Jacqueline Humphries’s work considers the history of painting in the context of contemporary, often digitally mediated viewer experiences. Her paintings explore the mechanisms of perception and communication in densely layered, all-over compositions that combine hand-made and mechanical gestures, often indistinguishable from one another. With a visual vocabulary that includes real and stenciled brushstrokes, typographical characters, and emoticons, Humphries contends with the everchanging technological landscape through the fundamentally traditional painting medium. “I’ve tried to recast and remold the vocabulary of painting,” Humphries has said, “so it is not condemned to a binary choice between nostalgic, expressive vitality and death by mechanical reproduction.”

Jacqueline Humphries (b. 1960) was born in New Orleans, and lives and works in New York. Her work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and the 2022 Venice Biennale and has been exhibited at museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Tate Modern, London. A survey of her work was organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus in 2021. Other recent one-person museum exhibitions include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, New York, and the Aspen Art Museum.