Born: New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960

Education: Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT, 1984
Parsons School of Design, New York, 1985
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, 1986

Currently lives and works in New York

2025

Aspen Art Museum, CO
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

2024

Crown Point Press, San Francisco

2023

Modern Art, London
Zweigstelle Capitain III, Palazzo Degas, Naples

2022

Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2021

jHΩ1:), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (catalogue)

2020

Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

2019

Dia Bridgehampton, NY

2018

Modern Art, London

2017

Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2016

Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

2015

Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

2014

Modern Art, London

2012

Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2011

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki

2010

Modern Art, London

2009

Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2007

Mercury’s Moon, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Albert Merola, Provincetown, MA
Modern Art, London

2006

Past Out, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Seven Sisters: New work by Jacqueline Humphries, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

2005

Black Lighting Paintings, NYEHAUS, New York (catalogue)

2002

Lawing Gallery, Houston

2001

Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2000

Malerei, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Germany (catalogue)

1999

Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne
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
Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA

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 (catalogue)
Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt

1989

John Good Gallery, New York

2025

Flesh Flowers, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Reena Spaulings Fine Art Presents: The Family Guns, Galerie Hussenot, Paris
Purpose, Alexander Berggruen, New York
No Diagnosis, Reena Spaulings, New York
Ouro Branco, Territorio, Pavilhões da Mitra, Lisbon
AMA Collection, AMA Venezia
New Encounters: Reframing the Contemporary Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, OH

2024

Women in Abstraction: Shaping Expressionism, Gavlak, West Palm Beach
Only Black and White, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Tha Sun Will Set, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Machine Painting, Modern Art, London
Effetto Notte: Day for Night, Aïshti Foundation, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Between Pixel and Pigment: Hybrid Painting in Postdigital Times, Kunsthalle Bielefeld & MARTa Herford, Germany
Contemporary Voices: Celebrating 40 Years of Acquisition Trust, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Between Us, Olivia Foundation, Mexico City
Transmissions: Selections from the Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Legacy Traces: Recent Additions to the Museum Collection, Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane, New Orleans

2023

Nightmare of Painting, Kölnsicher Kunstverein, Cologne
Painterly Gestures, Tate Modern, London
In the Belly of the Machine, Kölnsicher Kunstverein, Cologne
The Seth Davidow Collection, SITE131, Dallas
Contemporary Art Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, New York. Traveled to University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Washington University, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (catalogue)
Drunk vs. Stoned 3, The Ranch, Montauk
50 Paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
We Smell Gas, Reena Spaulings, New York
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstraction painting, Gagosian, London

2022

From Andy Warhol to Kara Walker: Scenes from the Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Radical Abstraction, Skarstedt, London
I’ll be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Future Shock, Lisson Gallery, New York
Paint the Protest, Off Paradise, New York
Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky, A Tribute to Lawrence Weiner, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Painter’s New Tools, Nahmad Contemporary, New York
America: Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Musée national des beaux–arts du Québec, Canada
The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (catalogue)
International Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York

2021

Infinite Games… 2, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Greene Naftali Gallery at Galerie Chantal Crousel: Arrangement in Gray, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Recent Acquisitions: Modern and Contemporary Drawings and Prints, Morgan Library & Museum, New York
From Disco to Disco, Greene Naftali, New York

2020

Structures of Feeling, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich
Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York
50th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, The Kitchen, New York
Overwrite, Greene Naftali, New York

2019

Feel the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Rosebud, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
7 Painters, Greene Naftali, New York
Painters Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now, Lisson Gallery, New York
Forever Young – 10 Years Museum Brandhorst, Museum Brandhorst Munich
Sun Women: A Tribute to 8 Women Artists in the USA, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels
Collection Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago

2018

Burn It Clean, 1301PE, Los Angeles
We the People: New Art from the Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
L’Almanach 18, 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
The Mechanics of Fluids, Marianne Boesky, New York
Abstraction Today – Mapping the Invisible World, Tobias Mueller Modern Art AG, Zürich
Au diapason du monde (In tune with the world), Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris
The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, 1945 to Now, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
My So-Called Reality, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

2017

The Electric Comma,V-A-C Foundation Palazzo delle Zattere Dorsoduro, Venice
Social Surfaces: A Fundraising Exhibition, Artists Space, New York
Unpainting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Age of Ambiguity, Vito Schnabel Projects, St. Mortiz, Switzerland

2016

A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Fine Young Cannibals, Petzel, New York
Good Dreams, Bad Dreams – American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (catalogue)
Tales of Ratiocination, Campoli Presti, London
Making Traces, Tate Modern, London

2015

Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Surface Matters, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachussetts
My Wife Does The Dishes, I do the Revolution,, Kimmerich, Berlin
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudlin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
Made in USA, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow
Painting After Technology, Tate Modern Collection Show, London

2014

Some Artist’s Artists, Marian Goodman, New York
Loveless, Greene Naftali, New York
Whitney Biennial 2014, Whitney Museum, New York (catalogue)
Pouring it On, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2013

LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W, Martos Gallery, East Marion, New York

2012

Eagles, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid (catalogue)
Inside Out and From the Ground Up, MOCA Cleveland, OH
Anti-Establishment, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (catalogue)
Painting in Space, an exhibition to benefit CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies,Luhring Augustine, NY

2011

Contemporary Galleries: 1980 – Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Verschiebungsersatz, Kimmerich,New York
Painting...EXPANDED, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico
The Lords and the New Creatures, Brown + Nye, Los Angeles
Abstraction, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
If You Lived Here, You'd be Home by Now, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
A PAINTING SHOW, Harris Lieberman, New York
New Silver, Kunsthalle Gießen, Giessen, Germany
Provisional Painting, Modern Art, London

2010

Painting Extravaganza, Cardi Black Box, Milan
Re-Dressing, Bortolami, New York
The Big New Field, Dallas Museum of Art
Spray, D’Amelio Terras, New York
At Home / Not at Home: Works From the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2009

Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture, The Kitchen, New York
The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

2008

Prospect.1 New Orleans, Ideal Tire Repair, New Orleans
Power, Foxy Production, New York

2007

Affinities: Painting in Abstraction, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale–on-Hudson, NY

2006

Under Pressure, Art : Concept, Paris
In Dialogue, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Survivor, Bortolami Dayan, New York
Action Precision, Lennon Weinberg, New York

2005

The Mom Show, Rivington Arms, New York
POST-MoDERN, Greene Naftali, New York

2004

Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nagoya Museum, Nagoya, Japan

2003

Grisaille, JG Contemporary, New York

2001

Against the Wall: Painting Against the Grid, Surface and Frame, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Superimposition, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
New Paintings, Kevin Bruk Fine Arts, Miami

2000

Dusk, I-20 Gallery, New York
The Berardo Collection, Fundacao Centro Cultural De Belem, Lisboa
Painting Abstraction, New York Studio School, New York
Trailer, Greene Naftali, New York

1999

Vanishing PT, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
Free Coke, Greene Naftali, New York

1998

Encyclopedia, Turner & Runyon, Dallas
I Love New York-crossover of contemporary art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (catalogue)
Painting: Now & Forever, Part 1, Pat Hearn & Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Recent Acquisitions, Coleccao Berardo, Lisboa
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, Italy

1996

Young Americans: American Art in the Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue)
Natural Process, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

1995

Jacqueline Humphries & Jim Balla, UFO Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Abstract Painting, Bell Gallery, Brown Univeristy, Providence, RI
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 University, Hanover, NH
Abstraction from Two Coasts, Lawing Gallery, Houston (catalogue)
New York Abstract Painting, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Summer Group Show, Universal Fine Objects, Provincetown, MA

1994

Fall Group Exhibition, John Good Gallery, New York
Pen & Ink, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
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, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. Traveled to Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville (catalogue)
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, Sergio Tossi, Prato, Italy

1992

How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
The Multiple Object, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Jacqueline Humphries, James Balla, Universal Fine Objects, Provincetown, MA
Behind Bars, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Baziotes to Basquiat…and Beyond, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe
Contemporary Works on Paper; Part 1, Arena, New York
Abstract, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
New York Selections: Works on Paper, Sunrise Art Museum, Charleston, SC

1991

Generations: New York, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Dots, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Synthesis, John Good Gallery, New York
Young American Painters, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CA
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, University of Connecticut, New London, CT
Squaresville, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
A Question of Paint, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
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, CA

1989

Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt
Methods of Abstraction, Gallery Urban, New York
Divergent Views, Genovese Gallery, Boston

1988

Numerators, John Good Gallery, New York
Living in New York, Aubes Gallery, Montreal

1985
The Non-Objective World, Kamikaze Gallery, New York