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JAKE BERTHOT

(abridged version)

1939 Born in Niagara Falls, NY
1941 Family moves to Clearfield, PA
1959 Moves to New York City
1960-61 Studies at New School for Social Research, New York
1960-62 Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1974-81 Teaches at Cooper Union, New York
1976 Venice Biennale
1981 Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
1982 Resident Artist, Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, ME
1982-92 Teaches at Yale University, New Haven, CT
1983 Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1992 Receives Academy Institute Award from American
Academy of Arts and Letters
1992 - present Teaches at School of Visual Arts, New York
1993- present Teaches at University of Pennsylvania
1994 Designated “Academician” by National Academy of Design
1995 Receives Elizabeth Foundation Grant

Lives and works in New York State


ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS


1963 Riverside Museum, NY
1963-64 Feiner Gallery, NY
1970 O.K. Harris, New York
1971 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco
1972 O.K. Harris, New York
1972 Michael Walls Gallery, Los Angeles
1973 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
1973 Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, Germany
1973 Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York
1974 * Locksley-Shea Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1975 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York
1975 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
1976 David McKee Gallery, New York
1977 Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, Germany
1978 David McKee Gallery
1979 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1979 Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 * David McKee Gallery
1983 David McKee Gallery
1984 Jake Berthot: Matrix #28, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley
1984 Drawings, Nina Nielsen Gallery
1984 Storrer Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1985 Meadows Art Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
1986 David McKee Gallery
1986 Drawings, Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Drawings, David McKee Gallery
1987 Galleri Olsson, Stockholm, Sweden
1988 * Jake Berthot: A Retrospective, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
1988 David McKee Gallery
1988 Paintings/Drawings, Nielsen Gallery
1989 David McKee Gallery
1990 Galleri Gunnar Olsson
1991 McKee Gallery, New York
1992 Jake Berthot - Etchings, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
1992 Jake Berthot - Paintings, Nielsen Gallery
1992 Jake Berthot, Tony Oliver Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1994 Jake Berthot: Paintings and Drawings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1994 The Kristin Paintings and Works on Paper, McKee Gallery
1995 Red Paintings Nina Nielsen Gallery
1995 * Jake Berthot, Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center,
1995 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1996 Jake Berthot - Works on Paper, Nielsen Gallery
1996 * Jake Berthot - Drawings and Paintings, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1996 McKee Gallery
1996 Drawings, McKee Gallery
1997 Jake Berthot, Galleri Gunnar Olsson
1997 McKee Gallery
1998 Nielsen Gallery
1999 Jake Berthot Trees: Drawings and Texts, Cooper Union, New York, curated by Dore Ashton
2000 Jake Berthot, Nielson Gallery, Boston
2001 *Jake Berthot: New Paintings, McKee Gallery, New York
2002 Jake Berthot: The Dark Paintings, Nielsen Gallery, Boston


SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell Museum, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Fine Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
Moderna Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
Mount Holyoke College Museum, South Hadley, MA
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Museum of Art, University of California at Berkeley
Museum of Art, University of Michigan
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
St. Louis Art Museum, MO
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


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