COLTER JACOBSEN
Born in Ramona, CA, 1975
Lives in San Francisco, CA
1999-2001 San Francisco Art Institute BFA
1996-1998 Palomar Community College, San Marcos, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2016
“Slow Down Dust”, Corvi-Mora, London
2015
"As Soon As", The Apartment, Vancouver
2014
“This Is How We Walk On The Moon: Colter Jacobsen”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego La Jolla, San Diego (cat)
2013
“(…ellipsis)”, Corvi-Mora, London
“Scanning the long sleeves of the shore”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
“the golden green selves of lewis rist”, Heliopolis, New York
2011
Corvi-Mora, London
2010
“Searchin’ vs. Buildin’”, LA><ART, Los Angeles
2009
“The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers”, CCA Wattis Institute, California College of Arts, San Francisco (cat)
2008
“Potential Furlough”, Corvi-Mora, London
“Alone Co.”, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
“Narcissus Bay”, CSA Space, Vancouver
2007
“Light Falls”, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2006
“Your Future”, 4 Star, San Francisco
Group Exhibitions
2016
"A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions.", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2015
"Time Travel", Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco
"Artists Are Like Water", Look Up Gallery, Guernville
2014
"People's Biennial", Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit (cat)
"Reccurence" Fridman Gallery, New York (cat)
"Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads in Them", Alley Cat Books Gallery, San Francisco
"New Westward Expansion" Tartine Bakery, San Francisco
2013
“Artists & Editions”, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
“The Unusual Suspects”, Alley Cat Books Gallery, San Francisco
2012
“FAX, Special Projects: Mysterious Object at Noon (Oh Distance Has A Way of Making Love Understandable)”, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, San Francisco
2011
“2010 SECA Art Award”, SFMoMA, San Francisco (cat)
“Untitled” (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul (cat)
“The Air We Breathe”, SFMoMA, San Francisco (cat)
“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
“R for Replicant”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
“11 Lights on the Bay”, The Apartment, Vancouver
Tibor de Nagy, New York
“This and That”, Corvi-Mora, London
“Go West”, Salt Lake Art Centre, Salt Lake City, Utah
2009
“Urban Stories”, The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (cat)
“Moby Dick”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (cat)
2008
“Part of the Process 3”, Zero, Milano
“Four Exhibitions”, White Columns, New York
2007
“Salon Nouveau”, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna
2006
Corvi-Mora, London
“West Coast Windows”, Samson Projects, Boston
“Esopus”, White Columns, New York
“Elusive Material”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
2005
“Open Walls”, White Columns, New York
“San Francisco Bazaar Group Exhibition”, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland
“Inter Alia”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
“Poetry and its art”, California Historical Society, San Francisco
2004
“Land of the free”, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
“Soundshack”, Homeless Art Sale Benefit
“Collectors Edition”, Triple Base Art Space, San Francisco
“Prelingual”, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles
“Felix Variations”, Playspace, California College of Art, San Francisco
“17 Reasons”, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2003
“Lots of Noise”, Scaffold, Providence
“A Childrens History of America”, Adobe Books Gallery, San Francisco
“The Peace Show”, Adobe Books Gallery, San Francisco
“Drawings in boxes”, The Lab, San Francisco
“The Library”, Build Gallery, San Francisco
“Plates”, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco
“8 Artists”, 88 Walter, San Francisco
2002
“West(ern) Show”, Studio Z, San Francisco
“8 Artists”, 88 Walter, San Francisco
“Strictly Ballroom”, Stanford University, Palo Alto
Curated Exhibitions
2009
“Night Tide”, curated by elephant + giraffe, San Francisco
2008
“Kiki: Proof is in the Pudding”, co-curated with Kevin Killian, Ratio 3, San Francisco
2004
“Pink Steam: Artists respond to Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy”, Eureka/ Harvey Milk Memorial Library, San Francisco
2003
“New Things (Woods in the Watchers)”, At the Homefront, San Francisco
Illustrations/Publications
2013
“Artists & Editions”, Rite Editions. San Francisco
“Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing”, Phaidon, London, pp.140-141
2012
“earthearthearth”, Land and Sea Publications, Oakland
2011
“2010 SECA Art Award”, SFMoMA, San Francisco (cat)
“Tuleyome”, Jank Editions/Publication Studio, Portland (with Lawrence Rinder)
2010
“The Saddist Joke”, Publication Studio, Berkeley (with Matteah Baim)
2009
“A Stick of Green Candy”, Four Corners Books, London
2008
“Bill”, Gallery 16, San Francisco (with Bill Berkson)
2006
Memory Drawing project, Esopus, Issue #6
2004
“Body Language”, Suspect Thoughts, Issue # 13
Bibliography
2014
James Chute, “Colter Jacobsen’s long walk home”, UTSanDiego.com, December 17
Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, “MCASD opens two exhibtis at a Thursday Night Thing”, La Jolla Light, October 23, pp. B16-17
Kersten Deck, “Calendar, October 2014”, Riviera, October, p.66
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 Pritikin, “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
2010
Brian Staker, “ Go West At The Salt Lake Art Center”, City Weekly, October 25
“Curated Portfolio by Lauren Cornell featuring Tauba Auerbach and Colter Jacobsen”, The Paris Review, No 194, Fall
2008
Aimee Walleston, “Colter Jacobsen”, The Last Magazine, Fall
Jörn Ebner, “Die Gegenwart als Einkaufszoo”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 10, p.48
Rebecca Geldard, “Colter Jacobsen”, ArtReview, July/August
Patricia Maloney, “Kiki: The Proof is in the Pudding at Ratio 3”, Shotgun Review, July 26
Liz Wing, “ Kiki: Exhibitions and Bits”, Stretcher, August 25
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, The Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco
2009
Biennial Award Winner, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York