About

Jess Fijalkovich (b. 1990) is an artist, archivist, and curator based in Akron, OH.

Jess Fijalkovich (b. 1990) is a visual artist, curator, and archivist based in Akron. She merges and expands upon these practices through memory work, like detective work and archaeology, working backward, searching for clues, unraveling signs and traces, making meaning, and piecing together reconstructions out of the fragments of evidence. Her work centers queer and feminist perspectives and attempts to connect the dots in the shifting constellation of identity, collective memory, and material culture.

Fijalkovich has curated exhibitions at the Cleveland Print Room and an art lending collection at the Akron Art Museum. She has also held positions at the Cleveland Museum of Art and FRONT International. She has been an artist in residence at the Sable Project (Stockbridge, VT) and the Winslow House Project (Vallejo, CA). Her work has been in exhibitions at Bass & Reiner (San Francisco, CA), the Carnegie Museum of Art for the inaugural Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (Pittsburgh, PA), Cleveland Print Room (Cleveland, OH), and Troppus Projects (Kent, OH).

 

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