Jacqueline Humphries (born November 17, 1960, in New Orleans) is an American abstract painter married to Tony Oursler. 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.Wise, Lloyd. Artforum. Summer, 2019. 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.http://www.wexarts.org Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:). September 18, 2021 – January 2, 2022. Humphries lives and works in New York City, where she is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery.
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).Greenberger, Alex. Artnews. February 2, 2022.http://www.whitney.org Whitney Biennial 2014. March 7 – May 24, 2014. 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".Jacqueline Humphries Dia Bridgehampton, June 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020Artforum John Kelsey (2005)http://www.nyehaus.com February 25 – April 15, 2006.
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).Carnegie Art Museum Jacqueline Humphries. June 11 – October 5, 2015.Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans Jacqueline Humphries. November 19, 2015 – February 28, 2016
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.http://www.moma.org Jacqueline Humphries, Beat the Devil, 2008http://www.metmuseum.org Jacqueline Humphries, Hor. #4 1/2, 1997.http://www.artic.edu Jacqueline Humphries, i\Ω.., 2017http://www.tate.org Jacqueline Humphries, ~?j.h%, 2018
Early life and education
Humphries graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1985, receiving a BFA in Fine Arts.http://www.modernart.net Jacqueline Humphries She attended the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1985 to 1986. "Independent Study Program: 40 Years." New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. (p. 104)
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. 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. Previously, Humphries served as a board member at Participant Inc., an educational corporation and not-for-profit alternative art space founded in 2001.
Solo exhibitions
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 1995.http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com November 17, 1995 – January 14, 1996. Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 1997.http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com October 25 – November 29, 1997. Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 1999.http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com October 14 – November 27, 1999. Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2001.http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com May 4 – June 4, 2001. NYEHAUS, New York, 2005. Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, 2006.http://www.artmuseum.williams.edu June 3 – October 29, 2006. Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2006.http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com November 9 – December 9, 2006. Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2007.http://www.modernart.net April 27 – May 27, 2007. Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007.http://www.jesengallery.com November, 2007. Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2009.http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com April 16 – May 16, 2009. Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2010.http://www.modernart.net March 25 – April 24, 2010. Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2012.http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com March 29 – April 28, 2012. Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2014.http://www.modernart.net June 6 – July 5, 2014. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2015.http://www.cmoa.org . Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2015.http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com May 15 – June 20, 2015. Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), New Orleans, 2015.https://cacno.org/ November 19, 2015 – February 28, 2016. Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, 2016.http://www.galeriecapitain.de April 14 – May 28, 2016. Crown Point Press, San Francisco, 2016.http://www.crownpoint.com December 7, 2016 – January 28, 2017. Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2017.http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com October 27 – December 16, 2017. Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2018.http://www.modernart.net October 2 – November 10, 2018. Dia Bridgehampton, New York, 2019.http://www.diaart.org June 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020. Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, 2020.http://www.galeriecapitain.de November 7 – January 31, 2021. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 2021.http://www.wexarts.org September 18, 2021 – January 2, 2022. Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2022.http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com November 4, 2022 – January 14, 2023. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado 2025.
Monographs
Jacqueline Humphries: Neiman Marcus (Greene Naftali, 2022) Kelsey, John. Jacqueline Humphries: Neiman Marcus. New York: Greene Naftali. Jacqueline Humphries (Lund Humphries, 2022) Guerin, Frances. Jacqueline Humphries. London: Lund Humphries | Contemporary Painters. Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:) (Wexner Center for the Arts, 2022) Godfrey, Mark. Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:). Columbus and New York: Wexner Center for the Arts and Gregory R. Miller. Jacqueline Humphries (Koenig, 2014) Cook, Angus, Suzanne Hudson, and David Joselit. Jacqueline Humphries. Ed. Holly La Due. London: Koenig. Jacqueline Humphries: Black Light Paintings (Foundation 2021, 2005) Humphries, Jacqueline. Black Light Paintings. New York: Foundation 2021. Jacqueline Humphries: Malerei Paintings (Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 2000) Humphries, Jacqueline. Jacqueline Humphries. exh. cat. Wilhelmshaven: Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven.
Public collections Humphries' work is held in the following public collections, among others:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalohttp://www.buffaloakg.org Jacqueline Humphries, One Cat, 2017 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Bostoncollections.mfa.org Jacqueline Humphries, Antic, 1994 Museum Brandhorst, Munichhttp://www.museum-brandhorst.edu Jacqueline Humphries, 31/13, 2013 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnatihttp://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org Jacqueline Humphries, Black Monday, 1999 Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbonen.museuberardo.pt Jacqueline Humphries, Hor. #7, 1997 Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus5095.sydneyplus.com Jacqueline Humphries, Black Molly, 1999. Gift of Alexander Lasarenko in Memory of Anna Lasarenko. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallascollections.dma.org Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled, 2014. Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New Yorkbard.museum.com Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled, 2010 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu Jacqueline Humphries, O, 2015 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanoverhttp://www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled (VI), From the portfolio the new provincetown print project, 1992. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkhttp://www.metmuseum.org Jacqueline Humphries, Hor. #41 1/2, 1997. Museum of Modern Art, New York Parrish Art Museum, Water Millhttp://www.parrishart.org Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled, 1990 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Franciscohttp://www.sfmoma.org Jacqueline Humphries, Nobody's Fool, 2013 Tate, Londonhttp://www.tate.org.uk Jacqueline Humphries, ~?j.h%, 2018 Whitney Museum of American Art, New Yorkhttp://www.whitney.org Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled (white), 1992
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