JASON MEADOWS

Jason Meadows (b. 1972, Indianapolis) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994 and his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998 , where he studied under Charles Ray and Mike Kelley .

Meadows draws from a wide range of sources including popular culture, art history, and literature, manipulating familiar forms and narratives in ways that challenge linear perception of space . Engaging the surrounding space with assemblage structures that regularly incorporate wood, metal and found objects, Meadows challenges traditional notions of space, form and narrative . Everyday materials lend a rough-edged, handmade production quality to his work, frequently offset by a painterly use of color . The result is sculpture that filters perception of the familiar through new lenses of spatial complexity - work that holds both Chicago Imagist sensibility and West Coast formalism in productive tension.

 
 

Since the mid-1990s, Meadows’ sculptures have been exhibited worldwide, including the Tate Modern, London; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; and the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco . His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham .

His work is held in collections including the Tate Modern, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. He has been the subject of critical writing in Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, and Los Angeles Times.

Jason Meadows's relationship with Bobby Jesus spans over a decade of sustained collaboration in Los Angeles. He is represented by Post-American Fine Arts.

 

Installation View: Henry Taylor & Jason Meadows | “Untitled” - Chinatown, Los Angeles. 2015

Jason Meadows

 

  • Jason Meadows (b. 1972, Indianapolis) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1994) and his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (1998), where he studied under Charles Ray and Mike Kelley.

    Meadows draws from a wide range of sources including popular culture, art history, and literature, manipulating familiar forms and narratives in ways that challenge linear perception of space. Engaging the surrounding space with assemblage structures that regularly incorporate wood, metal, and found objects, Meadows challenges traditional notions of space, form, and narrative. Everyday materials lend a rough-edged, handmade production quality to his work, frequently offset by a painterly use of color.

  • 1998 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
    1994 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

  • 2012 — MARC FOXX, Los Angeles
    2011 — Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
    2010 — St. Francis, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
    2008 — Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
    2007 — Corvi-Mora, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
    2006 — Life on Mars, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Spatio Virtuo Teatro, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa
    2005 — Light Year/Clear Spot, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; The Polydistortion Remix, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park
    2004 — Corvi-Mora, London
    2003 — Order in the Court, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Disconnect Notice, Corvi-Mora, London; Storybook Medicine Levels, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
    2002 — Animal Eyes, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Studio Guenzani, Milan; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
    2001 — Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Corvi-Mora, London
    2000 — Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Studio Guenzani, Milan
    1997 — ROOM 702, Los Angeles

  • 2017 — 99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
    2015 — Small Sculpture, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago; SMALL(ish), Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Brennan & Griffin, New York
    2013 — Illuminations, curated by Matthew Higgs, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
    2012 — Venice Beach Biennial, Venice Beach; Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
    2010 — Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
    2009 — Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
    2008 — An Unruly History of the Readymade, Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City; Meet Me Around the Corner, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Marc Camille Chaimowicz: In the Cherished Company of Others…, De Appel, Amsterdam
    2007 — Fit for Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York
    2006 — The View from Here: Acquisitions since 2000, Tate Modern, London; Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
    2005 — Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for the Arts, San Francisco; Culturecounter, Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York
    2004 — Expander, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    2003 — Painting on Sculpture, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
    2001 — Mise en Scene, CCAC, San Francisco
    2000 — Mise en Scene, Santa Monica Museum of Art
    1999 — DRIVE BY, South London Gallery, London; Caught, 303 Gallery, New York
    1998 — Brighten the Corners, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

    • The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

    • Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

    • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

    • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

    • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

    • Tate Modern, London

    • Kodak Professional Imaging Scholarship

    • Merit Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Artforum — Featured 1998, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008 (Hainley, Yoon, Sholis, Higgs)
    The New York Times — Roberta Smith review (1998), Holland Cotter (2002)
    Frieze — Featured 1999, 2001, 2005 (Farquharson, Wilson, Mulholland)
    Art in America — Featured 1999, 2006 (Schwabsky, Rochette & Saunders)
    Los Angeles Times — Multiple features (Pagel, Knight, Ise, Muchnic)
    Time Out New York — Featured 2002, 2005
    Tate Modern Annual Report — American Patrons of Tate acquisitions (2005)
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago — Calder exhibition catalogue (2010)
    Royal Academy Magazine — Featured 2002
    LA Weekly — Featured 1998, 2004, 2005
    Flash Art — Featured 2002, 2006
    Forbes Magazine — Featured 1997

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago — Lynne Warren, Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form Balance Joy (2010), exhibition catalogue

    Tate Modern Annual Report — American Patrons of Tate, acquisitions catalogue (2005)

    CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts — Monuments for the USA, exhibition catalogue (2005)

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