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