Xylor Jane › CV
1963, California
Lives and works in Greenfield, MA
Education
San Francisco Art Institute, BFA Painting
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
New Paintings, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Art Wall: Xylor Jane, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Second Saturn Return, Canada, New York, NY
Love Streams, Campoli Presti, Paris, France
Back Rub / Foot Rub, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
3Lakes, Canada, New York, NY
Counterclockwise, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, MA
Magic Square for Earthlings, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
trice, Canada, New York, NY
Sea Legs, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
3:07 AM, Canada, New York, NY
Xylor Jane and B. Wurtz: Recent Work, Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
crisscross, Almine Rech, Paris, France
N.D.E, Canada, New York, NY
Supersedure, Jack Hanley, Los Angeles, CA
Dying Everyday, CANADA, New York, NY
Recent Drawings, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
The Doubloon, Four, Dublin, Ireland
Say When, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
Blue Max, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
Twin Prime, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dots Square, Canada, New York, NY
III, Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
Good Luck, Rare Gallery Project Room, New York, NY
Inn, 151 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hell's Half Acre, 151 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Carry the One, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Apex is Nothing, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
Connections: Wingate Studio at David Krut Projects, David Krut Projects, New York, NY
50 Paintings, co-curated by Margaret Andera and Michelle Grabner, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Drunk vs Stoned 3, The Ranch, Montauk, NY
Visible World, Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Anything can pass before the eyes of a person, Derosia, New York, NY
The Holographic Principle, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Canada on Paper, Canada East Hampton, East Hampton, NY
Mystics of the World Unite, Sevil Dolmaci Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
9th Street and Beyond: 70 Years of Women in Abstraction, Hunter Dunbar, New York, NY
Cosmic Geometries, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
The Thick Stream, Canada, New York, NY
SFAI 150/Spirit of Disruption, Walter+McBean Gallery, San Fransisco, CA
My Way: The Gee's Bend Quiltmakers and Contemporary Abstraction, Parts & Labor, Beacon, NY
Canada b/w Drag City, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL
Paperview, The Hole, curated by Kathy Grayson, New York, NY
Other Romances, curated by Em Rooney, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
Strange Attractors, curated by Bob Nickas, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Surfacing, curated by Cameron Martin, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Attics of My Life, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
Make Painting Great Again, Canada, New York, NY
Figurative Geometry, curated by Bob Nickas, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Performing The Grid, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Strange Abstraction, Fredericks & Frasier, New York, NY
THE PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
This One's Optimistic: Pincushion, Curated by Cary Smith, New Britiain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
20th Anniversary Show, PIEROGI, Brooklyn, NY
A Chromatic Loss, Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Bortomlami, NY
New Dawn, SILBERKUPPE, Berlin, Germany
The Optical Unconscious, Kulturburo Alte Fabrik, Switzerland
Elements, Rudiments, Principles, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
deCordova Biennial, Lincoln, MA
Rien Faire et Laisser Rire, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Source Codes, Klemm’s. Berlin, Germany
Xtraction, The Hole, New York, NY
Perfect, International Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
Eagles, Marlborough Gallery Madrid, Spain
BUZZ, Galeria Nara Roseler, Sao Paolo, Brazil
X-centric, Geofrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Collaborations & Interventions, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
B-Out, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Science and Exploration, Horton Gallery, New York, NY
New Shadow Old Legs, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
Why Patterns?, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Psy-co Painting, Carlson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
New York Minute curated by Kathy Grayson, The Garage, Moscow, Russia
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, Germany
New York Minute curated by Kathy Grayson, Macro Future, Rome, Italy
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, CA
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
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
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, NY
Euphorion, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany
Crystal Crunch, curated by Taylor McKimens, Perugi artecontemporanea, Padua, Italy
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
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
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
Dirt Wizard, Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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, Sausalito, CA
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
MOVE8, 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
Friction Fit, Drawing Show, Fort Haggis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SuperBowl Sunday, Mural, LunaSea Theatre, San Francisco, CA
DOTS, Balazo, San Francisco, CA
Pierogi Flat Files, Block ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO
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
Publications
Xylor Jane: Notebooks, Canada, NY and parrasch heijnen gallery, Los Angeles, CA,. Essays by John Yau & Em Rooney.
19991: Xylor Jane, Canada, New York,. Published in association with Picture Box, Brooklyn.
Xylor Jane, essay by Trinie Dalton, Picturebox.
Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, by Bob Nickas, Phaidon, 2009, PP. 80 - 83 (illus.)
Vitamin P2 New Perspectives in Painting, Essay by Colin Perry, Phaidon, 2011, PP. 142 - 145 (illus.)
Bibliography
Yau, John, “Xylor Jane's Cosmic Grids .” Hyperallergic, December 19
Steinhauer, Jillian, "What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now", The New York Times, February 2
Packard, Cassie,"Your Concise Art Guide for February 2022", Hyperallergic, February 1
Cascone, Sarah,"Editors' Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week", Artnet, January 24
Cooper, Ashton, "Xylor Jane: Parrasch Heijnen Gallery", Artforum, May
Preston-Zappas, Lindsay, "Xylor Jane at Parrasch Heijnen", KCRW, Art Insider, February
Eisenman, Nicole "Best of 2019", Artforum, December
Fateman, Johanna, "ART Xylor Jane / Sahar Khoury," The New Yorker, September 30
Heinrich, Will, "TriBeCa, the New Art Stroll," The New York Times, September 19
Saltz, Jerry, "The Return of the Tribeca Art Scene," Vulture, September 17
Spivack, Emily, "When a Discarded Cat’s Whisker Becomes a Prized Possession," The New York Times
Style Magazine, September 4
Laster, Paul, "Tribeca Emerges as New Hub for Galleries," Galerie, August 29
Geis, Kate, "Short Film: Xylor Jane," UMass Amherst Museum of Contemporary Art, April
Fine, Zachary, "Xylor Jane," Artforum, April 1, 2019
"Xylor Jane's 'Magic Square for Earthlings'," Juxtapoz, February 21
Pagel, David, "From the tiniest pinpoints of color, Xylor Jane creates pulsating patterns of life." Los Angeles Times, February 5
Campbell, Andy, "Critic's picks : Xylor Jane," ArtForum, February 2
Osberg, Annabel. “Xylor Jane.” Artillary. January
Davis, Samara, "Performing The Grid.", ARTFORUM, January 28
Nunes, Andrew "CANADA is Making Painting Great Again."
The Creators Project: Vice Magazine June 22, 2016
Myles, Eileen, "Eleven Favorites", The Paris Review, Fall
Prentnieks, Anne, "Xylor Jane", ARTFORUM, May
Lescaze, Zoë, "The Painter of Modern Life", ARTFORUM, April
Garen, Brenton, "Santa Monica Museum of Art Presents New Artists in Project Room", Santa Monica Mirror, February 6
Schmerler, Sarah, “Xylor Jane”, Art in America, October 12
Yau, John, “The Mysteries of One, Two, Three”, Hyperallergic, June 3
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, April
Johnson, Ken, "Constraction," Art in Review, New York Times, June 18
O'Neill-Butler, Lauren, "Constraction," ARTFORUM, July 20
Saltz, Jerry, Into the Fray, Village Voice, February 7-13
Keegan, Matt, Erratic Systems and Irregular Cycles, Modern Painters, February
Fever Tent, Inconvenient Press.
Fowler, Brendan, Xylor Jane, ANP Quarterly Issue No. 7
Saltz, Jerry, Into the Fray, Village Voice, February 7-13
Lawlor, Andrea. The Odyssey #4, published by Pocket Myths.
The Journal, Entry n. 20
Keegan, Matt, Erratic Systems and Irregular Cycles, Modern Painters, February
Smith, Roberta, Art in Review, The New York Times, November 3
Newhall, Edith, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7
“Artist’s Project: Xylor Jane”, ESOPUS 6, Spring
Fallon, Roberta, Philadelphia Weekly, January 18
McQuaid, Cate, Boston Globe, February 16
Bryant, Tisa, Mellis, Miranda, & Schatz, Kate. Encyclopedia Vol 1 A-E. Published by Encyclomedia.
Painting the Town, Time Out New York, September 22
LTTR issue 4 - Do You Wish to Direct Me?, September
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Macklin, Karen, San Francisco Weekly, July 13
Baker, Kenneth, Review:YBCA, San Francisco Chronicle, July 30
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Baker, Ken San Francisco Chronicle
Lawlor, Andrea, Persephone #1, published by Pocket Myths.
Mill, Francis New York Arts
Bonetti, David San Francisco Examiner
Frank, Peter S. Los Angeles Weekly
Hand vs. Mouth
Helfand, Glen San Francisco Bay Guardian
Perfection
Fucking Whatever
Awards
Frederick Hammersley Artist in Residence
Artist in Residence, Cuchifritos, NYC, 2007
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Goldie, Visual Art
Artist in Residence, The LAB San Francisco, CA
Artist in Residence, Bottle of Bread Shelbourne Falls, MA
Ora Lerman Charitable Trust Artists’ Residency, Philadelphia, PA
Astraea Visual Artist Award, New York
Ebb/Tide Muralist, LunaSea Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Collections
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Hall Collection, Reading, VT
University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA