Originally trained as a painter and printmaker, Jesse M. Kahn currently employs traditional handicrafts and sculptural techniques to explore Gay male sexuality and concerns over personal and national security.

Jesse holds a BA from Earlham College (1992) and an MFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University (2008). He was a 1993 recipient of the Thomas J. Watson fellowship during which he was an assistant curator at the Organisation for Visual Arts in London. An active fine artist, Jesse has exhibited in California, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. He has served on the Board of Directors at Chicago Neighborhood Artists and the Advisory Board of Cultural Connections, an arts initiative in East Boston, Massachusetts. He was a founding member of the East Boston Artists Group and of the collaborative gallery Atlantic Works.

Currently an visiting associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Jesse has also taught design and digital photography to urban youth and guest lectured on art history to college peers.