Lives and works in San Francisco
Email jessnow@me.com
Education
1996 M.F.A., Mills College, Oakland, CA
1992 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1988 Universite de la Nouvelle-Sorbonne III, Paris, France
1987 B.A. in Art Studio, University of California, Davis, CA
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2025 Pastine Projects (forthcoming in October)
2023
MURmur, a 2-person exhibition at the Ionian Center for the Arts, Kephalonia Greece (with Kate Temple)
2022
Minoan Stories, Pastine Projects, San Francisco
2019
Badass Color, a 2-person exhibition at Le Pavé d'Orsay, Paris (with Anya Spielman)
2018
Master of the Nets, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
2017
Let it Flow, a VR exhibition at Les Bains des Docks, Le Havre
(curated by IdeelArt)
2015
Refraction in the Line of Sight, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
2013
In Living Color, Galleri Urbane, Dallas
2010
Multiple Plot Points, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC
Paintings for the Corner of the Eye, Caffe Museo, SFMOMA
2008
Incident in the Territory of Invention, Merge Gallery, NYC
2007
Hi Jinx, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2005
Stratagems for Living, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2004
Orbits of Paradox, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2003
The Optimist’s Conundrum, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2001
Definition Proof, Post, Los Angeles
1999
Eccentricity of the Middle Ground, Four Walls, San Francisco
1998
Recent Paintings, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco
1997
Fragile Boundaries, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Third Eye in the Light of Circumstance, StARTup Art Fair, San Francisco
2024
Salt Stone Sea, Cycladic Arts, Paros, Greece
Works from the Flat Files, Pastine Projects, San Francisco
Postcards from Utopia, Italy International Center, Sarasota
2023
If I’d Known Then, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, San Francisco
2022
comme un léger contretemps, Galerie la Grange, Cernay-lès-Reims, France (curated by Ludovic Dervillez, with catalogue)
Art in Embassies, U.S. Embassy, Helsinki, Finland (curated by Ambassador Douglas Hickey and Camille Benton, with catalogue)
2021
form.AS.function, Pastine Projects, San Francisco (curated
by Francesca Pastine)
Chromocartography, Round Weather, Oakland (curated by Chris Kerr)
2020
Studio Visit, Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco (curated by Glori Simmons)
Covimetry, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Swiętokrzyski, Poland and
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven (curated by Mark Starel and Suzan Shutan)
2019
The 5th International Biennale of Non-Objective Art, Pont de Claix, France
(curated by Roland Orépük, with catalogue)
The Big Circle #4, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine (curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones)
Artadia 20th Anniversary Benefit, Phillips, NYC (curated by April Swanson)
Interdiscursive, The Institute of Fine Arts, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland (curated by Mark Starel)
The World of Icons, Ilko Gallery, Uzhorod, Ukraine (curated by Myroslav Vayda)
2018
Bread & Butter, Galleri Urbane, Dallas (curated by Adrian Zuniga)
Infinite Worlds / Infinite Probabilities, University of Southern Queensland
Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia (curated by Kyle Jenkins)
Summer Show, Gallery 1317, San Francisco (curated by Jeff Alan Gard)
RNOP San Francisco, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco (curator,
with Billy Gruner) and RNOP – Cincinnati; New Work For A New System, Smith and Co., Cincinnati, OH
Artadia - Bay Area Awardees, Ascent, San Francisco (curated by
Elizabeth Leach)
KenxArteriors, Arteriors, Dallas (curated by Ken Downing)
Icons:W/13, Kyiv Non Objective, Bulgakov Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
(curated by Billy Gruner)
2017
Black Box, Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg (curated by Arvid Boecker)
Personals, Skowhegan New Work Project Space, NYC (curated by Paige Laino)
A Call to Action, Kustera Projects Red Hook, Brooklyn
With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles
Sanctuary City, San Francisco Art Commission Galleries (curated by Monica Lundy)
Carry On: the Art+Architecture Faculty Triennial, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco (curated by USF Museum Studies graduate students)
The Morning After, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco (curated by Leo Bersamina)
2016
Hydrography lll, LaKaserna Artspace, Bad Nieuweschans, Netherlands (curated by Henriëtte van't Hoog and Iemke van Dijk)
Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v.2, Corridor Projects, Dayton, Ohio, traveling to Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany and Angelika Studios, High Wycombe, UK (curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones)
The Great California Art Movement: UC Davis Fine Art Alumni Exhibition 1960-1990, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, with catalogue
2015
Colour & Line Are Not Lies, Modern Art Projects, Blue Mountains and Raygun Lab, Toowoomba, Australia (curated by Tarn McLean and Kyle Jenkins, traveling show)
Formeel 2015: Waterverven, Waterland Museum, Purmerend, Netherlands (curated by Piet Knook)
New Abstraction, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley
Paperazzi 4: Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NYC
2014
Object, Object!!, Helmuth Projects, San Diego (curated by John Oliver Lewis and Jessica McCambly)
Galleri Urbane Presents S.U.M., Salon Urbane at the Thunderbird, Marfa (curated by Adrian Zuniga)
Steamed, Art+Science: Faculty Triennial, Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco (curated by Joyce Grimm)
Paperazzi 3: Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NYC
2013
Light Space Projects/Rituals of Exhibition, H Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand (curated by Giles Ryder)
Color Theory: The Use of Color in Contemporary Art, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (curated by Katrina Traywick)
Dripping Color Amazement, oqbo galerie, Berlin
Uncharted, Marina Cain Gallery, SF
What's the Point?, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC (curated by Jeffrey Teuton)
2011
Gifting Abstraction, Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, NYC (curated by Mariangeles Soto-Diaz)
Chroma: About Color, Marina Cain Gallery, SF
2010
Informal Relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (curated by Scott Grow)
Touch, Paris Concret (curated by Brent Hallard)
2009
Mixtape, Jen Bekman Projects, NYC
Fate and Freewill, Contemporary Art Space, Riverside, CA (curated by David Leapman)
2007
Colectiva de las Artistas, Galeria Isidro Miranda, Buenos Aires
Art in Embassies, U.S. Embassy, Montevideo, Uruguay
Tree, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005
Neo-Mod: New Northern Californian Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA and the Monterey Art Museum, Monterey, CA (curated by Diana Daniels)
The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, SF
2004
The World Becomes a Private World: Selections
from the Collection of Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
Architectonics, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Observations, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles
2002
New Painting and Sculpture, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley
Abstraction, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2001
Space Oddity, Joseph Nease Gallery, Kansas City
Climax, jennjoy gallery, SF
Poor Walls, Quotidian Gallery, SF
Pierogi Flat Files, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute
2000
Paper Cuts, Rena Bransten Gallery, SF
Works on Paper, Post, Los Angeles
Artcouncil Award Show, Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, SF
Multiple Sensations:The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF
Haulin’Ass: Pierogi in L.A., Post, Los Angeles
Yellow: The First Color, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1999
No Image at New Image, New Image Art, West Hollywood
Scopic: Magnify the Times, San Jose Inst. of Contemporary Art (curated by Julie Deamer)
Nothing But Time, Southern Exposure, SF (curated by David Ross)
A Skowhegan Decade, David Beitzel Gallery, New York
Post-Postcard, Four Walls, San Francisco
1997
Seduced by Surface: 8 Bay Area Painters, University Art Gallery, UC San Diego (curated by Daniel Foster)
Three Artists, Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose
State University
Fire and Light, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley
1996
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
10th Annual National Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center
Emerging Bay Area Artists, Mace Space for Art, San Francisco
Films
2023 More than Once, Upon a Time, winner of the Best Experimental Film in the short film category, Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid
2009-present Adjunct Faculty, University of San Francisco
Summer 2017: Qingdao University, China
2008-2011 City College of San Francisco Cont. Ed. Program
Awards
2022
Beckett residency grant, Fundación Valparaíso, Spain
2007
American Artists Abroad Program, Montevideo, Uruguay. Participation with the U.S. Embassy in workshops, lectures,
and exhibitions.
2002
SECA Nomination, San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art
2000
Artadia Award in the Visual Arts Grant
1995
Edwin and Adalaine Cadogan Fellowship Award
1996
Juror’s Award, Berkeley Art Center’s 10th Annual National Exhibition, selected by Bill Berkson
1994
First Place Award, San Jose Art League’s 2-D
Contemporary, selected by Squeak Carnwath
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