BIO & CV
Deziree Jordyn is a New Jersey–based interdisciplinary conceptual artist, educator, and founder of Dezire Higher Art & Wellness. Working across collage, drawing, painting, experimental video, and installation, she explores collective memory, identity, interpersonal relationships, ancestry, and emotional wellness.
Her intuitive, research-driven practice examines how personal histories shape the ways we relate to ourselves and one another. Through immersive installations, found photographs, objects, and mixed-media works, Deziree creates reflective “third spaces” that invite viewers to pause, process difficult emotions, and engage in shared vulnerability. She refers to her film-photo-sized drawings as “memories” and her mixed-media paintings and collages as “portals”—works that consider art as a pathway between reflection, connection, and transformation.
Alongside her studio practice, Deziree founded Dezire Higher Art & Wellness, a creative experience studio offering workshops, curriculum, community programs, and experiential art activations. The organization helps children and adults use creativity as a mindful tool for self-expression, emotional growth, connection, and everyday wellbeing.
Deziree holds a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and a certificate in Child Development. Her experience includes developing and facilitating arts programming with Grounds For Sculpture, City Green, and Harlem Children’s Zone, alongside schools, community organizations, and private mentorship programs.
EDUCATION
2022 BFA Visual Arts, Mason Gross
2023 Childhood Development Associate (CDA), Council for Professional Recognition
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2026 Poem “Will They Ever Know?” — Published in F Magazine via print/digital edition
2022 “A Student of Art, Charged by a Need to Help People.,” interview and feature published by Collection Five Magazine.
2018 “Hard Work Paying Off for West Orange Student as Unsung Hero,” featured in Patch (New Jersey) via print/digital edition.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2026-2027 Our Lady of the Lake School Resident Art Teacher
2026 Garden State Equality Arts Coordinator
2025 & 2026 NAACP Act-So Regionals Judge
2024-2026 Private & Community Workshops
2022-2023 Jewish Community Center Metro West
2022 Harlem Children’s Zone, Promise Academy II
2019, 2021 & 2026 PRAB New Brunswick Amard&V
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Focal Point x Academic Art show - Newark Novu Arts District
2022 I Know A Place // Where Do We Go From Here? - Mason Gross Galleries NJ
2019 Now is the Time - Mason Gross Galleries NJ
2019 Visions for the Future - Mason Gross Galleries NJ
PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
12th Ave Patterson, NJ. Basketball Courts 2025
Benches for Nikhil Badlani Foundation - West Orange High School 2018
AWARDS & GRANTS
National Organization of Arts in Health 2026
Giza Daniels-Endesha Award 2022
James Dumont Travel Grant 2021
Unsung Hero/Heroine Recognition Award 2018