Jessica Slaven, b.1979 in Lansing, MI
Lives and works in New York


EDUCATION

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 2005
MFA, University of Pennsylvania 2005
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2001
Universität der Künste Berlin 1999


EXHIBITIONS

2009
Parlour, Curated by Jennifer Dudley, Brooklyn, NY, opens 21 November

Breukelen Brookline Brooklyn,
(forthcoming) Curated by Juozas Cernius, Chang Art, Seoul, Korea

2008                       
Add Art, Curated by Paddy Johnson

2007                       
Free Frisbee, Curated by Anat Egbi and Jen DeNike, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA

2006                        
Free Frisbee, Curated by Anat Egbi and Jen DeNike, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL
                       
I Was a Sunbeam,
David Krut Projects, NYC
                       
The Seventh Side of the Die
, Alona Kagan Gallery, NYC

2005                        
Five into One, Moore College, Philadelphia

Penn MFA Thesis Exhibition
(curated by Judith Stein), IceBox Project Space, Philadelphia

2004                        
Print Ten
, Fox Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (winner of Best Series)
                       
Folio
, Burrison Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
                       
Solemn
, Fox Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2003                        
Office
, Uncle Freddy’s Gallery, Hammond, IN
                       
16th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial
(curated by Michael Rooks, Museum of Contemporary Art,Chicago), EvanstonArt Center, Evanston, IL

2002                        
Variations
, Apt.1R Gallery, Chicago

2001                        
BFA Thesis Show
, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

2000                        
Hochschule der Kunste Rundgang, Hochschlule der Kunste Berlin, Berlin
                     
Leipziger Buch Messe
, Leipzig, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


PUBLICATIONS

2009                       
Mullican, Mullican, Mullican, Mullican, Paper Monument V3, NYC (forthcoming)

How to Behave and Misbehave in the Art World, with Dushko Petrovich, interviewed by KPBS's Maureen Cavanaugh, 28 August 2009

Untitled, I like your work: art and etiquette, Ed. Paper Monument, NYC, ISBN 978-0-9797575-2-5

Nick Cave, Whitewall, Summer 2009, NYC

The Bullying Muse, (with Scott Indrisek) Anthem V38, Los Angeles, CA

Kalup Linzy for Hire, (Well, Sort of…)
Time Out New York, online January 2009                                                                                                          
2008
Throw Away Architecture,
(with Konrad Graser) Anthem V37, Los Angeles, CA

Sculpture in the Expended Field, Paper Monument V2, NYC

Falled Up Beyond All Recognition, Paper Monument online,                                                                        
2007                       
September-October
, Paper Monument online

Reviews, Beautiful Decay, January, Los Angeles

2006                        
Sports Report
in The Seventh Side of the Die, newspaper published by Alona Kagan Gallery, NYC

2005                        
The Annotated Grocery List,
The Daily Constitutional V1 N1, Richmond , VA

2004                        
INVENTING SADAPTLSILNYHBWX-likeFTFB
, in All Hands On, A The2ndHand Reader. Ed,Todd Dills, Elephant Rock Books/TNI Books, Chicago

Catalogue entries for JJ Tissot and C Pissarro, in Master Drawings (1800-1914) from the Ashmolean Museum, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
  
Latin and Greek, EP with Simon Froehlich, AA Records, Lisbon/Hamburg

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009
Free Booze, Expensive Art Katie Luscombe, Real Detroit Weekly, 15 September 2009

Hot Magazine: Whitewall, Derek Loves Shopping.com, 29 June 2009 (on Nick Cave in Whitewall)

2008
Add-Art & AFC, Bad at Sports Contemporary Art Talk.com, 10 November 2008

"Preternatural Selection" Opens at Gallery 51 February 28 Gail M Burns, Greylock News, 27 February 2008

2006
Review, The Daily Constitutional V1 N1, Umbrella Online, Volume 29, No. 1, March 2006

2005
Schools’ Clout, Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, May 18, 2005

Judith Stein, MFA Thesis 2005 Catalog, University of Pennsylvania, p 5

Weekly Update, Roberta Fallon, ArtBlog May 18, 2005, http://www.fallonandrosof.com/2005/05/weekly-update-students.html

Philly’s 2005 Skowhegan Connection, Roberta Fallon, ArtBlog June 6, 2005,http://www.fallonandrosof.com/2005/06/phillys-2005-skowhegan-connection.html