Jacksun Bein (b. Louisiana; lives and works in New York) is an artist-writer interested in embodiment, individuation, and limits of control. Through networks of sculpture, image, and text, Bein's work plays with ways we designate subject or objecthood to the self. Alongside an artistic practice, Bein is working on long term research of American prison museums.
Bein graduated from The Cooper Union (2024) with the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Prize and Fred A. Lane Award. He is currently pursuing a certificate in Critical Philosophy at The New Centre for Research & Practice. Fellowships and residencies include the Prepared Table Fellowship at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought with the Amistad Research Center (2023), the Benjamin Menschel Creative Inquiry Fellowship (2024), and SunShip Studios at Arts Letters and Numbers (2023).
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