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Bio Jacob C Hammes (born 1982 Sigourney, Iowa) is an Interdisciplinary artist, arts organizer, and educator based in Philadelphia. Working primarily in sculpture, drawing, and sound, Hammes’ work explores themes of late capitalist anxieties and absurdities. Recently he has moved into comedy and joke writing with his 2020 book entitled “101 Jokes About the Working Class,” a collection of (mostly) Leftist jokes and illustrations, and ‘The Grand Ballroom of Doom” a biweekly comic strip depicting the brutality of late stage capitalism as absurdist comedy. Hammes has completed permanent public works dealing with the opioid crisis and the epidemic of gun violence with support from Mural Arts Philadelphia, Prevention Point, and RAWTools. From 2016 to 2023 he was the director and curator of Pilot+Projects, an artist-run exhibition space in Philadelphia, and currently serves as co-director of BIG RAMP, a gallery and curatorial group in Philadelphia. Hammes teaches at Tyler School of Art and Moore College of Art and Design. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Tyler School of Art, and has shown at spaces such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Liberty Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, The Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University, The Hills Aesthetic Center, Temple Contemporary, The Hyde Park Art Center, the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts in Auckland, Information Space, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. |
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