Jerry Kearns | Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006	"Forever More" Michael Steinberg Gallery, New York
2004	"Jerry Kearns" Jack The Pelican Gallery, New York "Double Dutch" Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
2001	"Jerry Kearns" Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
2000	"NOT GUILTY" Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
1999	"BABYFACE" PPOW Gallery, New York
1996	"WHITE LIES" Modernism Gallery, San Francisco "WHITE LIES" The Alternative Museum, New York
1995	"Jerry Kearns" Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
1994	"Photographs 1970-1980" Jose Friere Fine Art, New York "Jerry Kearns" Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
1993	"PROBABLE CAUSE" Kent Gallery, New York "PRIMA FACIE" Jose Friere Fine Art
1992	"Jerry Kearns" Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia
1991	"Jerry Kearns: Bilder" Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin "BODY AND SOUL" Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles "DEEP COVER" Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University Philadelphia, PA Traveled to: Art Gallery, Lehman College, The Bronx, New York, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University Art Museum, University of Ca., Santa Barbara Ca., Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, Catalog with essays by Eleanor Heartney Don Desmett
1989	"TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT" Kent Fine Art, New York "Jerry Kearns" Galeria Temple, Valencia, Spain Catalog with essay by Elizabeth Hess.
1988	"AMERICAN ICONS" Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles. Catalog with essay by Jefferson Morley.
1987	"RISKY BUSINESS" Kent Fine Art, New York Catalog with essay by Lucy Lippard "Jerry Kearns" Atrium Gallery, University of Conn. Storrs, Conn.
1986	"Jerry Kearns" Perimeter Gallery, Chicago "Jerry Kearns" Modernism Gallery, San Francisco "Jerry Kearns" Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
1985	"Jerry Kearns" EXIT ART, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006	The Whitney Biennial 2006: DAY FOR NIGHT (The Peace Tower Project) January through May Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York, NY
2006	SCOPE ART FAIR, Jack the Pelican Presents, March 10th - 13th, New York, NY
2006	"Hedonistic Imperative", Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX "The Studio Visit", EXIT ART, New York
2005	"Back to the Garden", Mayors For Peace Auction, Ruby Falls Gallery, New York
2004	"The Print Show", EXIT ART, New York "25 Anniversary Exhibition", Modernism Gallery, San Francisco "URGENT", Underground Gallery, New York
2003	"HIGH FASHION", The Chelsea Art Museum, New York "NEW LAWN", Jack The Pelican Gallery, New York "CRY BABY", Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2002	"THIN SKIN", UFA Gallery, New York "REACTIONS", EXIT ART, January 26 - march 30, New York
2001	"SNAPSHOT", The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland "ART CHICAGO: International Art Fair", PPOW gallery, Chicago, Illinois "San Francisco International Art Fair", Modernism gallery, San Francisco
2000	"OPEN ENDS: 11 Exhibitions of Contemporary Art", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York "Bizarro World! The Parallel Universe of Comics and Fine Art." Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida "THE END: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture. 1982-2000", EXIT ART, New York
1999	"20th Anniversary Exhibition", Modernism Gallery, San Francisco "MUMIA 911", PPOW Gallery, New York "Post-Pop Culture", Art Center of Battle Creek, Michigan "XMAS", Kent Gallery, New York
1998	"Hey You Never Know", 534 La Guardia Place, New York "Drawings", James Graham and Sons, New York "A Delicate Condition", Kent Gallery, New York "The Warehouse", Exit Art, New York "New York: Now", Butters Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1997	"Elvis & Marilyn: 2x Immortal" Traveled to: San Jose Museum of Art, California, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan, Daimaru Museum, Umeda-Osaka, Japan "It's only Rock and Roll" Traveled to: Dean Lesher Regional Museum, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona "APHRODISIA" The Alternative Museum, New York "Transforming the Social Order", Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia "Auto Portrait", Exit Art, New York "Works on Paper", Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
1996	"Figure Heads & Red Herrings" The Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles CA "Imaginary Beings" EXIT ART, New York
1996	"Under Siege" ABC No Rio Gallery, New York "Death Penalty" Arts Gallery, SUNY Purchase, NY "Difference" The Kent Gallery, New York "Alternative Press ‘68 to Internet" EXIT ART, New York "Voices of Conscience" ACA Galleries, New York "Cultural Economies" The Drawing Center, New York "Light Into Darkness" Kent Gallery, New York
1995	"It's Only Rock And Roll" The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. Ohio Traveled to: Lakeview Museum of the Arts, Peoria Ill, Virginia Beach Center For the Arts, VA, Tacoma Art Museum, WA, Jacksonville Museum of Art, FL. "Voices Of Conscience: Then and Now" ACA Galleries, New York "Death Penalty: Loss of Conscience" Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY "Justice / Injustice" Puffin Foundation LTD. New York "Imaginary Beings" EXIT ART, New York "Under Siege" ABC No Rio, New York "Where is Home" Kent Gallery, New York "Martini Culture" Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
1994	"Seurat Grows Up" Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine "Single-Cel Creatures: Cartoons and Their Influence on the Contemporary Arts" Katona Museum of Art, NY. "ELVIS + MARILYN: 2X Immortal" Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Traveled to: Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C. Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa OK. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, Tennessee State Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, Honolulu Academy of Art
1993	"Mixing it Up Again" Center for Constitutional Rights, New York "Artists as Catalyst" The Alternative Museum, New York "Great Dates" Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara "Under Lock and Key." International Center For Photography, New York Traveled to: The Wexner Center For The Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus The Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA. "The PADD Archive" The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
1992	"Re: Framing Cartoons" Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
1991	"World Disorder" Cultural Space, New York "The Critical Image: Sue Coe, Jerry Kearns, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero" Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University North Carolina, Greensboro "Critical Reactions" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco "Images of Labor: The 90’s" Bread and Roses Cultural Project, Gallery 1199, New York "The Hybrid State" EXIT ART, New York
1991	"Artists of Conscience:16 Years of Social and Political Commentary" The Alternative Museum, New York
1990	"Postcards From America" Freites Galeria, Caracas, Venezuela "Re: Framing Cartoons" Loughelton Gallery, New York "The 80’s: A Post Pop Generation" Southern Alleghenies, Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1989	"Reagan: American Icon" Center Gallery, Bucknell University, PA Traveled to: Humphrey Fine Art, New York "Whose Wars: Vietnam and Central America" Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, NY "Golden Opportunity: Benefit Sale for the Resettlement of Salvadorian Refugees" Leo Castelli Gallery, New York "Tenth Anniversary Benefit Auction." Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago "American Pi(e)" Bess Cutler Gallery, New York "A Different War: Vietnam in Art" Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington Traveled to: The Cordova Museum of Art, Lincoln Mass., University Art Galleries at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Akron Museum of Art, Ohio, Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles Block Art Gallery, North Western University, Evanston, Ill. "Dia de Los Muertos II" The Alternative Museum, New York "Benefit for The Wooster Group." Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
1988	"The Social Club" EXIT ART, New York "Imprimatur" Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina Traveled to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh "Committed To Print" Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to: University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, Peace Museum, Chicago, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, New York State Museum, Albany, NY, Spenser Museum Of Art, University of Kansas, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA. "New City Works" One Penn Plaza, New York "Art and The Law" West Publishing, St. Paul, MN Traveled to: Metro Toronto Convention Center, Temple University Law School, Philadelphia, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. "The Whole World is Still Watching" Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago "Agit/Pop" Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
1988	"Unknown Secrets: Art and the Rosenberg Era" Rosenberg Era Project Traveled to: Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Olin Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier , Ohio Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University of Colorado Art Gallery, Boulder, Installation Gallery, San Diego, Ca. San Francisco Jewish Community Museum, Spertus Museum Of Judaica, Chicago, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado "New Visions of the Apocalypse" Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI. "In search of THE MEDIA MONSTER" Cleveland State University
1987	"All The News That's Fit For Prints." P.P.O.W., New York Traveled to: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston "Movie Muse" One Penn Plaza, New York "Comic Iconoclasm" Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Traveled to: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin. Ireland, Corner House Gallery, Manchester, England, Circolo Des Belles Artes , Madrid, Spain, Kunstmuseum, Berne, Germany, "Documenta 8" Group Material Installation, Kassel Germany "Dreams of the Alchemist" Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio "Subtext" Kent fine Art, New York "Artists Who Teach" Federal Reserve Board,Washington D.C.
1986	"Political Art '86" Gallery G, Pittsburgh, PA "MASS" Group Material Installation, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York "Telling Tales" Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn. "Camino a Cuba" Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City "The Law And Order Show" John Weber Gallery, New York "American Myths" Kent fine Art, New York "Second Biennial of Havana" Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana Cuba "Philadelphia Inaugural" Artextreme, Philadelphia, PA
1985	"State of Mind/State of the Union" Judson Memorial Gallery, New York "Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent" The Alternative Museum, New York "Whitney Biennial" Group Material Installation - "Americana" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "New York / New Art" Modernism Gallery, San Francisco