Jet Le Parti

Jet Le Parti (born 1999, Columbus, Georgia) is an American artist, musician, poet, and writer. In 2025, he was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Art & Culture category.

Early life and education Le Parti was born in Columbus, Georgia, and grew up on Fort Benning, a large U.S. Army installation near the city. He played baseball as a teenager, was named a Preseason All-American by the scouting organization Perfect Game USA, and entered the University of Pennsylvania as a recruited athlete. He played one season at Penn before leaving the sport to study philosophy and cognitive neuroscience. He later attended the Royal College of Art but did not complete a degree.

While living in Philadelphia he took part in underground music events in the Strawberry Mansion and Kensington neighborhoods. He has since lived in Los Angeles and New York, and later divided his time between Berlin and London.

Career

Visual art Trojan (2023), RP.1, Chinatown, New York. Courtesy of Base 36. 2 Avant Garde Noise Listeners (2026), from the signal-residue body of work. Courtesy of Sibyl. Le Parti is self-taught. Reign.925, produced with the artist L.S. Toy, combines graffiti, stencil, silkscreen, plaster, acrylic transfers, and photography with painting. Individual works include To Be Hung (2022), Trojan (2023), Window, Face in Cave, Portrait of a YN (2026), 2 Avant Garde Noise Listeners (2026), and Revenant / Walker in the District (2026). Earlier paintings, including History of the World, Pandora/Prometheus, and On Phenomenology, are held at Sibyl in Los Angeles. Postscript: Field Notes, New York (2023) Surface to Air, Base 36, Brooklyn (2024) Lost in Translation: Echoes, Mythos, & Ecce Hommo, Sibyl, Los Angeles (2024) American Wasteland, RP.1, Brooklyn (2026)

To Be Hung (c. 2021-2022) was offered at Sotheby's Contemporary Discoveries sale in New York on October 3, 2023, where bidding reached $420,000 before the work was withdrawn.

Discography Overture: 1 (EP) (2024) Surface to Air (2024) Exit (EP) (2025) Brooklyn Queens Express (EP) (2025) Listening Post (2026) Mind-Body Problem (2026)

Poetry Le Parti's poetry focuses on the existential and philosophical themes that are also present in his visual art. Le Parti published a poetry collection, every day is a countdown, published under the name J.L. Parti through Base 36. It includes the poems Skin, Weekend, Teeth, and Countdown, and the longer poems Fruits of the Loom I and II, Bits & Pieces, Airport Orders, and Ramble.

Base 36 Base 36 is an independent cultural and artistic collective founded by Le Parti in 2020 in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The name “Base 36” is inspired by the numerical system of the same name and symbolizes the idea of compressing information into a manageable form. The Whitehot Magazine describes Base 36 as an “ambitious creative platform” that operates outside the logic of traditional commercial galleries. In 2021, a police raid on a Brooklyn venue led to equipment confiscation and a temporary suspension of operations, after which the organization changed its approach to venues and programming.

Recognition Le Parti was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Art & Culture category in 2025.