John Jacobsmeyer

Born 1964, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Lives and works in New York

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.

Artist info
Earlier works
CV
Exhibitions
Press
Download

CV

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