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.
Born into one of China's oldest ethnic minority communities in the mountains of southwestern China, she grew up making before speaking - in a tradition of bronze drums, hand-woven brocade, and ancestral image-making that preceded written language. Her great-grandfather was a Taoist priest. The principle of Wúwéi 無為 was household instruction.
She studied arts, anthropology, sociology, and business at the University of Sydney. Through her own practice she has worked across ecological technology, institutional strategy, and commercial advisory - with clients including Sotheby's Realty and John Spencer, NASA award-winning architect of the International Space Station. Her agricultural technology company received support from IBM.
She co-founded Post-American Fine Arts with Bobby Jesus in 2021. The program exists for artists who have been working longer than they have been recognised. 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.