled. Jo Fish’s juxtaposed elements are deployed on the canvas with subtle perspective changes reminiscent of cubism and color-blocked backgrounds that bring forth a surrealist quality to her compositions.
She participated in the R.A.R.O. International Artist Residency Program, the New York Arts Practicum Program and the New York Trestle Artist Residency Program. Her works were exhibited at Ketabi Bourdet Gallery in Paris, Whitdel Arts Gallery in Detroit, and at the Wassenberg Art Center in Ohio.