Jakob Bokulich is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily as a painter. He has been exhibited and collected in California, Europe, and New York since 1992, with seven solo shows and over 20 group shows. His work is in the collection of the Croatian Embassy in Paris, and he was awarded an Honorarium grant in 2018 by Burning Man for his 23-foot-tall kinetic sculpture, which was six years in the making and involved the work of over 100 volunteers. With little formal training, Bokulich first began painting in oils after a house fire left his family homeless, and he stayed temporarily with a painter who inspired him to begin painting at 12 years old. His artistic career began young, at the age of 17. Taking a hiatus from painting, he explored how to make art both more accessible and socially relevant. He immersed himself in building art communities in San Francisco and Oakland, including the Artship, a 500-ft passenger/cargo ship built in 1934, which he worked to convert into an art center in Oakland. Bokulich moved to New York in 2015 and returned to painting, as well as kinetic sculpture. His work is informed by his experience in film, ritual, and meditation. Often autobiographical, his work investigates the contemporary human experience, pairing the analytical with the emotional, the structured with the intuitive. He views his paintings as a medium to reinforce seeing, in an era in which he feels the senses have become dulled.