Bio

Jessica Dieguez is an artist and writer. Her poetry has been featured or is forthcoming in The Submission Magazine, Planting Seeds Press, and Guernica Magazine. She is recognized in several cities including Manhattan, Jersey City, and Philadelphia for her part in the underground art scene, where she has exhibited at Trolly Car (New Jersey), Artists and Industrial Spaces Recording Studio (New Jersey), Suburbia (New York), Gia Café (New York), among others. Her artwork has been exhibited at Hatchet Job, a Brooklyn born event that features both poetry and installations from artists within the growing Bushwick creative community and abroad. She has been commissioned as a muralist by private institutions to paint on-site large-scale original art, with an upcoming project at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City later this year.

Originally from Long Island, Jessica currently works out of her studio in Brooklyn. She considers herself largely self-taught as a visual artist, though she holds a bachelor of arts from the State University of New York at Purchase in creative writing (with a focus on poetry) and minors in sculpture and printmaking. Though she is a serial student with an affinity for learning, she also is hands-on and has trouble sitting still. She opted out of graduate school to pursue her second love: a career in cutting hair, which she has been doing alongside painting since mid-2010.