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Jacqueline Humphries

Over the past four decades, Jacqueline Humphries has been working through the question of what contemporary abstract painting can mean in a society mediated online. Excavating the limits of her medium, Humphries generates a density of languages, forms and gestures native not only to the history of painting but also the codes and aesthetic registers that belong to the endless scroll of data and commerce on the flat cold surfaces of screens. Honing in on the surface of things, she has used gridded stencils, fluorescent paint, emoticons, and black light, among other materials in order to paraphrase, parody, and rewrite the codes of post-war abstraction. She disrupts the traditional oppositions of figure/ground and flatness/depth to create anti-illusionistic, anti-representational images, making and then, as she calls it “unmaking” her works in order to toy with ideas of historicization and authenticity. As such, Humphries’ work revels in its playful profanity, the pleasure of its sheer materiality seeping from its surface. She describes her search as one for “a kind of psychological hook”, evoking suspense or a sense of something wrong. This nameless, spectral sensation creeps across much of her oeuvre; her large-scale, commanding paintings invite close inspection, while at the same time eluding and confusing the ways in which their surfaces were worked by Humphries herself.

Jacqueline Humphries was born in New Orleans in 1960, and lives and works in New York. A graduate of Parsons School of Design and subsequently the Whitney Independent Study Program, she has mounted solo institutional exhibitions at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2021); Dia Art Foundation, The Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton (2019); the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2015); and Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (2000). She has participated in recent group exhibitions at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill (2021); the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (2019); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2019); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2018); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018); and Tate Modern, London (2016). Her works are held in collections including the Dallas Museum of Art; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MoMA, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; SFMOMA, San Francisco; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Paintings by Humphries are currently included in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani.

Press
Biography
JH727, 2023 (detail)
IDFK02, 2023
oil on linen, 281.9 x 254 cm, 111 x 100 in
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jHΩ1:), 2018
oil on linen, 289.6 x 322.6 cm, 114 x 127 in
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JH727, 2023
oil on linen, 243.8 x 228.6 cm, 96 x 90 in
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(J###H2, 2018
oil on linen, 254 x 281.9 cm, 100 x 111 in
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JH123091HJ, 2023
oil on linen, 243.8 x 228.6 cm, 96 x 90 in
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.,:;:):|, 2018
oil on linen, 254 x 281.9 cm, 100 x 111 in
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Untitled, 2022
oil on linen, 152.4 x 144.8 cm, 60 x 57 1/8 in
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(:9516HJ, 2023
oil on linen, 243.8 x 228.6 cm, 96 x 90 in
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Untitled, 2014
oil on linen, 254 x 282 cm, 100 x 111 1/8 in
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Untitled, 2014
enamel on linen, 290 x 323 cm, 114 1/8 x 127 1/8 in
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Untitled, 2010
oil on canvas, 203 x 221 cm, 79 7/8 x 87 1/8 in
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Pigpen, 2008
oil on linen, 183 x 198.5 cm, 72 1/8 x 78 1/8 in
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JH190BarnettNewman, 2023
Milk of Dreams, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2022

Press

Aspen Art MuseumArtCrush Honoree: Jacqueline Humphries, 1 June 2024
Financial TimesArtist Jacqueline Humphries: "They told me I had to stop painting’’, 1 May 2023
Texte zur KunstTo Serve Painting, Tom McDonough on Jacqueline Humphries at Greene Naftali, 2 January 2023
OculaJacqueline Humphries’ Disruptive Mark-Making at Modern Art, 1 June 2023
Paris ReviewVenice Dispatch: from the Biennale, 4 January 2022
The Brooklyn Rail1 December 2022
New York Times Style MagazineAbstract Paintings Inspired by Internet Culture and Horror Movies, 1 November 2022
Interview MagazineWade Guyton and Jacqueline Humphries Want to Renovate an NYC Art Venue and Not Change a Thing, 19 February 2021
The New York TimesJacqueline Humphries’s Digital Paintings, Aglow in the Dark, 5 September 2019
ArtforumFeelings Aren’t Facts: Lloyd Wise on the art of Jacqueline Humphries, 1 June 2019
ApolloSeeing is not believing in the art of Jacqueline Humphries, 1 August 2019
Mousse Magazine1 January 2019
VogueJacqueline Humphries Layers ASCII and Emojis Into Her Expressive Abstract Paintings, 28 October 2017
Artforum1 December 2015
Art Review6 January 2010
BOMBInterview: Jacqueline Humphries, 1 May 2009

Biography

Jacqueline Humphries

Born in New Orleans, LA, USA, 1960 Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Education

1986
Whitney Independent Study Program
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
1985
Parsons School of Design
New York, NY, USA
1984
Yale University Summer Scholarship
New Haven, CT, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Crown Point Press
San Francisco, CA, USA
2023
Modern Art
London
Zweigstelle Capitain III
Palazzo Degas, Naples, Italy
2022
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2021
jHΩ1:)Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
2020
Galerie Gisela Capitain
Cologne, Germany
2018
Modern Art
London
2017
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2016
Galerie Gisela Capitain
Cologne, Germany
2015
Carnegie Museum of ArtPittsburgh, PA, USA
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2014
Modern Art
London
2012
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2011
Galerie Forsblom
Helsinki, Finland
2010
Modern Art
London
2009
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2007
Modern Art
London
Mercury’s Moon
Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Albert Merola
Provincetown, MA, USA
2006
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, NY, USA
Seven SistersWilliams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, USA
2005
Black Light Paintings
NyeHaus, New York, NY, USA
2002
Lawing Gallery
Houston, TX, USA
2001
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, NY, US
2000
Malerei
Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wihelmshaven, Germany
1999
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, NY, USA
Heinz Holtmann Gallery
Cologne, Germany
Galerie Simonne Stern
New Orleans, LA, USA
1997
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, NY, USA
1996
Mario Diacono
Boston, MA, USA
Galerie Simonne Stern
New Orleans, LA, USA
Rena Bransten
San Francisco, CA, USA
1995
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, NY, USA
Rena Bransten
San Francisco, CA, USA
1994
John Good Gallery
New York, NY, USA
Albert Merola Gallery
Provincetown, MA, USA
1993
Angles Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Galerie Simonne Stern
New Orleans, LA, USA
1992
John Good Gallery
New York, NY, USA
Thomas Segal Gallery
Boston, MA, USA
1990
John Good Gallery
New York, NY, USA
Galerie Ryszard Varisella
Frankfurt, Germany
John Good Gallery
New York, NY, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Nightmare of Paintingcurated by Valérie Knoll, Kölnsicher Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Legacy Traces: Recent Additions to the Museum CollectionNewcomb Art Museum at Tulane, New Orleans, LA, USA
Painterly GesturesTate Modern, London
2023
In the Belly of the Machine
curated by Valérie Knoll, Kölnsicher Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Contemporary Art Collection
Centra Pompidou, Paris, France
Making Their Mark
curated by Cecilia Alemani, Shah Garg Foundation, New York, NY, USA, travelling to: Berkeley Art Museum, Berkley, CA, USA; Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, MO, USA
Drunk vs. Stoned 3
The Ranch, Montauk, NY, USA
50 PaintingsMilwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Hoi Köln, Part 1: Welcoming the SpaceKölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
We Smell Gas
Reena Spaulings, New York, NY, USA
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World, curated by Gary Garrels
Gagosian, London
Radical Abstraction
Skarstedt, London
I’ll be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital ScreenModern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Future Shock
Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2022
The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Venice, Italy
2022 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
Looking Back: The 12th White Columns Annual
White Columns, New York, NY, USA
2020
Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts
The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
Books in the Brandhorst Collection
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
2019
Rosebud
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,USA
7 Painters
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now, curated by Alex Glauber and Alex Logsdail
Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Forever Young – 10 Years of Museum BrandhorstMuseum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Sun Women, curated by Jérôme Neutres
Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Burn It Clean
1301PE, Los Angeles, CA, USA
We the People: New Art from the Collection
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
The Mechanics of Fluid
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
L'Almanach 18
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Abstraction Today – Mapping the Invisible World
Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zürich, Switzerland
In Tune with the World
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
New York by Night
HdM Gallery, Beijing, China
The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern AbstractionOgden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
2017
The Electric Comma
V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy
Social Surfaces
Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
The Age of Ambiguity, curated by Bob Colacello
Vito Schnabel Projects, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2016
A Slow Succession with Many InterruptionsSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Fine Young Cannibals
Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Good Dreams, Bad Dreams – American Mythologies, curated by Massimiliano Gioni
Aïshti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon
Theories of Modern Art
Modern Art, London
Tales of Ratiocination
Campoli Presti, London
Making Traces
Tate Modern, London
2015
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany, travelling to: mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (2016)
Surface MattersMuseum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
My Wife Does The Dishes, I do the Revolution, curated by David Rimanelli
Kimmerich, Berlin, Germany
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen FrankenthalerThe Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Made in USA
V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2014
Whitney Biennial 2014Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Some Artists's Artists
Marian Goodman, New York, NY, USA
Loveless
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Pouring it On
Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
2013
LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W, curated by Bob Nickas
Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY, USA
2012
Verschiebungsersatz
Kimmerich, New York, NY, USA
Painting...EXPANDED
Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico
The Lords and the New Creatures
Brown + Nye, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Eagles
Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
Inside Out and From the Ground Up
MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA
Anti-EstablishmentCCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Painting in Space
Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
2011
New Silver, curated by Ute Riese
Kunsthalle Gießen, Germany
Provisional Painting
Modern Art, London
Abstraction
Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
A PAINTING SHOW
Harris Lieberman, New York, NY, USA
2010
Painting Extravaganza
Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
Re-Dressing
Bortolami, New York, NY, USA
Big New FieldDallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Spray
D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, USA
At Home / Not at Home: Works From the Collection of Martin and Rebecca EisenbergCCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
2009
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture, curated by Debra Singer
The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
The Living and the Dead
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA
2008
Prospect. 1, curated by Dan Cameron
New Orleans, LA, USA
Power, curated by Bill Cournoyer
Foxy Production, New York, NY, USA
2007
Affinities: Painting in Abstraction, curated by Kate Meehan McNamaraCCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
2006
Under Pressure, curated by Bill Cournoyer
Under Pressure, curated by Bill Cournoyer, Art : Concept, Paris, France
In Dialogue
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Survivor, curated by David Rimanelli
Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY, USA
Action Precision
Lennon Weinberg, New York, NY, USA
2005
The Mom Show
Rivington Arms, New York, NY, USA
POST-MoDERN
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004
Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Nagoya Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Grisaille
JG Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
2001
Against the Wall: Painting Against the Grid, Surface and FrameInstitute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Superimposition, curated by David Hunt
Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
New Paintings
Kevin Bruk Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA
2000
Dusk, curated by David Hunt
I-20 Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Painting Abstraction
New York Studio School, New York, NY, USA
Trailer
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Berardo Collection
Fundacao Centro Cultural De Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
1999
Vanishing PT, curated by Margaret Evangeline
Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Free Coke
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1998
Encyclopedia
Turner & Runyon, Dallas, TX, USA
I LOVE NEW YORK-crossover of contemporary art
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Painting: Now & Forever, Part I
Pat Hearn & Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Recent Acquisitions
Museu Coleçāo Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
E Pluralus Nihil
American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY, USA
1997
Alive & Well: New Painting
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Beau Gest
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Reali
Artecontemporanea, Brescia, Italy
1996
Young Americans: American Art in the Saatchi Collection
Saatchi Gallery, London
Natural Process
Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
1995
Jacqueline Humphries & Jim Balla
UFO Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Abstract Painting
Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Robert Mapplethorpe
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
A Decade of Collecting: 1985-1995/Contemporary Prints
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Abstraction from Two Coasts
Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
New York Abstract Painting
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
Summer Group Show
Universal Fine Objects, Provincetown, MA, USA
1994
Fall Group Exhibition
John Good Gallery, New York, NY, USA
About Color
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Works on Paper
John Good Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Pen & Ink
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Jacqueline Humphries, Juan Usle & Rodney Carswell
Feigen Inc, Chicago, IL, USA
1993
Drawn in the Nineties, curated by Joshua P. Smith, sponsored by ICI, Inc & the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, USA
Summer Group Exhibition
John Good Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Jessica Stockholder, Jacqueline Humphries, Karin Davie
John Good Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Intuitive Perception
Nohra Haime, New York, NY, USA
Sailing to Byzantium, With Disenchantment, curated by Elio Cappucio
Sergio Tossi, Prato, Italy
1992
How It Is
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Behind Bars, curated by Meg O’Rourke
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, USA
Contemporary Works on Paper: Part I
Arena, New York, NY, USA
Abstract
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, USA
The Multiple Object
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Jacqueline Humphries, James Balla
Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Baziotes to Basquiat…and Beyond, curated by Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz
Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM, USA
New York Selections: Works on Paper
Sunrise Art Museum, Charleston, SC, USA
1991
New Generations: New York
Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Dots
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Visual Alliterations
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Synthesis
John Good Gallery, New York. NY, USA
Works on Paper
John Good Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Young American Painters
Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Group Exhibition
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1990
Cornell Collects
Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, USA
Fluid Abstraction, curated by Stephan Westfall
University of Connecticut, New London, CT, USA
Squaresville
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
A Question of Paint, curated by Charles A. Wright Jr
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
Homage to the Square
Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Untitled
John Good Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Hyun Soo Choi, Jacqueline Humphries, Paul Pagk
470 Broome Street, New York, NY, USA
Provocative Abstraction: New Painting New York
Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
1989
Galerie Ryszard Varisella
Frankfurt, Germany
Methods of Abstraction
Gallery Urban, New York, NY, USA
Divergent Views
Genovese Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1988
Numerators, curated by Meyer Raphael Rubinstein
John Good Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Living in New York, curated by Meyer Raphael Rubinstein
Aubes Gallery, Montréal, Canada
1985
The Non-Objective World, curated by Stephan Westfall
Kamikaze Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Selected Collections

Aïshti Foundation
Antelias, Lebanon
Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Buffalo, NY, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Collezione Maramotti
Reggio Emilia, Italy
Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, OH, USA
Dallas Cowboys Art Collection
Dallas, TX, USA
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX, USA
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Paris, France
Glenstone
Potomac, MD, USA
Hall Art Foundation
Reading, VT, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Washington, D.C., USA
The Hood Museum
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
List Visual Arts Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Marciano Art Foundation
Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY, USA
Museu Coleção Berardo
Lisbon, Portugal
Museum Brandhorst
Munich, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA, USA
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans, LA, USA
The New School University Collection
New York, NY, USA
Norton Museum of Art
West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, LA, USA
Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando, FL, USA
Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME, USA
Saatchi Gallery
London
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY, USA
Tate
London
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY, USA
Zabludowicz Collection
London