Jackie Tileston

Biography

B.A., Yale University
M.F.A., Indiana University

Painter. Teaches undergraduate painting and graduate seminar in critical issues. Taught at University of New Mexico, Rice University, University of Houston. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award in Painting (2006); Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center Residency (2005); Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2004); M-AAA/NEA Fellowship in painting (1995); Core Fellows Residency, Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (1988-90). Solo Exhibitions scheduled for 2009 at Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA and Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL. Past solo exhibitions include “Phenomorama” Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX (2008); “Adventures of the Semionauts” Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL (2007); "Not Always So", Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston (2006); "Heterotopia", Zg Gallery, Chicago, (2005) and Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, (2005); "Empty and Full", Barbara Davis Gallery (2003); Chromotopia", Philadelphia Art Alliance (2003), UNM Arts Gallery (2000); University of Texas Satellite Space, TX (1998); John Sommers Gallery, UNM (1998); Lawing Gallery, Houston (1995,1997); Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston (1996, two-person); W.A. Graham Gallery, TX (1990, 1992). Group shows include "Surface Tension", The Painting Center, New York (2006), "Scratching the Surface: Abstraction Now", Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE (2005); Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX (2005); Compositions of Acquisition, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL (2004); New American Paintings: A Juried Exhibition in Print, #51; Summer Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL (2004); Circle Show, Philadelphia Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA (2003); The Painting Center, New York, NY (2002) and Art in General, New York, NY (2002).