Xylor Jane

b. 1963, California
Lives and works in Greenfield, MA

Education:

San Francisco Art Institute, BFA Painting, 1993

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2011 Forthcoming, CANADA, NY
2010 crisscross, Almine Rech, Paris
2009 N.D.E, CANADA, New York, NY
2007 Supersedure, Jack Hanley, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Dying Everyday, CANADA, New York, NY
Recent Drawings, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA

2005 The Doubloon, Four, Dublin
Say When, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago IL

2004 Blue Max The LAB, SF CA
Twin Prime, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dots Square, CANADA, NYC
2003 III, Luggage Store San Francisco, CA
Good Luck, Rare Gallery Project Room, New York, NY
2002 Inn 151 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Hell’s Half Acre, 151 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Carry the One, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011 Science and Exploration, Horton Gallery, New York, NY
New Shadow Old Legs, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
2010 Why Patterns?, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
Psy-co Painting, Carlson Gallery, London, UK
New York Minute curated by Kathy Grayson, The Garage, Moscow
Day-to-Day, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
New/Now 2010, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Not Quite Open For Business, The Hole, New York, NY
Pearl River, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2009 New York Minute curated by Kathy Grayson, Macro Future, Rome
Ecstatic Resistance, X Initiative, New York, NY
Abstract Abstract, Foxy Productions, New York, NY
A Mind Meld is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Lisa Beck, Ben Berlow, Graham Caldwell, Xylor Jane, Jacob Kassay, David Malek: GROUP SHOW @ 515 BROADWAY, Curated by Robert Nickas. Martos
Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Constraction, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
200597214100022008, Small A Projects, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gallery 16- Fifteenth Anniversary Group Show: These Are The People In Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2007 In the Fullness of Time, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
Cabinet of Curiosities, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
All is Well, 80 WSE Gallery, NYU, New York, NY
The Shows So Nice, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
Analogous Logic, Brooklyn Foreproof, New York, NY

Machine Imaginaire, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL

Beyond the Pale, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NYBeyond the Pale, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY
Crystal Crunch, curated by Taylor McKimens, Perugi artecontemporanea, Padua, Italy
2006 Panic Room, Dakis Jaonnou Collection at Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Bunch Alliance and Dissolve, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Table Top, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
West Coast Windows, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Serial, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Searching for Love & Fire, David Castillo Contemporary, Miami, FL
2005 Past Lives and Personal Exorcisms, Blackbird Space, San Francisco, CA
Realms of San Francisco, curated by Julia Barnes, Nakaochiai Gallery,
Tokyo, Japan
Excitations, curated by Matt Keegan, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY Fix Box, RARE, New York, NY
Op-ish, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Ctr for the Arts, San Francisco,CA
2004 Majority Whip, White Box, New York, NY
The Big Ballyhoo, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
Mental Space, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
The Bay Area Show, Detroit Contemporary and Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI
LTTR Explosion, Art In General New York, NY
Spring Group, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
SF Drawing Show Part 2, New Image in Los Angeles, CA
Works on Paper, RARE New York, NY
Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, curated by Peter Spooner,
Center for the Arts, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ and University Art Museums     University of Richmond, VA
2003 Dirt Wizard, Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery
Into, Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, Seven01 Cafe, on-site painting  collaboration, 1/24-7/15
Close Calls, Marin Headlands Center for the Arts
Hybrid Digital Analogue, SF State University, San Francisco CA
Drawing Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MARK: Contemporary Drawings, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, curated by Peter Spooner, the     Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota-Duluth
2002 mMOVE8 curated by Rich Jacobs, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
Template, Balazo, San Francisco, CA
Pierogi Flat Files, The Armory, New York, NY
Goop, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
Demo, Nexus, Philadelphia, PA
2001 Friction Fit, Drawing Show, Fort Haggis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SuperBowl Sunday, Mural, LunaSea Theatre, S San Francisco, CA
DOTS, Balazo, San Francisco CA
Pierogi Flat Files, Block ArtSpace, Kansas City MO
2000 Plump, Spaceproject, San Francisco, CA
Pierogi Flat Files, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Pretty Town, ESP Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Drawing Show, curated by Chris Johansen & Alicia McCarthy, New     Image Art, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography:

2009 Smith, Roberta, “Xylor Jane, N.D.E.” Art in Review, The New York Times, March 19
Cotter, Hollland, “Ecstatic Resistance”, Art in Review, The New York Times,
December 18
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren, “Xylor Jane, N.D.E.”, ARTFORUM, May
Saltz, Jerry, “Dot Matrix”, New York Magazine, March 23
Yau, John, “Xylor Jane, N.D.E.”, The Brooklyn Rail, Apri
2008 Johnson, Ken, “Constraction,” Art in Review, New York Times, June 18
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren, “Constraction,” ARTFORUM.com, July 20
Fowler, Brendan, “Xylor Jane”, ANP Quarterly Issue No. 7
Saltz, Jerry, Into the Fray, Village Voice, February 7-13
Keegan, Matt, “Erratic Systems and Irregular Cycles,” Modern Painters, February
2006 Smith, Roberta, Art in Review, The New York Times, November 3
Newhall, Edith, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7
Fallon, Roberta, Philadelphia Weekly, January 18
McQuaid, Cate, Boston Globe, February 16
2005 Painting the Town, Time Out New York, September 22
Orden, Abraham, Aperto San Francisco, Flash Art, July-September
Macklin, Karen, San Francisco Weekly, July 13
Baker, Kenneth, Review:YBCA, San Francisco Chronicle, July 30
Huston, Johnny Ray. The San Francisco Weekly, July 25
Helfand, Glen. The Guardian, issue #39, July 20
Ott, Sabina.  Broad Shoulders, stretcher.org, July
Williams, Lessane, Patricia.  Time Out Chicago, May 26
Chasin, Noah, Time Out New York, January 6
2004 Buuck, David,  Artweek, November
Swanhuyser, Hiya San Francisco Weekly, November 03
Killian, Kevin San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 03
Orden, Abraham artnet.com, October 7
New Math: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct by Peter Spooner
Houston, Johnny Ray San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 14
2003 Saltz, Jerry Village Voice  September 10
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, July 17
Baker, Ken San Francisco Chronicle
2000 Mill, Francis New York Arts
Bonetti, David San Francisco Examiner
Frank, Peter S. Los Angeles Weekly
1999    Helfand, Glen San Francisco Bay Guardian

Publications:

Xylor Jane, essay by Trinie Dalton, Picturebox, 2010
Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, by Bob Nickas, Phaidon, 2009, PP. 80 – 83 (illus.)
Fever Tent, Inconvenient Press, 2008
The Journal, Entry n. 20 2007
Odyssey, 2006
Encyclopedia A-E, 2006
Esopus #6, 2006
North Drive Press, No. 2, 2005
LTTR issue 4, 2005
Mirage #4 / Period(ical) #117
ZZYZYVA Fall 03
LTTR Volume 2 03
Persephone 03
Hand vs. Mouth 00
Perfection 98
Fucking Whatever 97

Awards:

Artist in Residence, Cuchifritos, NYC,  2007
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Goldie, Visual Art 2004
Artist in Residence, The LAB San Francisco, CA 2004
Artist in Residence, Bottle of Bread Shelbourne Falls, MA 03
Ora Lerman Charitable Trust Artists’ Residency, Philadelphia, PA 2002
Astraea Visual Artist Award, New York,  2002
Ebb/Tide Muralist, LunaSea Gallery, San Francisco. CA 2001