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John Jacobsmeyer

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Curriculum Vitae

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003 Accurate Deceptions and other optical illusions Karl Drerup Gallery, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH

2002 An Orphan Driven Mad by Pastures and History, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD

Impossible Patrimonies New York Academy of Art, NYC

2001 Strangely Distorted Views of Important People and Other Wood Engravings by John Jacobsmeyer Naccohta Gallery, Portsmouth, NH

2000 Sleepwalking with G.I.Joe Fraser Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1999 John Jacobsmeyer’s Italy Mill Brook Gallery, Concord New Hampshire

Saints and Survivalists Anchor Graphics, Chicago

1998 Frontier Fever Kougeas Gallery, Boston,

1997 The Metaphysics of Fields Kimball Jenkins Gallery, Concord, New Hampshire

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,SC

1989 John Jacobsmeyer J.S. Ely Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

SELECTED ACADEMIC AND MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2003 Prints of The Year: What's New In N.H. Printmaking, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH

2002 Prints 2002: Seattle Arts Comission Acquisitions, Seattle

Vision and Markmaking: The Prints of John Jacobsmeyer, Scott Schnepf, and Tom Edwards, New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH

Printmaking in New Hampshire 2002, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH

2001 Faculty Biennial Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Faculty Drawing Show New York Academy, NYC

1999 The Patrimony Corrupted University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton

1998 Artcetera Auction Exhibition Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama, Boston

1997 Texas National Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas

The Artist Revealed: 1997 Studio Art Program Exhibition The Art Gallery University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

Biennial Exhibition New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

1996 Allegory and Identity Visceglia Art Center, Caldwell College, New Jersey

Genius Loci: A Sense of Place traveling exhibition: Prallsville Mill, Stockton, New Jersey, Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine

1995 Biennial Exhibition Manchester Institute of Arts & Sciences, New Hampshire

1994 New England/New Talent Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts  

Fantastically Real Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1992 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition Roswell Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico

1991 Contemporary Charleston Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; Traveling exhibition: Anderson, S.C.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Columbia, S.C.

1990 Salon 1990 New York Academy of Art, New York, New York

HONORS AND AWARDS

2001 Pollack Krasner Grant (to help create book of wood engravings)

2000 Macdowell Colony summer residency

1998 Ragdale Foundation/NEA Fellowship and summer residency

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 Fulbright Travel Grant to and from Italy

1992 Miguel Vinciguerra Fellowship Fulbright Fellowship to study in Italy for a year

1991 Roswell Art Center Residency Grant one year residency

1989 Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Award Yale University School of Art

AUCTIONS

2002 Take Home a Nude, Sotheby's, NY

2001 Take Home a Nude, Christies, NY

2000- Sothebys.com(ongoing)

1998 Aids Action Committee Live Auction Boston(one painting)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: State of New Hampshire; State of South Carolina; Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art; City of Seattle, Wheaton College

EDUCATION

1996 Plate Lithography Workshop, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1993 Scuola del Nudo, Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy

1989 M.F.A., Painting & Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut

1986 B.F.A., Painting, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

Aspects of Realism Summer Workshop and Symposium, Durham, NewHampshire

1985 Aspects of Realism Summer Workshop and Symposium, La Napoule, France

SELECTED COMMERCIAL GALLERY GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 Aspects of Surrealism, Sanctuary Arts, Eliot, ME

Only Prints, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD

Figurative Paintings, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD

2001 The Nude Fraser Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2000 Of Our Time: Artists and their Art Kougeas Gallery, Boston

GalleryArtists print exhibition Fraser Gallery Washington, D.C.

Summer Invitational Fraser Gallery Washington, D.C.

1999 Group Show Fraser Gallery Washington, D.C.

Drawing and Printmaking: A Dialog, Fort Point Gallery, Boston

Flesh In-Action Fort Point Gallery, Boston

1998 One Hundred and Fifty Invitational ‘98 Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, KY

Generous Artists Kougeas Gallery, Boston

National Competition curated by John Walker, Bowery Gallery, New York City

Gallery Artists Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago

1997 Escutcheon Opus 71 Galleries, Hollis, New Hampshire

1996 An American in Italy Ashwell Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts

Summer Invitational Perry House Galleries, Alexandria, Virginia

1995 2025 Opus 71 Galleries, Hollis, New Hampshire

1994 The Fanatic Opus 71 Galleries, Hollis, New Hampshire

Lunatics and Lovers Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1991 The Eternal Male: Ares and Pluto Sherry French Gallery, New York, New York

Intimate Interiors First Street Gallery, New York, New York

RECENT TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 99- Graduate Instructor, Painting, Painting Technique,Comp.&Design, New York Academy of Art Graduate School for Figurative Art

Summer 99 Instructor Life Drawing and Painting, Montserrat College of Art at Viterbo, Italy

Sept. ‘96- Faculty-In-Residence, Drawing, Painting and Printmaking, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

May. ‘00

Aug. ‘93- Instructor, Drawing and Printmaking University of New Hampshire, Durham and Manchester, New Hampshire

May '96

Aug. ‘93- Saltzman Visiting Artist, Printmaking, Painting and Drawing, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

May ‘94

Oct. ‘90- Foundations Professor, Drawing, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia

Aug. ‘91

Aug. ‘89- Visiting Assistant Professor Painting and Drawing, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina

Aug. '90

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

April 1999 Guest Critic, Boston University, Boston, MA

Mar. 1999 Visiting Artist, University of Kentucky, Louisville KY

Speaker, Anchor Graphics, Chicago IL

Oct. 1998 Speaker, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA

Nov. 1996 Panelist, “Allegory and Identity,” Visceglia Art Center, Caldwell College, NJ

Feb. 1996 Speaker "Hallucinations and Caprices of Allegorical Figures"

College Art Association Conference, Boston, MA

April 1995 Visiting Artist, Boston University, Boston, MA

June 1995 Visiting Artist , Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy