Jess Bass uses play as both a process and aesthetic to create mimetic installations and performances. Her work has been exhibited at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (2020, 2022), Hyde Park Art Center (2022), Comfort Station (2022), Terrain Biennial (2021), SITE Gallery (2020), and Detroit Art Week (2019); and featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, ArtNews, PASTE, Fader and MTV. Bass holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.