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Jonathan Hammer    (American, 1960)

 Jonathan Hammer - My mother told me the Dr. said the eye is the mirror of the world (left and right) (Paintings) h: 122 x w: 92 in / h: 309.9 x w: 233.7 cm
Jonathan Hammer
My mother told me the Dr. said the eye is the mirror of the world (left and right)
 
  

Biography
1960 Born in Chicago, USA
Currently lives and works in Barcelona and San Francisco
Awards
The Swiss Arts Council (Pro Helvetia), Zurich, Switzerland
Art Matters, New York, USA
Miro Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco / Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / New York Public Library, New York / University Art Museum, Berkeley / Dutch National Library, Den Haag / Caldic Collection, Rotterdam / Fundacion Pilar i Joan Miro a Mallorca, Palma, Spain / Dartmouth College, Hanover / University of Vermont / Yale University, New Haven / Ohio State University, Columbus / University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale / University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Exhibitions
2009 Art for the World, Milano, Italy (solo)
2009 Vent it!, Galería Fucares, Madrid, Spain
2009 Button Ass, Bernardaud Foundation, Limoges, France (solo)
2009 Soften Your Eyes: Art and Meditation. Summer Group Show. M.Y. Art Prospects. NY, USA
2007 Galería Joan Prats. Barcelona, Spain (cat./ solo)
2006 Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2006 Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, USA
2005 Galeria Fucares, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2005 S.E. Gallery, Bergen, Norway (solo)
2005 Museum de Beyerd, Netherlands
2005 Panorama 1 BBVA, Palacio de Marques de Salamanca, Madrid (also travels to Bilbao), Spain
2004 Contemporanea Arte: la luz la tiniebla el ambito y la memoria, Sala Amos Salvador, Logrono, Spain
2004 Arte Termite contra Elephante blanco, ICO Foundation,Madrid, Spain
2004 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2004 Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2004 Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2003 Paul Morris Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2003 Ninos, Centro De Arte, Salamanca, Spain
2003 Ten Years After, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, USA
2003 Group Exhibition, Grimm, Rosenfeld Gallery, Munich, Germany
2002 Galeria Fucares, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2002 Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, USA (solo)
2001 Refusalon, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2001 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2001 Group Exhibition, Gallery Fucares, Almagro, Spain
2001 10th Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2000 Galeria Fucares, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2000 Miller Bloch Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
2000 Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts Benefit Exhibition: Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Back Room, Jennjoy Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2000 [Climax], Jennjoy Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2000 Waiting, Mjellby Konstgård, Halmstad, Sweden
2000 Sentimental Education, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
1999 Lotta Hammer Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo)
1999 Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, USA (solo)
1999 Draw, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, USA
1999 Group Exhibition, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
1999 Reflet des relieure contemporain, Bibliotheque de Reims, France
1998 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1998 Jennjoy Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
1998 Collectif Generations, Centre d’Art, Nimes, France
1998 Portrait/Human Figure, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
1998 Matrix/Berkeley: 20 years, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, USA
1998 Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
1998 Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, San Francisco, USA (solo)
1997 Bay Area Now, Center For the Arts San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
1997 Matthew Marks Gallery New York, USA (solo)
1997 La tentation du livre, Espace Culturel de Tinqueux, Tinqueux, France
1997 Bookbinding and Design, Dutch National Library, The Hague, Holland
1997 New Work: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1997 Woven in Oaxaca, A/D Gallery, New York, USA
1997 Ibel Simeonov, Columbus, USA (solo)
1997 Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germnay (solo)
1996 Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1996 Allez Les Filles, Columbus, USA (solo)
1995 25th Anniversary Exhibition, University Art Museum Berkeley, USA
1995 Into a New Museum: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1995 Artist/Book, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
1995 In a Different Light, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, USA
1994 Matthew Marks Gallery New York, USA (solo)
1993 Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, USA (solo)
1993 Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cologne (solo)
1993 Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
1993 Sick Joke, Kiki, San Francisco, USA
1992 Leonora Carrington Retrospective, Mexican Museum, San Francisco, USA
1992 Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1992 Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 90s, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
1991 Collectif Generation, Center for the Book Arts New York, USA
1991 Collectif Generation, Beverly Hills Library, Beverly Hills, USA
1991 The Regilded Age, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA
1991 Artists’ Books, Lorence/Monk Gallery, New York, USA
1991 Contemporary American Bookbinding, Bibliotheque de l’Arsenal, Paris (traveled to the Grolier Club, New York, Bibliotecka Wittokania, Brussels), France
1990 Contemporary American Bookbinding, Biblioteque de l' Arsenal Paris, France

Literature
2005 El Mundo, Javier Hontoria
2005 Bergens Tidende, Bodil Garvik
2004 El Pais, Olga Spiegel
2004 La Vanguardia, Angela Molina
2002 Ball and Hammer, Jonathan Hammer - Yale University Press
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