JAQ CHARTIER
EDUCATION
1994 MFA in painting, University of Washington, Seattle
1984 BFA cum laude in Painting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1980-81 Syracuse University, School of Art (film), and Newhouse School, Syracuse, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Remain In Light, J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021 Under The Sun, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 SunTests, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 SunTests, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 In Solution, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco
2016 Hunting Color, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
2015 A Fever in Matter, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco
2014 Testing, Base Gallery, Tokyo
2013 Ultra Marine: New Paintings & Drawings About the Sea, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
SubOptic, Platform Gallery, Seattle
2011 Slow Color, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
2010 SuperNatural, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
2009 Downtime, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008 Color Charts, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Full Spectrum, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
Testing, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2007 Color Tests, Schroeder Romero, New York
2006 Testing, University of Michigan, Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor
Blindsight, Platform Gallery, Seattle
2005 Testing, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
Testing, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
2004 Testing, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn
Testing, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
2003 Testing, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn
New Work, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma
2002 Testing, Frumkin/Duval, Santa Monica
Testing, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
Testing, Cervini Haas, Scottsdale
2001 Testing, William Traver Gallery, Seattle
2000 Testing, Cervini Haas, Scottsdale
1998 Testing, William Traver Gallery, Seattle
1997 New Work, William Traver Gallery, Seattle
New Work, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland
1996 New Work, William Traver Gallery, Seattle
1995 Introductions, William Traver Gallery, Seattle
COLLECTIONS
Allen Institute
Amgen
Bill & Melinda Gates Research Institute
Capital One
Chambers Hotel, NY
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Charles Schwab
City of Seattle Portable Works Collection
Google Cloud Collection
Merck
Microsoft
Oregon State University, Corvallis
Partners Healthcare
Progressive Art Collection
Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School
Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle
Tacoma Art Museum
University of West Florida
Wellington Management
Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark
AWARDS & GRANTS
2013 Purchase Award, Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection, Seattle
2009 Purchase Award, City of Seattle Portable Works Collection
2006 Neddy Fellowship Award nominee, Behnke Foundation, Seattle
2005 Neddy Fellowship Award nominee, Behnke Foundation, Seattle
2004 Special Projects Grant, 4 Culture (Cultural Development Authority of King County), Seattle
Visual Arts Grant finalist, Creative Capital Foundation, NY
2003 Purchase Award, City of Seattle portable Works Collection
2002 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, Seattle
2001 PONCHO Special Recognition Award, administered by the Betty Bowen Award Committee,
Seattle Art Museum
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award nominee, New York
1999 Artist Trust GAP Grant, Seattle, WA
Neddy Fellowship Award nominee, Behnke Foundation, Seattle
Betty Bowen Award finalist, Seattle Art Museum
Centrum Residency, Port Townsend, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Wunderkammer 3, Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark
2020 Making a Better Painting: Thinking Through Practice, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College,
Portland, OR
2019 Metamorphosis: Agents of Change, NYU Langone Art Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Making a Better Painting: Thinking Through Practice, Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College,
Portland, OR
2019 Metamorphosis: Agents of Change, NYU Langone Art Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Making Life Visible, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, IA
2017 Artist as Subject, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Pairings: 16 Artists Creatively Combined, Sonoma Vallery Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
American Painting Today, the old Value Village on Capitol Hill Seattle, WA
2015 Diphthong, Fiterman Gallery at Borough of Manhattan Community College, NY
Thought Patterns, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
2013 Chamber Music, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Atmospheric Weather: Artwork from Seattle Public Utilities' Collection, Seattle Municipal Tower,
Seattle, WA
Materialized, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2011 One Thing Leads To Another, San Jose ICA, San Jose, CA
Seattle As Collector, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2010 Default State Network, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY
2009 Genipulation: Genetic Engineering and Manipulation in Contemporary Art, CentrePasqueArt, Kunsthaus
Centre d’art, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2008 Genesis – The Art of Creation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2007 Human Nature II: Future Worlds, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington
2006 Diagnosis [Art]: Contemp. Art Reflecting Medicine, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany; &
Museum im Kulturspeicher, Wurzburg,Germany
Building Tradition, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
2005 Neddy Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2003 Portals, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
2002 Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle.
[Travelled through 2004: Berkeley Art Museum, UC Berkeley; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis;
Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL]
2000 4 x 4: Four Decades of Univ. of Washington Alumni, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle
1998 Hands On Color, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & MEDIA
2021
Dworetzky, Joe. “Explaining the NFT,” Bay City News Foundation, May 22 (image).
Roth, David M. “David M. Roth on Jaq Chartier,” SquareCylinder.com, May 17, (images).
2020
Gallivan, Joseph. “ArtFocus: interview with Jaq Chartier,” KBOO.FM, May 26, (images).
Billions tv series on ShowTime, paintings on set throughout season 5, multiple episodes
Gallivan, Joseph. “ArtFocus: Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Jaq Chartier about her show SunTests,”
KBOO.FM, May 26 (image).
Guenther, Bruce. “Exhibition Tour & Conversation with Bruce Guenther & Jaq Chartier,”
YouTube Premieres, June 13 (zoom video with images).
2019
Billions tv series on ShowTime, paintings on set throughout season 4, multiple episodes.
Paglia, Michael. “Four Solos Create a Beautiful Pattern at Robischon,” Westword.com, June 12, (images).
Wei, Lilly. “Barbara Takenaga…Jaq Chartier… at Robischon,” StudioInternational.com, June 27, (images).
2018
Making Life Visible: Art, Biology and Visualization, exhibition catalog, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, IA, pp. 44, 52 (images).
Morris, Barbara, “Jaq Chartier @ Dolby Chadwick,” SquareCylinder.com, May 23, (images).
Stick, J. Malcolm. Where Corals Lie: A Natural and Cultural History, London: Reaktion Books, p. 132–3 (image).
2017
Schmidt, Carley, “Chance and Chaos: In the Studio with Jaq Chartier,” Medium.com, 8/1, (images, video).
2015
Mendelssohn, John. “The Ghost in the Machine: Diphthong at the Fiterman,” artcritical.com, Oct 5.
2013
Langner, Erin. "Disappearing Act: Jaq Chartier's Climate-Changing Paintings," New American Paintings Blog, 9/30/13 (images).
Weibel, Peter, and Ljiljana Fruk (eds.). Molecular Aesthetics, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, (images).
2011
artcritical: Review Panel #44 - Carrier, Diaz & Welish discuss Alison Knowels, Jaq Chartier, Iván Navarro, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, 4/1.
Baker, R.C. "Best in Show:…Jaq Chartier at Morgan Lehman," The Village Voice, 3/30/11.
Heinrich, Will. "On Display:…Jaq Chartier at Morgan Lehman," The New York Observer, 3/8/11, (image).
2010
Wilson, Stephen. Art+Science Now, New York: Thames & Hudson, p. 32, (image).
2009
Battenfield, Jackie. The Artist’s Career Guide, New York: Da Capo Press, pp.133-134+, (image).
Genipulation, exhibition catalog, CentrePasqueArt, Biel Bienne, Switzerland, pp. 54-59, (images).
Reichle, Ingeborg. Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art. Austria: Springer Wien New York. pp. 237-241, (images).
2008
Brady, Patti. Rethinking Acrylic, Cincinnati: North Light Books, p. 152, (image).
Genesis - The Art of Creation, exhibition catalog, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland.
Speer, Richard. “Profile: Jaq Chartier,” Art Ltd. West Coast Art + Design, September, (image).
2006
Cantú, John Carlos. “Disintegration at the core...” Ann Arbor News, Feb. 5, p. C2, (image).
Diagnose [Kunst] - Diagnosis [Art]: Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine, exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany, p. 133.
Hackett, Regina. “Jaq Chartier breaks down decay...,” Seattle P.I., 9/8/06, p. 29, (image).
Pence, Elizabeth. “Jaq Chartier at Platform Gallery,” Artweek, November, pp. 22-23 (image).
Scott, Carrie E. A. “State of the Art,” Seattle Magazine, June, p. 123-124, (image).
2005
Koplos, Janet. “Report from Seattle: Plugged In and Caffeinated,” Art in America, Sept., p.69, (image).
Reichle, I. Kunst aus dem Labor: Zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Wissenschaft im Zeitalter der Technoscience. Austria: Springer Wien New York. images on book cover and pp. 225-229.
Wiggin, Ashley. “The Art of Science,” Seattle Magazine, May, 2004, p. 30, (image).
2004
Baker, Kenneth. “Art grapples with science and politics,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, (image).
Jaq Chartier: Testing. Seattle: Marquand Books.
Maine, Stephen. “Dateline Brooklyn,” Artnet.com, 9/30/04, (image).
Shaviro, Steven. “Genetic Disorder,” Artforum, January, p. 42, (image).
2003
Connor, Jill. “Jaq Chartier: Testing,” Contemporary, no. 53/54, pp. 117-118, (image).
Lovejoy, Bess. “Weird Science: Art and Chemistry Collide in the Lab of Jaq Chartier,” Resonance, no. 38, pp. 32-33, (images).
2002
Engelson, Andrew. “Dot Matrix: Jaq Chartier smears the line between art and science...,” Seattle Weekly, March 28, p. 63, (image).
Roth, Charlene. “Jaq Chartier and Amy Ellingson...,” Artweek, March, p. 17, (image).
Welles, Elenore. “Amy Ellingson and Jaq Chartier,” ArtScene, Jan., pp. 12-13, (image).
1995
Foo Fighters. Capitol Records/Roswell Records. images on CD booklet, album cover, & cassette J-card.