Education
1948 B.S., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
University of California, Berkeley, CA
California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 “Jess: Secret Compartments”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 “Jess: Movie Posters and Selected Works”, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2014 “Enamored Magicians: The Hermetic World of Jess and Robert Duncan, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2013 “Jess: Looking Past Seeing Through”, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2008 “Drawings,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2007 – 2009
“Jess: To and From the Printed Page,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Traveling to:
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Pasadena Museum of California Art. Pasadena, CA
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
2005 “Jess” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1994 “Jess: A Grand Collage, 1951-1993,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1993 “Jess: A Grand Collage, 1951-1993,” Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1990 “Jess: The Romantic Paintings,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA
1990 “Jess: Emblems for Robert Duncan,” San Jose Museum of Art, CA
1990 Odyssia Gallery, New York, New York
1990 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 “Jess: Translations, Salvages and Paste-Ups,” Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1984 “Jess: Paste-ups 1951-1956,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1983 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1982 Odyssia Gallery, New York, NY
1981 The Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL
1980 “Jess / MATRIX 37,” Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
1977 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
1975 Galleria Odyssia, Rome, Italy
1974 “Projects: Transformations by Jess,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1972 “Jess: Paste-ups 1951-1956,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 EXPO Chicago, Presented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933 – 1957, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Attachment, Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, IL
Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
The West Coast Avant-Garde: 1950 – Present, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Retrospective”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2014 Holding It Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Summer in Black and White”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Allegorical Procedures: Bay Area Collage, 1950-Present, San Francisco State
University, San Francisco, CA
“An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle”, American
University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2013 “An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle”, Crocker Art
Museum, Sacramento, CA
“Interior”, curated by Barry Rosen, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
“SIGHT/VISION: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2011 “The Medicine Bag,” Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
“Narcissus Reflected,” Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
“Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction, 1946 to 1963,” David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
2010 “Private Future,” Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
“Four Decades,” Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Shred,” Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
“Breathless Days 1959-1960: A Chronotropic Experiment,” The Morris and Hellen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009 “Metamorphosis Victorianus - Modern Collage, Victorian Engravings & Nostalgia,” Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
2008 “Looking for mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk und Minimal Art: Art and Counterculture in San Francisco in 1968,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
“Enter Chien et Loup,” Kent Gallery, New York, NY
“Sight Vision Revisited,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2007 “Pioneers,” CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Body Beware: 18 American Artists,” Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
“Semina Culture,” Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY
“Cosmologies,” James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Surface Matter: Collage from the collection,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Collage Aesthetic,” Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
“Rock Paper Scissors: American Collage Now,” Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“The Backroom: Sf,” SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2005 “David Ireland, Jess and Al Souza,” Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
“Pairings II,” Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
“Ritalin,” ART2102, Los Angeles, CA
2003 “Not Exactly Photographs,” Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Various Properties,” The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1999 “Dream Architecture” Kent Gallery, New York, NY
“Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute,” Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA
1996 “Beat Culture and the New America:1950-1965,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1993 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1993 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1992 L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
1992 Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
1990 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1988 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,D.C.
1987 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
1986 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1985 Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1983 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1981 National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Selected Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA