About Jared Whitham
Jared Whitham has been cultivating and selling his original style for decades. He considers himself a neo-dadaist post pop non-stylist American artist. Whitham's work generated an underground cult following through the years. Producing enigmatic paintings, music, films, and performance art. His public work spanned from art happenings in Brooklyn to his NYC television broadcast to millions in 2008. Whitham has been capturing the a collective imagination for years. If you didn't tune into his TV show you may have caught some of his art on the New York City Streets.
Collaborating with artists such as film maker Nick Zedd to comedian Zac Galifinackus. Whitham has shown at several international art fairs and respected galleries. Whitham is an interdisciplinary artist merging paint, sculpture, elaborate sets, performance, and video. Distilling a handmade television series to make a painting; or making a film inspired by the vision of a painting. Weather it's performance art or video Jared always brings us back to a fresh new adventure in paint. Whitham claims that he is related to Van Gogh and ten American presidents. The revolutionary Van Gogh spirit is felt in his work.
Naturally gifted and for the most part self taught, Jared was a prodigy producing graduate level work in high school. He attended Collage at the Ringling School of Art and design. He dropped out after one year, and moved to NYC to pursue his dreams. Jared's experience of 9/11 in NYC, catalyzed him to breaking many artistic boundaries. Cultivating an ability to capture the anxiety of the time. He's developed a hybrid process driven style, enjoyed by anyone who encounters it.
Exhibitions:
Solo Projects
2016- The Golden Road - (Recent Paintings)
B&B Angeles, CA
2011- Outsight Inn - (Garage Sale Super Show)
Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
2010- Art Viceroy - Art Basel Miami Fair Week (Special Selected Solo Project)
Vara Art , Rupert Ravens Contemporary
Ethan Cohen Gallery, Andy Warhol Museum
@ Viceroy Hotel, Miami, FL
2010- Vessels - (Sculpture Installation)
Rupert Ravens Contemporary Newark, NJ
2009- The Armory Show - The Jared Whitham Show (Special Presentation)
Video Performance
Pier 94, New York, NY
2009- Boson Exotic - Pelecant (Special Performance with Supportive Paintings & Sculpture Props)
Curated by Renee´ Vara
Rupert Ravens Contemporary Newark, NJ
2006- Positions Painting, Performance - Miami Art Basel Week (Video Installation)
Curated by Rene's Vara in association with PS1 MOMA
South Beach, Miami, FL
2001- Ice Cream Social - (Painting, Sculpture & Video)
Franklin Street Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NY
1999- The Hot Dog Show
Light Painter Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1998- Jared Whitham - (Solo Retrospective)
Baba Cool Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Group Exhibitions
2015- AIR - LA
Esenherz Gallery-Studio, Los Angles, CA
2010- Seed Stage (collaboration with Cornin Hewitt Lighting Sculpture and Design)
Whitney Museum, New York, NY
2009- Jared Whitham Channel - (Video Art Television Broadcast)
12 months 24/7 broadcast on Commercial UHF television station - WNYX
Sponsored by The Bogner Foundation
New York City and Long Island, NY
2007- RSAD Alumni Show
MAC B Projects, Sarasota FL
2003- Illustrate Bible Project
CBGS Gallery, New York, NY
2001- Performance Insulation
CBGS Gallery, New York, NY
2001- AIR Brooklyn PBJ (Video Performance Installation )
The Pencil Factory, Brooklyn, NY
2000- AIR Brooklyn (Recent Paintings)
The Pencil Factory, Brooklyn, NY
Collections
Public
Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Archive.org, San Francisco, CA
Private
Rupert Ravens, NYC
Clear Light Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Renee Vara, NYC
Catherine Torsney, NYC
Walter Patrick Smith, Stamford, CT
Dianna Colson, Sarasota, FL
Museums
PS1 MOMA, Long Island City, NY
DIA art foundation, NYC
RSAD, WhatCity, State
Roskamp Foundation, Sarasota, FL
The Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Education
1998-1999 Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
Born
1978 Monroe Connecticut, USA
