Federico Nessi, born in Caracas, Venezuela, Federico Nessi graduated with a B.F.A. from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, in 2005. He has since participated in a number of group shows including the 2006 Oregon Biennial at Portland Art Museum and enjoyed solo exhibitions in Miami with Bas-Fisher Invitational, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts and Spinello Gallery. Nessi now lives and works in Miami where he instigates and participates in various collaborative performance works with Miami-based collective, Psychic Youth, Inc. Through photography, video, audio, installation and live performance pieces that use metaphors to represent behavioral tendencies he constructs environments that encourage self-reflection. By focusing on recurring aspects of his day-to-day life he is able to explore the emotional hierarchy at play within himself and others.