RESUME

BIO
Jane Westrick is an artist based in Jersey City, NJ, whose paintings explore the performance of gender in societal structures such as dance and sports. Her sensual, high-chroma paintings are visions of ways of existing in the world as people between genders. She received an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy. Her paintings have been featured in New American Paintings, and exhibited in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, Michigan, Maryland, and Virginia. Since 2014, she has taught undergraduate courses at Mason Gross School of the Arts, including Painting, Drawing and Visual Thinking.

RESUME

Education 
2016               MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2015               Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2009               BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Baltimore, MD

Selected Exhibitions

2024     
Zero to 100, SMUSH Gallery, Jersey City, NJ.
2023     
The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ.
2022     
Through Mossy Ways, curated by Marcela Flórido, I like Your Work Podcast. (virtual)
2021     
Stories, Isadore and Dunn, Brooklyn, NY. (virtual)
Collar Works Flat File 2021-2022, curated by Kate Mothes,
Collar Works, Troy, NY.
Markings, Isadore and Dunn, Brooklyn, NY. (virtual)
2020     
Framework, curated by Laura Horne, Tussle Projects/Tussle Magazine. (virtual)
Witchy, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT.
Return to Love, Galerie Westerhoff, Metuchen, NJ.
2019     
The Big Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ.

Dark, Dark, Dark Looms the Canopy of Clouds: Jonathan Adams, Preeti Singh, and Jane Westrick,
Galerie Westerhoff, Metuchen, NJ.
 
Bring Samples, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Distance - Works on Paper by Skowhegan Alumni, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY.

2018     
Look Both Ways, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
 
2018 Group Exhibition, JCAST HQ, The Pathside Building, Jersey City, NJ.

2017     
Leftovers, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Exquisite Corpse, Nimbus Dance Works, Jersey City, NJ.

2016     
STAY, Dress Shop Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
    
Back Wash, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Hungry Heart: Rutgers in New York, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY.

The Late Show, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Daylight All Night Long, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ.

2015     
Inside/Outside: Works from the Skowhegan Archives, curated by Michelle Grabner, Common Street Arts, Waterville, ME.
  
The Welcome Back Show, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 
                
Space 776 Opening Salon Show, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY.
Arena, Mason Gross Project Space, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
                               
Re-imaging Gender, Lane Hall Gallery, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Ann Arbor, MI.

2014     
First Year MFA Exhibition, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
               
Deal With It, Renyi Gallery, Mortensen Hall, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Ambush Art Show, Space 776, Brooklyn Flea, Brooklyn, NY.

2013
Winter Salon Show, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY.

December Small Works Show, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY.
               
Juried Exhibition, Juror: John Yau, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ.
Fifth Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Exhibition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA.
Interpretations of Success: A Conference for Emerging Artists and Art Forms, Loft 594, Brooklyn, NY.
2012     
The Figure Now, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn, NY. 

2011     
Linus & Alora, Single Carrot Theatre, Baltimore, MD.
            
Alumni Art Show, Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School for Government & International Studies, Richmond, VA.           


Teaching
2014 - present          
Lecturer, Mason Gross School of the Arts (MGSA), Rutgers University
—Advanced Painting-A/Painting III-A
—Figure Drawing II
—Drawing Fundamentals
—Visual Thinking I-B: Color
—Visual Thinking I-A: Black & White/Form & Space    

Residencies
Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence, Woodstock, NY, 2024
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2012
The International School of Painting, Drawing & Sculpture, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy, 2008 

Awards
Plum Lime Residency Top Ten Finalist, NYC Crit Club, Winter 2024
Plum Lime Residency Top Ten Finalist, NYC Crit Club, Summer 2022
Maake Projects Finalist, Maake Magazine, 2020
Teaching Assistantship (Full tuition scholarship), Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, 2014 - 2016
Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center, 2012
Arnell Lewis Land Art Scholarship, MICA, 2008
Painting Departmental Recognition Award, MICA, 2008
William Ferguson Merit Scholarship, MICA, 2008
Foundation Departmental Recognition Award, MICA, 2006
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) Fellowship Award for Undergraduate Students, VMFA, 2005
Academic Excellence Scholarship, Trustee Award & Talent Grant, MICA, 2005

Publications

2022               Exhibition Catalog: Through Mossy Ways, curated by Marcela Flórido, I Like Your Work Podcast.
2021               Music Art Performance Zürcher Gallery, NY/PARIS, 2011-2021, Zürcher Gallery, p. 45

2017               New American Paintings, No. 129, MFA Annual Issue. The Open Studios Press.

2016               Hungry Heart: Rutgers in New York Exhibition Catalog, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY