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About the artist

Art is the language of my soul.

American painter, muralist and installation artist.

In her words

Jessica Shilling

“Painting is how I understand my own life. I paint my dreams, the people who come into my life and the lessons I learn along the way. I pour my heart into every stroke, and each painting becomes a puzzle piece of my soul.”

Each painting begins as a dream… a profound life experience, or a lesson learned along the way, and becomes a world you can step into.

Jessica Shilling is an American painter, muralist and installation artist. Her work has been exhibited across Mexico, Colombia and the United States, and commissioned by Amazon, Google Chrome and the Seattle Catrina Festival.

As a muralist she has created a series of large-scale commissions for Amazon Mexico, among them Memoria Colosal in Mexico City, each built around the city it stands in, along with murals for restaurants, hotels and private clients from Tulum to New York.

Her paintings are filled with peacocks, koi, jellyfish, water, crystals and celestial light. Jellyfish appear again and again, as symbols of intuition and of moving with the flow of the universe. Much of her work is made with ultraviolet (UV) paint, so a single canvas holds one image in daylight and another in the dark.

Jessica Shilling

Practice

Beyond the canvas

Jessica painting

Painting, murals, performance, immersive installation, public art and art film. Rooted in painting, the work expands beyond the canvas through movement, light, sound and sculptural environments. Her live painting turns the act of creating into part of the artwork, often with music, lighting, movement and the surrounding space.

Her signature installation, Jellyfish Rain — hand-painted sculptural jellyfish, light, movement and sound — premiered at Arts-A-Glow in Burien, Washington in 2026 and is now in development as a larger touring installation.

First Place · Frida: The Life of an Icon, Bogotá 2023First Place · Heart of Knowledge, Wikipedia 2020Universidad del Valle de México · Graphic Design

Selected work

A few worlds

Jessica Shilling — about portrait
Jessica Shilling — about portrait
Jessica shillings hand resting on one of her swirling blue paintings
Jessica shillings hand resting on one of her swirling blue paintings
The deep call an original painting by jessica shilling in a dark frame
The deep call an original painting by jessica shilling in a dark frame
A wall of framed art prints by jessica shilling
A wall of framed art prints by jessica shilling
Jessica shilling seated in front of her mural of herons a white peacock and a lo
Jessica shilling seated in front of her mural of herons a white peacock and a lo
Jessica shilling seated in front of one of her large scale murals
Jessica shilling seated in front of one of her large scale murals
Jessica holding gondola seattle
Jessica holding gondola seattle
Jessica side holding gondola seattle
Jessica side holding gondola seattle

Let’s start something.

For commissions, murals, performance bookings or acquiring original work — reach out directly. Every piece begins with a conversation.