Jacqueline Humphries

For over three decades, Jacqueline Humphries has been committed to redefining abstract painting as interface to our technological age. In the mid 2000s Humphries began experimenting with reflective silver paint on canvas, which has since become a signature of her work, faintly mirroring the viewer’s movements on the paintings’ surfaces to grant them temporal simultaneity. In 2014, Humphries integrated the distinctly contemporary phenomenon of emoticons to her fluent gestural lexicon, furthering her engagement with digital and cinematic screens. As Tim Griffin stated in Artforum in 2015 of the recent paintings, “Humphries was among the first painters at the turn of the millennium to postulate the terms of painting’s inauthenticity in a mode that seemed authentically attuned to its times.”

Jacqueline Humphries lives and works in New York City. Recent solo exhibitions include Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2016); Greene Naftali, New York (2015); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA (2015); Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, New Orleans (2015); Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London (2014); Greene Naftali, New York (2012); and Prospect.1 New Orleans, LA (2008). Humphries’ work was recently presented at the 2016 edition of Art Basel Unlimited, and her work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

Humphries' work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Tate Modern, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.

Image: Installation view, Art Basil Unlimited, 2016. Photo credit: Simon Vogel, Basil.