Jason Middlebrook
Born 1966, Jackson, Michigan
Education
1994-95
• Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
1994
• San Francisco Art Institute, California, Master of Fine Arts
1990
• University of California at Santa Cruz, B.A. in Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2017
• The Last Tree on the Planet, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Glow, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, New York
2016
• Geomagic: Art, Science, and the Zuhl Collection, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico
• Jason Middlebrook, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York
• Jason Middlebrook, David Smith Gallery, Denver, Colorado
• Relevant Notes, Cara Gallery, New York
• Contexture, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
• Time Compression Keeps Me Coming Back for More, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Craters of the Moon, A Project of The Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idabo
• Beg, Steal, or Borrow: It’s Nature that Takes the Blame, von Auersperg Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts
• The Small Spaces in Between, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2015
• Your General Store, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
• Gold Rush, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Mosaic Tree Stumps, Sculpture in the Gardern, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, New York
• Jason Middlebrook, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
• Sculpture in the Garden, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, New York
2014
• There is a map in every tree, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
• Line over Matter, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Submerged, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Geogia
2013
• The Line That Divides Us, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• My Landscape, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
• Under Life, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2012
• Jason Middlebrook, Time Equities, Inc, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
2011
• A Break from Content, DODGEgallery, New York
2010
• More Art About Buildings and Food, Art House, Austin, Texas
• LESS, Monique Meloche, Chicago, Illinois
• The Big Draw: The County Drawing Fair, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
• With the Grain, Charlotte Lund Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
• Live With Less, University Art Museum, Albany, New York
2008
• Vein, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
2007
• One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
• Untitled (Let San Salvador inspire the way), Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador
• Traveling Seeds, Commissioned by RxArt, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York
• Jason Middlebrook: Disturbed Sites, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006
• Live Building: The Recycling and Demolition of the Wurm's Building, California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside
• It's All So Black and White, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Galleria Paolo Bonzano Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
• The Night Time is the Right Time, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
• Alchemical Primordiality, Curated by Gianluca Marziani Galleria Pack, Milan
• The Provider, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Past, Present, Future, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, Califonia
2004
• The Beginning of the End, Aldrich Contemporary Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
• Outdoor sculpture project, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
2003
• APL #1, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• APL #2, Els Hannape Underground, Athens, Greece
• Empire of Dirt, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Nylon Gallery, London; Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
2002
• (De) - Composition, Art Statements, Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida
2001
• Dig, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
• Museum Storage, Curated by Ciara Ennis, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California
• Visible Entropy, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Euston Road Hoarding Project, Wellcome Trust, London
• California is Still Falling Into the Ocean, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
1999
• Subdivision, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York
• Grand Entrance at the Commons, Public Art Fund of New York City, Metro Tech, Brooklyn
• I Feel Like Making Love (Sempervirens), Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, California
• Service Entrance, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York
1996
• Real Estate, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1995
• Identity Props, Arena, Brooklyn, New York
Select Group Exhibitions
2017
• New Acquisitions/Nuevas Adquisiciones: UAG Permanent Collection 2015-2017, University Art Gallery at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2016
• Shimmer Substance: Selections from Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantees of the Hudson Valley, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York
• Fault Lines, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York
• More More More, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut
2015
• Into the Woods, Morris-Warren Gallery, New York
• Painting at the Very Edge of Art, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• Big Show 9, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
• Painting is Dead?!, Figure One, University of Illinois, Champaign
• Geometries of Difference: New Approaches to Ornament and Abstraction, Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Platz, New York
• Misappropriation, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
2014
• NOW-ism, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
• Landscape, abstracted, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• SITElines, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Retrospective, Hudson, New York
• Painting: A Love Story, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
2013
• Pattern: Follow the Rules, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
• A Discourse on Plants, RH Gallery, New York
• It's the End of the World as We Know it (and I Feel Fine), Rampo College, Mahwah, New Jersey
2012
• Bad for You, Shizaru Gallery, London, United Kingdom
• Left, Right and Center: Contemporary Art and the Challenges of Democracy, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
• Selections from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
• A Native Hill: Artists of the Valley, Henry Hudson Studios, Hudson, New York
• What's the Point, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, New York
• Wood, Monique Meloche, Chicago, Illinois
• Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2011
• Rain Dance, Triangle Arts, Brooklyn, New York
• Shift and Flow, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
• Beyond the Horizon, Deutsche Bank, New York
• Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Orange Country Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
• SHAKEDOWN, DODGEgallery, New York
• Feedback, Porter College Gallery, UCSC, Santa Cruz, California
• Marie Celeste, artSPACE, New Haven, Connecticut
• Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
2010
• The Natural Order of Things, curated by William Stover, DODGEgallery, New York
• Beam Board, Breath: An Investigation of Trees, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
• No Show, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
• Connectivity Lost, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Middleton, Connecticut
• Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Think Pink, curated by Beth Rudin De Woody, Sarah Gavlak Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2009
• Almost Utopia, curated by Ciara Ennis, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, California
• Lives of The Hudson, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
2008
• Something for Nothing, curated by Dan Cameron, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Trees, curated by Amy Lipton, Art OMI, Columbia County, New York
• Logan Collection, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
• 8 Repositioning the Landscape, curated by Jennifer McGregor, Westport Arts Center, Westport, Connecticut
2007
• Collector's Choice III. Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
• Sheldon Survey, An Invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Material Pursuits, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington
• A Serious Paradise, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, California
• What is your hobby?, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New York
• Craft in Contemporary Art, curated by Evelyn C. Hankins, Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont, Burlington
• Merit Badge 2, Rockland County Art Center, Rockland, New York
• Flow, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Green Dreams, curated by Anne Kersten and Christine Heidemann, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
• Winter Invitational, curated by Wennie Huang, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
• Petroliana (Oil Patriotism), curated by Elena Sorokina, Second Moscow Biennale of ContemporaryArt, Moscow, Russia
2006
• New York, Interrupted, curated by Dan Cameron, pkm gallery, Beijing, China
• Twice Drawn, curated by Ian Berry, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
• Prevailing Climate, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Table Top, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
• Manhattan Transfer, curated by John Weber, ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York
• Memory, Architecture and Place, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts
• Nature is Knocking, Jersey Art Center, Newark, New Jersey
• QED Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• Inside/Outside: TreeLines, Curated by Amy Lipton, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
• Among the Trees, curated by Kimberly Marrero, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey
• Welcome Home, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• A Pictorial Point, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
2005
• Apocalypse Soon, curated by Kristin Calabrese, QED, Los Angeles, California
• The Obligation to Endure: Art and Ecology Since ‘Silent Spring', curated by Nick Debs, New York Academy of Sciences, New York
• Five Projects, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
• Merit Badge, organized by Jason Middlebrook, Hudson, New York
• Exhibition of Visual Art 2005, curated by Dan Cameron, Limerick, Ireland
2004
• Art on Paper 2004, curated by Ron Platt, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
• Print Publishers Spotlight, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
• Crude Oil Paintings, curated by Elena Sorokina, White Columns, New York
• Cleanliness, curated by Adam Frank, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Possessed, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington
• Painting, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
• Manhattan Transfer, curated by John Weber, Weber Fine Art, Chatman, New York
2003
• The Outlaws Series 2003, curated by Lisa Kirk, New York
• Paradise/Paradox, curated by Susan M. Canning, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
• Sidelong Glance, curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud, Im N iL Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
• Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Nature Boy, curated by Doug Wada, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
• Yard: An exhibition about the private landscape that surrounds suburban domestic architecture, curated by Robyn Donohue and Alyson Baker, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York
• CHOCKERFUCKINGBLOCKED, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
• On Paper: Masterworks from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
• UnNaturally, curated by Mary Kay Lombino, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; H & R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City; Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Copia: The American Center for Wine, Foods and the Arts Napa, California; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
2002
• Hash Brown Potatoes, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Smack Mellon Studio, Brooklyn, New York
• Majority Rules: Part One, curated by Letha Wilson and Tara McDowell, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
• Building Anxiety, Ten and One Gallery, New York
• What Exit?, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, New Jersey
• Sitelines, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
2001
• Baker's Dozen, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, California
• The Altoids Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
• Peaks, Kagan Martos, New York
• Wine, Women, and Wheels, curated by Paul Ha, White Columns, New York
2000
• La Ville / Le Jardin / La Memoire, curated by Hans Ulrich Orbist, Academie de France a Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
• Substance, Organized by Robert Heckees, Neo-Images, New York
• Pastoral Pop!, curated by Debra Singer, Whitney Museum of American Art @ Philip Morris, New York
• Float, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Never, Never Land, curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud, Florida Atlantic University Gallery, Boca Raton; Tampa Museum of Contemporary Art; Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, Camden, New Jersey
• Almost, curated by Regine Basha, Living Room Project, Los Angeles, California
• San Francisco Art Institute 2000 Art Auction, Walter McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA
• Ramapo College Faculty Exhibition, Berrie Center Gallery, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey
1999
• Odd Gloss, curated by Gordon Haines, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
• A Room with a View, curated by Mike Weiss, Sixth @ Prince Fine Art, New York
• Life in Space: Phase 1: The Double-Barreled Linear Accelerator Model, California College of Arts and Crafts, Montgomery, California
• The Road Show, DFN Gallery, New York
• Office, curated by Regine Basha, Staff Gallery, New York
• Gallery Artists, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York
• Friends and Neighbors, curated by John Tevis, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, California
1998
• Day in May Project, curated by Regine Basha, Christoph Gerozissis and Anton Vidokle, Cold Spring, New York
• SoHo Downtown Arts Festival, New York
• Gender Consumption Assumption of Gender, Stony Brook University Art Gallery, Stony Brook, New York
1997
• Video Series, curated by Laurie Brown, Knitting Factory, New York
• Gramercy International Art Fair, Gramercy Hotel, New York
• Chelsea, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York
• Art Exchange Project, represented by Steffany Martz, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York
1996
• The Future Last Forever, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York
• Halloween Show, Gallery Index, Stockholm, Sweden
• Art Exchange Project, Arena, New York
• Who Do You Think You Are?, curated by William Stover, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College, Annadale, New York
1995
• Whitney Independent Study Program Studio Show, Whitney Museum Downtown Branch, New York
• Freaks, Hosted by Javier Tellez, 300 W. 43rd Street, New York
• The Joy of Painting, curators: Alix Lambert and Ami Arnault, Here, New York
• Stockholm Smart Show, Adlercreutz-Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1994
• Tiny Shoes, curator by D-L Alvarez, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
• 6x9, Sponsored by Zyzzyza Magazine, Victoria Room, San Francisco, California
• Juror Art Exhibition, California State Fair, Sacramento, California
• Site Lines, James Irvine Foundation, San Francisco, California
• Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
• Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
1993
• Object, curated by Armado Rasco, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, California
• Drawing First (Third Annual Exhibition), curated by Ann Phiblin
• Group Exhibition, San Jose Institute Of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
• Lemme See Him Huck, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
• Spring Group Show, Walter Mcbean Gallery, San Francisco, California
• Inheritance / Art in the Family, San Jose Art League Gallery, San Jose, California
• Visions of the American Dream, San Francisco State University, Union Gallery, San Francisco, California
• Ninth Annual National Juror Exhibition, curated by Bill Berkson, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
1992-90
• Elvis Lives, Art Attack Gallery, San Francisco, California
• Twelfth Annual Juror Exhibition, Arts Council of San Mateo County, San Francisco, California
Awards
2013
• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2012
• Best Public Artwork in the United States, American Arts Convention
2010
• Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
Select Collections
• Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
• Altoids Collection, New York
• British Airways Art Collection, Waterside, United Kingdom
• The Contemporary, Austin, Texas
• Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
• Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
• ART in Embassies, Libreville, Gabon
• Marte Museum, San Salvador, El Salvador
• Microsoft Corporate Art Collection, Redmond, Washingotn
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• NASA Art Program, Washington, D.C.
• New Museum, New York
• Pacific Bell, San Francisco, California
• Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
• Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield, Ohio
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York