Jessie Stevenson (b. 1993, Norwich, UK) is a London based artist. She graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Fine Art in 2017 and completed her MFA in Painting at the Slade in 2022, for which she received The Bartolomeu dos Santos Award. She was the Honorary Research Fellow to the Slade Material Research Project 2023–2025.
Stevenson’s immersive abstract paintings are inspired by nature, personal experience, and materiality, evoking a deep sense of nostalgia and escapism. Her expansive approach to painting incorporates writing, drawing, and animation, often finding associations that span time and place: ancient history and Romantic poetry, geographical hinterlands and urban dynamics. Together, these elements offer a visual palimpsest of memories. Adaptable, unfixed, and ephemeral, the canvas becomes a wilderness of its own; a shifting painterly landscape where marks, pigments, and words gather into poetic visions evoking a deep sense of nostalgia and escapism.
Solo exhibitions include; (Upcoming) Charlotte Call Gallery, Los Angeles (2026); ‘From Hiding Places Ten Years Deep’ at Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London (2024); ‘The Circling Deeps’ at Sapling Gallery in London (2023); ‘Broken Gleam’ at Berntson Bhattacharjee in Sweden (2022); ‘Way Out East’ at Sapling Gallery in London (2021). Art fairs include; Untitled Art, Miami Beach, solo booth, with Berntson Bhattacharjee in Miami, US (2025); Art Brussels Fair, duo booth, with Berntson Bhattacharjee in Belgium (2025); and Market Art Fair, solo booth, with Berntson Bhattacharjee in Stockholm (2024). Group exhibitions include; Art of Wishes, Auction, Phillips, London (2025); ‘Build it, Beat it’, GOSH Auction, Christies, London (2025); ‘Medium Rare’ at Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London (2025); ‘Ithaca’ at Herald St Gallery in London (2023-24); ‘Babele’ at Spazio Musa in Turin (2023); ‘The Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Charity Auction’ at Phillips in London (2023); ‘Dreaming in Colour’ at Bonhams in London (2022); ‘ The Pump House ’ at Berntson Bhattacharjee in London (2022); ‘Stäying Alive’ at Berntson Bhattacharjee in Sweden (2021). Stevenson was awarded the Cass Art Prize in 2017 and was the recipient of the 2021 Col Art Residency in London. In November 2022, she completed her residency as part of The Richard Ford Award at The Prado Museum, Madrid.