Jessie Fleury is a working artist residing in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She graduated from Lesley
University College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA where she received her MFA in Visual Art. She received her
BFA in Drawing with a minor in printmaking from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI where she
was also a Studio Excellence Award winner. Her current body of work entitled Traces employs her own body as mark
maker to engage with questions of ambiguity, abjection and identity.