Jacob Rochester

b.1995, Bloomfield, CT

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Jacob Rochester is a multi-disciplinary artist passionate about exploring the evolution of culture at the turn of the 21st-century. His portraits and still lifes offer a compelling personal glimpse into the iconography that defines an era of artistic and social innovation in entertainment, fashion, and contemporary visual culture. Referencing collected photographs, magazine clippings, record covers, and the like, Rochester merges the past with the present in works that range from photorealistic to gestural in mark making.

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Jacob Rochester lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Connecticut in 2016. Some of his solo exhibitions include ‘Input/Output,’ PLATO, New York, NY (2026); ‘Deferred Reality,’ VSG Contemporary, Chicago, IL (2025); ‘Expo Chicago,’ solo presentation with Residency Art Gallery, Chicago, IL (2024); ‘Under Pressure,’ Franchise Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); and ‘Paperworks,’ Swish Gallery, San Diego, CA (2021). Rochester has participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally, including; ‘Exaltation,’ PLATO, New York (2025); ‘Men in the Off Hours,’ Central Server Works, Los Angeles, CA (2025); ‘The Garage,’ Toxic Arts Gallery, London, England (2025); ‘Two Thousand and Two,’ Anthony Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2025); ‘Rendezvous,’ Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024); ‘Cruising,’ Alabaster Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2024); ‘Feast Your Eyes,’ VSG Contemporary, Chicago, IL (2024); ‘Amor Tuyo,’ Tlaloc Studios, Los Angeles, CA (2024); ‘Time of Our Lives,’ Anthony Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2024); ‘Love Letters to LA,’ Hypeart, Los Angeles, CA (2024); ‘Fracture to Flourish,’ VSG Contemporary, Chicago, IL (2024); ‘Sole Perspectives,’ Nike, Miami, FL (2023); ‘Art Paris Fair,’ Galerie Marguo, Paris, France (2023); ‘Surface Area Gallery,’ Surface Magazine, Miami, FL (2023); ‘Juntos,’ Tlaloc Studios, Los Angeles, CA (2022); ‘Shattered Glass,’ Jeffrey Deitch, Miami, FL (2021); and ‘Unite Through Culture,’ Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL (2019).

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Rochester has collaborated as an illustrator with such companies and music artists as Apple, Aime Leon Dore, Citizen, Converse, Fear of God, Kendrick Lamar, NBA, Nike, New Balance, Playboy, Sabrina Carpenter, Spotify, Stone Island, Street Dreams, Supreme NY, and Tupac Estate, among many others.

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