Josué Bessiake

Josué Bessiake is an Ivorian-American painter working across media,

Bessiake uses multiple discplines to explore the ingredients of a phenomenon using the body as the origin. Influenced by his experience as a first generation immigrant his work reflects his desire to connect himself to his environment. In a process involving reassembly, experimentation, and collection, Bessiake’s work is a collision between practicality and abstraction making references to scale, memory. and collective consciousness.

Bessiake has presented work at the National Gallery of the Bahamas, Chautauqua School of Visual Arts, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Recent Exhibitions include exhibits at The University of Texas: Edinburgh; Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA; and the University of the Bahamas. Bessiake is a recipient of the William and Ruth Fusco Prize to Encourage Artistic Achievement from Montserrat College of Art and a finalist for the AXA Art Prize at the New York Academy of Art.