Jesse Bercowetz was raised in a box in the woods of Western Kentucky. He graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a 2009 Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He was recently awarded his second Jerome Fellowship. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Teme Celeste, The New Yorker, and Art Forum. Selected exhibition venues include: The Brooklyn Museum, NY, The Drawing Center, NY, White Columns, NY, PS1 / MoMA, NY, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, Art Basel and Derek Eller Gallery, NY. He recently presented a new large-scale sculpture in the exhibition Next Wave At The Brooklyn Academy of Music, curated by Dan Cameron. There will be exhibitions of his collaborative work at The Headlands Center for Art, Saulsalito, CA and Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA in 2009. Bercowetz lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.