lugging organ
photo: helene palser

GREGORY JACOBSEN
b. 1976 New Jersey
lives and works in Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

 

 


 

GREGORY JACOBSEN
b. 1976, New Jersey                                                                                                              

Education

BFA , School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1998

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
"Prostrate," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007
"
Palpitating Remains," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
"Glamorous Piles & Puffy Saddlebags," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
"
Potatoland ," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002
"
Sprawled Upside Down," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
"Suggestivism," Grand Central Art Center, Santa Anna, CA (forthcoming)

2010
ArtParis, Participating artist with Bongout Gallery, Berlin

2009
"
Fleischelust," Bongout Gallery, Berlin
"Gangbusters," Plane Space, New York, NY

2008
"
Molluskkollectiv," Bongout Gallery, Berlin
"Freak Wave," Gallerie Les Singuliers, Paris

2007
"Don't Wake Daddy II," Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg
"Group," Zg Gallery Chicago

2006
Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL, participating artist with Zg Gallery, Chicago
"(Un)Natural History," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Don't Wake Daddy," Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg
"Working Process," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, participating artist with Zg Gallery, Chicago
"Claw Your Face Off," Plane Space, New York, NY

2005
"The Animal Within," Catherine Edelman, Chicago, IL
"New Batch," Plane Space, New York, NY
Art Chicago, participating artist with Zg Gallery, Chicago

2004
"Why Break The Spell?" Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
"Group Exhibition," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003
"
Compendium," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Lurpious Showboat Follies," Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL

2002
"Brilliant," Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"12 x 12," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
 
2001
"An Amuse-Bouche," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL

PUBLICATIONS

2010
Lauren Vlera. "Gallery Hopping, from Albano to Zg," January, sec. 5, p.16
Linda Wellhausen. "Gregory Jacobsen," M Magazine, January, p.33-34
Jason Foumberg. "Artist Portrait," NewCity Chicago, January, p.22

2009
Seattle Stranger, April 4, cover

2008
Nathan Spoor. "Convulsive Beauties," Hi-Fructose, Issue 7, p.92-95
Katie Olson. "Gregory Jacobsen," Lifelounge, Australia, Issue 12, p.14-15
Olivier Allemane & Anne Van der Linden. Freak Wave: La Vague Scelerate . Orbis-Pictus Club, France

2007
Alan Artner. "Gregory Jacobsen," Chicago Tribune, December 14, sec. 7, p.20
Jess Scully. "Big Time Sensuality," Empty, Australia, Issue 10
Martin Rey. "Gregory Jacobsen: Un Gentil Garçon" Artension, France, Issue 34, p.14-15
"Gregory Jacobsen," Mollusk #3, Berlin, Germany, p. 18-25

2005
Madeline Nusser. "Glamorous Piles and Puffy Saddlebags," Time-Out Chicago, September 22
Alan Artner. "Jacobsen Seeks to Blend Beauty and Beastliness," Chicago Tribune, September 16
Margaret Hawkins. "American Excess: Colorful Means to Take Dim View of Gluttony and Waste," September 16
Dominic Molon (curator). New American Paintings, No.59, p. 70-73

2003      
Margaret Hawkins. "Grotesque Images, Sympathetic Nonetheless," Chicago Sun-Times, December 19
Fred Camper. "Food and Flesh," Chicago Reader, December 5
Artner, Alan. "Gregory Jacobsen," Chicago Tribune, November 21
Mouth to Mouth , " Lip Service" Review by Julie Farstad & Kristen Brooke Schleifer, Vol. 1, No.2, p.39

2002
Artner, Alan. "Jacobsen Show Shows Influence of Imagism," Chicago Tribune, August 30

Awards

2004 - Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP)
2000 - Experimental Sound Studio Artist in Residence