Born in 1971, Chicago, IL Lives and works in Portland,Oregon and New York City Education MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999 B.A. Art History, Oberlin College, 1994 Solo Exhibitions 2008 "The Exponent of Earth (You Make Me_)," Derek Eller Gallery, New York “Hours and Ours", small A projects, Portland, OR 2007 “Stylite Optimism”, Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library (Case Works Project), Reed College, Portland, OR 2006 "Peace at Home, The War Never Left”, small A projects, Portland, OR Derek Eller Gallery; New York (project room) 2004 Derek Eller Gallery; New York Group Exhibitons 2007 "Home/Office Landscapes",”Chapman University, Orange, CA "Michelle Grabner's Never Quite Happy Home," Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY “Ceramics”, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL “NeoIntegrity”, curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York “ hump”, Paul Kotula Projects, Forndale, MI “Place of the Transcommon”, curated by Nicholas Frank, INOVA/Vogel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 2006 “Summer Group Exhibition”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY “Your Beauty’s Gold is Clay”, organized by Ellen Robinson, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY “Atlas of the Unknown”, curated by Tina Kukielski, small A projects, Portland, OR “Gone Formalism”, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA “Inaugural Group Exhibition”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Jessica Jackson Hutchins, "Ascend to the End", solo project in Cabin, for the Herbert Read Gallery, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, UK 2003 “Drawings”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY “Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Kim Fisher”, Midway Contemporary, St. Paul, MN “Really Real”, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL “Finnar Arnar Arnarson, Hlynur Hallson, Jessica Jackson Hutchins”, The Living Arts Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland “Jessica Jackson Hutchins Land Forms”, Listagil, Akureyri, Iceland 2002 “The Stray Show”, Chicago, IL “The Drawing Center's 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition”, NY, NY “I Just Can't Pretend”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY “East International Exhibition”, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England (catalog) “Artist to Artist”, Ace Gallery, New York, NY (catalog) “Different Class”, Debs & Co., New York, NY 2001 “Darryl's Tears and Other Work”, Ten In One Gallery, New York, NY (project room) “Drawings”, Hermetic Gallery; Milwaukee, WI “SKYBOX”, Times Square Window Display; New York, NY “Winter Selections 2001”, The Drawing Center; New York, NY (catalog) 2000 “Under the Influence”, Zolla-Lieberman Gallery; Chicago, IL “Jessica Hutchins, Pedro Velez”, Hermetic Gallery; Milwaukee, WI “Open Studios”, Sharpe Foundation; New York, NY 1999 “No Metaphors”, FGA; Chicago, IL “All Girls All Live”, Bodybuilder and Sportsman; Chicago, IL “Smart Living”, FGA; Chicago, IL “True Value”, Swallow Gallery; Chicago, IL Publications/Reviews Libby, Brian, "A touch of the sublime in the disposable," The Oregonian, Jan 11-17, 2008 Bowie, Chas, "Jessica Jackson Hutchins," The Portland Mercury, Jan 10-16, 2008 Snyder, Stephanie. "Jessica Jackson Hutchins," PLAZM, Issue No. 29, p 100, 2007 Bowie, Chas, “Jessica Jackson Hutchins”, The Portland Mercury, Feb. 8-14, 2007 Porter, Jenelle, "Ten Contemporary Artists," The Believer, Dec06/Jan 07 Johnson, Ken, “Your Beauty’s Gold is Clay”, The New York Times, July 28, 2006 Cohen, David. “Not Consigned To the Realm of Craft”, The New York Sun, July 27, 2006 Smith, Roberta, “Art in Review: David Dupuis, Jessica Jackson Hutchins”, The New York Times, March 3, 2006 Pym, William, “Gone Formalism”, Art Forum, Critic’s Picks, Feb. 2006 Westphallen, Olav "Top Ten", Art Forum Oct. 2003 pg. 64 Bjarnason, Thoroddur "Blakaldur Veruleikinn", Lesbok Morgunbladsins Feb. 1, 2003 Slyce, John "East International", Art Monthly, Sept. 2002 pgs. 33-34 Fierst, Max "The Agony of Influence", essay accompanying I Just Can't Pretend East International 2002, Norwich Gallery; Norwich, England Smith, Roberta "Artists to Artists" New York Times review May 24, 2002 Artists to Artists A Decade of the Space Program, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation; Colorado Springs, Co 2002 pgs. 288-289 Cattalan, Mauritzio, ed., Charley Magazine, Les Pres du Reel/ January, 2002 pg. 315 New York Times blurb for A Different Class Feb. 1, 2002 Drawing Papers 12, The Drawing Center Jan. 2001 Velez, Pedro "Under the Influence", New Art Examiner Dec.-Jan. 2000/2001, pg. 47 Grabner, Michelle "Jessica Hutchins Pedro Velez", Frieze Nov.-Dec. 2000, pgs.118-119 Mutscheller, Chuck "No Metaphors", New Art Examiner April 2000, pg.50 LUNG, no.8 (Spring 2000), Chicago, IL, pgs. 122-125 Bulka, Michael, "Midnight Rant: Art Chicago 1999" June 2, 1999 spacesupoint.net/rants/rant7.htm Chicago Review, vol. 44, no. 1, (1998), cover illustration Honors Listagil Residency, Akureyri, Iceland Winter 2003 East Award, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England July 2002 Yale University Sculpture Dept. guest lecture, Spring 2002 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Center (New York, NY) 2002 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program (New York, NY) September 1999-August 2000 Full Merit Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997-1999 Go to top