Jo Fish

Born in 1996 in Michigan, Jo Fish now lives and works in New York City. Her work focuses on the legacy of art history while embracing contemporary methods, investigating how our relationship with technology both fragments and reconstructs our understanding of painting. The resulting works feature contorted figures, emphasizing the discrepancies between the imperfect human form and the precision of technology. Fish incorporates elements from early digital aesthetics and transforms them into textures, mark-making and brushstrokes derived from the visual language of software. These references serve not merely as aesthetic choices, but as artifacts. Her process involves a unique synthesis of traditional painting techniques and contemporary technological tools. Through in-depth philosophical exchanges with artificial intelligence and the manipulation of digital imaging software, Fish creates compositions that challenge the boundaries between the organic and the synthetic. Through this tension, she seeks to create works that reflect on our current moment of cultural acceleration while remaining grounded in the tactile, material tradition of painting, always in dialogue with the rich history that precedes us.

Jo Fish has shown her work internationally in places such as China, Switzerland, France, Argentina, New York City and Miami, Florida in the U.S. to name a few. Additionally, Jo has been an artist in residence with the R.A.R.O. International Artist Residency Program, the New York Arts Practicum Program and the New York Trestle Artist Residency Program.

Submitted by Ketabi Bourdet