Contemporary painter Jennifer Bartlett received her M.F.A. from Yale University in 1965. Her first major work, Rhapsody, exhibited in 1976 in New York, is a composition of 987 painted steel panels that combines many stylistic tendencies of the 1970’s, such as minimalism and pattern painting, in a single work. Throughout her career, Bartlett has continued to use a grid pattern and a geometric vocabulary centered on a simple house in her approach to themes of variation and repetition. Bartlett is currently living in New York and exploring space, depth and the process of painting in her recent work.

Born:Long Beach, California, 1941
Resides:New York City
Education:Mills College, B.A., 1963
Yale University School of Art and Architecture, BFA1964
Yale University School of Art and Architecture,MFA 1965

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2001
“Jennifer Bartlett: New Paintings”, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
2000
“Jennifer Bartlett New Work”, Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York
1999
“New Paintings”, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
“December – January, Arizona”, Richard Gray Gallery, New York
“Rhapsody and Related Work”, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1998
“Jennifer Bartlett: New Paintings”, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
“Jennifer Bartlett: From the Elements 1989-1997 –Fire, Air, Earth, Water”, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C
"Jennifer Bartlett: Bermuda Drawings", John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
“Jennifer Bartlett: Water”, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1996
“Jennifer Bartlett: Earth”, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
1995
“Jennifer Bartlett: Paintings and Works on Paper”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
“Homan-ji”, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
1994
“Jennifer Bartlett: Alphabet”, Paula Cooper, Inc, New York
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
“Jennifer Bartlett Forty-three Vases, Four Glasses and a Pitcher”, A/D, New York Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
“Jennifer Bartlett: 24 Hours: Elegy - Paintings, Pastels and Drawings”, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen,CO
1993
“Jennifer Bartlett: 24 Hours: Elegy”, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL”
“Jennifer Bartlett: 24 Hours: Elegy”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
“Jennifer Bartlett”, Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
“Jennifer Bartlett: A Print Retrospective”, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Orlando, FL
Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, OH
Joslyn Art Center, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
1992
“The Eighty-First Annual Exhibition/Jennifer Bartlett”, Maier Museum, Randolf - Macon Woman’s College Lynchberg, VA
“Jennifer Bartlett--Homan-ji”, Gallery Mukai, Tokyo, Japan
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
“Jennifer Bartlett: Drawings and Prints”, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Jennifer Bartlett Air: 24 Hours”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
“Jennifer Bartlett, Print Retrospective 1978 - 1992” Washington D.C
1991
“Jennifer Bartlett, Pastels”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
“Jennifer Bartlett: Elements & Seasons”, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
1990
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
“Fire Paintings”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
“Studies for Lucinda Childs’ Dance: Four Elements”,Knoedler Gallery, London
1989
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Galerie Mukai, Tokyo
“New Work: Fire”, Knoedler Gallery, London
1988
“Four Paintings (for Victor Ganz)”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
“Frauen Vor Flusslandschaft”, by Heinrich Boll, directed by Volker Schlondorff, Munchner Kammerspiele, (sets and costumes by Jennifer Bartlett)”,The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
“The House of the Dead,” by Leos Janacek, directed by Volker Schlondorff, Opera Comique, Paris
“Jennifer Bartlett: Recent Work”, Milwaukee Art Museum
1987
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
“Jennifer Bartlett”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England
1986
“Jennifer Bartlett: Recent Work”, Cleveland Museum of Art
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
1985
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Carpenter & Hochman Gallery, Dallas, TX
“Jennifer Bartlett”, Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Brooklyn Art Museum
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Selected Public Commissions:
Ackland Art Museum, Charlotte, NC
Akron Art Museum, Ohio
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie
Baltimore Museum of Art
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cornell Fine Art Museum, Winter Park, FL
Currier Gallery Of Art, Manchester, NH
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Des Moines Art Center
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
General Mills Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN
Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
JB Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo
Milwaukee Art Museum
Montgomery Museum of Art, AL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum Tel Aviv, Israel
Naoshima Museum, Naoshima, Japan
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY
Orlando Museum of Art, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Seibu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
St. Louis Art Museum, MO
The Anderson Collection, Menlo Park, CA
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Denver Art Museum
The Graham Gund Collection, Cambridge, MA
The Tate Gallery, London
Toledo Museum of Art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT