JENI SPOTA
Born in New York in 1982. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
EDUCATION
2007 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004 BFA, State University of New York at Purchase
2003 Yale University, School of Art, Norfolk Summer Residency
2002 University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Cortona, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Fool's Small Victory, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Don't Tread on Me, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Tra La La, Greener Pastures, Toronto, Canada
2008
Giotto's Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2007
Giotto's Dream, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Stranger Than Fiction, Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA (forthcoming)
Underground Pop, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (forthcoming)
You Can Heal Your Life!, curated by Emma Gray, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
(N)icholas (F)rank (S)elects: Drawings from the Hermetic Collection, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2008
PRESENTS, Rowley Kennerk, Chicago, IL, curated by the Milwaukee International
LA Now, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, curated by David Pagel
I Can See For Miles, Sister @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
A Dead Serious Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
The Dark Fair, The General Store, New York, NY
2007
Fifths, SWINGR, Vienna, Austria
Summer Group Show, Rowley Kennerk, Chicago, IL
Ha___&___If, Sound Art Space, Loredo , TX
2006
Illinois Women Artists, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Illinois Committee at the Gage Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bentnames, Fifty50 Gallery, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Cotter, Holland. "The Perpetual Dialogue," The New York Times, January 8, p. C32.
2009
Ollman, Leah. "Jeni Spota at Kathryn Brennan," Art in America, November, p. 200-201.
Myers, Terry. "Jeni Spota: Fool's Small Victory," The Brooklyn Rail, October, p 29.
Ollman, Leah. "An Artist in the Thick of It," Los Angeles Times, August 23, p. E6.
2008
Bosshart, Becky. "New Show Highlights L.A.'s Emerging Artists," Las Vegas Sun, December 1.
Foumberg, Jason. "Jeni Spota," Frieze.com, February 20.
2007
Wooldridge, Jane. "Hot Picks," Miami Herald, December 6, p. 23A.
Pagel, David. "Critic's Choice: Horrors Hidden in Globs of Paint," Los Angeles Times, October 26, p. E22.
Brooks, Amra. "Must See Art," LA Weekly, November 8.
"The Modernists," Elle Magazine, November, p. 138.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2009 The Durfree Foundation, ARC Grant
2007 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006 National Museum for Women in the Arts
2005 Vermont Studio Center
2004 Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship