Jacqueline Humphries

Jacqueline Humphries (born 1960) is an American abstract painter.

Education

• Whitney Museum Independent Study program, 1986 ^[1]
• Parsons School of Design, New York, 1985^[2]
• Yale University Summer Scholarship, 1984^[3]

Work

An "Untitled" oil on panel painting made in 1989 by the artist Jacqueline Humphries

Jacqueline Humphries creates muted paintings in shades of grey, silver, black, or white.^[4] Humphries’s paintings rely on the simple gesture of a line or the soft imprint of her paintbrush to convey her intention.^[5] Her technique combines fluid gesture with hard-edge geometry to explore the possibility of creating complexity through simple forms.^[6] Humphries addresses contemporary culture and art historical tropes to create works that explore new possibilities of painting.

Throughout the mid-90s, the Humphries gained recognition as a conceptual painter. In her recent oeuvre, Humphries shifted her aesthetic to fit the changing technological and digital culture of the times. “You have to boomerang the other way and start thinking about not just the ideas of the sublime and the infinitely large but you have to think about the infinitely small,” she explained of her recent series exploring emojis and the micro-fascination of contemporary smartphones.^[7][8]

Her work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

Humphries was born in 1960 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She currently lives and works in New York City. She is married to the installation artist Tony Oursler.

Public collections

• Museum of Modern Art, New York^[9]
• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York^[10]
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York^[11]
• The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York^[12]
• The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas^[13]
• The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California^[14]
• The Tate Modern, London, UK^[15]
• Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
• Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Greene Naftali, New York, 2017
• Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA, 2016
• Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany, 2016
• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2015
• Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, New Orleans, 2015^[16]
• Greene Naftali, New York, 2015
• Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2014
• Greene Naftali, New York, 2012
• Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland, 2011
• Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2010
• Greene Naftali, New York, 2009
• Prospect.1 New Orleans, 2008
• Albert Merola, Provincetown, MA 2007
• The Black Light Paintings, NYEHAUS, New York, NY 2005
• Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX, 2002
• Greene Naftali, New York, 2001
• Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany (catalogue), 2000
• Greene Naftali, New York, 1999
• Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Köln, Germany, 1999
• Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, 1999
• Greene Naftali, New York, 1997
• Mario Diacono, Boston, 1996
• Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, 1996
• Rena Bransten, San Francisco, 1996
• Greene Naftali, New York, 1995
• Rena Bransten, San Francisco, 1995
• Universal Fine Objects, Provincetown, 1994
• Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1993
• Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, 1993
• John Good Gallery, New York, 1992
• Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, 1992
• John Good Gallery, New York (catalogue), 1990
• Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt, 1990
• John Good Gallery, New York, 1989
• Universal Fine Objects, Provincetown, 1989

Humphries has also had solo exhibitions at the Williams College Museum of Art and Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven in Germany.

Selected group exhibitions

• Unpainting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2017
• A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2016
• Making Traces, Tate Modern, London, 2016
• Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, München, Germany, 2015^[17]
• Surface Matters, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston
• The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2015
• Made in USA, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia, 2015
• Painting After Technology, curated by Mark Godfrey, Tate Modern Collection Show, London, 2015
• Whitney Biennial, curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner, Whitney Museum, New York, 2014^[18]
• Inside Out and From the Ground Up, curated by David Norr, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, 2012
• New Silver, Curated by Ute Riese, Kunsthalle Gießen, Germany, 2011
• Re-Dressing, Bortolami, New York, 2010
• The Big New Field, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2010
• The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, 2009
• Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nagoya Museum, Japan, 2004
• American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letter, New York, 2001
• Young Americans: American Art in the Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue), 1996
• Generations: New York, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, (catalogue), 1991
• Cornell Collects, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, 1990
• Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia

Awards

• Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, 1992^[19]
• Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, 1999^[19]

Books

• Humphries, Jacqueline; Cook, Angus; Hudson, Suzanne; Joselit, David (2015). Jacqueline Humphries. Köln: Walther König. ISBN 9783863355098.
• Humphries, Jacqueline; Riese, Ute; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (2000). Jacqueline Humphries: Malerei = paintings (in German). Bielefeld: Kerber. ISBN 3933040469.
• Humphries, Jacqueline; Dickhoff, Wilfried; Foundation 20 21; Nyehaus (Gallery) (2005). Jacqueline Humphries: black light paintings. New York, N.Y.: Foundation 20 21 : Nyehaus. ISBN 1891027174.

References

External links

• Greene Naftali