Jonathan Nesci (b. 1981, Chicago, Illinois) is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Chicagoland area. His practice encompasses fine art, sculpture, and furniture, positioned at the intersection of art, architecture, design, and material culture. Working in close collaboration with a guild of high-craft makers throughout the Midwest, Nesci employs both traditional and digital fabrication processes to realize work across a wide range of materials and finishes.
Nesci's made-to-order works are placed through partnerships with interior designers, architects, landscape architects, creative directors, museum curators and art consultants, allowing each project to respond precisely to its architectural and cultural context.
In 2009, Nesci received a Design Award from Wallpaper magazine for the Library Bookcase, which entered the permanent collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2015. His General Desk, presented in The New, the inaugural exhibition at Volume Gallery in 2010, was acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago.
Nesci's work has been presented through an international network of galleries, design spaces, and fairs, including Casati Gallery, Wright, Volume Gallery, Morlen Sinoway, Patrick Parrish Gallery, Matter, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Totokaelo, The Line, Tile Blush, Nina Johnson, CO Collection, Field, Oliver Gustav, Plus Design Gallery, and Galerie Vivid, as well as platforms such as 1stDibs and Artsy, and fairs including Design Miami, PAD Paris, PAD London, Collective Design, and Salone del Mobile. Nesci now works exclusively through direct collaboration with the creative trades, placing work into private art collections.
