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Jay DeFeo
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American
, 1929–1989)
Jay DeFeo
Untitled,
1983
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Jay DeFeo
Samurai No. 4,
1987
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Jay DeFeo
Untitled,
1988
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Jay DeFeo
Untitled,
1971
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Biography
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1929
Born, Hanover, NH
1946 - 1950
B.A. in painting from University of California at Berkeley, CA
1950 - 1951
M.A. in painting from University of California at Berkeley, CA
1951
Sigmund Martin Heller Traveling Fellowship, University of California - Berkeley
1973
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship
1982
Honorary Doctorate from San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1984 - 1985
Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1985 - 1986
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship
1989
Died in Oakland, California
For more info see:
www.jaydefeo.org
Exhibitions
2013
Jay DeFeo: Chiaroscuro, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2012
Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco/CA, USA (solo)
Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA (solo)
Painting Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Night Scented Stock, curated by Todd Levin, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Beyond Tradition: Art Legacies at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond Art Center, Richmond /CA, USA
Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York/NY, USA
Abstract Now and Then, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley/CA, USA
2011
Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction, 1946-1963, organized by Nyehaus, David Nolan Gallery, New York/NY, USA
DeFeo, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco/CA, USA (solo)
Jay DeFeo: Photographs/Works on Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York/NY, USA (solo)
2010
The Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco/CA, USA
Different Strokes: 20th Century Drawing, George Adams Gallery, New York/NY, USA
In Focus: Photographs from the Mills College Art Museum Collection, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland/CA, USA
I.G.Y. (Curated by Todd Levin), Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Collection Show, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland/CA, USA
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1950s-1960s, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco/CA, USA
Jay DeFeo: Summer Landscape, Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe/NM, USA (solo)
2009
Samurai, Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe/NM, USA (solo)
2008
Traces of the Sacred in Twentieth Century Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Where the Swan Flies, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Pioneers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Works in the Kunstkammer, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver British Columbia
2007
Jay DeFeo: Applaud the Black Fact, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Birds, Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe, NM
2006
Chance Encounters: The Formation of the de Menil's African Collection, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Beat Generation and Beyond, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Lines of Discovery - 225 Years of American Drawing from The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Sarasota Springs, NY
Jay DeFeo: No End, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Jay DeFeo: Botanicals, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Measure of Time, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA
"out of my own head:" Photographs by Jay DeFeo, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Beat Generation and Beyond, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2005
Draw, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Assemblage and Collage in California in the 1960s, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
2004
"out of my own head:" Photographs by Jay DeFeo, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Turning Corners, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain: Selected Works from the di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC; de Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Beat Generation and Beyond, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
In Sequence, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Zen and Modern Art, University Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward, CA
Presence, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Beat Generation and Beyond, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Beside 'The Rose:' Selected Works by Jay DeFeo, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Jay DeFeo: Her Tripod and Its Dress, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Jay DeFeo: Ingredients of Alchemy, Before and After The Rose, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2002
Jay DeFeo: Photographs, Cabrillo College Art Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
2000
True Grit, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1999
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1997
The Rose, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (solo)
1996
Jay DeFeo: Works 1952-1989, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
1995
Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1990
Jay DeFeo, An Intimate View: Small Paintings 1986-1989, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA (solo)
1989
Jay DeFeo: In Memoria - A Selection of Paintings, 1986-1989, The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA (solo)
1986
Dissonant Abstractions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1984
Jay DeFeo: Selected Works Past and Present, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1981
Selections from the Permanent Collection, University Art Museum, University of California - Berkeley
1976
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1975
Jay DeFeo, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (solo)
1966
Nine California Artists: Abstract Expressionists, Pasadena Art Museum, CA
1960
Jay DeFeo, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1959
Sixteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1954
Jay DeFeo, The Place, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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Literature
2002
'Jay DeFeo: Ingredients of Alchemy, Before and After The Rose'. New York, NY: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2002
