John Jacobsmeyer
John Jacobsmeyer (b. 1964, Ann Arbor, Michigan) has been an active contributor to the new figuration in the New York area for the past 20 years. He operates the JJHS Press where his wordless book “More Than Human” was published in 2010 and the portfolio “Safety First” was published for the Shanghai Metro in 2013. Jacobsmeyer earned his BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University. He teaches printmaking, painting, and art theory at the New York Academy of Art’s Graduate School. He has taught or given lectures at over 40 Colleges and Universities around the world including RISD, Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, Shanghai University, Vanderbilt University, and the Pratt Institute. He received artist residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Anchor Graphics, Cill Rialig Ireland, Shanghai University and Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul. Awards include two fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Basil Alkazzi Award, a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy, a Pollack-Krasner Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship. His work is housed in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, New Mexico, the Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio, the States of New Hampshire and South Carolina, and the Cities of Seattle and Shanghai, China as well as numerous colleges, universities and private collections.
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EDUCATION
1989 MFA, Painting & Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1986 BFA, Painting, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Friction and Mist, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022
A Ludicrous Build, California State University Stanislaus, Turlock, California
2020
The Alligator Pit Recoded, New York Academy of Art, New York City, New York
Locus Colossus, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Great Feats & Defeats, Jonathan Levine Projects, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
2016
Knotty Children, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
It Came From a Pine Box, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
More Than Human, New York Center for Book Arts, New York
2014
More Than Human, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington
2008
Prometheus Incubus, Memorial Gallery Farmingdale State University, Farmingdale, New York
2006
What Ban on Human-Animal Hybrids?, Pratt Institute Printmaking Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2005
Superhero Lonely, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, New York
2004
Grandiosities (two person), Fraser Gallery, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
2003
Accurate Deceptions and Other Optical Illusions, Karl Drerup Art Gallery Plymouth State College, New Hampshire
2002
Orphans, Pastures, and History, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
Impossible Patrimonies, Wilkinson Gallery The New York Academy Gallery, NYC, New York
2001
Strangely Distorted Views of Very Important People, Nahcotta, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
2000
Sleepwalking with G.I.Joe, Fraser Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1999
Saints and Survivalists, Anchor Graphics, Chicago, Illinois
1998
Frontier Fever, Kougeas Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1996
John Jacobsmeyer Faculty Review, University Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire
1993
Paradossi In-Naturali: Recent Works by John Jacobsmeyer, Ex-ministry of Agriculture, Florence, Italy
1990
John Jacobsmeyer: Recent Works, William Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS and EXPOSITIONS
2024
Art Herning 2024, Gallery Poulsen, Denmark
2023
Art Miami 2023, Gallery Poulsen, Miami, Florida
Gallery Poulsen 20, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Herning 2023, Gallery Poulsen, Denmark
2022
Art Miami 2022, Gallery Poulsen, Miami, Florida
Art Herning, Art Fair, Gallery Poulsen, Herning, Denmark
Lost in Translation, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021
Earthborn, Corpus Christi TX
Intouchables, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen
2020
Apocalypse Now, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Together But Separately, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
Seattle Art Fair, Gallery Poulsen, Seattle, Washington
Inglorious Bastards, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pulse Art Fair, Gallery Poulsen, Miami Beach, Florida
Art Herning 2019, Gallery Poulsen, Herning, Denmark
Art on Paper Fair, Gallery Poulsen, NYC, New York
Gaze Shift, Flatiron Gallery/SVA, NYC, New York
Representing, Artisan Lofts, NYC, New York
Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art, NYC, New York
2018
Pulse Art Fair, Gallery Poulsen, Miami Beach, Florida
IAPA Exhibition, Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jiangdezhen City, China
Let’s Print in Leipzig, Museum fur Druckkunst, Leipzig
Once Upon a Time in New York, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen
You Tell Me, Foley Gallery, NYC, New York
Art Herning Art Fair, Gallery Poulsen, Herning, Denmark
Art America Beijing, Chengxi Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China(plus travel to Dalien, China)
Contact, Print Portfolio project for Southern Graphics Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada
RAIC 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico
2017
Jetzt Druck Machen, Museum Angerlehner in Thalheim Wels, Germany
Cannonball Run, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Autumn in New York, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pulse Miami, Gallery Poulsen, Miami Beach, Florida
Art on Paper Fair, Gallery Poulsen, NYC, New York
Art Herning, Gallery Poulsen, Herning, Denmark
Multiple Multiples, Jonathan Levine Projects, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
Welcome to New Jersey, Jonathan Levine Projects, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
Printmaking Biannual, Lima Peru; Seoul, South Korea; Koln, Germany
Fractured Body, FAB Gallery, University of the Arts, Tirana, Albanian
Printmaking Invitational, Polk State College, Winter Haven, Florida
Point of Origin, Lodge Gallery, New York, NY and Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2016
Donde esta mi Pistola Arpon?, a print portfolio curated by Miguel Aragon
Twisted Impressions, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, Washington
My Blood Runs Yellow Sloan Fine Art, LA, California
Poulsen’s Fifteen Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen Denmark
New York Academy The Vendue, Charleston, South Carolina
Pulse New York, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Herning 2016, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pulse Miami, Miami Beach, Florida
2015
Between Us, Lodge Gallery, NYC, New York
The Copenhagen Interpretation, Gallery Poulsen & Lodge Gallery, NYC, New York
In a Blaze of Glory, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen
Tell Them Stories: Origins, Mark Miller Gallery, NYC, New York
Distortion: a Print Portfolio, Curated by Wuon Gean Ho
Locket, Love It, Leave It, Island Weiss Gallery, New York, New York
Art Herning 2015, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Tell Them Stories, The Foundry, NYC, New York
Unbound: Contemporary Woodcut Prints, Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Formative Impressions, KCPA International Printmaking Exhibition- 8 Pacific Nations(traveling show)
Jincheong Printmaking Museum, South Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
NYAA Summer Juried Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, NYC, New York
Object/Abject the Figure in Contemporary Printmaking (traveling show)
Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California
New York Academy of Art, NYC, New York
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
2018 Artist-in-Residence, Museum fur Druckkunst Leipzig
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Cill Rialaig Residency program, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2012 Artist in Residence, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
2011 New York Academy of Art Travel Stipend to Der Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Cill Rialaig Residency program, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2008 Artist-in-Residence, Anchor Graphics at Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper
2002 Pollack Krasner Grant to fund ongoing woodcut book
2000 MacDowell Colony summer residency May/June, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1998 Ragdale Foundation/NEA Fellowship and summer residency, Lake Forest, Illinois
1996 Artists Fellowship New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
1994 Basil Alkazzi Award
Artists Fellowship New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
1993 Fulbright Extension Grant
1992 Miguel Vinciguerra Fulbright Fellowship to study in Florence, Italy for 10 mo.
Fulbright Travel Grant to and from Italy
1991 Roswell Art Center Residency Grant one year residency, Roswell, New Mexico
1989 Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Award, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
