Jack Pierson
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Jack Pierson is a photographer and an artist
. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art
in Boston
. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books. His "Self-Portrait" series was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and his works are collected by major museums worldwide. Jack Pierson currently divides his time between his home and studio in the Southern California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and New York. He has photographed many well-known celebrities and models, including Michael Bergin
, Naomi Campbell
, Snoop Dogg
, Massimiliano Neri
, Brad Pitt
, and Antonio Sabato Jr.
Pierson is openly
gay
. Pierson curated a show at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in 2006 titled “The Name of This Show Is Not: Gay Art Now.” He had both gay and straight, established and emerging artists present their works.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art
Massachusetts College of Art
Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a publicly-funded college of visual and applied art, founded in 1873. It is one of the oldest art schools, the only publicly-funded free-standing art school in the United States, and was the first art college in the United States to grant an artistic degree...
in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books. His "Self-Portrait" series was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and his works are collected by major museums worldwide. Jack Pierson currently divides his time between his home and studio in the Southern California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and New York. He has photographed many well-known celebrities and models, including Michael Bergin
Michael Bergin
Michael John Bergin, , is considered to have been one of the first males to have achieved supermodel status, previously reserved for women such as Cindy Crawford, Elle Macpherson, Naomi Campbell, and Iman....
, Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...
, Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
, Massimiliano Neri
Massimiliano Neri
Massimiliano Neri is an Italian fashion model.-Early life:Neri was born in Naples, Italy in 1977. As a teenager he was very involved in sports and he practised equestrianism professionally. During summer he usually spent holidays in Capri, an island near Naples...
, Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one...
, and Antonio Sabato Jr.
Pierson is openly
Coming out
Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....
gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
. Pierson curated a show at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in 2006 titled “The Name of This Show Is Not: Gay Art Now.” He had both gay and straight, established and emerging artists present their works.
Solo exhibitions
- 2009 Kunst-Station St. Peter, Cologne
- 2009 Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga
- 2009 Christian Stein, Milano
- 2008 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- 2008 Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles
- 2007 Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles
- 2007 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
- 2007 Centre d”Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
- 2006 “Recents works”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
- 2006 “Selfportraits”, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
- 2006 “The Golden Hour”, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
- 2006 Jack Pierson / Tom BurrTom Burr-Life:Burr was born in New Haven. His art encompasses installation, photography, sculpture and drawing and references architecture and public space and the psychological and social issues that surround it. He is also influenced by Minimalism and Conceptual art....
, Galerie Neu, Berlin - 2005 Danziger Projects, New York
- 2005 “Self Portraits”, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
- 2005 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- 2005 Alison Jacques Gallery, London
- 2005 “Early Works and Beyond-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
- 2004 Alison Jacques Gallery, London
- 2004 Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
- 2003 Cheim &Read, New York
- 2003 Galerie Roger Björgholmen, Stockholm
- 2003 “why Jack Pierson”, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery and Hamilton Galleries
- 2003 The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
- 2003 Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
- 2002 “Regrets”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
- 2002 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
- 2002 “Electric dreams”, Barbican Art Galleries, London
- 2002 Andre Simoens Gallery, Knokke-Zoute
- 2002 Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
- 2002 “Undentified Youth”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
- 2001 Taché-Lévy Gallery, Bruxelles
- 2001 Photology, Milano
- 2001 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
- 2001 Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York
- 2000 “La vie”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
- 2000 Robert Pearre, Tucson
- 1999 Cheim & Read, New York
- 1999 Sprengel Museum Hannover
- 1999 Galleri Roger Björkholmen, Stockholm
- 1999 Espacio Aglutinador, Havanna, Cuba
- 1999 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- 1999 The Art Association, Provincetown, MA
- 1999 Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn
- 1998 Galerie Roger Bjorkholmen, Stockholm
- 1998 American Fine Arts, Co., New York
- 1998 “An Artificial Night”, The Art Ginza Space, Shiseido, Tokyo
- 1998 “Pay me in coke”, Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo
- 1998 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
- 1998 Aurel Scheibler, Köln
- 1997 CapcMusée d”art contemporain, Bordeaux
- 1997 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M.
- 1997 New Photographs, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown
- 1997 Aurel Scheibler, Köln
- 1997 Edition Schellmann, New York
- 1997 Gio Marconi, Milano
- 1996 “NZET PROJEKT”, Gent
- 1996 Luhring Augustine, New York
- 1996 White Cube, Londons
- 1996 Modulo Centro Difuso de Arte, Lisboa
- 1996 Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Stella Maris, Croatia
- 1996 Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
- 1996 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
- 1996 Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
- 1995 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
- 1995 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
- 1995 Parco Gallery, Tokyo
- 1995 Theoretical Events, Napoli
- 1995 “Traveling Show”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- 1995 Aurel Scheibler, Köln
- 1995 Texas Gallery, Houston
- 1995 Galleri Index, Stockholm
- 1995 Galleri Roger Björkholmen, Stockholm
- 1994 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown
- 1994 Luhring Augustine, New York
- 1994 “American Dreaming: The Work of Edward Hopper and Jack Pierson”, *1994 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- 1994 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
- 1993 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
- 1992 Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
- 1992 White Columns, New York
- 1992 Aurel Scheibler, Köln
- 1992 Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
- 1991 Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
- 1991 Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
- 1990 Simon Watson, New York
Collective exhibitions
•2009: "Ca me touche", les invités de Nan Goldin, at Les Rencontres d'Arles festival, France.External links
- Artist Profile on Arts And Culture
- Jack Pierson at Xavier HufkensXavier HufkensXavier Hufkens is a European gallery owner and dealer in contemporary art. Since its founding in 1987, his gallery has been committed to the long term representation of established, mid-career and emerging artists. The gallery deals in a combination of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography,...
, Brussels - Jack Pierson at Aurel Scheibler
- Jack Pierson at Regen Projects, Los Angeles