Jessica Bingham (b. 1989) is an artist, curator, homemaker, and mother. Her artwork has been exhibited at The McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, Illinois; Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, Illinois; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; Neon Heater, Findlay, Ohio; Public Space One, Iowa City; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa; and Heartbreaker, Peoria, Illinois, among others.
Bingham is the director and co-curator of Project 1612, an artist-run exhibition space in Central IL co-founded in 2015 with Alexander Martin. Together they have co-curated nearly thirty exhibitions and have organized several community-based film screenings and fundraisers. Additionally, Bingham has curated solo and group exhibitions at University Galleries of Illinois State University; Super Dutchess (currently Below Grand); and Illinois Central College; as well as supervised exhibitions and the Campus Artwork Project at Bradley University Galleries. She is currently serving on the board of pt.fwd and Big Picture Peoria.
Project 1612 will present two Fall 2024 exhibitions in conjunction with the artist-in-residency program. The one-day ephemeral exhibitions are free and open to the public. Exhibitions and programming announcement TBD.