Jacqueline Humphries (born November 17, 1960, in

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) is a renowned American abstract painter married to

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. She is known for her large-scale paintings that reference the history of abstraction, combining traditional painterly techniques with contemporary technologies. She has used metallic silver pigment to suggest the glow of a cinema screen, and has incorporated

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, kaomoji, and

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tests into recent works that draw on digital communication. Other paintings are produced by scanning her earlier canvases, translating them into

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character code, and using custom laser-cut stencils of the resulting images as the basis for new paintings.http://www.wexarts.org

Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:). September 18, 2021 – January 2, 2022. Humphries lives and works in

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, where she is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery.

Work

Humphries' work has been included in major exhibitions in the United States and internationally, including the

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(2022) and the

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(2014). She was the subject of a major one-person survey exhibition at the

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, in 2021. Her Black Light paintings were shown in a solo exhibition at Dia Bridgehampton,

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in 2019, a body of work which she had previously exhibited at NYEHAUS in 2005. John Kelsey described this exhibition in Artforum as "the most memorable painting show in New York".http://www.nyehaus.com

February 25 – April 15, 2006. Humphries's first comprehensive solo presentation at a

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took place at the

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in 2015, and later travelled to the

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. Her work is in the permanent collections of the

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, New York;

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, New York;

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; and

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, London.http://www.moma.org

Jacqueline Humphries, Beat the Devil, 2008http://www.artic.edu

Jacqueline Humphries, i\Ω.., 2017

Early life and education

Humphries graduated from

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in 1985, receiving a BFA in Fine Arts. She attended the Independent Study Program at the

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from 1985 to 1986.

Philanthropy

Humphries serves as the Vice Chairperson of the board of directors at

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, one of New York City's oldest nonprofit alternative art centers. In 2020, she co-curated an exhibition with fellow board member

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to celebrate The Kitchen's fifty-year anniversary. The exhibition featured fifty artists including

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, and

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. Previously, Humphries served as a board member at Participant Inc., an educational corporation and not-for-profit alternative art space founded in 2001.

Solo exhibitions

* Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 1995. * Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 1997. * Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 1999. * Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2001. * NYEHAUS, New York, 2005. *

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, Massachusetts, 2006. * Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2006. * Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2007. * Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007. * Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2009. * Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2010. * Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2012. * Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2014. *

, Pittsburgh, 2015. * Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2015. *

, New Orleans, 2015. * Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, 2016. *

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, San Francisco, 2016. * Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2017. * Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2018. * Dia Bridgehampton, New York, 2019. * Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, 2020. *

, Columbus, 2021. * Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, 2022.

Monographs

* Jacqueline Humphries: Neiman Marcus (Greene Naftali, 2022) * Jacqueline Humphries (Lund Humphries, 2022) * Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:) (Wexner Center for the Arts, 2022) * Jacqueline Humphries (Koenig, 2014) * Jacqueline Humphries: Black Light Paintings (Foundation 2021, 2005) * Jacqueline Humphries: Malerei Paintings (Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 2000)

Public collections

Humphries' work is held in the following public collections, among others: *

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, Buffalo *

, Chicago *

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, Munich *

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, Cincinnati *

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, Lisbon *

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, Columbus *

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, Dallas *

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, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York *

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, Washington, D.C. *

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, Hanover *

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, New York *

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, Water Mill *

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, San Francisco *

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, London *

, New Yorkhttp://www.whitney.org

Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled (white), 1992

References

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