BIOGRAPHY
Born: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1955
Resides: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Education: Queens College, City University of New York (M.F.A., 1980); Maryland Institute College of Art (B.F.A., 1977); Barnes Foundation (1973)
Website: janeirish.com

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Eureka,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.

2021
“Jane Irish,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.

2018
“Architectures of Resistance,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
“Jane Irish: Antipodes,” Philadelphia Contemporary at the Fairmount Park Conservancy.

2016
“A Rapid Whirling on the Heel,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.

2015
“Faience & Firenze,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.

SELECTED GROUPS EXHIBITIONS
2024
“50 Years in the Making,” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia.

2023
“Reflections,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.

2021
“New Grit, Art and Philly Now,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
“Hard/Cover,” The Fabric Workshop and Museum with The Clay Studio, Philadelphia.

2019
“Tempera,” Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
“Body Politic,” Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College, New Hampshire.

2018
“Give a Damn,” Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
“Double Meeting,” Orgy Park Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Sheets, Hilarie. “Princeton University Art Museum Gets Six Site-Specific New Works,” New York Times (April 30).

2023
Brock, Kate. “On Painting War and Culture in Her New Works in ‘Eureka’ at Locks Gallery,” theartblog.com (August 24).

2021
Mir, Stan. “Paintings Embedded with Echoes of War,” hyperallergic.com (March 19).

2018
Hunter, Becky Huff. “Power, Vulnerability, and Responsibility: Jane Irish Confronts Colonization,” frieze.com (July 5).
Mars, Cypress. “Holding Together Opposite Poles: A Conversation with Jane Irish,” Art in America/artnews.com (May 22).