Jacqueline Humphries


Jacqueline Humphries is an American abstract painter. She is represented by , London and Greene Naftali, New York.

Education

Jacqueline Humphries creates muted paintings in shades of grey, silver, black, or white. Humphries' paintings rely on the simple gesture of a line or the soft imprint of her paintbrush to convey her intention. Her technique combines fluid gesture with hard-edge geometry to explore the possibility of creating complexity through simple forms. Humphries addresses contemporary culture and art historical tropes to create works that explore new possibilities of painting.
Throughout the mid-90s, Humphries gained recognition as a conceptual painter. In her recent oeuvre, Humphries shifted her aesthetic to fit the changing technological and digital culture of the times. “You have to boomerang the other way and start thinking about not just the ideas of the sublime and the infinitely large but you have to think about the infinitely small,” she explained of her recent series exploring emojis and the micro-fascination of contemporary smartphones.
Her work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
Humphries was born in 1960 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She currently lives and works in New York City. She is married to the installation artist Tony Oursler. Oursler directed the music video for David Bowie's 2013 song "Where Are We Now?" and included Humphries alongside Bowie in it.

Public collections

Aïshti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
Dallas Cowboys Art Collection, TX, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Glenstone, Potomac, MD, USA
Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
The New School University Collection, New York, NY, USA
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, USA
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, USA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, USA
Saatchi Gallery, London
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Tate, London
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Zabludowicz Collection, London

Exhibitions

;Solo exhibitions
Humphries has also had solo exhibitions at the Williams College Museum of Art and Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven in Germany.
;Selected group exhibitions