Josue Bessiake is an Ivorian-American painter working across media.

Bessiake employs multiple disciplines to investigate the ingredients of a phenomenon. Influenced by his

experience as a second-generation immigrant and itinerant upbringing, his work reflects his desire to connect

with his environment. In a process involving repurposed material, disassembly, and repair. Bessiake’s work is a

collision between the known and unknown, using the formal concerns of painting to fabricate forms with paint,

wooden supports, or found objects, making references to scale, memory. and collective consciousness,

Josue Bessiake has presented work at the National Gallery of the Bahamas (Nassau, Bahamas), the Ballinglen

Museum of Arts (New Mayo, Ireland), and the Charles Wright Museum (Detroit, Michigan). Recent Exhibitions

include exhibits at The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, New York Academy of Art, and The Institute for

Public Architecture on Governor’s Island, NY. Bessiake was a recent finalist for the AXA Art Prize at the New

York Academy of Art and a grant recipient from the Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation.