Jacqueline Humphries
American artist (born 1960)
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Jacqueline Humphries (born November 17, 1960, in New Orleans) is an American abstract painter married to Tony Oursler.[1] She is known for her large-scale paintings that reference the history of abstraction, combining traditional painterly techniques with contemporary technologies. She has used metallic silver pigment to suggest the glow of a cinema screen, and has incorporated emoticons, emoji, kaomoji, and CAPTCHA tests into recent works that draw on digital communication.[2] Other paintings are produced by scanning her earlier canvases, translating them into ASCII character code, and using custom laser-cut stencils of the resulting images as the basis for new paintings.[3] Humphries lives and works in New York City, where she is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery.[4]
Jacqueline Humphries | |
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| Born | November 17, 1960 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Education | BFA |
| Alma mater | Parsons School of Design |
| Occupations | Contemporary artist, painter |
| Employer | Greene Naftali Gallery |
| Children | 1 |
Work
Humphries' work has been included in major exhibitions in the United States and internationally, including the Venice Biennale (2022) and the Whitney Biennial (2014).[5][6] She was the subject of a major one-person survey exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, in 2021. Her Black Light paintings were shown in a solo exhibition at Dia Bridgehampton, New York in 2019, a body of work which she had previously exhibited at NYEHAUS in 2005. John Kelsey described this exhibition in Artforum as "the most memorable painting show in New York".[7][8][9]
Humphries's first comprehensive solo presentation at a United States museum took place at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh in 2015, and later travelled to the Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans).[10][11]
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; and Tate Modern, London.[3][12][13][14][15]
Early life and education
Humphries graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1985, receiving a BFA in Fine Arts.[16] She attended the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1985 to 1986.[17]
Career
Humphries serves as the Vice Chairperson of the board of directors at The Kitchen (art institution), one of New York City's oldest nonprofit alternative art centers.[18] In 2020, she co-curated an exhibition with fellow board member Wade Guyton to celebrate The Kitchen's fifty-year anniversary. The exhibition featured fifty artists including Joan Jonas, Ralph Lemon, and Laurie Anderson.[19] Previously, Humphries served as a board member at Participant Inc., an educational corporation and not-for-profit alternative art space founded in 2001.[20]
Solo exhibitions
- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 1995.[21]
- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 1997.[22]
- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 1999.[23]
- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2001.[24]
- NYEHAUS, New York, 2005.[9]
- Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, 2006.[25]
- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2006.[26]
- Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2007.[27]
- Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007.[28]
- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2009.[29]
- Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2010.[30]
- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2012.[31]
- Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2014.[32]
- Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2015.[33]
- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2015.[34]
- Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), New Orleans, 2015.[35]
- Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, 2016.[36]
- Crown Point Press, San Francisco, 2016.[37]
- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2017.[38]
- Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2018.[39]
- Dia Bridgehampton, New York, 2019.[40]
- Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, 2020.[41]
- Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 2021.[42]
- Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2022.[43]
- Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado 2025.[44]
Monographs
- Jacqueline Humphries: Neiman Marcus (Greene Naftali, 2022)[45]
- Jacqueline Humphries (Lund Humphries, 2022)[46]
- Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:) (Wexner Center for the Arts, 2022)[47]
- Jacqueline Humphries (Koenig, 2014)[48]
- Jacqueline Humphries: Black Light Paintings (Foundation 2021, 2005)[49]
- Jacqueline Humphries: Malerei Paintings (Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 2000)[50]
Public collections
Humphries' work is held in the following public collections, among others:
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo[51]
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago[14]
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston[52]
- Museum Brandhorst, Munich[53]
- Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati[54]
- Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon[55]
- Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus[56]
- Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas[57]
- Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York[58]
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.[59]
- Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover[60]
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[61]
- Museum of Modern Art, New York[12]
- Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill[62]
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco[63]
- Tate, London[64]
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York[65]