1975 Ramona, CA
Education:
1999-2001 San Francisco Art Institute, BFA
1996-1998 Palomar Community College
Solo Exhibitions:
2019 “hour fault”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 “Essays”, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY
2016 “Slow Down Dust”, Corvi-Mora, London, England
2015 “As Soon As”, The Apartment, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2014 “This is How We Walk on the Moon: Colter Jacobsen”, Museum of
Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2013 “(…ellipsis)”, Corvi-Mora, London, England
“Scanning the long sleeves of the shore”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San
Francisco, CA
“the golden green selves of lewis rist”, Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY (residency)
2011 Corvi-Mora, London, England
2010 "Searchin' vs, Buildin'", LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
2009 "The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers", CCA Wattis Institute, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 "Potential Furlough", Corvi-Mora, London, England
“Alone Co.”, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Narcissus Bay”, CSA Space, Vancouver, B.C.
2007 "Light Falls", Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
"Your Future", 4 Star, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions:
2018 “Artwork for Bedrooms”, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
“VISUAL ANTHOLOGY: Artworks & the Book”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 “A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions”, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2015 “Time Travel”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Artists Are Like Water”, Look Up Gallery, Guernville
2014 "People's Biennial" Colter Jacobsen and Lance Rivers- "Draw Bridges Over Rivers", Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (cat), Detroit, MI
"Reccurence" Fridman Gallery, New York, NY (cat),
"Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads in Them" New works by Ajit Chauhan
with Pacificas initiated by Colter Jacobsen, Alley Cat Books Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
"New Westward Expansion" Tartine Bakery, San Francisco, CA
2013 “Artists & Editions”, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco,
CA
"The Unusual Suspects", Alley Cat Books Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 "FAX, Special Projects: Mysterious Object at Noon (Oh Distance Has A Way
of Making Love Understandable)", San Francisco Arts Commission
Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2011 "2010 SECA Art Award", SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (cat)
"The Air We Breathe", SFMOMA, San Francicso, CA
“12th Istanbul Biennial”, Istanbul, Turkey
“11 Lights on the Bay”, The Apartment, Vancouver, B.C.
“As Yet Untitled”, SF Camerwork, San Francisco, CA
“Route 1: R is for Replicant”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco, CA
"American Gothic: Regionist Potraiture from the Collection", Richard L.
Nelson Gallery, Davis, CA
2010 "Aktualität eines mediums, nader ahriman bis chen zhen", Galerie
Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
"R for Replicant", CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco,
CA
“11 Lights on the Bay”, The Apartment, Vancouver, B.C.
"This and That", Corvi-Mora, London, England
Tibor de Nagy, New York, NY
“Top Ten”, Macarthur B Arthur, Oakland, CA
"Go West", Salt Lake Art Centre, Salt Lake City, UT
2009 "Urban Stories", The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Moby Dick", CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2008 "Part of the Process 3", Zero, Milano, Italy
"Four Exhibitions", White Columns, New York, NY
2007 "Salon Nouveau", Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2006
Corvi-Mora, London, England
"West Coast Windows", Samson Projects, Boston, MA
"Esopus", White Columns, New York, NY
"Elusive Material", New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005
"Open Walls", White Columns, New York, NY
"San Francisco Bazaar Group Exhibition", Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery,
Portland, OR
"Inter Alia", New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Poetry and its art", California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
2004 "Land of the free", Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Soundshack", Homeless Art Sale Benefit
"Collectors Edition", Triple Base
Art Space, San Francisco, CA
“Collectors Edition”, Triple Base Art Space, San Francisco, CA
"Prelingual", New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Felix Variations", Playspace, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
"17 Reasons", Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
"Lots of Noise", Scaffold, Providence, RI
"A Childrens History of America", Adobe Books Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Peace Show", Adobe Books Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Drawings in boxes", The Lab, San Francisco, CA
"The Library", Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Plates", San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
"8 Artists", 88 Walter, San Francisco, CA
2002
"West(ern) Show", Studio Z, San Francisco, CA
"8 Artists", 88 Walter, San Francisco, CA
"Strictly Ballroom", Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Curated Exhibitions
2009 “Night Tide”, curated with Jeffrey Hogan, San Francisco, CA
2008 “Kiki: The Proof is in the Pudding”, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA (with Kevin
Killian)
2004
"Pink Steam: Artists respond to Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy", Eureka/
Harvey Milk Memorial Library, San Francisco, CA
2003
"New Things (Woods in the Watchers)", At the Homefront, San Francisco,
CA
Illustrations/Publications
2013 “Artists & Editions”, Rite Editions, San Franicsco, CA
“Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing”, Phaidon, London, pp.140-141
2012 “earthearthearth”, Land and Sea, Oakland
“drawninward”, THE THING, San Francisco
2011 "2010 SECA Art Award", SFMOMA, San Francisco (cat)
“Tuleyome”, Jank Editions/Publication Studio, Portland, OR (with Lawrence
Rinder)
2010 “The Saddest Joke”, in collaboration with Matteah Baim, Publication Studio
Berkeley
2009 "A Stick of Green Candy", Four Corners Books, London
2008 “BILL”, by Bill Berkson and Colter Jacobsen, Gallery 16 Editions, San
Francisco
2006
Memory Drawing project, Esopus, Issue #6
2004
"Body Language", Suspect
Thoughts, Issue # 13
Bibliography
2013 Joseph Akel, "Drawing from memory", Frieze, November/December,
pp. 120-121
George Vasey, "London Round-up", Art Monthly, June, pp.31-32
Bill Berkson, "Code Unknown: Wiggle Room", Featured Blogger, April 4
"Colter Jacobsen", The Bottom Line, The Drawing Centre, April 3
Renny Pritkin, "Scanning the long sleeves of the shore", Art Practical
"Heliopolis presents Artist in Residence Colter Jacobsen: Recent Works",
ExitStrata.com, January 23
2012 Megan Z, "5 Questions: SECA 2010", SFMoMA Open Space, March 13
2011
Aaron Peck, "Colter Jacobsen", Artforum.com, April 29
Colin Herd, "slow train comin’", 3:AM Magazine, February 1
2011 Aaron Peck, "Colter Jacobsen", Artforum.com, April 29
2008 Aimee Walleston, "Colter Jacobsen", The Last Magazine, Fall
Jörn Ebner, "Die Gegenwart als Einkaufszoo", Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, May 10, p.48
2007 Kevin Killian, "Goldie Winner - Visual Art: Colter Jacobsen", San Francisco
Bay Guardian, November 7
Julian Meyers, "Colter Jacobsen", Frieze, September, p.187
2006
Johnny Ray-Huston, "Your Future", San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 11
2005
Roberta Smith, "Even a Little Space Can Hold an Abundance of Ideas", The
New York Times, November 25
Awards
2012 Eureka Fellowship Award, Fleishhacker Foundation
2010 SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2009 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
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