Jill Baroff
Born in Summit, New Jersey, USA, 1954
Lives and works in New York, USA
Education
1980-81Post Graduate Studies, Hunter College, New York, USA
1978Artist Seminars Program, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA
1976BFA, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024Spatial Measures, Bartha_contemporary, London, England
2023The Hours, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2022Survey, Bartha Contemporary, London, England
2020Species of Space, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2018Jill Baroff: plus ca change, Pablo's Birthday, New York, USA
2017What's Yours is Mine, with Stefana McClure, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2017Field Recordings, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2016in a grove, The Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York, USA
2014Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2014stolen moments, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2012Metropol Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
2011CHAMELEON, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2011The Edge of the World, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2010The Moving Target, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2010No Guts, No Glory, Solo Presentation with Christian Lethert Gallery at Volta NY, New York, USA
2007LikeThings, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, USA
2007You are Here, Gallery N. von Bartha, London, UK
2006Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
2006Time Line, Fruehsorge Galerie für Zeichnung, Berlin, Germany
2005Tide Drawings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, USA
2004Second Nature, Cristinerose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA
2003Elementary Measurements, Gallery N. von Bartha, London, UK
2002Borrowed Scenery, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, USA
2002Hannover Marktkirche, (Installation), Hannover, Germany
2002Scattered Light: new drawings and digital skies, Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany
2000Stacked Drawings, Wynn Kramarsky, 560 Broadway, New York, USA (catalogue)
1998Monochrome in Blue, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1998Casting and Gathering, Stark Gallery, New York. Hales Gallery, London, UK
1997Kunstraum für Neue Kunst, Hannover, Germany
1995Beyond the Narrow Gate, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1994Stark Gallery, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025Summer Accrochage, Bartha_contemporary, London, UK
2025… and going on, drj art projects, Berlin, Germany
2025Groupshow, Galerie Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2024Nach der Natur, SKK Raum Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany
2024Groupshow, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2023Red, Bartha_contemporary, London, England
2023Energie/Energy. Werke aus der Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany
2023protocol: artistic notations of time, drj art projects, Berlin, Germany
2023Drawing in Time, Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, Texas, USA
2022GROUP SHOW, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2022PROFIL: selected works from the Schroth Collection, drj art projects, Berlin, Germany
2021Imagining Data: A Virtual Exhibition, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, California, USA
2021Groupshow, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2021On Certainty: Gifts from the Collection of Suzanne F. Cohen, Baltimore Museum of Art
2021SHAPESHIFT, Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY
2021SEISMA, Studio Lab, online presentation, Spring 2022
2021Inaspettatamente, Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium
2020NEW WORLDS/Chance and Order, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Summer 2020
2020Groupshow, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2019BEGUCKUNG DER WELT, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2019A Day's Work, Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany
2018For Eternity - Archival Strategies in Art, Kunstraum Alexander Burkle, Fribourg, Germany
2018ReflexII: The Brain Closer than the Eye, Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany
2018Should I Stay or Should I Go?, Patrick Heide Gallery, London, UK
2017In neuen Räumen!, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2017For Eternity, Kunstraum Alexander Burkle, Freiburg, Germany
2017Iterations: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, Joel and Lila Museum of Art, Museum of Richmond Museums, Richmond, USA
2017format: 35 Years Sammlung Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany
2017die Frick Kollektion, Palais Leichtenstein, Feldkirch, Austria
2016Zeichnungsräume - Positionen zeitgenössischer Graphik, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2016Groupshow, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2015Time Shift – Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2015Groupshow, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2014Lichtwark revisited – Künstler sehen Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
2014The Practice of Drawing, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
2014Groupshow, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2010Desires and Acquistions Contemporary Drawing, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2010Groupshow, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2010A Gathering of Gifts: Relationships That Build Our Collections, Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, Arkansas, USA
2010Gifts and Promised Gifts in Honor of the Contemporary Museum's 20th Anniversary, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
2010Selected Drawings, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, USA
2009La Nature Morte - N'est Pas Morte! (curated by Beat Zoderer), Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland
2009ART PROTECT, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
2009Timewarp, CRAC Alsace Centre Rhénan D'Art Contemporain, Altkirch, France (catalogue)
2009Nueva York. El papel de las ultimas vanguardias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente Segovia, Spain (catalogue)
2008Drawing as Process, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (catalogue)
2008The Solo Project with Bartha Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
2008Drawing All Over/ the Power of the Line, Kunst Im Schloss Untergroningen, Germany (catalogue)
2008I Bought the Brooklyn Bridge, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
2008Art and Mathematics: The Wonder of Numbers, Heckscher Museum, New York, USA
2007Artists against AIDS, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2007Modern07, with Gallery N. von Bartha, Residenz München, Munich, Germany
2007Arbeiten auf Papier, Gallery Werner Klein, Cologne, Germany
2007Works on Paper, Gallery N. von Bartha, London, UK
2006Mäzene der Kunst auf Papier, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
2006The Fact, Abstract, Dorsky Gallery (curated by Claire Barliant), Long Island City, New York, USA
2006New Work, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, USA
2005Minimal Means, Kunstverein Eislingen, Eislingen, Germany (catalogue)
2005Works on Paper 2005, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, USA
2005Four Times One from Two Thousand and Six, Fruehsorge Galarie für Zeichnung, Berlin
2005Dating Data, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA
2005Artists for Tsunami Relief, Phillips de Pury & Co., New York, USA
2005Minimalist Art Now, Elvehjem Museum of Art, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
2004Infinite Possibilities, serial imagery in 20th-century drawings, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA (catalogue)
2004Drawing a Pulse, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery of Art, Univ. of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2004Brooklyn Gravity Racers: Pierogi a Go-Go, Pierogi 2000, Williamsburg, New York, USA
2004Paintings and Drawings II, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, USA
2004Astonishing Knowledge, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
2004Color Lines, Islip Museum of Art, East Islip, New York, USA
2004Gallery Artists, Gallery N. von Bartha, London, UK
2003From Here to There: Maps as Muse, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, USA
2003The Invisible Thread, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York, USA
2003In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a New York Collection, U. Mass, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
200310 Jahre, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany (catalogue)
2003Microwave 4, Cristinerose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA
2003wall projects, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, USA
2003Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, USA
2003Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
2002Minimal Art – Ancient China, N. von Bartha Gallery and Ben Janssens Fine Art, London, UK (catalogue)
2002Ad Infinitum, a selection of serial works from the collection, Wynn Kramarsky, New York, USA
2002Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
200225th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2001Digital: Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA (catalogue)
2001Drawing is another kind of language…, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
2001Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York. "Boomerang - Collectors' Choice", Exit Art, New York, USA
2000Contemporary American Drawings from the Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky Collection, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA (catalogue)
2000Drawing is another kind of language…, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
2000Drawing is another kind of language…, Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, USA
2000Endpapers, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA
2000Drawing, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, USA
1999Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain, Sete, France
199920th Anniversary Exhibition, PS 122, New York, USA
1999Drawing is another kind of language…, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
1999Fonds regional d'art contemporain de Picardie and Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France
1999Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Kunst-Museum, Athen, Germany
1999Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Germany. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (catalogue)
1998Visible/Invisible, White Box Gallery, Philadelphia, USA (catalogue)
1998Kunstraum für Neue Kunst, Hannover, Germany
1997Drawing from Life, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1996Arbeiten auf Papier, Andrea Pintsch, Munich, Germany
1996Projected, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1995Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, (Installation), Connecticut, USA
1994Selections, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
1992Pushing Painting, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1992Cultural Fabrication, John Good Gallery, New York, USA
1992Behind Bars, The Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA (catalogue)
1992OMI Foundation, Omi, New York, USA
Selected Public Collections
Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA
Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Collection of Werner Kramarsky, New York, USA
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, USA
The Pace Collection, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Progressive Insurance Co., Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Germany
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Awards and Scholarships
2024Pollock - Krasner Foundation, Individual Fellowship
2023New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant, Individual Fellowship
2010The Field Institute, Museum Insel Hombroich, Germany, Artist's Fellowship
2009New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant/ Lily Auchincloss Fellow
2008The Field Institute, Museum Insel Hombroich, Germany, Artist's Fellowship
2007Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
2005National Park Service Artist in Residence, Cape Cod National Seashore
2001Aaron Siskind Foundation, Grant in Photography
1998Awagami Paper Factory, Japan. Visiting Artist
1996National Endowment for the Arts. US-Japan Exchange Fellowship
1995New York Foundation for the Arts. Individual Fellowship
1994National Endowment for the Arts. Individual Fellowship
1993Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Individual Fellowship
1990MacDowell Colony, Petersborough, NH. Artist Fellowship
1988National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. Regional Artist Fellowship
1988MacDowell Colony, Petersborough, NH. Artist Fellowship
1987Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Individual Fellowship
Selected Bibliography
2023Jill Baroff, Currents, Leporello (edition of 50), Galerie Christian Lethert
2022Susan Morgan, Collectors Supplement, Tefaf works find the calm within the storm, Financial Times
2022Egger, Oswald, Das Buch von Drehen und Wenden der Blatten, Hombroich
2022Goldschmidt, Frederic de, Full House, Yale University Press
2021Serial Drawing: Space, Time and the Art Object by Joe Graham, Bloomsbury Publishing
2020Sergio Antonio Bessa, On View: International exhibitions, FLASH ART, #332 Fall
2020Journeaux, Jill et al, Body, Space and Place in CollectiveDrawing, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2019AVANTI-AVANTI 100: Beglückung der Welt, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2016Zeichnungsräume/ Drawing Rooms, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kerber Verlag
2014Lichtwark revisited: Künstler sehen Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, kunstforum Bd. 228, Jill 2012 Baroff, Galerie Christian Lethert, 2012.
2009New York New Drawings 1946 – 2007, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, pp. 60-63.
200810 Jahre Erwerbungen der Graphischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin, I Bought the Brooklyn Bridge, Staatliches Museum zu Berlin
2008Tobias Burg, Zeichnung als Prozess / Drawing as Process, Museum Folkwang/ Kehrer Verlag, pp. 40-49 (illus.)
2008Aus Gezeichnet im Kraftfeld der Linie, Kunstvereins KISS im Schloss Untergroeningen e.V.,AdKV, pp. 16-17 (illus.)
2008Eshoo, Amy, 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, Yale University Press
2008Genocchio, Benjamin, "There's Beauty in Numbers", The New York Times
2007Barbara A. MacAdam, "Jill Baroff at Margarete Roeder", Art News
2005Kevin Lynch, 'Minimal Art Now' opens at Elvehjem, Madison.com
2005Edward Saywell, "Teaching with Paper: The Fogg Art Museum", Hard Papermaking
2005Lauren Ross, "Dating Data" at Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Art on Paper, p.75, (illus.)
2004Bridget Goodbody, "A Conversation on Collecting", Art on Paper, November/December, pp.42-43.
2004Helen Harrison, "Color Lines", The New York Times
2004Waltemath, Joan, "Jill Baroff, Second Nature",The Brooklyn Rail
2004Susan Boulanger, Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in Twentieth-Century Drawings at the Davis Museum, Art on Paper, p.84.
2004Infinite Possibilities, Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2004The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York, pp. 20-21 (illus.)
2002Faye Hirsch, "Jill Baroff", Art in America
2001Akademie der Kunst, minimal – concept Zeichenhafte Sprachen im Raum, Verlag der Kunst, Berlin
2001Marilyn S. Kushner, Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art
2001Virginia Wageman, "Language of drawing speaks of minimalism", Island News (Hawaii)
2001"Working Proof", On Paper
2000Lilly Wei, "Goose Skin and Chicken Child", catalogue essay for Jill Baroff: Stacked Drawings
2000Philip Van Keuren, On Drawing: a conversation with Werner Kramarsky, Connie Butler, and Harry Cooper, Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
2000Kyoko Ibe, Contemporary Papermaking, Japan
2000Janet Kutner, "Collector Drawn to Emerging Artists", The Dallas Morning News
1999Jacques Béal, "Un mécene new-yorkais", Le Courrier Picard
1999Judith Benhamou-Huet, "Kramarsky, le minimalisme en 2000 leçons", l'oeil N˚506, (illus.).
1999D.L. Bouyer, "Le Langage du Dessin", sans titre N˚47
1999Hiltrud Ebert, "Schöne tote Sprache", Freitag 12
1998Ken Johnson, "Art Guide", The New York Times
1998Barbara Pollack, "Getting a Bang for your Buck", Art News, p. 144.
1997Franz Müller, "Von Pappe", Schådelspalter
1997Dieter Schwarz, Drawing is another kind of language, Harvard University Art Museums/DacoVerlag, p.36, p.37 (illus.), p.38, p.39 (illus.)
1997Roberta Smith, "Drawing from Life", The New York Times
1997Ludwig Zerull, "A Cardboard Sea of Light", review, Hannover, Germany
1995Suzanne McClelland, Bomb Magazine, pp. 52-53, (illus.).
1995Jill Baroff, Appearances, Number 23, cover and pp. 55-57, (illus).
1995Barry Schwabsky, "The Narrow Way", catalogue essay for Jill Baroff
1994Barry Schwabsky, "Jill Baroff", Artforum, p. 93, (illus.)
1994Faye Hirsch, "Jill Baroff", Art in America, p.132, (illus.)
1992Paul Blanchard, "Letter 'S' Road: Re-marks on site", tema celeste, p. 95.
1992"Goings on About Town", The New Yorker
1992Faye Hirsch, "Not Walls...", Arts Magazine, p. 64 (illus.).
1992Meg O'Rourke, "Behind Bars", Thread Waxing Space, Exhibition Catalogue
1992Andrea Scott, "An Eloquent Silence", Tema Celeste, Autumn, pp. 80-83.
1989Judy Von Wagner, "Jill Baroff", Arts Magazine, p. 75, (illus.).
1988Barry Schwabsky, "Naturalism Anti-Natural", Flash Art, pp. 102-104, (illus.).