Post-American Fine Arts

Post-American Fine Arts is a gallery with a permanent space in Sydney and operations in Los Angeles, with annual programs in Basel and Shanghai. The name is a curatorial position. The program is built on long-term commitments to artists whose practices are rooted in sustained inquiry - work that carries weight before it carries explanation.

  • Bobby Jesus

    Bobby Jesus is co-founder and curator of Post-American Fine Arts.

    A Los Angeles native of Mexican and Native American heritage, he has been working directly with artists since 2013. Under the name Bobby Jesus and Consultants, he spent a decade building sustained relationships with institutional and mid-career practices across Los Angeles and New York, presenting work outside traditional gallery structures before the structures were ready for it. His formation occurred through direct artist engagement and sustained mentorship from gallerists Robbie Fitzpatrick, Cornelia Grassi, and Drew Hammond.

    The depth of those relationships is documented in the permanent collections of three major American institutions. Bobby Jesus's Alma Mater b/w Reading the Book of David and/or Paying Attention Is Free (Frances Stark, 2013), first exhibited at the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

    His exhibitions include group presentations of Frances Stark, Henry Taylor, Sharon Lockhart, Silke Otto-Knapp, Jason Meadows, and Eric Wesley; curatorial involvement in UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015 at the Hammer Museum, which traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Language: Art for Leonard Peltier, which led directly to Oscar Tuazon's founding of LAWS (Los Angeles Water School). His presentations at Art Los Angeles Contemporary and Other Places Art Fair were documented in Artforum.

    His curatorial vision is built on a single conviction: that the most important work is made before the market arrives. He is drawn to artists whose practices are rooted in sustained inquiry, material intelligence, and cultural necessity - work that carries weight before it carries explanation.

    He does not discover artists. He stays with them.

  • Ting Feng 冯婷

    Ting Feng 冯婷 is co-founder and curator of Post-American Fine Arts.

    She learned art before she learned Mandarin. Born into one of China's oldest ethnic minority communities in the mountains of southwestern China, on the border with Vietnam, she was raised in a tradition where image-making preceded formal language. Bronze drums marked ceremony and harvest. Her great-grandfather was a Taoist priest who maintained spiritual practice through the Mao revolution. The principle of Wúwéi 無為 was not philosophy. It was household instruction.

    In 2009 she traveled independently across every state in Egypt - the desert, the people, the sustained pigment on the ceilings of the Valley of the Kings and Queens. That practice of looking has never stopped. She maintains an independent body of work.

    She studied arts, anthropology, sociology, and business at the University of Sydney. She founded an agricultural technology company in 2017 motivated by ecological concern and the condition of farming communities from rural Australia to Panama, receiving support from IBM. Her strategic consultancy has worked with institutional and commercial clients including Sotheby's Realty and John Spencer, the NASA award-winning space architect behind the International Space Station, with operations in Sydney and Los Angeles.

    She met Bobby Jesus in Los Angeles in 2018. Studio visits followed. She later co-founded Post-American Fine Arts. The program exists for artists who have been working longer than they have been recognised.

    Her curatorial eye is drawn to practices shaped by sustained inquiry, ecology, and spirituality - work made from conviction before the market arrives. Her curatorial relationships include Mike Hewson, Eric Wesley, and Brochevski (Amai Rawls Jr.).

    At Post-American Fine Arts, Ting leads strategy, curatorial vision, and artist development across Los Angeles, Sydney, Basel, and Shanghai