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GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2021 Artist in Residence, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2020-21 Artist in Residence, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2019-2020 Fitler Club Artist Residency, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Joan Mitchell Center Artist Residency, New Orleans, LA
2014 BAU/Camargo Arts Residency, Cassis, France
2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts
The Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program for Artists Residency, Lehon, France
2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
2008 Independence Foundation– “Between Wars Mythology”
2007 Philagra ka Portfolio Invitational (Philagra ka/Fabric Workshop and Museum)1984 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Painting Fellowship1982 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Painting Fellowship1981 Creative Artists Program Service, Artist Fellowship1976 Fellowship to attend Yale University, Music and Art, Summer residency, Norfolk CN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Eureka, “ solo exhibition , Philadelphia, PA
2021 February/March: Jane Irish, solo exhibition, Tapestry Paintings, Philadelphia, PA
2018 April/May : Jane Irish, solo exhibition, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
April/May: Jane Irish, Antipodes; Presented by Philadelphia Contemporary & hosted
by The Fairmount Park Conservancy
2016 “Jane Irish, A Rapid Whirling on the Heel” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA2015 “Jane Irish, Faience & Firenze” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014 “Jane Irish, Goauche on Tyvecs," Ravenscroft Visiting Artist Portfolio Series, Raleigh, NC2013 “Sông Hu’o’ng: Withdrawing Room” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 “Jane Irish: War Is Not What You Think,” La Salle University Art Museum and Connelly Library,Philadelphia
2011 “Jane Irish’s Art of War,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (cat.)2009 “Cochin Chinoiserie,” solo exhibition, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2007 “Paintings for Winning Hearts and Minds,” solo exhibition, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (cat.)2006 Main Line Unitarian Church, Wayne, PA
2002 “History Lesson” Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (bro.)
1997 “Window On Broad,” Installation
Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1989 Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY, Collaborative Works “Mark Dean and Jane Irish”
1985 Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Sharpe Gallery, New York, NYKling Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982 University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Fells Point Gallery, Baltimore, MD

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2 of 7fl2021 “New Grit, Art and Philly NowPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Hard/Cover,”Fabric Workshop & Museum with The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Jane Irish, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019 “Tempera,” Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR“Body Politic,” Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College, New Hampshire“Armory Show,” Locks Gallery, Javitts Center, New York.
2018 “Give a Damn,” The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College“Double Meeting,”Orgy Park Gallery, Brooklyn; curated by Fjord Gallery upcoming2017 “Preservation: Objects Registering the Past and the Future,” Physick House and The Clay Studio,Philadelphia“Woodmere Annual,” The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia“Due South,” Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington
2016 “Philadelphia Painters,” Kutztown University, Miller Gallery“The Death of Impressionism? Disruption & Innovation in Art” Michener Museum, Doylestown“Happiness, Liberty, Life? American Art and Politics,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Philadelphia, Pa
2014 “Surf Club,” Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA“MICA Then / Now, “ Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ“BAU Institute at Camargo,” FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY“A Golden Age. ” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia“Pervasive Clay, Clay at Penn,” Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA“A Gilded Age," Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2013 “MICA Then/Now,” Beacon Kunsthalle, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Beacon, NY“La Lumiere Fantastique- Brittany Shines in Baltimore,” Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery andLeidy Gallery, MICA, Baltimore
2012 “B19,” Long Island University Humanities Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 “The Asian Connection, Art in the Global Age”, Asian Arts Gallery Towson University, MD2010 “In Canon,” Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE“Philadelphia Story,” Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, NJ. Traveled to:Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
2009 “Dirt on Delight, Impulses that Form Clay” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia travels
to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2008 “Spot Check: Academy Contemporary,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia“Main Line Collects,” Main Line Art Center, Bryn Mawr, PA
2007 “This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the Academy,” The Pennsylvania Academy of the FineArts, Philadelphia, PA"The Beholder's Eye," Salmagundi Club, New York, NY"The Gun Show," Shore Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ"Finding a Form: In uences in Figurative Painting," Tower Gallery, Philadelphia, PA"Deep End," Aidan Savoy Gallery, New York, NY
2006 "Fete" Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA"Philadelphia Selections 6" The Galleries at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA"Vernacular Spectacular," Meyerson Galleries, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA"Color 6" Liz F. Spungen Fine Art, 231 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA"Posture and Expression," University of the Arts, Gallery 817, Philadelphia, PA.
2005 “Operation Rapid American Withdrawal, 1970-2005 Exhibition ” ICE Box Project Space,Crane Arts, Philadelphia. (I conceived of and organized this exhibition around a two yearbody of work).
“Faux Show,”Esther Klein Art Gallery, Phialdelphia

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2003 “The Other Tradition: Philadelphia Imagists” Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia“Lil Buddy” A group show about Pet Love, Project Room, Philadelphia, PA
2002 “15E: Contemporary Art and the New Jersey Turnpike,” Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers, Newark
2001 “Flight,” Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA"Snapshot", Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
2000 “Conceptual Realism,” Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA“Treasure Island: Eight Philadelphia Artists,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1997 “Painting for Walls,” Cheltenham Center for the Arts, PA“An Extended View: Landscapes by Philadelphia Artists,” Galleries at Moore College of Art andDesign, Philadelphia, PA“Holiday Show” Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Tabletop commission for bene t: Institute of Contemporary Art“Objects and Souvenirs: Artist’s Multiples,” Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA“Flowers,” Art in City Hall, Philadelphia PA
1991 “The Other Landscape,” Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA“Small Works, 20th Anniversary,” Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC
1989 “Landscape,” Betsy Rosen eld Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 “Romance is Back,” Lintas Worldwide Corporation, New York, NY“The Art of Sport,” Bronx Museum Satellite Gallery at Krasdale Foods, Bronx, NY
1987 “Diamonds are Forever; Artists and Writers on the National Pastime,” New York State Museum,Albany, NY travelling exhibit to many national and international museums“Utopian Vision,” American Express Gallery, New York, NY
1986 “Romanticism and Cynicism in Contemporary Art, “ Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette
University, Marquette, IL“Focus New York,” Moosart Gallery, Miami, Fl“NYC, New York,” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE“Group Show,” Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX“Inaugural Show, “Robin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL“Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape,” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1985 “An Inside Place,” Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NY“Urban Landscapes,” Semaphore East, New York, NY“Selections: 1974-1984,” Freeport McMoran Inc., Art Advisory Service, MOMA/New York, NY
1984 “Exquisite Objects,” Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY“Made in Philadelphia 6,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1983 “Apfelschnitt, Baechler, Irish, Kapp Drawings,” Olsen Gallery, New York, NYfifi

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Mir, Stan, “Paintings Embedded With Echoes of War”, Hyperallergic, March 19
2019 Jane Irish, author, Pennsylvania Historical Society, Legacy Magazine,essay, 1970 Philadelphia Resistance, “Must we clip the wings of Eagles, Vietnam Veterans Against
the War commemorated.”2018 Mars, Cypress, “Holding Together Opposite Poles: A Conversation with Jane Irish” Art inAmerica online, May 22
Hine, Thomas, “'Antipodes' at Lemon Hill shows a way forward: Philly's mansions don't need tobe musty antiques” Philadelphia Inquirer April 25
Salisbury, Stephan, “Lemon Hill mansion becomes an image of resistance in daring art takeover”
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 13.
Hunter, Becky Huff, “ Power, Vulnerability and Responsibility: Jane Irish ConfrontsColonization,”

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Biswas, Allie; “Jane Irish: ‘There is a critical strain about the anti-war movement that I want tocommemorate, so I really think of my work as history painting’, Studio International, May 22.
2017 Ritterbusch, Dale; “ An Interview with Jane Irish, “ War Literature and the Arts, Volume 28
2016 Hunter, Becky Huff, “Jane Irish at Locks Gallery, “ArtForum, print, September
Mir, Stan, “The Resistance of Jane Irish,” Hyperallergic, May 7
2015 Hughes, Samuel, “When Resistance is Beautiful,” Pennsylvania Gazette, April 28
Laster, Paul, “Jane Irish at Locks Gallery,” Modern Painters, August
Newhall, Edith, “Kate Bright and Jane Irish at Locks Gallery,”Philadelphia Inquirer, March 21
Stillman, Gordon, “Interview with Jane Irish,” Title Magazine, June 122014 Abbe, Mary, “Porcelain that is less than precious at Northern Clay Center, Star Tribune. May 22
2013 Vainsencher, Gabriele, “Sông Hu’o’ng: Withdrawing Room,” The Huf ngton Post, by, April 30
Epstein, Edward, “Drawing Room Plunder: Jane Irish at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; Art Critical,April 26
Newhall, Edith, “ Seeing Vietnam through another lens,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23
2012 Brody, David, Meth Lab of the Modern Psyche: Dr. Freud’s Consulting Room, Art Critical, May
2011 McMenamin, Alison; “Jane Irish’s Multiple Perspectives at Locks Gallery, the Art Blog, Feb.
Newhall, Edith, “Galleries:Rich, empty rooms alive with opulence and color,” Philadelphia
Inquirer, February 13.
2010 Smith, Roberta, “Crucible of Creativity, Stoking Earth Into Art, “ March 20.
Rosenberg, Amy, “A modernist paints a case for Renior,” Philadelphia, Inquirer, July 15.
2009 Newhall, Edith, “A display of Vases, quite with poetry from vets, artists,” Philadelphia Inquirer,January 18.
2008 Fabri, Anne, “Jane Irish at Locks,” Art in America, June/July
Ahrens, Molly, feature, Philly Style Magazine, upcoming May/June.
2007 Rosenberg, Amy, “A Clash of Colors,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 29.
Newhall, Edith, “The Beauty might Blind you to the Message,” Philadelphia Inquirer,December 14.
2006 Newhall, Edith, "Party Time, Fete a group show at Locks Gallery," Philadelphia Inquirer,December 1.
2005. Sozanski, Ed “A Multimedia Show of Resistance” “Operation Rapid American Withdrawal,”
recalling a 1970 “heroic protest,” echoes today. August 28.
Hill, Lori, “Search and Recover Mission,” City Paper, Sept 1-7
Fallon, Roberta, “Irish Rebellion, A war-protest exhibit recalls a little-known moment in guerrillatheater,”Philadelphia Weekly, August 31.
2003 Miriam Siedel, “Jane Irish at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,” Art in America, September.
Susan Hagen, “History Repeating,” The Philadelphia City Paper, Jan. 2
Ed Sozanski, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 16.
2002 Roberta Fallon, “Irish Activism” The Philadelphia Weekly, Dec. 18
2000 Ed Sozanski, “Exhibit plucks treasures from a timeless place,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 16
1997 Victoria Donahoe, “The Arts, Cheltenham Art Center,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 12.
1995 Gerard Brown, “Rosenwald-Wolf Multiples,” The Philadelphia Weekly, November 15
Robin Rice, “Artists Multiples,” City Paper, November 15.
1992 Elliot D. Sclar and Nancy Aries “Pulse of the City,” The Sciences, Nov/Dec.
1989 Peggy Syphers, “Jane Irish,” Arts Magazine, May
Kim Levin, “Art Walk: Jane Irish” The Village Voice, May 27
Matthew Weinstein, Jane Irish at Sharpe Gallery,” ArtForum, April.
1987 Louise Hamlin, “Scraps of Desperate Cheer,” COVER, Summer.
Kim Levin, “Mark Dean and Jane Irish,” The Village Voice, May 27.

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Jon Etra, “Labors of Love,” Harper’s Bazaar, April
Carol Diehl, “Double or Nothing,” Art and Antiques, Feb.
1986 Janet Kutner, “Exploring Unfamiliar Landscapes,” Dallas Morning News, Oct. 7
1985 Holland Cotter, “Jane Irish at Sharpe,” Art in America, Nov.
Kim Levin, Jane Irish,” The Village Voice, Sept. 17.
William Zimmer, “Enigmatic Interiors at Noyes,” The New York Times, Aug. 2.
“A Critic’s Guide to Art Beyond the City Limits,” The New York Times, Aug. 2“Shore museum Marks Birthday with Three Exhibits,” The Sunday Star Ledger, July 28.
1984 Jeanne Silverthorne, “Jane Irish,” ArtForum, November.
Bruce Kurtz, The Freeman’s Journal, September 5.
Ruth Bass, “Jane Irish,” ARTnews, September.
Nicolas Moufarrege, "The Year After," Flash Art (Italy), Summer
Selected CURATORIAL PROJECTSAnachronism and Liberation, co-curated with Mary Henderson
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, August 4- September 14, 2017
* Artists: Ana Hernandez, Rebecca Ness, Roberto Lugo, Odili Donald Odita, Robert Pruitt, LisiRiskin, Han Wang, Charles Edward Williams, Alexi WorthOperation Rapid American Withdrawal (www.operationraw.com)
September 2005
Ice Box Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia• Visual artists marked the 35th anniversary of Operation RAW. Curator and artist Jane Irish
has conceived of and organized the commemorative show to celebrate the antiwar veteran.
1970 Operation Rapid American Withdrawal (a 4 day march and guerilla action by VVAW
through the towns and countryside of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Reenactment/Rapprochement
Chester Springs Studio June 2000
Curator: Jane Irish
Awarded $77,250 from the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative• An exhibition incorporating performances and installation by Eleanor Antin, Mike Bidlo,Thomas Dan, Tom Marioni, Stuart Netsky, Alan Scarritt, Suzanne Wheeling, and William
Williams – artists who mine their own persona, a speci c history, or recreate their past.
PROJECTS
2018 Hoosac Institute Journal, conceptual feature2009 Commission, limited edition of award ceramic cups for the John Balaban Award. Vietnamese
Nom Preservation Foundation, Hanoi, Vietnam
2008 Commissioned print, The Preservation Alliance, Philadelphia.
2007 CD cover, detail of ptg “Operation Rapid American Withdrawal Tableau,” Mesopotania Blues
cd, band: John TrainfiPUBLIC COLLECTIONSThe Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusets
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
LaSalle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Women’s Hall of Fame Seneca Falls New YorkNew York Public Libraryamong othersfifl

ARTIST LECTURES/TEACHING/JUROR, selected2021 St. Joseph University, fall Painting course
2021 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Workshop with Military Veterans, perspective metaphor and reality
2019 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Two day egg tempera workshop
2018 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, School, Master Workshop, Painting November
2018 Atheneaum of Philadelphia, artist lecture with Bard Professor Catherine Whalen,
2018 Workshop, politics and art, week long The Alternative School of Math and Science, Corning NY
Skidmore College Dunkerley Dialogue series, fall Artist Interview class.
2018 St. Joseph University, fall Drawing course
2017 St. Joseph University, spring Painting course
2016 Kutztown University, Visiting Artist
PAFA, Lecturer, Water Media on Paper, Spring Semester course2015 PAFA, Low-Residency Program, Visiting Critic October, 2014 “Clay Salon with Blair Brownlee,Frank L. Chance, and Jenny Sabin” University of Pennsylvania, panel discussion in gallery.
October, 2013 “The Arts and the Military,” University of Maryland, seminar speaker.
January, 2012 La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, Artist lecture
Sept, 2011 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE, artist lecture
July, 2010 Love 'Em or Hate 'Em: Grappling with Late Renoir, Philadelphia Museum of Art; withPhiladelphia Inquirer lm critic Carrie Rickey, artist Jane Irish, and Joseph Rishel, The
Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900
February, 2010 Panel speaker, Chicago 2010 College Art Association Conference: “The Art of War:Con ict, Trauma, and Representation from the Vietnam War to Today, “ with Sabrina
Deturk, John Baky, and Daniel Heyman.
Nov, 2008 Panel speaker, “On the Limits and Possibilities of Politics in Art” featuring Laylah Ali,Enrique Chagoya, Sue Coe, Daniel Heyman, Jane Irish, Peter Saul, and Art Spiegelman. Keynote
address by David Carrier. Moderated by Patricia Hills and Robert Cozzolino. Pennsylavania
Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Sept, 2008 Panel speaker, “Rococo, What is It That Makes 18th Century Art So Different, So Appealing toToday’s Artists” SECAC conference, New Orleans.
June, 2008 Guest speaker, Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,“Dewey Canyon III.”
May, 2008 Panelist, Main Line Art Center, “Philadelphia, A City of Hospitality for Artists?”
March, 2008 Juror, Painting Panel, Fleisher Art Memorial, Challenge Exhibitions.
Fall, 2007 Artist lecture, Brown Bag Series, PennDesign, MFA program
Fall Semester, 2004 Taught Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 2 D Design,
Foundation program 2 classes
April, 2004 3 day Artist in Residence/Workshop, Dennison University
May, 2003 Open Studio for Undergraduate Painting, Tyler University
January, 2003 Visiting Artist, Graduate Critiques Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
November, 2002 Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute, Undergraduate lecture
December, 2001 Guest Critic, Senior Painting Reviews, MICA
1986 Artist in Residence, Wake Forest University
Fall Semester , Instructed Painting I and Senior Seminar in Painting

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