Jess Saldana

Jess Saldaña (they/them) is an nb/chicane artist, activist, and psychoanalyst in training currently working as the Visual & Multimedia Resources Manager at the Pratt Institute Libraries. They have published fiction and nonfiction on platforms like Hyperallergic and the Brooklyn Rail, and have shown/spoken at the New Museum and Tisch NYU. Teaching, facilitating, and creative work engage with studies of disability justice, racial capitalism, ecology, and queer aesthetics. They have a longstanding interest in the protean nature of identity, perception, and environment.

MFA Parsons School of Design, Fine Art, with Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies from The New School for Social Research

MA Tisch NYU, Performance Studies, Department Fellowship Recipient

BA Columbia College of Chicago, Music Composition with Theatre Minor

Review of Julio Torres’s Problemista in the Brooklyn Rail

Curator of Pratt Faculty and Staff Exhibition Undoing the Border Fantasy