JB Firestone
new commissions, queer practice, institutional critique

Recent Exhibitions
2022-2025
  1. Clocking In, Clocking Out
  2. (erotics, e-bikes, ecstatics)
  3. The Backend
    (laws, logic, a lack thereof)
  4. Nesting
  5. (worldbuilding and wonder)
  6. Nothing Under Heaven
  7. (grief, god, and Andy Warhol)
  8. Dancing on Axes and Spears
  9. (violence and veneration)
  10. Case Studies
  11. (a series of solo shows)

Writing 
2019-2025
  1. Baron Books

Select Exhibitions
2014 - 2021

  1. Earth In Peril
  2. (queer visions of the American West)
  3. Eco-Urgency
  4. (its now or never)




Performances
2019-2025
  1. Horizon Lies 

Mark





Beyond Sight, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
This ongoing series of conversations between exhibiting artists and Assistant Curator Jesse Firestone provides an opportunity to learn more about an artist’s creative process and the themes within their work through non-visual ways of experiencing art.
Beyond Sight: Eco-Urgency (2021)
Beyond Sight: Shadow of the Sun (2021)
Beyond Sight: Emilie Gossiaux (2021)

Meet the Artist, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York 
This ongoing series of conversations between exhibiting artists and the curatorial team at Wave Hill provides an opportunity for Wave Hill visitors, the artist’s community, and other groups to learn more about an artist’s creative process and themes within their work.
Meet the Artist: Jake Brush (2021)

In Conversation with Tahir Carl Karmali, Harvard University’s Center for African Studies, Cambridge, Massachusets (2019)

Panel Discussion on Artist Opportunities, BRIC, Brooklyn, New York (2019)