Jenny Lynn McNutt Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
2017
New Works, Academy Center of the Arts, Lynchburg, VA
Paintings and Sculptures, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013
“Why This World”, new paintings, sculptures and drawings, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Zoopsia, In the Skin of Another”, drawings, Tetterode, M4Gastatelier, Wednesday West, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012
“Zoopsia”, new paintings, Art 101 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
“Precise Breathing or Why I Call My Baby Honey”, installation, Pratt Institute, Dean of Art and Design Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008, 2009
“Precise Breathing or Why I Call My Baby Honey”, Reeves Reed Arboretum, Summit, NJ
2006
“Grupo Cuerpo”, drawings and prints, Galerie d’Art Essaadi, Carthage, Tunisia
2005
“Hadeka, Garden, Jardin”, Galerie d’Art Essaadi, Carthage, Tunisia
2004
Sculpture and prints, Artefact, Galleria Pardo, Milan, Italy
2003
“Protean Bodies”, Inaugural - sculpture and sound installation, Galleria Robert Pardo, Rome, Italy
2002
“Protean Bodies, Circe’s Body”, sculpture/sound & video installation, Florence Lynch Gallery, NYC
2001
New Sculptures and Drawings, Nadine Thomas Gallery, Paris
“Dans le grotte”, Chambre avec Vue, Galerie Regent et Jaccaud, Saignon, France
2000
"33 Swoonings", Paintings and Installation, The Painting Center, NYC
1997
Recent Paintings, The Painting Center, NYC
1995
New Paintings, The Painting Center, NYC
1994
“Inaugural Exhibition”, Musee de l’Art Contemporain, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
1993
Hillyer Gallery, Smith College, Northhampton, MA
1988 and 1986
New Paintings, Sorkin Gallery, NYC
1984
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Claytopian New York, Plaxall Gallery, Curated by Matt Nolen, NY, NY
Pratt Foundation Faculty Exhibit, Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Pushing the Wall, New York Studio School, NYSS Gallery, DUMBO, NY
The American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards Ceremony & Exhibition, NY, NY
Dance with Me, Zurcher Gallery, Curator Kyle Staver, New York, NY
25th Anniversary Exhibit, The Painting Center, NY, NY
2018
The American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibit of Visual Arts, NY, NY
New Acquisitions for the Permanent Collection of the Taoxichuan International Artists Studio, Jingdezhen
Shaanxi Tongchuan International Art Center (Yao Porcelain Town Creative Park), Xi’an, China
X Marks the Spot, Women of the New York Studio School, New York Studio School, NY, NY
Shaanxi Tongchuan Inaugural International Art Exhibit, Tongchuan, Xi’an, China
Summer Exhibition: Modern and Contemporary Selections from the Permanent Collection, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Virginia
Beasts of Brooklyn, curated by Elisa Jensen, The Green Door, Brooklyn, NY
The Nature Lab, LABspace, curated by Eric Wolf, Hillsdale, NY
2017
Take Your Pulse, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
Through the Rabbit Hole II, Sideshow Nation, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Pollination with LEAP for the NeoRio Festival, Taos New Mexico
Through the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Nation IV, Brooklyn, NY
Kentler International Drawing Space Invitational Benefit, Brooklyn, NY
2015
“Absence”, Galerie Essaadi, Carthage, Tunisia
“Goldfinch Variations”, curated by Patrick McFarland, Peters Project, Sante Fe, NM and Marfa, TX
“Circle the Wagons”, Sideshow Nation III Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Working Nature”, Rockland Center for the Arts, curator, Bill Hochhausen, NY
2014
“Menagerie of Metaphors”, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia
“21 and Counting”, The Painting Center, New York, NY
“The Last Brucennial”, New York, NY
Pratt Institute Faculty exhibit
New York Studio School Fundraiser,
“Sideshow Nation II at the Alamo”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
“Beasts and Bodies”, Schema Projects, Bushwick, NY
“Looking Back” and “Cows”, Art 101 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
“HONEY”, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
“HEX”, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“MIC: Check (Occupy)”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Governor’s Island Art Fair with Art 101, NYC
“Nektar”, a large-scale outdoor sculpture, currently Pratt Sculpture Park, Brooklyn, NY
“Grupo Cuerpo”, Richmond Museum of Art, Virginia Center Arts Film Festival, Richmond, VA
“Miniatures”, Art 101 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Fracking: Art and Activism against Drilling”, Exit Art, NYC
“New Year Salon show”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
"It’s All Good –Apocalypse now", Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
New Walls/Fresh Paint, The Painting Center, NYC
2009, 2010
“Peace, It’s A Wonderful Life”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Works on Paper, Galerie Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
2009
Invitational show—Coney Island Benefit, Jonathan Ohara Gallery, NYC
2007
Jazz Festival of Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia
"Seen and Imagined," Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, NYC
"Harmonic Visions," Galerie d’Art Essaadi, Carthage, Tunisia
2006
The Painting Center, 13th Anniversary Show, NYC
2006–2008
Sideshow Gallery, New Year Show, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Galerie Artefact, Gallery Artists Inaugural, Zurich, Switzerland
2004
Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA, Pierogi show
RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Lizan Tops Gallery, Hayground, East Hampton, NY
2003
Sideshow, Christmas Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
Triple Candie Benefit in Harlem, NYC
“La Fontaine Fables Exhibition”, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA. & Maryland Institute, Meyerhoff Gallery—a traveling exhibition
2002
"All Drawing", Gallery 817, Philadelphia, PA
2000
"Lacoste Encore", Alliance Francaise, NYC
Drawings and Sculpture, Galerie Thomas, Paris, France
Camille Regent et Pierre Jaccaud, Chambre avec Vue, Saignon, France
1999
"Speaking in Tongues" conceived/ directed performance, Lacoste, France
"Familiar Strangers", Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
"Former Fellows of New York", Fine Arts Work Center, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA. and Lamia Ink Gallery, NYC
"New York Calling", Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
"Works on Paper", Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
"Dot Show", The American Gallery, NYC & Shaefler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1998
Site Specific Collaborative Performance, Portland, OR
“Noves Figuracions de New York", La Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain
Performance
2006
“Grupo Cuerpo”, for “La Journee Mondiale de l’ Environnement” Minister of Culture & Environment and The Laghmani Institution, Tunis, Tunisia
2005
“Parabolic Arc”, multimedia, Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
“Grupo Cuerpo”, multimedia collaboration, Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
“Grupo Cuerpo”, multimedia, Yaxche School, Taos, NM2004
“Borsalino, solo performance w/ sound work Robert Pardo Gallery, Milan, Italy
2003
“Sewing Songs”, performance/installation, Robert Pardo Gallery & Galerie Le Bateleur, Rome, Italy
“Sewing Songs”, multimedia, Tishman Auditorium, New School University, NYC
“Woman’s Song; The Story of Roro Mendut”, a Wayang Opera, in collaboration with producer and director Lisa Karrer at Glasperlenspel International Music Festival Tallinn, Estonia & The Kitchen with The World Music Institute, NYC
2002
"33 Swoonings", Tishman Auditorium, New School University, NYC
"Sewing Songs", Bard College, Annandale, NY
2001
"Sewing Songs ", solo performance/ installation, Lacoste & Saignon, France
"33 Swoonings", multi-media performance, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2000
"Conversation in the Grotto", Multimedia performance/ installation, Lacoste, France
1999
"Speaking in Tongues" conceived/ directed, Summer Festival, Lacoste, France
Publications
2018
“Beasts of Brooklyn” at the Green Door Gallery (Divine Mercy Cultural Center)
May, 2018, by Jonathan Goodman, Arte Fuse
2014
“Menagerie of Metaphors” catalogue, Maier Museum of Art, essay Kathy Muehleman
2009
“Residents Gather at Reeves-Reed Arboretum”, The Alternative Press.com, JR Warnet, July 28
2008
“30 Things Not to Miss This Fall”, Time Out, August 28
“Everyone’s Abuzz…”, Liz Keill, The Independent Press, NJ, August 13
2007
“Open Studio, Who What Where Why”, book opening, Artefacte Gallery, New York, Milan, Zurich
2005
“The Power of Gesture”, Rick Romancito, Taos News, Tempo Magazine, November 10
“Artists in Residence”, The Taos News, Tempo Magazine, October 6
“Jenny Lynn McNutt en Tunisie”, Les cahiers de la peinture #377, Le Parisien, Mondher Ben Miled, September 16
“Corps corrosifs”, Zohra Abid, Le Quotidien, September 9
“Le cogito amoureux”, Zohra Abid, Le Quotidien, September 10
“Colloque sentimental”, Mounira Aouadi, La Press de Tunisie, September 14
“E. Said, N. Mandela et El Greco: ses modeles”, L.A., La Presse de Tunisie, November 14
“La chute des corps”, Hamadi Abassi, Le Temps culturel, September 14
“Performance Artist, Jenny Lynn McNutt”, The Taos News, September 22
“Mami Wata Magazine”,Tribute to African Dance & Beauty, Rosemarie Guiraud
2003
“Le Bateleur bottega….”, Francesca Bellino, La Stampa, Rome, January
2002
Footnotes / Dance- Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Village Voice, October 23
1994
"Cocktail de couleurs et de formes", Agnes Kraidy, Ivoir Soir", April
“5 Plasticiens au Musee de Cocody", Henri N’Koumo, Ivoir Soir, May
"Contemporary Syntax", Catalogue, Alison Weld, Robeson Gallery, Rutgers1988
Maine Coast Artists, "Abstractions", Susan Sulzer, Camden Herald, September
1988
Maine Coast Artists, "Abstractions", Susan Sulzer, Camden Herald, September 1988
“Seeing Is Not Believing”, Edgar Allen Beem, Maine Times, September 1988
Awards and Residencies
2019
Resident at the Byrdcliff Art Center, Woodstock, NY
Guest artist at Taoxichuan International Artists Studio, Jingdezhen, China
The American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize for sculpture, NY, NY
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, NY
2018
Guest artist at Taoxichuan International Artists Studio, Jingdezhen, China
Guest artist at the Yangzhou University College of Fine Arts and Design, international conference on Contemporary Art Creation, International Conference, Yangzhou City, China.
Mercedes Matter / Ambassador Middendorf award, New York Studio School, NY
2017
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Virginia
2016
European Ceramic Center, EKWC, Sundaymorning, Oisterwijk, The Netherlands
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Virginia
2015
Kriti Residency for the Arts, Varanasi, India
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Wiscasset, ME
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Virginia
Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grant
2014
23rd Annual Helen Clark Berlind Symposium participant at Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, VA
M4gasatelier residency, Tetterode, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, residency, Amherst, Virginia
2013
Wissatelier residency, Tetterode, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012
Fondation Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, residency, Amherst, Virginia
2011
Fondation Ebert, Le Thoronet, France
William T. Hillman Foundation for the Arts, grant for “Precise Breathing”
2010
NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship for “Precise Breathing”
Howard and Joan Rothman Opportunity Grant with NYFA for “Precise Breathing”
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency, Amherst, Virginia
2009, 2010
Julia and David White Arts Foundation & Colony, Costa Rica
2008
William Talbot Hillman Foundation grant
Pratt Institute Faculty Development grant
2006
"The Dreamtree Project, A Walking Tour of a Sustainable Community," documentary with Mark Goldman and sponsor The McCune Foundation
2007
Harwood Museum of Art, Artist in Residence, Taos, New Mexico
2005
Harwood Museum of Art, Artist in Residence, Taos, New Mexico
Yaxche Learning Center, Artist in Residence, Taos, New Mexico
2004
Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grant for “The Memory Palace”
2002
William Talbott Hillman Foundation for the Arts
2000
Pratt Institute and New School University Faculty Development Grant
1998
Eastman Foundation for Documentary film of West Africa Dance & Music
1993–1994
Senior Fulbright Fellowship for Research in Ivory Coast and Cameroon
1983–1984
Fellowship Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Helen Winternitz Award for Excellence in Painting, Yale School of Art, CT
Other
2014
Curator of “Arc Across the Vortex, Alchemy, Art & Science”, Art 101 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008
“The Dreamtree Project: a walking tour of a sustainable community”(documentary with Mark Goldman), Pratt Institute during Green Week funded by McCune Foundation
2006
“The Dreamtree Project: a walking tour of a sustainable community”, Taos Solarscreen Film Festival, Taos, NM
2003 - present
Pierogi Gallery, Flat File, Brooklyn, NY
2000
Celebration of African Culture invitee, Sponsored by EDEC of Ivory Coast, December
Thai Elephant Orchestra Project, with Dave Soldier, Lampang, Thailand
1999
"Cry of the Forgotten Ones", an African opera by Rosemarie Guiraud and Les Guirivoires, Producer with the New School University, NYC
1994
Oxford University Press, International Encyclopedia of Dance, Consultant for African Section — research and photography
1993
Founding Member, The Painting Center, NYC
Education
1992 Yale University, Summer Program of African Cultures
1983 Yale School of Art, MFA
Teaching
PRESENT from 1996
Pratt Institute, studio and performance & writing courses
New York Studio School of Painting, Sculpture and Drawing
2009–2013
Pace University, Design, Painting and Drawing & Design
2004–2007
Pace University, Cultural Reinvention: Arts of West Africa
1998–2001
Lacoste School of Art (with Bard College), Lacoste, France
New School University, Performance/ Art in Action and Cultures of West Africa
1998–2000
New School Core Faculty for B.A. program
1998–1999
Rhode Island School of Design, Drawing course, Fine Arts Department
1996
Parson’s School of Design — Drawing Concepts, Foundations
Yale University — West African Art history & anthropology
Bowdoin College, Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Brunswick, Maine
1995–1996
Bard College, Drawing Marathon, Annandale, NY
1995
Studio Museum in Harlem-Visiting Artist, Cooperative School Program Harlem Public Schools
Yale University — Council for African Studies — Lecture
1993–1994
Institute National Superieur des Arts et de l’Action Culturelle, Seminar, Ivory Coast and Cameroon, West and Central Africa.
1990–1992
Yale University, "Drawing as Process - Vision, Memory and Perception"
Wesleyan University Grad Liberal Studies, “Seeing, Making, Meaning”, Wesleyan, CT
1991
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, drawing and painting
Oxbow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Program
1990
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist
Collections
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Taoxichuan International Artists Studio, Jingdezhen, China
Shaanxi Tongchuan International Art Center (Yao Porcelain Town Creative Park),
Xi’an, China
Maier Museum, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
Fine Arts Museum in Houston , Texas
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Edward Broida, Los Angeles
Jake Berthot, NYC
Dr. Carol West, San Francisco, CA
Elie Boudt, Chicago, IL
William T. Hillman NYC
Mohamed Ali Essaadi, Carthage, Tunisia
Musee d’Art Contemporain d’Abidjan (Museum of Contemporary Art), Ivory Coast
Rosemarie Guiraud, Ecole des Danse et d’ Echange Culturelle, Abidjan,
Ivory Coast
Dr. Edith Gould, NYC
Emily Sorkin, New York, NY
David Saltz, NYC
Warren Spector, NYC
Mark Weiss, NYC
CV