Yessica Gispert

Yessica Gispert’s work engages with materials in various states of transformation—wax, resin, metal, photo chemistry—to articulate a language of memory, ritual, and embodied knowledge. Rooted in the syncretic spiritual practices of her Cuban heritage and shaped by diasporic experiences across the Americas, her work seeks to give material form to the uncertain and contingent, drawing viewers toward a threshold between what is seen and what is otherwise sensed. Susurro, a whisper, brings together new works, pieces created over the past five years, and selected objects from the Frost Art Museum’s collection, reactivating and extending conversations she has been shaping throughout this time around shared histories of migration, ecology, and resilience. 

Jessica (Yessica) Gispert is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami. She earned an MFA from NYU Steinhardt in 2012 and a postgraduate degree in Media Art from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2020. She is currently a Visiting Associate Professor in Photography at Florida International University. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions such as MoMA PS1, Ringling Museum of Art, Museum Abteiberg, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Bonner Kunstverein, A.I.R Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and in her hometown at Tunnel Projects Miami (2024) & Emerson Dorsch Gallery (2023).  

She has received Art in Public Places commissions and awards such as three Miami Individual Artist Grants, an Ellies Creator Award and the Coral & Cathers Award. Gispert is currently an artist in residence at The Deering Estate in Miami, FL.