Jessica Posner

Biography

Jess Posner (AKA Jessica Posner) is a queer feminist multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator and energy worker. Through her work, Posner models resilience and radical vulnerability as a means for healing the self, body and spirit.

Posner’s experimental performances, films, videos, sculptures, texts and social events intertwine and illuminate connections between theory, practice, formal technique and the social. Her work gently weaponizes the slippery, transformative poetics of femininity, queerness and joy towards an embodied personal, political, material and spiritual liberation.

Currently based in Syracuse, New York, Posner teaches courses in art and writing; organizes a bi-monthly inclusive women’s event at a queer bar; and curates the biannual FEELINGS: A Feminist Art Film and Video Festival. She is the founder of Queerantine.net, a weekly internet dance party that ran during March, April and May during the first several months of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Her work is performed and presented in museums, galleries, artist-run spaces, universities, fields, bars and online. She is a Reiki II practitioner and a certified 200-hour yoga teacher.

Education

• M.F.A., The New School, Parsons School of Design
• B.S., Syracuse University

Areas of Expertise

Contemporary art, performance art, queer theory, queer art, feminism, video art, public programming, movement