632 W. 125th St. New York, NY 10027
grovesja@gmail.com ∙ 303-565-6660 ∙ www.jacqgroves.com
b. 1987 in Denver, lives and works in New York
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
EDUCATION
2022 MFA Candidate, Columbia University, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2009 BA, Art and Biology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Corporeal Conundrums, Aquarium Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 Shifting Deltas / Drifting Shelters, The Tigermen Den, New Orleans, LA
2013 Cartography and Cairns, Public House Studio, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Better Late Than Never, ChaShaMa Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Columbia First Year MFA Exhibition, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY
2021 Not Just Another Anthropocentric Love Story, Trestles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Queer Ecology, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2020 Hot Future, 912 Julia St. Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2020 Tuft, Group Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Queer Ecology, Irma Freeman Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2019 Guess What…, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 Mixed, Studio Waveland Gallery, Waveland, MS
2019 Queer Ecology, White Page Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2019 A Lemon, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 Introduction, Mehle Studios Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 La La Land, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015 Nostalgia, Hall Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2013 You Are Beautiful: the Next Chapter, Galerie F, Chicago, IL
2009 Student Salon, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
2008 Student Salon, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESIDENCIES
2022 NARS International Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming)
2021-22 Dean’s Project Grant, Columbia University, New York, NY
2020-22 Joan Sovern Award for Sculpture, Columbia University, New York, NY
2021-22 Shop Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2019 Vermont Studio Center Merit Grant, Johnson, VT
2015 GrinCity Collective Residency, Grinnell, IA
2009 Purchase Prize, Grinnell College, Art Salon, Grinnell, IA
2005-09 Grinnell College Trustee Honor Scholarship, Grinnell, IA
SELECT PRESS
Arts and Education, “Class of 2022 first-year MFA exhibition, Columbia University School of the Arts”, July 15, 2021.
Caroline Tracey, “Plant Flagging and the Queer Ecology Hanky Project 2020”, Queer Science Series/Essays. June 30, 2020
Harriet Burbeck, Antigravity Magazine, “LONELY PALETTE (part one), A Survey of Visual Artists in Lockdown”, May 2020.
Bill O'Driscoll, Bandana Bunch: “Queer Ecology Hanky Project Explores Nature And Sexuality”, Feb. 4, 2020.
Vanessa Adams, Mary Tremonte. Ecotone, “Infinite Affinities Work from the Queer Ecology Hanky Project”, Fall/Winter 2019 (Issue 28).
SPECIAL PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
May, 2018 Prop designer and installation artist for “Jubilee” an immersive performance exploring Southern identity and institutional racism created by New Noise, a New Orleans-based performance ensemble
April, 2018 Welding and carpentry assistant for “Porch Life”, a three-story mobile sound art installation and performance space created by New Orleans Airlift’s Music Box Village for a national tour
January, 2016 Co-founded an ongoing critique group for New Orleans-based women and gender non-conforming artists that met monthly until March 2020
October, 2015 Designer and fabricator of installation-based bar space “The Trailer” for Court 13’s annual “Always for Pleasure” film festival