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RESUME
BIO:
Jay Gaskill (B. 1980, Silver Spring, MD) is an artist/curator based in Portland, OR. Jay earned an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He makes abstract paintings filled with shapes that allude to flames, leaves, feathers and hair — all of which are symbols of change, and reflect the upheavals (cultural, political, ecological and personal) of the last several years.
His most recent exhibition was a two-person booth presented by Paradice Palase at Future Fair (New York City, NY), in 2022. He has been interviewed for ArtNet News and his work has been featured in publications such as Maake Magazine and Art Maze Magazine.
As a curator, he is most well known for his social-media-based projects: Air In Space and The Drawing Exchange. Air In Space functions as an Instagram-only gallery for emerging artists. The Drawing Exchange is a mediated exchange of 2D works amongst artists. In 2022, Jay curated “Golden States”, an exhibition of paintings and weavings for SPRING/BREAK Art Show (Los Angeles, CA).
CV/Resume:
Born: Silver Spring, MD
Lives and Works: Portland, OR
Education
2011 MFA in Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY
2002 BFA in Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2022 “Paradice Palase presents Jay Gaskill & Sadia Fakih”, Future Fair, New York, NY
2020 ”Variation In Production”, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 “In No Time”, One River Gallery, Lake Oswego, OR
2018 “Air Raid”, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
2016 “Mise-en-Abyme” with Alyse Ronayne, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2014 “Mesh Point”, One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 “Organic”, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
2019 ”Em Dash”, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 “This Is Our Summer Group Show”, HOLDING Contemporary, Portland, OR
2014 “Hello Bushwick!”, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 “Same Same but Different”, Guest Spot at the Reinstitute, Baltimore, MD
2012 “Two River”, One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ
2012 “Same Same but Different”, Parallel Art Space, Ridgewood, NY
2012 “Same Same but Different”, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
Curatorial Exhibitions
2022 ”Golden States”, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “Quiet Fire”, an online benefit exhibition to benefit Seeding Sovereignty, presented in collaboration with Far X Wide
Instagram-based Curatorial Projects
2019 - present Air In Space (@airinspace.art)
2017 - present The Drawing Exchange (@thedrawingexchangearchive)
Awards
2013 Emergency Opportunity Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY
2011 Judy and Arthur Zankel MFA Award in Art, Hunter College, NY
Press
2020 Cascone, Sarah “‘The Future of the Art World Is Direct-To-Consumer’: As the Market Shifts Online, a Growing Number of Artists are Thriving Without the Middle Man”, Artnet News, 2020: Web
2018 Zemtsova, Maria, ed. “Jay Gaskill”, Art Maze Magazine, 2018
2016 Burns, Emily, “Jay Gaskill” Maake Mag, 2016: Web & Print
Artist Talks
2018 Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
2013 Queensborough Community College, Flushing, NY
2013 Guest Spot at the Reinstitute, Baltimore, MD
2012 One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ
2012 University of Washington, Seattle, WA