Jack Pierson

Jack Pierson was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1960. He is a photographer He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Mr. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings, and artists books. His "Self-Portrait" series was recently shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and his works are collected by major museums worldwide. Jack Pierson currently divides his time between his home and studio in the Southern California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and New York. He has photographed many well-known celebrities and models. These include:

• Michael Bergin
• Naomi Campbell
• Snoop Dogg
• Massimiliano Neri
• Brad Pitt
• Antonio Sabato Jr.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 "Seeing the Light", Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (1/20 - 4/15/06)

2005 "Drawings A to Z: Colecao Madeira Corporate Services", Porta 33, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal (2/16 - 4/30/05)

                       "Collection 2", Fondation Pour L'art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Chateau k'Arenthon, Alex, France (3/17 - 6/3/05)

                       “Getting Emotional," ICA, Boston (5/18 – 9/05/05)

                       "Word Play", Julie Saul Gallery, New York (6/17 - 8/19/05)

                       "Male Desire Two", Mary Ryan Gallery, New York (6/23 - 9/10/05)

                       "A Thousand Words", Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas (7/9 - 8/27/05)

                       "The Culture of Queer", Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA (7/23 - 9/18/05)

                       “All in the Family (NY Edition)," Mailena Braun, curator, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (7/26-8/27)

                       "Romance", Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal (9/14 - 9/15/05)

                       Project MTL, Centre d’Amherst, Montreal (10/19- 11/20)

                       "Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper", Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (10/28/05 - 1/14/06)

2004 "Double Check," The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia (9/10 - 10/16/04) traveling to the Camera Austria at the Kunsthaus Graz (2005)

                       “I am the Walrus," Cheim & Read, New York (6/10 – 7/31/05)

                       “Word of Mouth, A Selection: Part I," Dinter Fine Art, New York (10/8 – 11/24/04)

                       "High Desert Test Sites Four", organized by Andrea Zittel, Shaun Caley-Regen, Lisa Anne Auerbach, John Connelly, and Andy Stillpass, Joshua Tree, CA (10/23-24/04)

                       Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (3/11-5/30/04)

2003 “Inaugural Exhibition," Regen Projects, Los Angeles (1/25-2/22/03)

“Abstraction in Photography: Von Lintel Gallery, New York, ( 2/6-3/22/03)

                       “Imaging the Abstract," Feigen Contemporary, (4/10 – 5/24/03)

                       Kunst-Station, Cologne, Germany (TK)

“Social Startegies," University Galleries, Illinois State University.(9/9-10/19/03)

2002 “5 Sculptures: Tony Feher, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mike Kelley, Jack Pierson,” D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York (1/5 – 2/9/02)

“Chapter V,” Art Resources Transfer, New York (8/1-8/23/02)

“Electric Dreams,” The Barbican, London, England (7/11-8/26)

Ahead of the 21st Century, The Pisces Collection, Furstenberg Sammlungen, Donaueschingen, (6/02-10/04)

“Visions of America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001” (6/27-9/22/02)

“Ahead of the 21st Century: The Pisces Collection”(6/2002)

“Mensaje de Texto," Galeria Helga de Alvear (11/8/02-1/4/03)

2001 “A Way With Words: Selection s from the Whitney Museum of American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art (1/19-3/30/01)

                       “Postmodern Americans," The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (1/26 – 5/13/01)

“Pat Hearn Gallery: Part Two (1988-1994)," Pat Hearn Gallery, New York (2/3-3/3/01)

“Rocks & Trees," Photographic Resource Center, Boston (4/20 – 06/01/01)

“After Image," IKON Ltd./Kay Richards Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA (4/21 – 6/02/01)

“Spiritual America,” Audiello Fine Arts, Inc, New York, NY (5/11-6/16/01)

“Geometrie & Gestus,” curated by Nikolaus Ruzicska, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (7/22 – 8/31/01)

“Signs of the Times,” H&R Art Space, Kansas City, Missouri (6/18-7/18/01)

‘Masculinities’, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center. (11/3 – 12/30/01)

“The Magic Hour," Die Konvergenze von Kunst Und Las Vegas, Curated by Alex Farquharson (9/22-/01)

2000 “Quotidiana: The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art,” Castello di Rivoli, Torina, Italy (2/4 – 5/21/00)

                       “On Language,” Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (4/29 – 6/10/00)

                       “Jack Pierson, Mark Flood, and Dan McCarthy,” curated by Jack Pierson, Anton Kern Gallery, New York (4/28 –6/3 )

                       “H," Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA (5/30-6/24/00)

“PICT,” Walter Phillips Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Banff, Canada, curated by Yvonne Force

“Issue: group show,” Curated by Jack Pierson, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (10/17 – 11/10/00)

“00” Barbara Gladstone, New York (6/14-8/15/01)

1999 “Hindsight: Works from the Permanent Collection,” Whitney

                       Museum of American Art, New York

                       “Two by Two for AIDS,” Dallas,TX  (3/28/99)

                       “Insight-Out,” Kunstraum Innsbruck, Kunsthaus Hamburg,

                       Kunsthaus Baselland (2/20-5/8/99)

                       “Free Coke,” Greene Naftali, New York

Marlborough Chelsea, New York “Views from the Edge of the World” (3/6/99-4/3/99)

“Collectors Collect Contemporary,” The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, curated by Jessica Morgan (3/31-5/28/99)

“Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Praxis,” curated by Warren Neidich, Thread Waxing Space, New York (3/25-5/1/99)

“Re: Rauschenberg,” Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco (5/6/99-7/3/99)

“Former Fellows of New York,” Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA (5/24 – 6/7/99), then to Lamia Ink. Gallery (8/23 – 9/18/99)

“Transmute,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Curated by Joshua Decter (8/21-11/7/99)

“Changing Faces: Contemporary Portraiture,” Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York (6/12 – 7/17/99) 

“A Place Called Lonely,” Greene Naftali, New York (9/9-10/2/99)

Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA (8/27/99 -)

“H2O,” curated by Tim Callis, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA

“The Ecstatic,” curated by Simon Watson, A project sponsored by The Lindesmith Center, Trans Hudson Gallery (9/2-9/18/99)

“The American Century, The Final Victory, Part III,” James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY, catalog (12/4/99 - ???)

“Photography,” Ascan Crone Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

“Times Squared,” Keith De Lellis Gallery, New York

“The American Century Part II, 1950-2000,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

International Festival of Fashion Photography, Kobe Fashion Museum, Tokyo, Japan

“Ego Alter Ego. The self-portrait in Contemporary Photography,” Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany

1998 “Collection, un autre regard,” capc Musee d’art contemporain,

                       Bordeaux

                       “The Sound of One Hand,” Apex Art, New York [Curated by Collier Schorr], (3/19/98 – 4/18/98).

                       “View IV," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, (5/15-6/27/98).

                       “Painting: Now and Forever, Part I," Pat Hearn Gallery & Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, (6/25-7/31/98).

                       “Bathroom," Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, Curated by Wayne Koestenbaum, (6/18-8/7/98).

                       “Small Paintings," Cheim & Read, New York, (7/1-7/31/98).

                       “I Love New York,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne

“Erotic Sublime," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, (7/25-8/29/98).

                       “Portraits,” Paul Morris Gallery, New York

                       “Male,”  Wessel & O’Connor Gallery, New York

                       “Early Works,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California 

                       “Landschaft,” Trinkhaus Galerie, Trinkhaus & Burkhardt,

                       Düsseldorf

                       “Emotions & Relations,” Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany

                       Edition Schellmann, New York (neons exhibited).

1997 “Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Museo d’arte Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

1996 “Urgence,” capc Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

                       “More than Real,” Palazzo Reale, Caserta, Italy

                       “Black and Blue,” Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands

                       “Defining the Nineties:  Consensus Making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

                       “Colorealism:  Photography Enter the Third Millenium, Photology, Milan, Italy

                       “Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life,” Tokyo, Japan

                       “Der soziale Blick,” Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

                       “Exposure,” Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York

                       “All of a Sudden,” Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany

                       “Boralis 7 Desire,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, [Traveled to:  Bergen Billedgaleri, Bergen, Norway; Galleri F15, Moss, Norway; Dasselblad Center/Göteborge Konstmuseum , Göteborg, Sweden; Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland]

                       “Disneyland After Dark,” Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

                       “Radikale Bilder: 2, Österreichische Triennale für Fotographie, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum & Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria, [Traveled to: Szombathely Képtar, Szombathely, Hungary; Galerie Sander, Darmstadt, Germany]

                       “Art at the End of the 20th Century:  Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece (Travelling).

1995 “1995 Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

                       “Nan Goldin, Mark Morrisoe, Jack Pierson,” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

                       “Boston School,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

                       “In a Different Light,” University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

                       The Nordic Art Center, Helsinki, Finland

                       “Disneyland After Dark,” Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden

                       “ Close to Life,” 3 Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen,” Esslingen          

1994 “Passing Through,” Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland

                       “Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life,” Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

                       “A Garden,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

                       “GIFT,” The Inter Art Center, New York

                       “Making Waves,” Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

                       “Abstract Works on Paper,” Robert Miller Gallery, New York

                       Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington

                       “Sculpture,” Luhring Augustine Gallery

                       “In the Field:  Landscape in Recent Photography,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

                       “Small Paintings,” Paul Morris Gallery, New York

1993 “Simply Made in America,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

                       “The 1993 Whitney Biennial,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

                       “Nobuyoshi Araki, Sophie Calle, Larry Clark, Jack Pierson,” Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York

                       “Urban Analysis,” Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York

                       “Stoned (HighLow),” Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

                       “Tema AIDS,” Henie Onstad Foundation, Hövikodden, Norway

                       “Irony & Ecstasy,” Salena-Caro Gallery, London

                       “Snap!," Tomoko Ligouri Gallery, New York

                       “The Whitney Biennial in Seoul," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

                       “Works on Paper,” Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                       “Summer Reading,” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

                       “Tabboo," Tom Cugliani, New York

                       “Drawing the Line Against AIDS,” Guggenheim Museum SOHO, New York

                       “Picturing Ritual,” The Center for Photography, Woodstock & the Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, NY

1992 “How It Is," Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

                       Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA

                       “Healing,” Wooster Gardens, New York

                       “Dessanges,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

                       Pat Hearn Gallery, New York

                       “Hollywood, Hollywood: Identity Under the Guise of Celebrity," Pasadena Art Alliance, Pasadena, CA

                       “Identities…,” Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

                       “True Stories,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London

                       “White Columns Update 1992,” White Columns, New York

                       “The Anti-Masculine," Run Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

                       “Developing Language,” Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

                       “The Language of Flowers,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

1991 Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany

                       “Selections 51," The Drawing Center, New York

                       “Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson," York University, Toronto

                       “From Desire…," Richard Brush Gallery, New York

                       “Something Pithier and More Psychological," Simon Watson, New York

                       “Someone or Somebody,” Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

                       “Drawings,” Lorence-Monk, New York

                       “Situation,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

                       “Presenting Rearwards,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1990 Tom Cugliani, New York

                       “Blood Remembering," Snug Harbor Center for the Arts, New York

Selected Public Collections

• Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD

• CAPC, Bordeaux, France

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

• FRAC, Korsika

• Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

• Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

• Norsk Museum of Fotografi, Preus Fotomuseum, Horten

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

• Seattle Art Museum

• The Walker Art Center, Minneapolic, MN

• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

External Links

Artist Profile on Arts And Culture