Jill Baroff
Born in Summit, New Jersey, USA, 1954
Lives and works in New York
education
BFA, Antioch University. Yellow Springs, OH, 1976
Artist Seminars Program, Whitney Museum of Art. New York 1978
Post Graduate Studies, Hunter College. New York 1980-81
solo exhibitions
2023 The Hours, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2022 Survey, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
2020 Species of Space, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2018 plus ca change, Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY
2017 What's Yours is Mine, with Stefana McClure, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
2017 Field Recordings, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2017 Solo Project at Art Brussels, with Galerie Christian Lethert, Brussels, Belgium
2016 Jill Baroff: In a Grove, Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY
2014 For Your Love, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
2014 stolen moments, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2014 Brilliant Corners, Gallery joe, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Jill Baroff, Kunstraum Metropol, Munich, Germany
2011 Chameleon, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2011 The Edge of the World, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
2010 The Moving Target, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2010 No Guts No Glory, solo presentation w/Galerie Christian Lethert at Volta NY
2007 LikeThings, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
2007 You are Here, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
2006 The Shape of Time, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
2006 TIME_LINE, Fruehsorge Galerie fur Zeichnung, Berlin, Germany
2005 jill baroff: tide drawings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2004 Second Nature, Cristinerose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
2003 Elementary Measurements, Gallery N. von Bartha, London
2002 Borrowed Scenery, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
2002 Hannover Marktkirche, (Installation), Hannover,Germany
2002 Scattered Light: new drawings and digital skies, Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany
2000 Stacked Drawings, Wynn Kramarsky, 560 Broadway, New York (catalogue)
1998 Monochrome in Blue, GalleryGallery, Japan
1998 Casting and Gathering, Stark Gallery, New York
1998 Hales Gallery, London
1997 Kunstraum für Neue Kunst, Hannover, Germany
1995 Beyond the Narrow Gate, Stark Gallery, New York
1994 Stark Gallery, New York
grants and fellowships
2024 Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Individual Fellowship
2023 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant, Individual Fellowship
2011 The Field Institute, Museum Insel Hombroich. Artist Fellowship
2010 The Field Institute, Museum Insel Hombroich. Artist Fellowship
2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant. Lily Auchincloss Fellow
2008 The Field Institute, Museum Insel Hombroich. Artist Fellowship
2007 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. Individual Support Grant
2001 Aaron Siskind Foundation. Grant in Photography
1998 Awagami Paper Factory, Japan. Visiting Artist
1996 National Endowment for the Arts. US-Japan Exchange Fellowship
1995 New York Foundation for the Arts. Individual Fellowship
1994 National Endowment for the Arts. Individual Fellowship
1993 Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Individual Fellowship
1990,1988 MacDowell Colony, Petersborough, NH. Artist Fellowship
1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Regional Artist Fellowship
1987 Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Individual Fellowship
Public Collections
Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Cleveland Musuem of Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Museum Folkwang, Essen, GERMANY
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, GERMANY
Werner Kramarsky Collection, New York, NY
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, GERMANY
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Pace Collection, San Antonio, TX
Progressive Insurance Co., Cleveland, OH
Staedel Museum, Frankfurt, GERMANY
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, GERMANY
Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, GERMANY
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
selected group exhibitions
2025
GROUPSHOW, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne
… and going on, drj art projects, Berlin, Germany
Summer Accrochage, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
2024
Nach der Natur, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany
GROUPSHOW, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2023
RED, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
Energie/Energy. Werke aus der Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany
Pablo’s 21st Birthday: The Anniversary Exhibition, New York, NY
protocol:artistic notations of time, drj art projects, Berlin, Germany
Drawing in Time, The Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, TX
2022
PROFIL: selected works from the Schroth Collection, drj art projects, Berlin Germany
On Certainty: Gifts from the Collection of Suzanne F. Cohen, Baltimore Museum of Art
SHAPESHIFT, Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY
SEISMA, Studio Lab, online presentation, Spring, 2022
Inaspettatamente, Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium
Imagining Data, The Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
GROUPSHOW, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2020
NEW WORLDS/Chance and Order, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
GROUPSHOW, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2019
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Patrick Heide Gallery London.
BEGLUCKUNG DER WELT, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
A Day’s Work, Sammlung Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany
2018
Reflex II: The Brain Closer than the Eye, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
2017 GROUPSHOW, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
For Eternity, Kunstraum Alexander Burkle, Freiburg, Germany
Iterations: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, Joel and Lila Museum of Art, Museum of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
format: 35 Years Sammlung Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany
die Frick Kollektion, Palais Leichtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria
2016
Drawing Rooms, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2015
GROUPSHOW, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
Time Shift: Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Bartha Contemporary, London, England
Duets, Mattewan, Beacon, NY
2014
Lichtwark Revisited, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Works on Paper, von Bartha Collection, Basel, Switzerland
GROUPSHOW, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
Simply Drawn, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Visiting an Imaginary Collector, Das Kleine Museum, Weissenstadt, Germany
2013
Regarding the Forces of Nature: From Alma Thomas to Yayoi Kusama, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
BALISES, Piano Nobile Gallery, Geneva, France
GROUPSHOW, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
Indian Tantric + Western Contempoary, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
Le Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Featured Artist, Paris, France
Art=Text=Art, The Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
Summer Show, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
2012
Art=Text=Art, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Group Show, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germnay
construct, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Drawings and Prints from Sammlung Schroth, Museum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest, Germany
arbeiten auf papier, Zeitkunst Galerie, Kitzbuhel, Austria
Works on Paper, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
Information, Sammlung Schroth, Kloster Wedinghausen, Arnsberg, Germany
2011
Art Protects, Galerie Yvonne Lambert, Paris, France
Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester, NY
Art=Text=Art: works by Contemporary Artists, Univ. of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
2010
Desires and Acquisitions, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (catalogue)
Group Show, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
A Gathering of Gifts, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Selected Drawings, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
2009
La Nature Morte - N'est Pas Morte!, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland
ART PROTECT, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
Timewarp, CRAC Alsace Centre Rhénan D'Art Contemporain, Altkirch, France (catalogue)
Nueva York, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain (catalogue)
2008
Zeichnung als Prozess, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (catalogue)
The Solo Project with Bartha Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
aus gezeichnet/im kraftfeld der linie, Kunstverein KISS, Untergroeningen, Germany (catalogue)
I bought the Brooklyn Bridge, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
To Infinity and Beyond: Math in Contempoary Art,, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
2007
Artists against AIDS, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Modern07 with Bartha Contemporary, Residenz Muchen, Munich, Germany
Arbeiten auf Papier, Galery Werner Klein, Cologne, Germany
Works on Paper, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
2006
Mazene der Kunst auf Papier, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
The Fact, Abstract, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
New Works, Maragrete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Dating Data, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Minimalist Art Now, Elvehjem Museum of Art, U. of Wisconsin, WI
2004
Infinite Possibilities, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (catalogue)
Drawing a Pulse, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery of Art, University of Michigan
School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI
Paintings and Drawings II, Maragrete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
Astonishing Knowledge, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Color Lines, Islip Museum of Art, East Islip, NY
Gallery Artists, Gallery N. von Bartha, London, England
2003
From Here to There: Maps as Muse, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NYC
The Invisible Thread, New house Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a New York Collection, U. Mass, Amherst, MA
10 Jahre, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany (catalogue)
Microwave 4, Cristinerose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
wall projects, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA,
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
2002
Minimal Art - Ancient China, N. von Bartha Gallery/ Ben Jenssens Fine Art, London, England
Ad Infinitum, a selection of serial works from the collection, Wynn Kramarsky, New York
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2001
Digital: Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
Drawing is another kind of language…, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
Boomerang - Collectors' Choice, Exit Art, New York
2000
Contemporary American Drawings from the Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky
Collection, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. (catalogue)
Drawing is another kind of language…, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Drawing is another kind of language…, Lyman Allyn Museum of Art
at Connecticut College, New London, CT
Endpapers, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Drawing, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
1999
Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain, Sete, France
20th Anniversary Exhibition, PS 122, New York
Drawing is another kind of language…, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY,
Fonds regional d'art contemporain de Picardie and Musée de Picardie,
Amiens, France. Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Kunst-Museum, Ahen, Germany.
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)
1998
Visible/Invisible, White Box Gallery, Philadelphia.(catalogue)
Kunstraum für Neue Kunst, Hannover, Germany
1997
Drawing from Life, Stark Gallery, New York.
1996
Arbeiten auf Papier, Andrea Pintsch, Münich, Germany
Projected, Stark Gallery, New York
1995
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, (Installation), Connecticut
1994
Selections, The Drawing Center, New York
1992
Pushing Painting, Stark Gallery, New York
Cultural Fabrication, John Good Gallery, New York
Behind Bars, The Thread Waxing Space, New York.(catalogue)
OMI Foundation, Omi, New York
selected bibliography
Akademie der Kunst, minimal - concept Zeichenhafte Sprachen im Raum, Verlag der Kunst, Berlin, 2001
AVANTI-AVANTI 100: Begluckung der Welt, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Jill Baroff, Appearances, Number 23, 1995, cover and pp. 55-57, (illus)
Jill Baroff, Currents, Leporello (edition of 50), Galerie Christian Lethert, 2023
Judith Benhamou-Huet, Kramarsky, le minimalisme en 2000 leçons, l'oeil N°506, May, 1999, (illus.)
Sergio Antonio Bessa, On View: International exhibitions, FLASH ART, #332 Fall, 2020
Paul Blanchard, Letter 'S' Road: Re-marks on site, tema celeste, Autumn, 1992, p. 95
Susan Boulanger, Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in Twentieth-Century Drawings at the Davis Museum,
Art on Paper, November/December, 2004, p.84
D'Souza, Aruna and Tom McDonough, AD INFINITUM An Aesthetics of Dispersal: Succession and Seriality, 2002
D.L. Bouyer, Le Langage du Dessin, sans titre N°47, September, 1999
Drawing Rooms, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2016
Hiltrud Ebert, Schöne tote Sprache, Freitag 12, December, 1999
Egger, Oswald, Das Buch von Drehen und Wenden der Blatten, Hombroich, 2022
format: 35 Years Sammlung Schroth, Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, Germany
Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, August 3, 1992
Goldschmidt, Frederic de, Full House, Yale University Press, 2022
Graham, Joe, Serial Drawing: Space, Time and the Art Object, Bloomsbury Press, 2021 (cover)
Hatchadoorian, Lisa, Color Lines, Islip Art Museum, 2003
Helfenstein, Josef and Jonathan Fineberg, Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection,
Kannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 2002
Helen Harrison, Color Lines, The New York Times, March 7, 2004
Faye Hirsch, Not Walls..., Arts Magazine, March, 1992, p. 64 (illus.)
Faye Hirsch, Jill Baroff, Art in America, November, 1994, p.132, (illus.)
Faye Hirsch, Jill Baroff, Art in America, December, 2002
Journeaux, Jill et al, Body, Space and Place in Collective Drawing, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020
KUNSTFORUM International, Zeichnen zur Zeit, April-May, 2018, pp. 186-189 (illus.)
Kyoko Ibe, Contemporary Papermaking, Japan, 2000.
Chavez, Anja, et al editors, Infinite Possibilities, Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings,
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 2004
The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art,
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York, 2004
Ken Johnson, Art Guide, The New York Times, March 13, 1998
Marilyn S. Kushner, Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2001
Lictwark Revisited, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2014
Janet Kutner, Collector Drawn to Emerging Artists, The Dallas Morning News, February 27, 2000
Kevin Lynch, 'Minimal Art Now' opens at Elvehjem, Madison.com, February 4, 2005
Suzanne McClelland, Bomb Magazine, Spring, 1995, pp. 52-53, (illus.)
Susan Moore, Financial Times Collectors Supplement, Tefaf works find the calm within the storm, June, 2022
Franz Müller, Von Pappe, Schådelspalter, April, 1997
Meg O'Rourke, Behind Bars, Thread Waxing Space, 1992, Exhibition Catalogue
Barbara Pollack, Getting a Bang for your Buck, Art News, Summer, 1998. p. 144
Barry Schwabsky, The Narrow Way, catalogue essay for Jill Baroff, 1995
Barry Schwabsky, Jill Baroff, Artforum, Summer, 1994, p. 93, (illus.)
Barry Schwabsky, Naturalism Anti-Natural, Flash Art, Jan/Feb, 1988, pp. 102-104, (illus.)
Dieter Schwarz, Drawing is another kind of language, Harvard University Art
Museums/Daco-Verlag, December 1997, p.36, p.37 (illus.), p.38, p.39 (illus.)
Andrea Scott, An Eloquent Silence, Tema Celeste, Autumn, 1992, pp. 80-83
Roberta Smith, Drawing from Life, The New York Times, February 7, 1997
Thiessen-Schneider, Gudrun, 10 Jahre, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, 2003
Philip Van Keuren, On Drawing: a conversation with Werner Kramarsky, Connie Butler,
and Harry Cooper, Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, 2000
Virginia Wageman, Language of drawing speaks of minimalism, Island News (Hawaii), 2001
Judy Von Wagner, Jill Baroff, Arts Magazine, September, 1989, p. 75, (illus.)
Waltemath, Joan, Jill Baroff, Second Nature, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2004
Lilly Wei, Goose Skin and Chicken Child, catalogue essay for Jill Baroff: Stacked Drawings, 2000
Wirth, Heidrun, Less in More: 16 artists present work at Galerie Lethert, Kölnische Rundschau, March, 19, 2021
Working Proof, On Paper, November/December, 2001
Ludwig Zerull, A Cardboard Sea of Light, review, Hannover, Germany, 1997