Jet Le Parti (born July 9 1998, Columbus, Georgia) is an American artist, musician, poet, and writer. He is the founder of Base 36 - an art gallery, cultural research platform and record label based in Brooklyn, New York, and Sibyl, a private collection and advisory based in Los Angeles. 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 U.S. Army post 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.
His academic background and interest in phenomenology, critical theory, and physics have informed his multidisciplinary approach, combining conceptual frameworks with sensory experimentation.
Career
Visual art Le Parti is self-taught. His paintings use house paint, graphite, ink, aerosol, oil, and wax. His subjects have included mortality, systemic violence, cultural saturation, and observation, and his output is organized into bodies of work. The Melting Blues series consists of paintings in muted blue and grey palettes. Reign.925, produced with the artist L.S. Toy, combines graffiti, stencil, silkscreen, plaster, acrylic transfers, and photography with painting.
Le Parti does not have gallery representation and has declined sales, collaborations, and formal showings; his work has traded on the secondary market.
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.
Exhibitions Onset of the Relativistic, Base 36, Brooklyn (2022) Veiled Constructions: Dark Perceptions of the Human Experience, Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York (2023) Postscript: Field Notes, New York (2023) Surface to Air, Base 36, Brooklyn (2024) Lost in Translation: Echoes, Mythos, & Ecce Hommo, Sibyl, Los Angeles (2024) Termination Notice, RP.1, Brooklyn (2025) American Wasteland, RP.1, Brooklyn (2026)
Music Le Parti produces experimental sound and electronic music under his own name. His works combine ambient, drone, minimal techno, and spoken word elements, and has performed as a DJ in warehouse and club settings.
His 2026 album Listening Post was released through RP.1, the label and gallery division of Base 36. Reviewers have compared the album to the work of Scanner, William Basinski, and Tim Hecker, alongside Japanese electronic musicians Shinichi Atobe, Takaaki Itoh, Wata Igarashi, Merzbow, and Susumu Yokota.
Discography Overture: 1 (EP) (2024) Surface to Air (2024) Exit (EP) (2025) Brooklyn Queens Express (EP) (2025) Listening Post (2026) Mind-Body Problem (2026)
Writing Le Parti's work includes poetry collections and cultural essays. His poetry focuses on the existential and philosophical themes that are also present in his visual art. His poetry collection every day is a countdown includes short poems such as Skin, Weekend, Teeth, and Countdown and longer poems including Fruits of the Loom I and II, Bits & Pieces, Airport Orders, and Ramble.
His essays on culture and philosophy include Errors & Residuals (2021), Residuum: On the Phenomenology of Saturation and the Aesthetics of Afterwards (2025) and Hide & Seek: Theory & Action (2026).
Base 36 In 2020, Le Parti founded Base 36, an independent cultural and artistic collective based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. It is a platform for interdisciplinary research, production, and exhibition, integrating visual arts, music, and cultural theory. It is the owner of RP.1, a gallery and record label, Converting Culture, an editorial publication for which Le Parti is editor-in-chief and 121.radio, a streaming platform with city-specific programming. Recognition Le Parti was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Art & Culture category in 2025.
References
External links
Base36 Jet Le Parti at Resident Advisor