Jesse Mosher (born August 11, 1977) is an American contemporary high performance painter, poet, and film-maker based in Thizy-Les-Bourgs, France. He is known for hand-held high speed realistic portrait paintings on plywood. Previous work includes screen-printed posters, illustration, and comic books.
Jesse Bryant Mosher was born in Greenfield, MA and grew up in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, on a small family farm. His father was a mechanic and his mother a teacher. He became involved with Art in 1987, when he started making and selling comic books, and met/received advice from Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman, creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was during this period that Jesse became enamored with listening to rock n roll records, formulated his ideas of high performance painting, and imaging what it would be like to paint rock n roll. In 1995, he graduated from Amherst Regional High School, after amassing a 108-32 record in Wrestling. He attended UMass Lowell
In 2005 he moved to San Francisco.
In 2006 he deepened his involvement in synchronized Rock n Roll painting with portraits done to the beat of their music. In August 2006 he completed the now famous 3 panel painting of Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac for the Grand opening of the Beat Museum.
From 2007 to 2008, Mosher painted over 100 paintings and began to perform with Ride the Blinds, Stonar, and Kidd Cook. In October 2008 he painted his 1,000th new piece.
In 2009 and embarked on a 51 show 22 state US tour with Strangefeather and a short two Northwest tours with Guitarist Chris Jones. It was his most prolific year with 314 pieces and 157 performances.
From 2007 to 2011 he painted at hundreds of shows, with over 1,000 groups in clubs and Festivals. In 2011, he made 202 paintings and 86 performances, and met his future wife Audrey. He met CJ Ramone in Oakland CA in 2011, and then performed with him in Port Jefferson NY, Medellin and Cali in Columbia.
In 2012, he made 272 pieces and 83 performances. The Rock Loft, opened on February 5th 2012, at 471 Broadway st San Francisco[8][9][10]. Jesse Mosher made his 2,000th painting during the closing of the ROCK LOFT festival on December 18th 2012.
In 2015, he made 107 pieces and 65 performances with/ at THE DAMNED THE JABBERS, AC/DC, JOAN JETT, SHONEN KNIFE, among others and did 18 and 10 date European tours of Italy, France and Wales. He also did a 17 date Midwest-East Coast, and a 3 date California tour with CJ RAMONE.
After 5 years and 53 shows painting with CJ, the last one was on December 8, 2015 at Le Petit Bain in Paris, France.
In 2016, Jesse made 40 pieces, 22 performances in the US, and a 6 date European tour of Italy, Bosnia, Slovenia, Germany and the Czech Republic. He released the short film JESSE MOSHER EURO TOUR 2015 FIRST BLOOD, made with Paul MacKay and Outsider Productions on April 23rd 2016, at the MF Gallery Show.
In 2017, Jesse made 49 pieces and 27 performances. Italy(8), France(8), UK(5), US(4), Slovenia(2). He moved to France on January 11th 2017. His Daughter Ann Teresa Bryant Mosher was Born May 8, 2017 in Grenoble, France.
In 2018, Jesse invented and made the first 16 prototypes of the guitar easel and opened A/V STUDIOS in Fontaine (France) where he made 271 performance painting videos, showcasing the original 16 guitar easels.
In 2019 he made 42 paintings, 28 guitar easels and 2 shows in Italy (Parma and Palazzo). He moved to Tarare near Lyon after closing A/V STUDIOS in Fontaine.
