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JOHN JACOBSMEYER
Lives and works in New York
John Jacobsmeyer (b. 1964, Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a painter and printmaker based in the New York area and a long-standing contributor to contemporary figurative discourse since around 2000. His work explores narrative, allegory, and the human figure through painting and printmaking, often extending into artist books and printed editions.
Jacobsmeyer received his BFA from the University of New Hampshire and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art. He has held a range of teaching and leadership positions, including Head of Printmaking and faculty member at the New York Academy of Art’s Graduate School, where he teaches printmaking, painting, and art theory.
He has lectured and taught at more than 40 institutions internationally, including Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Shanghai University, Vanderbilt University, and Pratt Institute.
His work has been included in residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Anchor Graphics, Cill Rialaig (Ireland), Shanghai University, and Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul.
Awards include fellowships and grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Basil Alkazzi Award, a Fulbright Fellowship (Italy), a Pollock-Krasner Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
His work is held in public and private collections internationally, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art (New Mexico), the Springfield Museum of Art (Ohio), as well as collections held by the States of New Hampshire and South Carolina, and the cities of Seattle and Shanghai.
Recent exhibitions include solo presentations at Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen and exhibitions in the United States, China, and Europe. He is represented by Gallery Poulsen (Copenhagen) and Art Labor Gallery (Shanghai).