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The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Born and raised in Seattle, Jody Isaacson earned her B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin (1981) and her M.F.A. from the California College of Art (1983). Most recently her work has been shown at Roxbury Arts (2025) and KIPNZ (2024). She curated an exhibition dedicated to her ceramic mentors at the Bright Hill Literary Center in Treadwell, NY (2024). She is the recipient of dozens of awards, grants, and residencies in the US and Europe. She is the executive director of the David Byrd Estate. They recently celebrated the completion of his catalogue raisonné. Isaacson lives in Sidney Center, New York.
Jody Isaacson
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
- 2025 Holding Artemis, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY
- 2025 Decades of Dreams, Mapping My Terrain, Sidney Public Library, Sidney NY
- 2023 SHHH…KIPNZ, Walton NY See the exhibition catalog from Shhhh, works by Jody Isaacson at KIPNZ, Walton, NY here
- 2021 Absence of Presence, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 2019 The Feeling of the Artist’s Hand. Franklin Stage Company, Franklin, NY
- 2015 Los Nichos: The Art of Losing Isn’t Hard to Master. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2015 Form and Memory. St Catherine University, St Paul, Minnesota - 2009 Light Years, The Arts Club, Washington DC, curated by Erich Keel, The Kreeger Museum
- 2007 Place, Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, Maryland
- 2003 Wane Poetic, The Outpost, Albuquerque
- 1994 A Wax Poem Melting, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
- 1993 Veils of Sorrow, The Print Club, Philadelphia
- 1992 Project/Reflect, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
- 1991 Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
- 1989 Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland
- 1989 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
- 1987 Safco Public Arts Space, Seattle
- 1986 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
- 1984 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
AWARDS/GRANTS
- 2026 "Hearing Voices: Confronting Mental Illness, Addiction, and Stigma Through Art and Advocacy” CAA 114th Annual Conference, Chicago
- 2025 Community Creative, Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA
- 2024 Performance Mentorship with Sloan Wainwright, Roxbury Arts Group
- 2023 Sidney Center Mural Project, Sidney Center, NY
- 2020 Residency Township 10, Marshall North Carolina
- 2009 Jurors Award, Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD juried by Lulan Walker, Georgetown University
- 2008 Print Residency, Art Union of Hungarian Etchers and Lithographers, Budapest, Hungary
Creative Project Grant, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland
Individual Artists Award: Painting, Maryland State Arts Council - 2007 Small Projects Program Grant, 2007, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Creative Project Grant, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland - 1991 Individual Artists Grants In Aid, Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
- 1990 The Berthe von Moschzisker Juror Award, The Print Club, PA
The Print Club Selection Award, The Print Club, Philadelphia - 1989 Art Matters, Inc., Support Grant, New York
Grant, Art Print Residency, Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA - 1988 NEA/WESTAF Visual Arts Fellowship, Santa Fe, NM
Residency Grant for Painting, Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY - 1986 Grant, Art Print Residency, Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA
Artist Resource Bank, Washington State Arts Commission - 1983 Printmaking Scholarship, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Teaching Assistant, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA - 1982 Trude Guerneprez Scholarship, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2025 10th Anniversary of Community Creatives at Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island WA
- Bloedel Reserve Community Creatives, Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA
- Some Bodies, Roxbury Art Space, Roxbury, NY
- 2024 plant plate platter place prey, Bright Hill Center, Treadwell NY
- Not Goodbye, Pocket Utopia, New York, New York
- Forgotten Spaces. Roxbury Art Space. Roxbury, NY
- 2023 The Snuggle Show. KIPNZ, Walton, New York
- 2016 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region. Juror Michael Oatman, The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls NY
- 2010 Paper in Particular 2010, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri
- 2009 Bush School Alumni Art Show, Gallery IMA, Seattle WA
30th Resident Artists Reunion Exhibition, Montpelier Arts Center, Maryland
Mentor and Mentee, Washington Printmakers Gallery
Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD juried by Lulan Walker, Georgetown University - 2008 In Home: In Response, Baltimore, MD
All Media, Touchstone Gallery, DC
Hand-made, Washington Sculpture Group, Strathmore Fine Art, Rockville, MD - 2007 Hand Pulled: Mid Atlantic Print Show, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA
Equinox, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA juried by Fabric
Workshop curator Lorie Mertes - 2006 Montpelier Arts Center, Montpelier, MD
Faculty Exhibition, School of Art and Design, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD - 2005 All Arlington, Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA
- 2003 The Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe Albuquerque Contemporary, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque
- 1995 The Traditional Impulse, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Carved and Incised: Contemporary Block Prints, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA - 1994 Fallen Timber, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Tacoma Art Museum: Selections from the Northwest Collection, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle - 1993 Time Away: Prints from Centrum’s Artist Residency Program, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
The Art of Microsoft, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
On Paper/Recent Acquisitions, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA - 1992 INFORMATion, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle Art of the Sacred, Willow Street Gallery, Washington DC
Current/Currents, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN - 1991 Northwest Artist’s Woodcuts, Kirkland Arts Center, Washington State University, Pullman
Out of Bounds, Images of Exploration and Discovery, Arts 901 Gallery, Washington DC - 1990 Enigmatic Light, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Wood, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA
Alternative Situations for Contemporary Printmaking, The Print Club, Philadelphia
Positive Actions, Visual Aids Competition, Clocktower Gallery, New York
Alfred Harris, Mike Hascall, Jody Isaacson, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham (catalog) - 1989 Print Show Invitational, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
Not Vegetable, Not Mineral, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, WA
Northwest Prints, Kerns Arts Center, OR
Natural Selections, Greg Kucera Gallery, Settle, WA (catalog) - 1988 In Transit: The Concept of Transportation in Art, Bumbershoot, Seattle Center, curator Ron Glowen
Landmark Prints, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI
Centrum Prints, Italia, Seattle - 1987 First Impressions, Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Faculty Show, School of Visual Concepts, Seattle, WA
Northwest ‘87, Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle, WA
Seattle Sculpture 1927-1987, Bumberbiennale, curator Mathew Kangas
Through the Eyes of a Woman, Italia, Seattle
West Coast Painters Invitational, University of Hawaii, Hilo - 1986 Post Alley Art Award Winner, Italia, Seattle
Centrum Printmakers, Davidson Galleries, Seattle
Seattle Printmakers, Mercer Island Arts Council, WA - 1986 Figure: Narrative, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA Art Quest, Long Beach, CA
- 1986 Northwest Women in The Arts, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
- 1985 Neo-York/Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle Pacific Northwest Arts Exhibition, Bellevue, WA
- 1983 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle Arts Commission City’s Portable Works Collection
- 1982 Graduate Thesis Exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Amerada/Hess Corporation, New York
- Bethel School District, Spanaway, WA
- City of Auburn, Auburn, WA
- Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA
- Diamond and Sylvester Law Firm, Seattle
- Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Seattle
- Fernwood Elementary, Northshore School District, Bothell, WA
- Fidelity Investments/FMR Corporation, Bellevue, WA
- Kelso School District, Kelso, WA King County Arts Commission, Seattle
- The Lakes Club, Bellevue WA
- Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
- Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Heights, OH
- Seattle Arts Commission, City of Seattle Portable Works Collection
- Safco Insurance, Seattle
- Shoreline District, Courts Art Project
- Swedish Hospital Medical Center, Seattle
- Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Washington State Arts Commission
EDUCATION
- 1983 M.F.A., California College of the Arts
- 1981 B.F.A., University of Wisconsin
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DAVID BYRD ESTATE
2013-present https://www.davidbyrdestate.com/
David Byrd Catalogue Raisonné https://www.davidbyrdcatalogue.org/