biography
Photo: Elizabeth Perrin, Jacqueline Bishop in New Orleans studio 2020
Jacqueline Bishop is known for paintings, drawings and installation that explore the psychological connections between humans and non-humans. Informed by the history of landscape painting and traveling fragile, Third World landscapes has allowed her to compare this to the loss of her own fragile Louisiana landscape. In 1975 during undergraduate school, she lived briefly in the Dominican Republic where she witnessed and recorded the destruction of a rainforest for development. From 1992-2006 she traveled South America, Central America and Southeast Asia recording the untouched and the destroyed areas of the regions. Experiencing decades of Louisiana coastal erosion, Hurricane Katrina and documenting the Gulf Coast BP Oil Spill created a surreal reality of environmental collapse. Through her materials and images, she addresses the politics behind landscape, the reality of migration and extinction, the loss of intimacy with nature, and the need for imagination to communicate this loss. She studied Art and Philosophy at the University of Kansas, received her BA in painting from the University of New Orleans and an MFA in painting from Tulane University. She taught art at Tulane University and Loyola University where she was Adjunct Professor for Art and the Environment. Her work is featured in the “New Orleans Atlas Unfathomable City” by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker. She is included in the exhibition and book “The Female Gaze : Women Artists Making Their World” organized by The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum. Her work is included in the collections of the Arkansas Arts Center, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Marianne Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, and other institutions. She has exhibited or lectured in Europe, Southeast Asia, North and South America. She is the author of “Chico Mendes: Em Memoria: A Tribute on the 10–Year Anniversary of His Death”, a collection of paintings and testimonials that focus on the slain Brazilian rubber tapper in 1988. She is a grant recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation. Ms. Bishop works in her studios in New Orleans and Columbia, Mississippi. She is represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans and Zanatta Editions in Kansas City.
SELECT COLLECTIONS:
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
Anna Lamar Switzer Center, Pensacola State U, FL
Art Embassies Collection for the US Embassy, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Arts Council of New Orleans, Louisiana
Capital One Headquarters, Houston, TX
Claiborne House Collection, Baton Rouge, LA
Children's Hospital, New Orleans, LA.
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans LA
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Four Seasons Hotel, New Orleans, LA
Gongju National Museum of Art, Gongju, South Korea
Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA.
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Kalamazoo Institute for the Arts Museum, Flint, MI
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Marianne Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, MN
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MO
Tulane Business School, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Virlane Foundation Collection, New Orleans, LA
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Midwestern State U., Wichita Falls, TX
Photo: Elizabeth Perrin, Jacqueline Bishop in New Orleans studio 2020
C.V.
Born
1955 Long Beach, California
EDUCATION
1982 MFA Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
1978 BA University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
1974-75 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2017 Switzer Distinguished Artist, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Arts, Pensacola, FL
2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2006 Warhol Foundation / Contemporary Arts Center Foundation Grant
2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1998 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Grant
1998 Louisiana Division of the Arts Grant
1981 Scholarship to Tulane University Graduate School, New Orleans, LA
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Human Threads Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 Natural Wonders: The Art of Jacqueline Bishop and Douglas Bourgeois Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery AL
2017 Jacqueline Bishop: A Drop of Water, A Grain of Sand: Work from 1986-2016 Switzer Distinguished Artist, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Arts, Pensacola State College, FL
2017 The Art of Food, Louisiana Public Broadcasting Studios in collaboration with Chef Philip Lopez, Baton Rouge, LA
2015 The Other Landscape Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012 Against the Tide Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 Memory and Landscape Eichold Gallery Spring Hill Collage, Mobile, AL
2011 Losing Ground: Imaginary Landscapes Mattie Kelley Arts Center, Northwest Florida State College, FL
2010 Losing Ground: Imaginary Landscapes McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2009 A Loss For Words: Jacqueline Bishop and Douglas Bourgeois Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008 Field Guide, 660 foot semi permanent site specific mural installation with A.O.R.TA. Painting 5000 bird silhouettes (Louisiana species) at the Milne Boys Home, New Orleans, LA
2007 The Veil Series Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, Mobile, AL
2007 Common Ground DeLand Museum of Art, FL
2006 From the Interior Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
2006 Jacqueline Bishop: Trespass Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2005 Trespass Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2004 Natural Order DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002 The Texture of Memory Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2002 Terra The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
2000 Terra Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1999 Terra installation, Intimo Orchid Series, Wooden Diaries with sound installation by composer Chris Becker titled Two Hundred Birds Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999 Intimo, The Arts Center, Okaloosa-Walton Community College, FL
1999 Terra installation with sound installation accompanied by composer Chris Becker. Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
1996 Terra Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, BRAZIL
1996 Century of Silence Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1994 Beija Flor, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT
1993 Beija Flor Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
1991 Sistema de Naturaleza Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
1990 Jacqueline Bishop: System of Nature Gasperi Gallery New Orleans, LA
l983 Jacqueline Bishop Paintings Albrecht Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
1983 New Work Galerie Jules LaForgue, New Orleans, LA
Photo: Elizabeth Perrin (collection of natural objects from South and North America and vintage baby shoes).
Photo: Elizabeth Perrin (“Wooden Diaries”, carved birds collected from the Tikuna Indians in the Brazilian Amazon with the artist’s diaries and maps written on them from her many forest and river excursions).
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Unprecedented: Art in Times of Crisis” Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE
2024-25 “(Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art” Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL organized by The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, CT
2023 (WOMEN) Artists from the Collection 1800-2022, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
2023 Knowing Who We Are Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2021 Serial (Imagery): Natural Phenomena Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
2021 Wild Trees Teche Center for the Arts, Breaux Bridge, LA
2021 The Fruit is a Restless Desire Collins C Diboll Gallery, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
2021 Two By Two: Animal Pairs Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, KS
2020 Art in the Time of Empathy, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2020 Inspirations For Storytelling, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 2019 Recent Acquisitions on Paper-16 Artists Between 1940-2010, Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
2019 New Symphony of Time Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
2019 Kolaj Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 Second Sight: Women Artists of the South, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL
2018 Collage exhibition for Kolaj Fest Arthur Roger Gallery New Orleans, LA
2018 Body [Parts] Bradbury Art Museum, Fowler Center, Arkansas State University AR
2018 Approaching Landscape Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, NB
2018 Creating an American Identity Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2017 Profligate Beauty Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2017 In Pieces Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 Living With Climate Change, Crevasse River House Gallery, Poydras, LA
2017 Pride of Place New Orleans Museum of Art, Collection of Arthur Roger, New Orleans, LA
2014 Second Nature: Artists Respond to Our Changing Environment, The Goat Farm, Atlanta, GA
2014 The New Textiles: Exploring Textile Art Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2013 Indelible Images: The Politics of the Social in Contemporary Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN.
2012 The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA
2012 Artists Choose Artists Flomenhaft Gallery, Chelsea New York
2012 Poetic Transformations University of Arkansas Little Rock, AR
2012 NOLA NOW: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2011 The Emancipated Figure Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2011 Present Tense, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
2011 The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY/ Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2011 Vestiges/Trinitas The Rebecca Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina
2010 The Gulf: Works Completed Before the BP Spill, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2010 The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories The Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
2010 Women Artists in Louisiana 1965-2010 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2009 The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
2008 Katrina: Catastrophe and Catharsis, Arthur Roger Gallery Project, New Orleans, LA
2008 In Katrina’s Wake Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2008 I’m Not That Innocent Morehead State University, Morehead, KT
2008 Birdwatch Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
2007 Nature Art-Biennale Gongju National Museum, Korea
2007 Katrina: Catastrophe and Catharsis Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs, CO
2007 Grace and Dysfunction: Considering the Nature of Landscape Murfreesboro Tennessee State TN
2006 Brazil Project: One River, Two Views & Palmo Quadrado Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2006 Made in New Orleans Art Space, Shreveport, LA., Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA. /Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonsboro, AR
2006 Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2005 BirdSpace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
2004 BirdSpace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2004 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY/ Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2004 Adornment: Embellishment and Encroachment Diboll Art Gallery, Loyola U. New Orleans
2004 Wallflowers Bradbury Art Museum Arkansas State University, AR
2004 CoExistence Capitol Reflecting Pool, Wash,DC. Curator, Raphie Etgar, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2002 Terra: Jacqueline Bishop, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
2001 The Swamp: on the Edge of Eden Cummer Museum of Art, FL
2000 The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden The Harn Museum of Art, FL
1998 The Nature of Intimacy Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996 Destiny Manifest: American Landscape Painting in the Nineties The Harn Museum of Art, FL
1995 Ecole des Beaux Arts, St. Etienne, France
1995 French Institute of Thessalonic, Greece
1995 Designed image for British Maze Artist Adrian Fisher’s Orangutan Maze, Edinburgh Zoo, Darwin Center, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1993 Beija Flor LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 Beija Flor Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
1993 Beija Flor Gasperi Gallery, catalogue essay The Visionary Ecology of Jacqueline Bishop , Jerry Cullum, New Orleans,LA
1991 Visionary Imagists, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center Bellaire FL/ Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
1991 Group show LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1988 Real, Unreal, Surreal Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
l987 Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC
1986 Louisiana Now, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans LA
1984 Southeastern Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, Chapel Hill University, NC
1984 Galerie Jules LaForgue, New Orleans, LA