Jessica Di Costa

Jess is a visual artist and film-maker based in Sydney. Having graduated with a First-Class Honours degree from COFA (UNSW College of Fine Arts) Jess was 1 of 30 students selected nation wide to exhibit at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art for her graduating film, Apartment Block No.10.In 2019, Jess received a scholarship funded by the San Sebastián International Film Festival to complete her masters in Film Creation at experimental film school, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastián, Spain.

Since returning to Australia, her works have been screened and exhibited both nationally and internationally at the likes of St Kilda Film Festival, Cannes Art Film Festival, Venice Film Week, Girra National Art Prize, Wyndham Art Prize, Kalgoorlie-Boulder National Art Prize, Prospect Portrait Prize, Arts in the Valley, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize as well as garnering accolades such as the inaugural TWT Excellence Award and the Tony White Memorial Art Award.In 2023, Jess was 1 of 50 international artists selected to participate in PlayLab's ‘Creator’s Lab’ with Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Memoria, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) in Yucatán, Mexico. Her artwork, See Me Living, was 1 of 10 selected from the Lab for International distribution in 2024.