About Jessalyn Finch
Jessalyn Finch is a conceptual artist and installation architect exploring the body as site, symbol, and story. Working across large-scale drawing, tactile sculpture, and performance, she designs immersive environments that challenge viewers to renegotiate their physical and emotional relationship to the human form. Her work often occupies the space between visual art and spatial experience, blurring the line between object, participant, and environment.
Trained in printmaking, drawing, and Eastern philosophy, Finch holds a B.S. in Fine Art and an M.S. in Project Management. A near-death experience propelled her to a fully committed creative career in 2018, first exhibiting in 2020 with themes of embodiment, community, and presence. As a Mayo Clinic-certified yoga instructor, her practice integrates mindfulness and somatics into the visual realm, creating spaces for reflection, movement, and sensory dialogue. Her self-taught sculptural installations, constructed from cardboard, function as temporary architectures: interactive monuments to the body’s shifting narrative.
In recent years, Finch has collaborated with dancers, fashion designers, and sound artists to produce interdisciplinary exhibitions and performances. She completed a residency at NE Sculpture | Gallery Factory in 2024, and debuted work in 2025 at Slip Gallery (Seattle, WA), Bloomington Center for the Arts (Bloomington, MN), Calendula Gallery (St. Paul, MN), and Threshold Arts (Rochester, MN). Positioned at the intersection of fine art, storytelling, and installation architecture, Finch is building a legacy that invites collectors, institutions, and collaborators into deeper, embodied conversations about the meaning and mythology of the human form.
Education
2013-2015.......Masters of Science in Project Management | Walden University
2007-2012.......Bachelors of Science in Fine Arts/Eastern Philosophy | University of Wisconsin- La Crosse
2016……200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training | Mayo Clinic Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center
2016-2017….. First & Second Degree Reiki Training | Reiki Usu Shirt Ryoho Tradition
Grants/Residencies
2024…Visiting Artist | Fishbowl Studios and Gallery | Seattle, WA
2024…CollexArt Art on Paper Artist Profile Award | CollexArt Online Gallery
2024…Artist Intern Fellow | NE Sculpture Gallery | Minneapolis, MN
2020-2021...Artist in Residence | Threshold Arts | Rochester, MN
2018-2020...Emerging Artist Grant | Southeastern Minnesota Art Council | Shadow Form: The Human Body's Secret Life
2011…International Undergraduate Research Grant | University of Wisconsin- La Crosse |Primitivism
2010...International Undergraduate Research Grant | University of Wisconsin- La Crosse | The Blending of Art and Science
Exhibition History
June 6-July 20, 2025…Solo Show | Through the Mirror, Through the Mind | Calendula Gallery, St. Paul, MN
May 17, 2025…Dance Performance | “Reconstructing the Self, Figure in Motion | Artistry Bloomington Center for the Arts, Bloomington, MN
May 8, 2025…Mental Health Artist Panel | “Making Space”| Historic Chateau Theatre, Rochester, MN
April 26-July 27, 2025…Group Show | “Trust the Hours” | Historic Chateau Theatre, Rochester, MN
April 4-July 27, 2025…Solo Show | “Living in the Disconnect” | Threshold Arts, Rochester, MN
March 4-May 18, 2025…Solo Show | “Reconstructing the Self” | Artistry Bloomington Center for the Arts, Bloomington, MN
January 10-February 1, 2025…Group Show | “Echoes Within” | Slip Gallery, Seattle, WA
November-December, 2024…Group Show | “Extremely Minnesota 2024” | Robbin Gallery, Robinsdale, MN
October 1-31, 2024…Group Show | “Liminal Spaces” | Fishbowl Studios & Gallery, Seattle, WA
June 7-9, 2024…Group Show | “Tangible Hallucinations” | NE Sculpture Gallery Factory, Minneapolis, MN
March 2-30, 2024…Solo Show | “Pop-Up Rochester” | 115 N. Broadway, Rochester, MN
May 1-June 25, 2023…Solo Show | “Paper Doll” | 125 Live, Rochester MN
April 20, 2023…Group Show | “Little Shop of Horrors” | Studs, Struts, and Stilettos | Mayo Civic Center, Rochester, MN.. Awarded “Best Interpretation of Theme”
January 5-February 5, 2023…Group Show | “Woman in Screen” | Smallart Gallery | Rochester, MN
October 22, 2022...Group Show | "Meditations" | Art Attack | The Historic Chateau Theatre, Rochester, MN
October 20-27, 2022...Solo Show | "Oracles of EVEN Hotel" | EVEN Hotel, Rochester, MN
September 2022 -January 2023...Group Show | "Distraction" | Rochester Looking at Climate Change | Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
August 25, 2022...Solo Show | "Heron's Hunt" | Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
August 19-27, 2022...Solo Show | "Shadow Form: The Human Body's Secret Life | The Historic Chateau Theatre, Rochester, MN
October 2021...Group Show | "Salem Witch Trials" | Studs, Struts, and Stilettos | Mayo Civic Center, Rochester, MN
August 19 2021...Group Show | "Mutations" | I Made This, A Fashion Show | Artheads, Rochester, MN
June 12 2021 …Solo Show | "Maskquerade" Art for Neighbors | Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
January- March 2020...Solo Show | "Shadow Form: the Human Body's Secret Life" | Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN