Jacqueline Humphries Last updated December 08, 2025 American artist
Jacqueline Humphries (born November 17, 1960, in New Orleans ) is a renowned American abstract painter married to Tony Oursler . [ 1] She is known for her large-scale paintings that reference the history of abstraction, combining traditional painterly techniques with contemporary technologies. She has used metallic silver pigment to suggest the glow of a cinema screen, and has incorporated emoticons , emoji , kaomoji, and CAPTCHA tests into recent works that draw on digital communication. [ 2] Other paintings are produced by scanning her earlier canvases, translating them into ASCII character code, and using custom laser-cut stencils of the resulting images as the basis for new paintings. [ 3] Humphries lives and works in New York City , where she is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery . [ 4]
Work Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled 1989 Oil on Panel 24 x 24 inches Humphries' work has been included in major exhibitions in the United States and internationally, including the Venice Biennale (2022) and the Whitney Biennial (2014). [ 5] [ 6] She was the subject of a major one-person survey exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts , Columbus, Ohio , in 2021. Her Black Light paintings were shown in a solo exhibition at Dia Bridgehampton , New York in 2019, a body of work which she had previously exhibited at NYEHAUS in 2005. John Kelsey described this exhibition in Artforum as "the most memorable painting show in New York". [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] Humphries's first comprehensive solo presentation at a United States museum took place at the Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh in 2015, and later travelled to the Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans) . [ 10] [ 11] Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art , New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York; Art Institute of Chicago ; and Tate Modern , London. [ 3] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15]
Philanthropy Humphries serves as the Vice Chairperson of the board of directors at The Kitchen (art institution) , one of New York City's oldest nonprofit alternative art centers. [ 18] In 2020, she co-curated an exhibition with fellow board member Wade Guyton to celebrate The Kitchen's fifty-year anniversary. The exhibition featured fifty artists including Joan Jonas , Ralph Lemon , and Laurie Anderson . [ 19] Previously, Humphries served as a board member at Participant Inc., an educational corporation and not-for-profit alternative art space founded in 2001. [ 20]
Solo exhibitions Greene Naftali Gallery , New York, 1995. [ 21] Greene Naftali Gallery , New York, 1997. [ 22] Greene Naftali Gallery , New York, 1999. [ 23] Greene Naftali Gallery , New York, 2001. [ 24] NYEHAUS, New York, 2005. [ 9] Williams College Museum of Art , Massachusetts, 2006. [ 25] Greene Naftali Gallery , New York, 2006. [ 26] Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2007. [ 27] Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007. [ 28] Greene Naftali Gallery , New York, 2009. [ 29] Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2010. [ 30] Greene Naftali Gallery , New York, 2012. [ 31] Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2014. [ 32] Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, 2015. [ 33] Greene Naftali Gallery , New York, 2015. [ 34] Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans) , New Orleans, 2015. [ 35] Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, 2016. [ 36] Crown Point Press , San Francisco, 2016. [ 37] Greene Naftali Gallery , New York, 2017. [ 38] Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 2018. [ 39] Dia Bridgehampton , New York, 2019. [ 40] Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, 2020. [ 41] Wexner Center for the Arts , Columbus, 2021. [ 42] Greene Naftali Gallery , New York, 2022. [ 43] Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado 2025. [ 44] Monographs Jacqueline Humphries: Neiman Marcus (Greene Naftali, 2022) [ 45] Jacqueline Humphries (Lund Humphries, 2022) [ 46] Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:) (Wexner Center for the Arts, 2022) [ 47] Jacqueline Humphries (Koenig, 2014) [ 48] Jacqueline Humphries: Black Light Paintings (Foundation 2021, 2005) [ 49] Jacqueline Humphries: Malerei Paintings (Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 2000) [ 50] Public collections Humphries' work is held in the following public collections, among others:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo [ 51] Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago [ 14] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [ 52] Museum Brandhorst , Munich [ 53] Cincinnati Art Museum , Cincinnati [ 54] Berardo Collection Museum , Lisbon [ 55] Columbus Museum of Art , Columbus [ 56] Dallas Museum of Art , Dallas [ 57] Hessel Museum of Art , Annandale-on-Hudson, New York [ 58] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington, D.C. [ 59] Hood Museum of Art , Dartmouth College , Hanover [ 60] The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York [ 61] Museum of Modern Art , New York [ 12] Parrish Art Museum , Water Mill [ 62] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco [ 63] Tate , London [ 64] Whitney Museum of American Art , New York [ 65] References ↑ Yablonsky, Linda (April 6, 2012). "Artifacts | Not Like a Man" . T Magazine . Archived from the original on July 30, 2024. Retrieved November 27, 2024 . ↑ Wise, Lloyd. Archived 2023-04-29 at the Wayback Machine Artforum. Summer, 2019. 1 2 http://www.wexarts.org Archived 2021-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:). September 18, 2021 – January 2, 2022. ↑ "Jacqueline Humphries | Greene Naftali" . Jacqueline Humphries | Greene Naftali . Archived from the original on 2024-05-19. Retrieved 2024-11-27 . ↑ Greenberger, Alex. Archived 2022-02-23 at the Wayback Machine Artnews. February 2, 2022. ↑ http://www.whitney.org Archived 2021-03-22 at the Wayback Machine Whitney Biennial 2014. March 7 – May 24, 2014. ↑ Jacqueline Humphries Archived 2024-10-10 at the Wayback Machine Dia Bridgehampton, June 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020 ↑ Artforum Archived 2023-08-28 at the Wayback Machine John Kelsey (2005) 1 2 http://www.nyehaus.com Archived 2021-01-25 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine February 25 – April 15, 2006. ↑ Carnegie Art Museum Jacqueline Humphries. June 11 – October 5, 2015. ↑ Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans Jacqueline Humphries. November 19, 2015 – February 28, 2016 1 2 http://www.moma.org Archived 2011-02-23 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Beat the Devil, 2008 ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org Archived 2012-09-10 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Hor. #4 1/2, 1997. 1 2 http://www.artic.edu Archived 2011-02-23 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, i\Ω.., 2017 ↑ http://www.tate.org Archived 2024-07-14 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, ~?j.h%, 2018 ↑ http://www.modernart.net Archived 2024-11-16 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries ↑ Archived 2022-10-20 at the Wayback Machine "Independent Study Program: 40 Years." New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. (p. 104) ↑ "ABOUT" . 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Aspen Art Museum . Retrieved 2025-12-07 . ↑ Kelsey, John. Jacqueline Humphries: Neiman Marcus. New York: Greene Naftali. ↑ Guerin, Frances. Jacqueline Humphries. London: Lund Humphries | Contemporary Painters. ↑ Godfrey, Mark. Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:). Columbus and New York: Wexner Center for the Arts and Gregory R. Miller. ↑ Archived 2024-06-17 at the Wayback Machine Cook, Angus, Suzanne Hudson, and David Joselit. Jacqueline Humphries. Ed. Holly La Due. London: Koenig. ↑ Archived 2023-08-28 at the Wayback Machine Humphries, Jacqueline. Black Light Paintings. New York: Foundation 2021. ↑ Archived 2023-08-28 at the Wayback Machine Humphries, Jacqueline. Jacqueline Humphries. exh. cat. Wilhelmshaven: Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven. ↑ http://www.buffaloakg.org Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, One Cat, 2017 ↑ collections.mfa.org Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Antic, 1994 ↑ http://www.museum-brandhorst.edu Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, 31/13, 2013 ↑ http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org Archived 2024-11-25 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Black Monday, 1999 ↑ en.museuberardo.pt Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Hor. #7, 1997 ↑ 5095.sydneyplus.com Archived 2022-12-01 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Black Molly, 1999. Gift of Alexander Lasarenko in Memory of Anna Lasarenko. ↑ collections.dma.org Archived 2022-09-29 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled, 2014. ↑ bard.museum.com Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled, 2010 ↑ http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu Archived 2024-11-25 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, O, 2015 ↑ http://www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu Archived 2024-11-23 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled (VI), From the portfolio the new provincetown print project, 1992. ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org Archived 2012-09-10 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Hor. #41 1/2, 1997. ↑ http://www.parrishart.org Archived 2024-11-20 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled, 1990 ↑ http://www.sfmoma.org Archived 2021-07-29 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Nobody's Fool, 2013 ↑ http://www.tate.org.uk Archived 2008-05-25 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2022-12-20 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, ~?j.h%, 2018 ↑ http://www.whitney.org Archived 2021-03-22 at the Wayback Machine Jacqueline Humphries, Untitled (white), 1992
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