Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave
Biography:
BORN
Salisbury, North Carolina 1973
EDUCATION
Rhode Island School of Design - Painting (1993-1995)
University of the North Carolina School of Arts - Visual Arts (1991-1993)
Lives and works in New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Escape Route: Paintings and Drawings by Jeffrey Hargrave, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
2013 Jeffrey Hargrave , 1998-2012 ( Survey Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Video) Contemporary Art And Editions, Millburn, NJ. (Catalog).
2005 The Nigger Inside Me, The Phatory, New York
2004 Paintings and Drawings, John Jay College, New York
2001 Recent Paintings and Drawings, Exhibit A Gallery, New York
1998 Polka Dot A Locus of Meaning, Tricia Collins Contemporary Arts, New York
1996 Assorted Works, AS220, Providence, RI
TWO PERSON SHOWS
2011 Insight (Know Meaning), Jeffrey Hargrave and James Donaldson, ThePhatory, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Exchanges(curated by Isaac Aden), White Box, New York
2011 Wallmart (curated by Isaac Aden and Anna Harrah), White Box, New York
OMG, The Phatory, New York
2009 Artists in the Market Place 29, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx
2006 Emerge 7 (curated byFranklin Sirmans&Jennifer Chapek),Aljira - A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Character Building, Contemporary Portraits From The West Collection, SEI, Johannesburg South Africa
Racing Pages (curated by Rory Golden) The Gay, Lesbian & Transgendered Community Center, New York
Blender (curated by Cordy Ryman) Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2004 Sho’biz, The Phatory, New York
Carrying On, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York
Priority, Arts in General, New York
Opposites, Suite 106 Gallery, New York
2003 Art on the Installment Plan, Artist in Residence Select Exhibition (curated by Lily Wei), Henry Street Settlement, New York
Rowdy Remix, ATM Gallery, New York
Group Show, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
2002 Now Serving, Art in General, New York
2001 Slide Slam, Art in General, New York
Home Remedies, Gallery 138, New York
2001-2000 Artist in Residence Open Studios, Henry Street Settlement, New York
2000 Tenth Annual Water Works Visual Arts Center Regional Exhibition, Water Works Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC
International Arts Weekend, ART OMI, Omi NY
Rowan Roots, Water Works Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC
1999 New York, New York: Big City of Dreams, Mostra d’ArteContemporaneo (curated by Franklin Sirmans) Open Space, Milan, Italy
Mod, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
Let Us Now Praise…Jeffrey Hargrave, Robert Rauschenberg, Walker Evans, James Perry Walker, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New YorK
1998 Convivial, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
Black and Blue, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
Over the Mantle, Over the Couch, Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York
TEACHING
2000-2003 Saturday Arts Academy at Henry Street Settlement, New York
2002 PAL (Police Athletics League), New York
PS20 After School Program, New York
2000-2001 Gallery Education Program at the Henry Street Settlement, New York
RESIDENCIES
2008 Bronx Museum of the Arts - Artist in the Market Place Program, Bronx, NY
2005 AljiraEmerge 7: Strategic Planning - Marketing Program hosted by Creative Capital, Newark, NJ
2003 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerliz
2000-2001 Henry Street Settlement, Artist in Residence, WorkSpace Program, New York
2000 ART OMI International Arts Center, Omi, NY
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1995-1996 AS220 Artist in Residence, Providence, RI
Statement:
“My new work draws on the comedic influences of artistic pioneers such as Phillip Guston and Carroll Dunham, for example. I found it interesting from a stylistic and socio- economic viewpoint to channel the handwriting of these two white, straight men with the artful gumbo of the black, homosexual male experience in the 21st century.
“The title of the painting Dat Nigga Would Lose His Dick,If It was not Sewn On
Is a word play on the old familiar saying, such as, for instance: ‘He would lose his head were it not attached to his shoulders’, etc. By taking a familiar, everyday saying, like the former and infusing it with ‘ethnic slang’. The phrase takes on a new meaning, turning casual conversation into a potent critique on ‘perceived’ ideas of black male sexuality.”