Jack Pierson's practice incorporates photography, sculpture, installation, painting and found objects through which he explores the varied emotional undercurrents of daily life, from the intimacy of romantic attachment to the idealisation of wanderlust. His large-scale wall sculptures composed of letters in different sizes and materials are diametrically opposed to the hazy, soft-focus effect of his photographs. These photographic works have been compared to images from road movies, whose rapturous race towards fulfilment have become etched into the American landscape, while his Word Pieces are similarly rooted in nostalgia. Rather than valorising the American Dream, however, he reveals the underbelly of this seductive ideal.
In composing his Word Pieces, Pierson collects abandoned signage from closed businesses, such as cinema marquees, casinos or storefronts, as well as road signs, neons and other cultural ephemera. The mid-century lettering evokes a sense of nostalgia, while the phrases are sourced from the contemporary vernacular – overheard in cafés and his daily commute, or borrowed from political aphorisms and advertising slogans – in works that defamiliarise everyday language. In the 1990s, Pierson primarily used slogans that were a melancholy reminder of the bygone Hollywood heyday, while his more recent works explore philosophical ideas. Concise and sometimes laconic, these works tap into the poetics of modern culture, using classical, literary and biblical quotations that evoke subtle associations for the viewer. They can be considered an American variant of concrete poetry, where language itself is represented through the skillful combination of word and material.
His photographic practice is imbued with a poignant sense of introspection, in sea and landscapes that suggest the nostalgia of summer through their atmospheric, even abstract, qualities. The curator Peter Weiermair has written: 'Pierson is more intent on reflecting the fictional rather than the documentary qualities of the medium. As such, photography becomes a medium to escape from the world […] transforming real circumstances into a state of glamour.' He has also produced a series of fictionalised self-portraits, none of which feature the artist himself, instead representing the arc of a lifetime as a progression from young boy to old man.
Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Pierson lives and works in New York and southern California. While studying at the Massachusetts College of Art in the 1980s, he became part of the Boston School group with fellow photographers David Armstrong, Philip-Lorca Dicorcia, Nan Goldin and Mark Morrisroe. His work has recently been shown at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2020, 2017, 2014); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA (2019); and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles (2016), as well as solo shows at Aspen Art Museum (2017); CAC Málaga (2009); and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2008).
2020
Free Yourself, Thomas Brambilla, Bergamo, Italy
Jack Pierson: New Photography, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany
2018
Folded Photographs, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Jack Pierson & Tommy Kha: Summer, Some Aren't, Teen Party, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2017
Walking Around, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
Jack Pierson: 5 Shows from the 90s, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
Angel Youth, Maccarrone, New York, NY, USA
Jack Pierson, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2016
Journal, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
2015
Onthisisland, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
Paintings: 1997–2002, Maccarone, New York, NY, USA
2014
A Town Not This One, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Jack Pierson, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
You Don't Own Me, Mendes Wood, São Paulo, Brazil
Memento Mori, Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
Folded Photographs, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2013
The End of the World, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ennui (La Vie Continue), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2012
Jack Pierson: Jesus and Nazimova, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Jack Pierson: Twilight, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
2010
Go There Now and Take This With You, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Night, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jack Pierson: New Photographs, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
Jack Pierson, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Jack Pierson: Drawings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Jack Pierson, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2009
Jack Pierson, CAC Málaga | Centre de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Jack Pierson, Abstracts, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
Jack Pierson, Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
2008
Jack Pierson, Musée d'Ixelles, Museum van Elsene, Brussels, Belgium
Jack Pierson, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Jack Pierson, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Jack Pierson, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Jack Pierson, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2006
Jack Pierson: Recent Works, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Melancholia Passing into Madness, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
2005
Jack Pierson, Danziger Projects, New York, NY, USA
Self Portraits, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Early Works and Beyond-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004
Self Portraits, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Self Portraits, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
2003
Jack Pierson, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
Jack Pierson, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany
Why Jack Pierson, University of the Arts, Rosenwald-Wolf and Hamilton Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Jack Pierson, Hamilton Galleries, London, UK
2002
Jack Pierson, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany
Regrets, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA
Andre Simoens, Knokke, Belgium
Truth, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
Jack Pierson: Recent Work, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
2001
Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Photology, Milan, Italy
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Under the Top, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Glenn Horowitz Bookstore, cur. Edsel Williams, East Hampton, NY, USA
2000
Robert Pearre Fine Art, Tucson, AZ, USA
La Vie, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Signs of the Times, realARTways, Hartford, CT, USA
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
1999
Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Art Association, Provincetown, MA, USA
Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba
Roger Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1998
American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY, USA
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
1997
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
1996
NZET Project, Gent, Belgium
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
White Cube, London, UK
Module Centro Difuso de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Stella Maris, Croatia
Galerie Philipe Rizzo, Paris, France
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
1995
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Theoretical Events, Naples, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden
Galleri Roger Bjorkhomen, Stockholm, Sweden
1994
Fine Arts Work Centre, Provincetown, MA, USA
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Edward Hopper & Jack Pierson, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1993
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1992
Tom Cugliani, New York, NY, USA
White Columns, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1991
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1990
Simon Watson, New York, NY, USA
2021
High Desert Test Sites 2021 (HDTS 2021): The Guests of the Hotel Palenque, Joshua Tree, CA, USA
2020
30 Years in Paris, Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
At Dawn, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
Perceptions: People in American Photography, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Come Out!, Kistefos Museet, Jevnaker, Norway
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Dog Days: Katherine Bradford, Ryan McGinley, Jack Pierson, LAUNCH F18, New York, NY, USA
2019
Friends and Family, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA, USA
A Most Favourable Soil, Butlery Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
Pride, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Thing Itself, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL, USA
2018
The Conditions Of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery And American Fine Arts, Co. (1983–2004), Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Head2Head, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Intimacy, cur. Stephen Truax, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Visual Thread: Fine Arts Work Center Artist Spotlight, organised by Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Stranger Comes to Town, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, 4 Times Square, New York, NY, USA
2017
Holiday Exhibition, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Lonely Planet, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Light in the Dark, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Autumn Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
The Objectness of Paper, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Over the Rainbow, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA, USA
FEEDBACK, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
The Horizontal, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
University of Disasters, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Meet me in Heaven, Schloss Tüssling, Tüssling, Germany
Jack Pierson - Marina Karella, for those of us who know, we know..., Zomboulakis Galleries, Kolonaki Sq., Athens, Greece
Blurred Lines: A Matter of Attitude, curated by Diana Edkins, Belfast, UK
Hope: Joseph Havel & Jack Pierson, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Heartbreak Hotel, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY, USA
Drawing Island, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
Group exhibition, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
30th Anniversary show, Attics of My Life, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY, USA
White Trash, Luhring Augustine, Bushwick, New York, NY, USA
Toujours, the Museum as Witness, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
2016
Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pure Romance, The Redfern Gallery, London, UK
L’Inventaire, Vol. 6 : Acquisitions de 1997 à 1998, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
2015
Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
So Far So Long, Centro Cultural Contemporáneo Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus, Galerie des multiples, Paris, France
Art AIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, D.C., USA
Harum Scarum, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Summer Salon 2015, ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA, USA
Words Words Words, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
2014
Tomorrow´s man, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France and Salzburg, Austria
Sed Tantum dic Verbo [Just say the Word], Blain Southern Limited, Berlin, Germany
Drawn to Language, Children’s Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Pop Sculpture, Leila Heller Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Morning After, Tyler Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Made by… Feito por Brasileiros, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil
QUEER Fellows, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, USA
Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, USA
Art in Embassies Program, organized by the United States Department of State, American Embassy Residence, Madrid, Spain
Pliage/Fold, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
Ten Recent Portfolios, Caroline Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
Only the Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
SPACE, Space Lodge Gallery, Park City, UT, USA
Lou Ford, Etablissement d'en Face Projects, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Disaster / The End of Days, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
La Sentinelle: Conversation, dédicaces et autres partitions, CPAC, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
NYC 1993, New Museum, New York, NY, USA
In a Sentimental Mood, La Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France
2012
McDermott & McGough and Jack Pierson: The Palm Beach Story, or What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Gavlak Gallery,Palm Beach, FL, USA
Death Can Dance, Townhouse, Zürich
The Sight of Sound, 60 Wall Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY, USA
It's Always Summer on the Inside, Anton Kern Galley, New York, NY
Detournement: Signs of the Times, curated by Carlo McCormick, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
RE-Mixed Messages, organized by Transformer and Visual AIDS, Fathom Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
Silver Curtain, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York, NY, USA
After Images, Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
The Last First Decade, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
Living Life, The Center (The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center), New York, NY, USA
Jack Pierson and Elliott Puckette - Collage, Danzinger Projects, New York, NY, USA
Everything You Can Imagine Is Real..., Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Absentee Landlord, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Off the Wall / Fora da Parede, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
Mixed Messages, Visual AIDS, La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY, USA
George Herms: Xenophilia: Love of the Unknown, MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Distant Star: an exhibition organized around the writings of Roberto Bolano, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2010
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., DC, USA
Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud) - Sculpting the Light From the East, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Male, Maureen Paley, London, UK
Sweat, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Third Thoughts, CCA Andratx, Spain
Country Music, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Robert Melee’s Talent Show, The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA Twenty Five, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
This is My Condition, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
Who are you close to, JANE KIM/thrust projects, New York, NY, USA
Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, The Webster, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Think Pink, curated Beth Rudin DeWoody, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Denim, 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2009
25 For 25: A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Monumental, Projex-Mtl, Montréal, Canada
Stars!, Salon 94, New York, NY, USA
Arles Photofestival 09, Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
Flower Power, VIlla Giulia - Centro di Ricerca Arte Attuale, Torino, Italy
sh(OUT) - Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Culture and Sport Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Location, Danziger Projects, New York, NY, USA
Chelsea Visits Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
Kids Behaving Badly, Clampart, New York, NY, USA
Just What Are They Saying, curated by Beth Rudin De Woody, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LO, USA
From the Archives: 40 Years, 40 Projects, White Columns, New York, NY, USA
2008
Ego Documents, Das Autobiografische in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
How To Cook A Wolf: Part One, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
Musical Paintings, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin, Germany
Boys Of Summer, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY, USA
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
FEAR, Wedel Fine Art, London, UK
Collection Agustín et Isabel Coppel, Mexico: Expected/Unexpected - La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown's Enterprise GBE modern, New York, NY, USA
E-flux Video Rental, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Protugal
Blasted Allegories, Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Couples, Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
Desenhos estranhos [Uncanny drawings], Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal
HERE AND NOW. PART I, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
The Sum of its Parts, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
2007
Martin Maloney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Pierson, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2006
Seeing the Light, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, USA
2005
Drawings A to Z: Colecao Madeira Corporate Services, Porta 33, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal
Collection 2, Fondation Pour L'art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Chateau k'Arenthon, Alex, France
Getting Emotional, ICA, Boston, MA, USA
Word Play, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Male Desire Two, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
A Thousand Words, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
The Culture of Queer, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
All in the Family (NY Edition), Mailena Braun, curator, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Romance, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Projex MTL Galerie, Centre d'Amherst, Montreal, Canada
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004
Double Check, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia, traveling to the Camera Austria at the Kunsthaus Graz (2005)
I am the Walrus, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
Word of Mouth, A Selection: Part I, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
High Desert Test Sites Four, organized by Andrea Zittel, Shaun Caley-Regen, Lisa Anne Auerbach, John Connelly, and Andy Stillpass, Joshua Tree, CA, USA
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
2003
inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstraction in Photography: Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Imaging the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
Kunst-Station, Cologne, Germany
Social Startegies, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
2002
5 Sculptures: Tony Feher, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mike Kelley, Jack Pierson, D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Chapter V, Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY, USA
Electric Dreams, The Barbican, London, UK
Ahead of the 21st Century, The Pisces Collection, Furstenberg Sammlungen, Donaueschingen, Denmark
Visions of America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Ahead of the 21st Century, The Pisces Collection, Furstenberg, Sammlungen, Donaueschingen, Denmark
"Mensaje de Texto", Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2001
A Way With Words: Selection s from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Postmodern Americans, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA
Pat Hearn Gallery: Part Two (1988-1994), Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Rocks & Trees, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, USA
After Image, IKON Ltd./Kay Richards Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Spiritual America, Audiello Fine Arts, Inc, New York, NY, USA
Geometrie & Gestus, curated by Nikolaus Ruzicska, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Signs of the Times, H&R Art Space, Kansas City, MO, USA
Masculinities, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Magic Hour: Las Vegas, Die Konvergenze von Kunst Und(The Future of Art), Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria, Curated by Alex Farquharson
2000
Couples, Cheim&Read, New York, NY, USA
Le Pintemps de Cahors, Cahors, France
Quotidiana: The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art, Castello di Rivoli, Torina, Italy
On Language, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Jack Pierson, Mark Flood, and Dan McCarthy, curated by Jack Pierson, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, USA
H, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
PICT, Walter Phillips Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Banff, Canada, curated by Yvonne Force
Issue: group show, Curated by Jack Pierson, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1999
Hindsight: Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Arts, New York, NY, USA
Two by Two for AIDS, Dallas, TX, USA
Insight-Out, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria; Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland
Free Coke, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY, USA
Collectors Collect Contemporary, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA (curated by Jessica Morgan)
Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Praxis, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, USA (curated by Warren Neidich)
Re: Rauschenberg, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Former Fellows of New York, Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, USA
Transmute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA (curated by Joshua Decter)
Pixel, Digitally Inspired Paintings, curated by Yvonne Force
Changing Faces: Contemporay Portraiture, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
A Place called Lonely, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA then to Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
H2O, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA (curated by Tim Callis)
The Ecstatic, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY, USA, a project sponsored by The Lindensmith Center (curated by Simon Watson)
The American Century, The Final Victory, Part III, James Danzinger Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Photography, Ascan Crone Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Times Squared, Keith De Lellis Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The American Century Part II, 1950 - 2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
International Festival of Fashion Photography, Kobe Fashion Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ego Alter Ego. The Self-portrait in Contemporary Photography, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
1998
Collection, un autre regard, capc Musée d'Art Contamporain, Bordeaux, France
The Sound of One Hand, Apex Art, New York, NY, USA (curated by Collier Schorr)
View IV, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Painting: Now and Forever, Part 1, Pat Hearn Gallery & Matthew Marks Gallery , New York, NY, USA
Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, NY, USA (curated by Wayne Koestenbaum)
Small Paintings, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
I love New York, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Portraits, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY, USA, USA
Male, Wessel & O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Early Works, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Landschaft, Trinkhaus Galerie, Trinkhaus & Burkhardt, Düsseldorf, Germany
Emotions & Relations, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany Edition Schellmann, New York, NY, USA (neon exhibited)
1997
Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo d'Arte Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
1996
Urgence, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
More than Real, Palazzo Reale, Caserta, Italy
Black and Blue, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Defining the Nineties: Consensus Making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Colorealism: Photography Enter the Third Millenium, Photology, Milan, Italy
Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life, Tokyo, Japan
Der soziale Blick, Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Exposure, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
All of a Sudden, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
Boralis 7 Desire, Lousiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, (travelled to: Bergen Billedgaleri, Bergen, Norway; Galleri F15, Moss, Norway; Dasselblad, Center/ Göteborge Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden; Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland)
Disneyland After Dark, Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Radikale Bilder, 2 Österreichische Triennale für Fotografie, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum & Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria (traveled to: Szombathely Képtar, Szombathely, Hungary; GaleriSander, Darmstadt, Germany)
Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece (Travelling)
1995
1995 Whitney Biannual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Nan Goldin, Mark Morrisoe, Jack Pierson, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Boston School, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA
The Nordic Art Center, Helsinki, Finland
Disneyland After Dark, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Close to Life, 3 Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen, Germany
1994
Passing Through, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
A Garden, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
GIFT, The Inter Art Centre, New York, NY, USA
Making Waves, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, USA
Sculpture, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Small Paintings, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1993
Simply Made in America, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
The 1993 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of America Art, New York, NY, USA
Nobuyoshi Araki, Sophie Calle, Larry Clark, Jack Pierson, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Urban Analysis, Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Stoned (HighLow), Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Tema AIDS, Henie Onstad Foundation, Hövikodden, Norway
Irony & Ecstacy, Salena-Caro Gallery, London, UK
Snap!, Tomoko Ligouri Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Whitney Biennial in Seoul, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Works on Paper, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Summer Reading, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Tabboo, Tom Gugliani, New York, NY, USA
Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Guggenheim Museum SOHO, New York, NY, USA
Picturing Ritual, The Centre for Photography, Woodstock & the Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, NY, USA
1992
How is it, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY, USA
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Healing, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, USA
Dessanges, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Hollywood, Hollywood: Identity under the Guise of Celebrity, Pasadena Art Alliance, Pasadena, CA, USA
Identities....., Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
True Stories, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
White Columns Update 1992, White Columns, New York, NY, USA
The Anti-Masculine, Run Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Developing Language, Hirschl&Adler Modern, New York, NY, USA
The Language of Flowers, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1991
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
Selections 51, The Drawing Centre, New York, NY, USA
Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, York University, Toronto, Canada
From Desire...., Richard Bush Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson, New York, NY, USA
Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Drawings, Lorence-Monk, New York, NY, USA
Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Presenting Rearwards, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1990
Tom Cugliani, New York, NY, USA
Blood remembering, Snug Harbour Center for the Arts, New York, NY, USA
France
CAPC, Bordeaux
FRAC Korsika
FRAC Haute Normandie
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Norway
Norsk Museum of Fotografi, Preus Fotomuseum, Horten
Switzerland
Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zurich
USA
Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore
California Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY