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Jacqueline Humphries

Born in New Orleans 1960
Lives and works in New York

Education

  • 1985 Parsons School of Design, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2010
  • Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2009
  • Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2007
  • Stuart Shave Modern Art, London
  • Mercury’s Moon, Jensen Gallery, Auckland
  • Albert Merola, Provincetown
2006
  • Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
  • Jacqueline Humphries: New Work, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown
2005
  • Black Light Paintings, NyeHaus, New York
2002
  • Lawing Gallery, Houston
2001
  • Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2000
  • Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
1999
  • Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
  • Heinz Holtmann Gallery, Cologne, Germany
  • Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans
1997
  • Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1996
  • Mario Diacono, Boston
  • Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans
  • Rena Bransten, San Francisco
1995
  • Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
  • Rena Bransten, San Francisco
1994
  • John Good Gallery, New York
  • Universal Fine Objects, Provincetown
1993
  • Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans
1992
  • John Good Gallery, New York
  • Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
1990
  • John Good Gallery, New York
  • Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt
1989
  • John Good Gallery, New York

Group Exhibitions

2009
  • Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture, curated by Debra Singer, The Kitchen, New York
  • The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2008
  • Prospect. 1, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans
  • Power, curated by Bill Cournoyer, Foxy Production, New York
2007
  • Affinities: Painting in Abstraction, curated by Kate Meehan McNamara, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annadale–on-Hudson
2006
  • Under Pressure Galerie Art Concept, Paris, curated by Bill Cournoyer
  • In Dialogue, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
  • Survivor, Bortolami Dayan, New York, curated by David Rimanelli
  • Action Precision, Lennon Weinberg, New York
2005
  • The Mom Show, Rivington Arms, New York
  • POST-MoDERN, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2004
  • Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nagoya Museum, Japan
2003
  • Grisaille, JG Contemporary, New York
2001
  • Against the Wall: Painting Against the Grid, Surface and Frame, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
  • Superimposition,, curated by David Hunt, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
  • American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letter, New York
  • New Paintings, Kevin Bruk Fine Arts, Miami
2000
Dusk, curated by David Hun, I-20 Gallery, New York
The Berardo Collection, Fundacao Centro Cultural De Belem, Lisbon
Painting Abstraction, New York Studio School, New York
Trailer, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1999
  • Vanishing PT, curated by Margaret Evangeline, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
  • Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1998
  • Encyclopedia, Turner & Runyon, Dallas
  • I LOVE NEW YORK-crossover of contemporary art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • Painting: Now & Forever, Part I, Pat Hearn & Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
  • Recent Acquisitions, Coleccao Berardo, Lisbon
  • E Pluralus Nihil, American Fine Arts Co., New York
1997
  • Alive & Well; New Painting, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
  • Beau Gest, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Reali, Artecontemporanea, Brescia
1996
  • Young Americans: American Art in the Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London
  • Natural Process, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg
1995
  • Jacqueline Humphries & Jim Balla, UFO Gallery, Provincetown
  • Abstract Painting, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence
  • Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Robert Mapplethorpe,
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • A Decade of Collecting: 1985-1995/Contemporary Prints, Hood Museum
    of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover
  • Abstraction from Two Coasts, Lawing Gallery, Houston
  • New York Abstract Painting, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
  • Summer Group Show, Universal Fine Objects, Provincetown
1994
  • Fall Group Exhibition, John Good Gallery, New York
  • Pen & Ink, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
  • Works on Paper, John Good Gallery, New York
  • Jacqueline Humphries, Juan Usle & Rodney Carswell, Feigen Inc, Chicago
  • About Color, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
1993
  • Drawn in the Nineties, curated by Joshua P. Smith, sponsored by ICI, Inc & the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York; Illingworth, Kerr Gallery,
    Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama
  • Summer Group Exhibition, John Good Gallery, New York
  • Jessica Stockholder, Jacqueline Humphries, Karin Davie, John Good
    Gallery, New York
  • Intuitive Perception, Nohra Haime, New York
  • Sailing to Byzantium, With Disenchantment, curated by Elio Cappucio, Sergio Tossi, Prato
1992
  • How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
  • The Multiple Object, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
  • Jacqueline Humphries, James Balla, Universal Fine Objects, Provincetown
  • Behind Bars, curated by Meg O’Rourke, Thread Waxing Space, New York
  • Baziotes to Basquiat…and Beyond, curated by Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz,
    Bellas Artes, Santa Fe
  • Contemporary Works on Paper; Part I, Arena, New York
  • Abstract, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington
  • New York Selections: Works on Paper, Sunrise Art Museum, Charleston
1991
  • New Generations: New York, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh
  • Dots, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Synthesis, John Good Gallery, New York
  • Young American Painters, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen
  • Visual Alliterations, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Works on Paper, John Good Gallery, New York
  • Group Exhibition, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1990
  • Cornell Collects, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
  • Fluid Abstraction, curated by Stephan Westfall, University of Connecticut, New London
  • Squaresville, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
  • A Question of Paint, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo
  • Homage to the Square, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
  • Untitled, John Good Gallery, New York
  • Hyun Soo Choi, Jacqueline Humphries, Paul Pagk, 470 Broome Street, New York
  • Provocative Abstraction: New Painting New York, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica
1989
  • Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt
  • Methods of Abstraction, Gallery Urban, New York
  • Divergent Views, Genovese Gallery, Boston
1988
  • Numerators, curated by Meyer Raphael Rubinstein, John Good Gallery, New York
  • Living in New York, curated by Meyer Raphael Rubinstein, Aubes Gallery, Montreal
1985
  • The Non-Objective World, curated by Stephan Westfall, Kamikaze
    Gallery, New York

Bibliography

2009
  • Rubinstein, Raphael, “Provisorial Painting”, Art in America, May, pp. 123-135
  • Brown, Cecily, “Interview with Jacqueline Humphries”, Bomb Magazine, no 107, Spring, pp.22-31
  • Schambelan, Elizabeth, “Being There”, Artforum International, January, pp.172-177
2008
  • Stillman Nick, “On Location: Prospect. 1 New Orleans”, Modern Painters, November
2007
  • Kimmelman, Michael, “Art in Review: Jacqueline Humphries”, ArtDaily, September 7
  • Kreimer, Julian, Jacqueline Humphries at Greene Naftali, Art in America, April.
  • Burton, Johanna, Jacqueline Humphries, Artforum, February.
2006
  • Mueller, Stephen, Beautiful, Buoyant, Immediate, Gay City News, November 22.
  • Seven Sisters: New Work by artist Jacqueline Humphries, ArtDaily, September 7.
  • McQuaid, Kate, Pollock, Humphries exhibits make splash by stressing paint, Boston Globe, August 1, p. C5.
  • Sonnenborn, Katie Stone, Survivor, Frieze, June/July/August, p. 259.
2005
  • Kelsey, John, The Best of 2005, Artforum, December.
  • Davis, Nicole, A New Lease On Painting, artnet.com, February 9.
2001
  • Cotter, Holland, superimposition, The New York Times, July 7.
  • Griffin, Tim, Review, Time Out, June 7-14.
  • Hunt, David, Different Strokes, Gotham, May, p. 88.
  • Review, The New Yorker, May 23.
  • Hunt, David, Editor’s Choice: Jacqueline Humphries, New Paintings, Bomb, Summer.
2000
  • Morgan, Robert C., Review Review, March.
  • McDonough, Tom, Review, Art in America, March, p. 127-128.
  • Damianovic, Maia, Review, Tema Celeste, January-February, p. 131.
1999
  • Zinsser, John, Painter’s Journal, artnet.com, December.
  • Kuspit, Donald, Sublime Negative, artnet.com, December.
  • Anton, Saul, A Parallax View, newyork.citysearch.com, November.
  • Smith, Roberta, A Luscious Journey, Exhaustively Annotated, The NewYork Times, August 20.
  • Callas, Terrington, Gesture & Allusion, NOAR: The New Orleans Art Review, March/April, p. 2-5.
  • Jocks, Heinz-Norbert, I Love New York, Kunstforum, January-February,
    324-325.
1998
  • Schmerler, Sarah, Jacqueline Humphries, ARTnews, March, p. 175.
  • Schwabsky, Barry, Jacqueline Humphries, Artforum, January, p. 100-101.
  • Chaiklin, Amy, Studio Visit: Jacqueline Humphries, NY Arts Magazine,
    January-February, p. 15.
1997
  • Larson, Kay, We’ve Come a Long Way…Maybe, ARTnews, May.
1996
  • Dannat, Adrian, Jacqueline Humphries, Flash Art, May-June, p. 111.
  • Masciere, Christina, Critical Mass: Jacqueline Humphries Pours It On, New Orleans, May, vol 30, no 8.
  • Waddinton, Chris, Oil and Water Make Mixed Bag for Humphries, Times-
    Picayune, New Orleans, May 17.
  • Bookhardt, D. Eric, Beyond the Modern and Back Again, Inside Art, New Orleans, May.
  • Maloney, Martin, Young Americans: Part I & II, FlashArt, May-June, Vol. XXIX, no. 188, p. 109.
  • The London Times, Salute for Stars and Stripes, 26 March.
  • Packer, William, Models, casts and videos – William Packer on young
    American artists at the Saatchi gallery
    , The Financial Times, London,
    March.
  • Corn, Alfred, Jacqueline Humphries, Art in America, February, p. 87.
  • Melrod, George, Pouring it On; April’s artists bristle with restrained emotion and wry realism, Art & Antiques, April, p. 25.
  • Carrier, David, New York Autumn exhibitions of painting and drawing,
    Burlington Magazine, March, p. 215.
1995
  • The Print Collector’s Newsletter, November-December, Vol. XXVI,
    No. 5.
  • Calas, Terrington, Some New York Hedonists, The New Orleans Art
    Review, May-June, p. 36.
  • Bookhardt, D. Eric, Abstraction’s Unlikely Attractions, New Orleans, June.
  • Waddington, Chris, CAC Show brings Big Apple’s Art to Big Easy, New
    Orleans, June.
  • Nye, Tim, Q&A Jeffrey Slonim’s Whitney Watch, Artforum, p. 13.
  • Nixon, Bruce, The Guide, February, p. 17.
  • Bonetti, David, Gallery Watch, San Francisco Examiner, January 20, p. C14
1994
  • Kazanjian, Dodie, Brushing Up, Vogue, January, p. 128-133.
  • McConaughy, Claire, Collapsing the Surface; Jacqueline Humphries
    Runs with the Drip
    , Cover, May, p. 17.
1993
  • Humphrey, David, The Abject Romance of Low Resolution, Lusitania,
    Winter, vol. I, no. 4, p. 155-159.
  • Dash, Phillip, Connecting the Dots, Detour, March, p. 42-45.
  • Calas, Terrington, Notes on Virtuosity, The New Orleans Art Review,
    November-December, no. 1047-2045, p. 20.
1992
  • Bourdon, David, Critic’s Diary, Art in America”, September, p. 59.
  • Kuspit, Donald, Jacqueline Humphries, Artforum, September, p. 94.
  • Jacqueline Humphries; A Conversation with Marguerite O’Rourke, Tema Celeste, Summer, n. 36, p. 76-77.
  • Rose, Barbara, The Abstract Renaissance, Art and Auction, April, p. 40. 1991
1991
  • Siegel, Jeanne, The Real Meaning of the Work, Tema Celeste, Autumn, 83.
  • O’Rourke, Marguerite, Jacqueline Humphries, Tema Celeste, March/April.
  • MacAdam, Alfred, Jacqueline Humphries, ArtNews, January, p. 154.
1990
  • Zimmer, William, Fluid Geometry: Six Painters Offer Expressionistic Shapes, The New York Times, December 9, p. 34.
  • Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael, Jacqueline Humphries, Flash Art,
    November/December, p. 156-57.
  • Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, November 5.
  • Young, Geoffrey, Putting on the Dot, Arts Magazine, October, p. 68-73.
  • Geer, Susan, Art Review, Los Angeles Times, July 23.
1989
  • Westfall, Stephen, Jacqueline Humphries, Art in America, December,
    171.
  • Humphrey, David, Jacqueline Humphries, Tema Celeste,
    October/December, p. 73.
  • Cyphers, Peggy, New York in Review, Jacqueline Humphries, Arts
    Magazine, October, p. 105.
  • Smith, Roberta, Review, The New York Times, July 14.
  • Cyphers, Peggy, Numerator’s Review, Arts Magazine, March.
  • Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, July 17. Paris Review, Issue 117.
  • Paris Review, Issue 117

Publications

 
  • Nickas, Bob, Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, Phaidon Press, London, 2009
  • Flint, Lucy, Prospect. 1 New Orleans, PictureBox, Inc: Brooklyn, NY, 2008, exhibition catalogue
  • Nye, Tim, Jacqueline Humphries: Black Light Paintings, Foundation 20 21 and Nyehaus: New York, NY, 2005, exhibition catalogue
  • Kuspit, Donald, On the Mannerist Cutting Edge: Jacqueline Humphries’ Neo-Pure Painting, Jacqueline Humphries, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 2000, exhibition catalogue
  • Riese, Ute, An Interview with Jacqueline Humphries, Jacqueline Humphries, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 2000, exhibition catalogue
  • I LOVE NEW YORK-crossover of contemporary art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1998, exhibition catalogue
  • Deitch, Jeffrey, Young Americans: New American Art in the Saatchi Collection,
    Saatchi Gallery, London, Spring 1996, exhibition catalogue
  • Sachs, Sid, Natural Process, Cenery Gallery, Bucknell University, Winter 1996, exhibition catalogue
  • Rub, Timothy, A Decade of Collecting: 1985-1995/Contemporary Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1995, exhibition catalogue
  • Thomas, Lew, New York Abstract, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Spring 1995, exhibition catalogue
  • Yau, John, Abstraction from Two Coasts, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, Spring 1995, exhibition catalogue
  • Smith, Joshua P. & Sean Rainbird, Drawn in the 90’s, sponsored by Independent Curators Inc. & the Katonah Museum of Art, 1992, exhibition catalogue
  • Cappucio, Elio, Sailing to Byzantium, with Disenchantment, Sergio Tossi, Prato, Winter 1992/1993, exhibition catalogue
  • O’Rourke, Marguerite, Behind Bars, Thread Waxing Space, New York, Spring 1992, exhibition catalogue
  • The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation: 1991 Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography and Craft Media, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 1991, New York
  • Green, Nancy E. & Nancy Allyn Jarzombeck, Cornell Collects, Fall 1990, exhibition catalogue
  • Nye, Timothy and Miguel Abreu, Three Painters, Summer 1990, exhibition catalogue

Awards

1999
  • Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
1995
  • Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1992
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
1989
  • Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship
1986
  • Whitney Museum Independent Study
1984
  • Yale University Summer Scholarship

Collections

 
  • Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  • Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
  • Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  • Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
  • Coleccao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Collection of the Dallas Cowboys
  • Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds
  • The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
  • Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
  • New Orleans Museum of Art
  • New School University Collection, New York
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Ogden Museum, New Orleans
  • Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
  • The Saatchi Collection, London
  • Semler Collection, Portland Museum of Art, Washington
  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York