Solo Exhibitions
- 2014
- Looking Past Seeing Through
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
- 2011
- Jess 3
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
- 2009
- Jess 2
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
- 2008
- Gallery Paule Anglim
San Francisco, CA
- Jess
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
- 2007-08
- The Arion Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2007-09
- Jess: To and From the Printed Page, curated by Ingrid Schaffner:
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA;
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI;
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA;
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, TX;
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR;
The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA;
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
- 2005
- Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
- Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
- 1996
- Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
- 1993-94
- Jess: A Grand Collage, organized by Michael Auping
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY;
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN;
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA;
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA;
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
- 1990
- “Jess: the Romantic Paintings”
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
- John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1989
- San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- 1987
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- 1983
- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
- Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA
- Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
- 1982
- Odyssia Gallery, NY
- 1981
- The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 1980
- University Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Odyssia Gallery, NY
- 1978
- Odyssia Gallery, NY
- 1977
- Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
- University Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley, CA
- 1975
- Galleria Odyssia, Rome, Italy
- Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
- 1974
- The Museum of Modern Art, NY
- 1972
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
- 1971
- Odyssia Gallery, New York, NY 1971
- 1968
- San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
- 1967
- Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
- 1965
- Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 1961
- Borregaard’s Museum, San Francisco, CA
- 1960
- Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1959
- City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA
- Gump’s Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1954
- The Place, San Francisco, CA
- 1953
- The King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1950
- Helvie Makela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
- 2015
- Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
- Attachment,
Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
- America is Hard to See,
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
- Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
- 2014
- Holding It Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- An Opening of The Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle:
The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY;
Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC;
The Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
- 2013
- SIGHT / VISION: The Urban Milieu
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
- An Opening of The Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle
The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
- 2012
- The Painted Word
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2010
- Shred
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NY
- 2009
- Metamorphosis Victorianus
Ubu Gallery, NY
- 2008
- Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
- Entre Chien et Loup
Kent Gallery, NY
- Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
- 2007
- Pioneers
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
- 2005
- Jess and Ray Johnson, Word Pictures: Paste-ups Moticos, and Assemblages 1951-1997
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2004
- Poetry and its Arts: Bay Area Interactions 1954-2004
California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
- 1999
- Dream Architecture
Kent Gallery, NY
- 1998
- Art from Around the Bay
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
- 1993
- Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- 1992
- Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Robert Duncan: Drawings and Decorated Books
The Bancroft Library, University Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Poem Makers
L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA
- Sight Vision: The Urban Milieu: Number Three: Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, George Herms, Jess
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
- 1991-92
- Pop-Art
Royal Academy of Arts, London;
Museum Ludwig, Cologne;
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
- 1990
- Lyrical Vision: The 6 Gallery 1954-1957
Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
- Lyn Brockway, Harry Jacobus, and Jess: The Romantic Paintings
Weigand Gallery of the College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
- 1989
- An Art of Wondering: The King Ubu Gallery 1952-1953
Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
- Bay Area: Fresh Views
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- Forty Years of California Assemblage
Wight Art Gallery at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- Collage and Assemblage, Bill Bissett, George Herms, Jess, Al Neil
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- 1988
- The Poetic Object
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX;
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID;
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX;
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
- Different Drummers: Wallace Berman, Clyde Connell, Bruce Conner, Ovyind Fahlstrom, Robert Helm, Alfred Jensen, Jess, Luis Jimenez, Peter Saul
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
- Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art
James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 1987
- Made in USA: An Americanization in Modern Art, the 50’s & 60’s
University Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley, CA;
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO;
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
- Assemblage
Kent Fine Art, Inc., NY
- Comic Iconoclasm
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London;
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin;
Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester;
Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid;
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
- 1986
- American/European Painting and Sculpture 1986: Part II
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
- The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
- 1985
- An Inside Place: Interior Spaces of the Mind and Eye
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
- Art in The San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
- American/European Painting and Sculpture 1985: Part I
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
- Ars Medica: Art, Medicine, and the Human Condition
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA;
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH;
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA;
Yasuda Kasai Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- 1984
- The Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID
- 1983
- The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture
Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, NY
- American Accents
The Gallery/Stratford, Canada;
College Park, Toronto, Canada;
Musée du Québec, Québec, Canada;
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada;
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada;
The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada;
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada;
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Calgary, Canada;
Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
- 1982
- The Americans: The Collage
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
- 1981
- California: A Sense of Individualism: Part I
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
- Pacific Coast States Collection from the Vice-President’s House
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
- 1980
- Mysterious and Magical Realism
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT/span>
- Aspects of the 70’s: Mavericks
Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
- 1979
- Private Icon
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
- Works on Paper
Odyssia Gallery, NY
- 1978
- Narration
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
- 8 Artists
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1977
- Words at Liberty
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
- Perceptions of The Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN;
University Art Museum at University of California, Berkeley, CA;
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX;
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH
- 1976
- Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- 1975
- Art as a Muscular Principle/Ten Artists and San Francisco 1950-1965
John and Norah Warbeke Gallery at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
- 1974
- Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1974
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
- Seventy-First American Exhibition
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Poets of The Cities, 1974
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX;
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA;
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
- 1973
- Extraordinary Realities
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY;
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY;
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
- 1972
- Seventieth American Exhibition
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 1970
- American Painting 1970
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
- A Century of California Painting 1870-1970
Crocker Citizens National Bank, San Francisco, CA
- Symbol and Vision
Gallery Reese Palley, San Francisco, CA
- 1969
- Pop Art
Hayward Gallery, London, England
- The Spirit of the Comics
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- 1968
- On Looking Back: Bay Area: 1945-1960
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
- Elevated Underground: The North Beach Period
Cellini Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1966
- Los Angeles Now
Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England
- 1965
- California Here
Macy’s, NY
- American Collages
State University College, Oswego, NY;
Wells College, Aurora, NY;
Art Gallery at Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA;
Allentown Art Museum, PA;
The Museum of Modern Art, NY;
Goucher College, Baltimore, MD;
Kresge Art Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;
Gordon Fennel Gallery and Marvin Cone Gallery at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA;
Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, DE;
State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY
- 1964
- Buzz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Selection of Recent Works
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- The Painter and the Photograph
Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA;
Art Museum at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN;
Museum of Art at University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA;
University Art Museum at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM;
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
- 1963
- Pop Art U.S.A.
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
- Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
- Peacock Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1962
- The Arts of San Francisco: Painting and Sculpture
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
- Some Points of View
Stanford Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
- 1961
- Pomona College Art Gallery, Pomona, CA
- The Art of Assemblage
The Museum of Modern Art, NY;
The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Dallas, TX;
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
- 1960
- Borregaard’s Museum, San Francisco, CA
- 1953
- The King Ubu Gallery (January, September, October), San Francisco, CA
- Harry Jacobs, Lynne Brown, Jess Collins
The King Ubu Gallery (May-June), San Francisco, CA
- 1952
- Students’ Salon des Refusés
California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA