Bill Jenkins
New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Substation 9, 9 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, NY
Image/Conduit, Freshkills Gallery, Staten Island, NY
2017 Substation 8, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA
Substation 7, Curated by Jedediah Caesar, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University Bakersfield, CA
2016 Substation 6, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, Poland
2015 Portland Apertures, Time Based Art: 15, Pictures Of The Moon With Teeth, curated by Kristan Kennedy,
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2014 End User, Bill Jenkins’ apartment, Brooklyn, NY
Wet Light, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY
2012 Long Ending, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY
2011 Bill Jenkins, Feature Inc. (upfront), New York, NY
2010 Lids and Dots, Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Bill Jenkins, Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Two Person Exhibitions
2015 Honeydew, Chadwick Rantanen and Bill Jenkins, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Bill Jenkins and Alina Tenser, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
Group Exhibitions
2021 A Spirit of Disruption, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, Curated by Margaret Tedesco and Leila Weefur, San Francisco, CA
Downtown 2021, La Mama Galleria, curated by Sam Gordon, New York, NY.
2020 Some of the Hole, Simian, Copenhagen, DK
2019 Coordinates: Maps and Art Exploring Shared Terrain, curated by Emily Prince and David Rumsey, David Rumsey Map Center,
Green Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Duck or Doorknob, organized by Noam Rappaport, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Living In A Lightbulb, curated by Jenny Jaskey and Mia Locks, Tanya Bonakdar, New York, NY
Volume of Effort 2, curated by Jakub Czyszczoń, Galeria SKALA, Poznan, Poland
We Burn Our Dreams Just To Stay Warm, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA
2017 Equators to Bi-Polar, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, Poland redirecting, Simone Subal, New York, NY This here, Regards, Chicago, IL
2016 Disappointment Island, Griffin Art Space, organized by Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, Poland
Looking Back, The 10th White Columns Annual, selected by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, NY
2015 Over & Under, organized by Matt Keegan, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2014 Brooklyn à Belleville, curated by Marie Maertens, Biennale de Belleville 3, Paris, FR
2013 A Stone Left Unturned, curated by Simon Castets, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
Table Setting, Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Made-up Shrimp Hardly Enlightens Some Double Kisses, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY
2012 Everyday Abstract – Abstract Everyday, curated by Matthew Higgs, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Pure Smoke Culture, curated by Nick Kramer, Anthony Greaney, Boston, MA
2011 Broken Umbrellas, organized by Christopher Aque, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY
I am not monogamous, I heart poetry, Feature Inc., New York, NY
Two Fold, curated by Colleen Asper and Ethan Greenbaum, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
2009 Skulture, Feature Inc., New York, NY
To the Left of the Rising Sun, Laurel Gitlen (offsite exhibition), Greenwich, NY
2008 Lucas DeGiulio, Bill Jenkins, Chadwick Rantanen, Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco, CA Shit, Feature Inc., New York, NY
2007 Fermata: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2006 Dirty Light, UC Berkeley Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2005 For Landscape, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
2003 Bay Area Currents, Juried by James Elaine, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Three Drawings, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2001 Assured Environments, AICAD New York Studio Program, New York, NY
Bibliography
2019 Coordinates: Maps and Art, Exploring Shared Terrain (exhibition catalog), David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University Libraries, 2019
Fyfe, Joe, “Bill Jenkins,” BOMB, Number 114, Spring
2018 Russeth, Andrew, “A Critic’s Diary: 12 Months, More than 1,000 Shows, Quite a Few Performances, and Sundry Other Events, August 2018,” artnews.com, 18
September
Maertens, Marie, “Interview: Bill Jenkins,” mariemaertens.com, August
2016 Berardini, Andrew, “Bill Jenkins and Chadwick Rantanen” (review), Artforum, January
Churner, Rachel, “Looking Back: The 10th White Columns Annual” (review), Artforum, April
Kosciuczuk, Krzysztof, “Critic’s Guide: Warsaw,” frieze.com, September
2015 Diehl, Travis, “Bill Jenkins and Chadwick Rantanen” (review), Artforum.com Critics’ Picks, October–November
Diner, Eli, “Honeydew at Michael Thibault” (review), Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Winter
“Gente De Talento” (profile), Casa Vogue Brazil, June
2014 “Bill Jenkins” (review), ArtinAmerica.com, June
“Bill Jenkins” (review), New Yorker, 9 & 16 June
Harder-Montoya, Maya, “Bill Jenkins, Wet Light” (review), Artforum.com Critics’ Picks, June
Russeth, Andrew, ”To Bushwick! Shows to See Right Now in Brooklyn’s Outermost Art District,” Artnews.com, 30 October
Tasman, David Andrew, “Bill Jenkins | Light Therapy” (review), DIS Magazine, 19 May
2013 Howe, David Everitt, “Bill Jenkins at The Suburban, Oak Park,” Kaleidoscope, Summer
Rew, Margaret, “Bill Jenkins’ Untitled,” Art for Breakfast, 11 January
2012 Akel, Joseph, “Bill Jenkins, Long Ending” (review), Artforum.com Critics’ Picks, March
Smith, Roberta, “Like Watching Paint Thrive,” New York Times, 28 June
2011 “Modern Painters Presents 100 Artists to Watch,” Modern Painters, December
2010 Sussman, Matt, “Seeing Spots” (review), San Francisco Bay Guardian, 26 October
2008 Amala, Isaac, “DeGiulio, Jenkins, and Rantanen” (review), Flavorpill.com, March
Huston, Johnny Ray, “Bill Jenkins” (review), San Francisco Bay Guardian, 19 November
2003 Westbrook, Lindsey, “Archives and Audiotapes,” East Bay Express, 28 May
Education
2007 University of California at Berkeley, Master of Fine Arts, Berkeley, CA
2003 San Francisco Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Awards and Residencies
2017 Atelier Calder, Saché, France
2015 Artadia Award, New York, NY