Jay Michelle Elizondo’s work seduces viewers into intimate confrontations with her trans body. She was born in Columbus, OH. in 1996. She received an MFA from School of Visual Arts in 2020 and a BFA from Columbus College of Art & Design in 2018. Elizondo’s work has been featured in exhibitions including Best Cult at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Idol Worship at Smack Mellon and Artist in Focus at Baxter St. in New York, NY, Satellite Art Fair in Miami, FL. and her solo exhibition preMATURE at Byers Gallery in Columbus, OH. Her curatorial projects include (UN)FIXED at SoMad in New York, NY, You Remember How Lonely Everything Was in The Beginning at Please Don’t Come to This Show and Talented, Brilliant, Incredible, Amazing, Showstopping, Spectacular, Never The Same, Totally Unique, Completely Not Ever Been Done Before, Unafraid To Reference Or Not Reference, Put It In A Blender, Shit On It, Vomit On It, Eat It, Give Birth To It at SVA Chelsea Gallery in New York, NY. She was a resident artist at The Chautauqua School of Art Residency in Chautauqua, NY. in 2020 and at The New York Studio Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY in 2016. Elizondo’s work was featured in Smack Mellon’s 2022-2023 Hot Picks, following her feature the year before. She is a recipient of The 2020 Edward Zutrau Memorial Award, The Jeff F Hilson Memorial Fund, The Edith Smilack Fund and a nominee of the 2018 Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts. Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Daily Lazy, Sidewalkkilla, Front Runner Magazine, Nobody’s Fashion Week Zine “Issue 1”, That Way Zine “Issue 1” and Hiss Mag “Issue 3”. Elizondo lives and works in New York.
