Jess Hoyle

Programs Curator 

Jess Hoyle (They/Them), is an artist, art worker, activist and writer. Their personal work explores ideas of memory, histories and concepts of truth and personal fictions through the use of primarily lens-based mediums, printmaking and textiles. Their activism work centers around anti-racism, anti-sexism and equity work, creating level ground. At Elsewhere, they worked as the Programs Curator from 2019-2021.

They received their Bachelors in Fine Art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2011. They work in the intersections of lens based medias, and explore philosophical concepts of memory and truth and their malleable natures. They create work based in the photographic still and moving image, in film and digital form, and incorporating alternative and experimental processes. Raised in rural North Carolina, the traditions of oral histories, cultural and sovereign knowledge, and its multiplicity, memory, identity, queerness and place are the basis for most of their work. Hoyle’s current work as Programs Curator of Elsewhere Museum, sees them managing all public and internal programming as well as overseeing the residency programs. In the past they have worked for artist Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques during the creation of his Eden project with Aperture Publishing and Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, and for the Weatherspoon Art Museum as Curatorial Assistant. They have shown work at a variety of community galleries in Greensboro, NC, several colleges, independent pop-up exhibitions and at Aperture Foundation, in New York.