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.
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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, New York and Sydney, through annual exhibitions, studio visits, and a sustained presence inside the practices he believed in.
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. Along the way, gallerists Robbie Fitzpatrick, Cornelia Grassi, and Drew Hammond.
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.
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Ting Feng 冯婷
Ting Feng 冯婷 is co-founder and curator of Post-American Fine Arts.
Her curatorial practice identifies artists whose work operates from cultural specificity rather than market positioning. This approach emerged from her training in anthropology and sociology - disciplines that teach how meaning is constructed through systems, not individual expression. She applies this framework to her selection of practitioners: artists whose investigations address urgent questions within their own communities, regardless of institutional visibility.
She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney and studied Business at UTS. Her professional background includes agricultural technology development and strategic advisory (IBM backed projects). She was raised in southwestern China within an ethnic minority community, an experience that shaped her understanding of how knowledge systems persist and evolve outside institutional frameworks.
She co-founded Post-American Fine Arts with Bobby Jesus in 2021. Her curatorial roster - Mike Hewson, Eric Wesley, Jason Meadows, Oscar Tuazon - consists of mid-career and established practitioners whose investigations address real cultural or ecological questions. Rather than treating these artists as market commodities, Post-American Fine Arts positions itself as a research-intensive platform, spending extended time in artist studios and communities to understand the conditions that produced the work.
Ting leads strategy, curation and artist development across Los Angeles, Sydney, Basel, and China (Shanghai, Nanning, Daxin).