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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
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- Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
- 2009
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- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
- 2007
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- Stuart Shave Modern Art, London
- Mercury’s Moon, Jensen Gallery, Auckland
- Albert Merola, Provincetown
- 2006
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- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
- Jacqueline Humphries: New Work, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown
- 2005
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- Black Light Paintings, NyeHaus, New York
- 2002
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- 2001
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- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
- 2000
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- Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
- 1999
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- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
- Heinz Holtmann Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans
- 1997
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- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
- 1996
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- Mario Diacono, Boston
- Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans
- Rena Bransten, San Francisco
- 1995
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- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
- Rena Bransten, San Francisco
- 1994
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- John Good Gallery, New York
- Universal Fine Objects, Provincetown
- 1993
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- Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
- Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans
- 1992
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- John Good Gallery, New York
- Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
- 1990
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- John Good Gallery, New York
- Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt
- 1989
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- John Good Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
- 2009
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- 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
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- Prospect. 1, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans
- Power, curated by Bill Cournoyer, Foxy Production, New York
- 2007
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- Affinities: Painting in Abstraction, curated by Kate Meehan McNamara, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annadale–on-Hudson
- 2006
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- 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
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- The Mom Show, Rivington Arms, New York
- POST-MoDERN, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
- 2004
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- Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nagoya Museum, Japan
- 2003
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- Grisaille, JG Contemporary, New York
- 2001
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- 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
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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
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- Vanishing PT, curated by Margaret Evangeline, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
- Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
- 1998
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- 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
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- Alive & Well; New Painting, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
- Beau Gest, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
- Reali, Artecontemporanea, Brescia
- 1996
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- Young Americans: American Art in the Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London
- Natural Process, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg
- 1995
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt
- Methods of Abstraction, Gallery Urban, New York
- Divergent Views, Genovese Gallery, Boston
- 1988
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- Numerators, curated by Meyer Raphael Rubinstein, John Good Gallery, New York
- Living in New York, curated by Meyer Raphael Rubinstein, Aubes Gallery, Montreal
- 1985
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- The Non-Objective World, curated by Stephan Westfall, Kamikaze
Gallery, New York
Bibliography
- 2009
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- 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
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- Stillman Nick, “On Location: Prospect. 1 New Orleans”, Modern Painters, November
- 2007
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- 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
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- 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
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- Kelsey, John, The Best of 2005, Artforum, December.
- Davis, Nicole, A New Lease On Painting, artnet.com, February 9.
- 2001
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Larson, Kay, We’ve Come a Long Way…Maybe, ARTnews, May.
- 1996
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
- 1995
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- Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
- 1992
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- Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
- 1989
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- Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship
- 1986
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- Whitney Museum Independent Study
- 1984
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- Yale University Summer Scholarship
Collections
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- 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