Biography

1941
Born in Long Beach, California

Education

1963
Mills College, Oakland, CA, B.A.

1964
Yale School of Art and Architecture, B.F.A

1965
Yale School of Art and Architecture, M.F.A.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (also 2006, 2005, 2004, 2001, 2000, 1998, 1996, 1994)

2007
The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY

2006
The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

2004
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL (also 2001, 1999, 1996, 1993, 1991)

2003
Neptune Fine Art, New York
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York

2002
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (also 2000, 1999, 1996, 1994)
Artemis Greenberg VanDoren Gallery, New York

2001
Galerie Lutz & Thalman, Zurich

2000
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA (also 1996, 1992, 1986)
Galleria Lawrence Rubin, Milan
Jennifer Bartlett: Rhapsody, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Hiram Butler Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX (also 1999, 1995)
Julie Sylvester Fine Art, Bermuda
Lawrence Rubin, Greenberg-Van Doren Gallery, New York

1999
Richard Gray Gallery, New York
Robert Miller Gallery, New York

1998
Numark Gallery, Washington, DC (also 1996)
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (also 1997, 1993, 1990, 1989)

1997
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York

1996
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL (also 1994)
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

1995
Paula Cooper, New York (also 1994, 1992, 1991, 1990,1988, 1987, 1985, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1979, 1977, 1976, 1974)

1994
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton A/D, New York

1993
Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, NM
Jennifer Bartlett: A Print Retrospective, Orlando Museum of Art, FL, traveled to: Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, OH; Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence; Joslyn Art Center, Omaha, NE
Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA (also 1983, 1979)

1992
Maier Museum, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA
Gallery Mukai, Tokyo (also 1989, 1980)
Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC

1990
Knoedler Gallery, London (also 1989)

1988
The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu, Tokyo
Frauen Vor Flusslandschaft, by Heinrich Boll, directed by Volker Schlondorff, Munchner Kammerspeile (sets and costumes by Jennifer Bartlett)
The House of the Dead, by Leos Janacek, directed by Volker Schlondorff, Opera Comique, Paris
(sets and costumes by Bartlett)
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI

1987
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England

1986
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

1985
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Carpenter + Hochman Gallery, Dallas, TX
Jennifer Bartlett, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, traveled to: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

1984
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley

1983
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (also 1981, 1979)
Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL

1982
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
The Tate Gallery, London
McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Houston, TX

1980
Akron Art Institute, OH
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1979
The Clocktower, New York
University of Akron, OH
Carlton College, Northfield, MN

1978
Saman Gallery, Genoa, Italy (also 1974)
University of California, Irvine, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Baltimore Art Museum, MD

1977
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1975
The Garage, London (with Joel Shapiro)
John Doyle Gallery, New York
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

1972
Reese Paley Gallery, New York

1971
Jacob’s Ladder, Washington, DC (with Jack Tworkov)

1970
119 Spring Street, New York

1963
Mills College, Oakland, CASelected Group Exhibitions2004 Watercolor Worlds, Dorsky Gallery, New York
Uncharted Territory: Subjective Mapping by Artists and Cartographers, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2007
This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Not for Sale, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

2006
International Biennial: Still Points of the Turning World, Site Sante Fe, NM
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Women’s Work: Paintings 1970-1990, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY

2004
Watercolor Worlds, Dorsky Gallery, New York
Uncharted Territory: Subjective Mapping by Artists and Cartographers, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

2003
Seascapes in Confrontation, PMMK, Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium
Bartlett–Murray: Selections from the Anderson Collection, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

2002
The Tipping Point, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Linger, Artemis Greenberg VanDoren, New York
Ad Infinitum, Wynne Kramarsky, New York
All American-Part II, Artemis Greenberg VanDoren, New York

2001
Bugs, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Thirty-Five Drawings, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
Celebrating Modern Art, The Harry Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art Shadow Dancing: 1975-9, D’Amelio-Terras Gallery, New York
State of the Art 2001, Parkland College, Champaign, IL

2000
Three Works from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, traveling exhibition organized by The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL

1999
Powder, Aspen Art Museum, CO
Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Grinnell, IA
The Art of Time, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

1998
New to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Reflections of Monet, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Metaphor, Allegory, Illusion and Narrative, Harvard University Art Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

1997
Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995. Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, traveling exhibition originating at the Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, VA
The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

1996
American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum of American Art, traveling exhibition originating at the National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, Museum of Modern Art, New York
48th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

1995
Grids and Serial Imagery, Akron Museum of Art, OH
Color in Space: Pictorialism in Contemporary Sculpture, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
Printmaking in America:Collaborative Prints and Presses, 1960-1990, traveling exhibition originating at the Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
More Room for a View: Large-Scale Works on Paper, The Brooklyn Museum, NY

1994
Contemporary Watercolors: American and European, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton
Drawings: Reaffirming the Media, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Gallery of Art, MO
House Sweet House, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit
Evolutions in Expression: Minimalism and Post-Minimalism from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
Personal Stories: A History of the Universe, Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, OH
Mountains of the Mind, Aspen Art Museum, CO
From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Novices Collect: Selections from the Sam and May Gruber Collection, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH

1993
Choice Encounters, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Personal Imagery: Chicago-New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
45th Annual Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

1992
Marking the Decades: Prints 1960–1990, The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
An Ode to Gardens and Flowers, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
44th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

1991
Jennifer Bartlett & Elizabeth Murray, Works from the Anderson Collection, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA; Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
Sieben Amerikanishe Maler, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Masterworks of Contemporary Sculpture, Painting and Drawing from the 1930s to the 1990s, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
Among Friends: Contemporary Works on Paper from the Collection formed by Ingeborg and Jan van der Marck, traveling exhibition originating at the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
Lincoln Center/List Poster Collection, Fordham University, The College at Lincoln Center, New York
43rd Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

1990
Terra Incognita: New Directions in Contemporary Landscape, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Second State: The New Painter/Printmaker, Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Contemporary Art in New York: 1950s-1980s, IMP Hall, Osaka, Japan
The Grid: Organization and Idea, Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts,William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
Renaissance du Polyptyque Dans L'Art Contemporain, Galerie Bellier, Paris
Long Island Landscape Painting: The Twentieth Century, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
The 80s: A Post-Pop Generation, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Long Island Collects, The Figure & Landscape, 1970s–1980s, Nassau Country Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Von Haben und vom Wollen, Perspecktiven fur eine Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst Eine Austellung, Bayerischen
Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich, Germany

1989
Encore, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Making Their Mark, traveling exhibition organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Nocturnal Visions, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York
First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists, traveling exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Contemporary Art from New York: The Collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1988
Imprimatur, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; traveled to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Recent American Pastels, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
New Approaches to Landscape Art, Tower Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
Three Decades: The Oliver Hoffman Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Earthly Delights: Garden Imagery in Contemporary Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN
New Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jennifer Bartlett, Elizabeth Murray, Eric Fischl, Susan Rothenberg, The Saatchi Collection, London

1987
The Monumental Image, traveling exhibition originating at the University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
Contemporary Diptychs: Divided Visions, Whitney Museum of American Art / Fairfield County, Stamford, CT
Reconnecting: Recent Work by Jennifer Bartlett, Mel Bochner, Nancy Graves, Patrick Ireland, Lucio Pozzi, Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
The Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: Painting 1977-1987, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
A Graphic Muse: Prints by Contemporary American Women, traveling exhibition organized by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Process and Product: The Making of a Contemporary Masterwork, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions 1977-1987, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Contemporary Panoramas: The World is Round, traveling exhibition organized by the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

1986
Four Printmakers, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Contemporary Prints, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, FL
The 75th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago
The Barry Lowen Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
In Tandem, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 50th National Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Japonisme: Japanese Reflections in Western Art, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
Contemporary Screens, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Landscape in the Age of Anxiety, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Viewpoint 86: Painting and the Third Dimension, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
70s Into 80s: Printmaking Now, The Lois and Michael Torf Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1976–1986: Ten Years of Collecting Contemporary Art; Selections from the Edward Downe, Jr. Collection, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, MA
Boston Collects: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1985
New Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs, Central Research Library, The New York Public Library
Nine Printmakers and the Working Process, Whitney Museum of American Art/Fairfield County, Stamford, CT
From Modern to Post: Three Exhibitions to Honor the Dedication of the Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Cross Overs: Artists in Two Mediums, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT
The Maximal Implications of he Minimal Line, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Milton and Sally Avery Center for the Arts, The Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Selections from the William J. Holkin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
A New Beginning: 1968–1978, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The House and Garden: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
American Art: American Women, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, CT
37th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York

1984
Contemporary Drawings: Concepts, Records, Projects, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY
New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscapes, traveling exhibition organized by the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Reflections: New Conceptions of Nature, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University/C.S. Post Campus, Greenvale, NY
The Innovative Landscape: Artists with a New Approach to an Old Tradition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Contemporary Perspectives 1984, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
With the Grain: Artists Explore the Woodcut, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
The Modern Art of the Print: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael Torf, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1983
Back to the USA, traveling exhibi-tion originating at Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany

1982
U.S. Art Now, Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm, Sweden
American Prints: 1960–1980, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Body Language, traveling exhibition originating at the Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Block Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
New Dimensions in Drawing, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Summer Light, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The American Landscape: Recent Developments, Whitney Museum of American Art/Fairfield County, Stamford, CT
American Painting, 1930-1980, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
33rd Annual Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

1980
Extensions: Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Robert Longo, Judy Pfaff, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Urban Encounters, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Pictures for an Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Venice Biennale, American Pavilion, Venice

1979
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Decade in Review, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1978
New Image Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

1977
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany

1976
72nd Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
Soho, Louisiana Museum, Humblaek, Denmark
The Pure Form, Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany

1975
37th Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Biennale de Paris, Paris
Approaching Painting: Part One, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

1973
Contemporary American Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
C.7500, California Institute of Art, Valencia, CA

1972
Painting Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting: New Options, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1971
Seven Walls, The Museum of Modern Art, New York