jay gaskill

cv & bio

Jay Gaskill (B. 1980, Silver Spring, MD) is an artist/curator based in Cathedral City, CA. Jay earned an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He recently took time off from exhibiting to start a family and a new life in the California desert with his wife, Erin. His new lo-fi abstract paintings reflect the freedom and excitement that with a mid-life and mid-career reinvention. 

As a curator, he is most well known for his social-media-based projects: Air In Space and The Drawing Exchange. Air In Space functioned as an Instagram-only gallery for emerging artists. The Drawing Exchange is/was/might-be-again a mediated exchange of 2D works amongst artists. 

Jay's work has been exhibited on both coasts, and featured in publications such as Workhouse Rising, Maake Magazine, and ArtMaze Mag. As a curator, he has been interviewed by ArtNet News, and curated “Golden States”, an exhibition of paintings and weavings for SPRING/BREAK Art Show (Los Angeles, CA).

Personal

Born - Silver Spring, MD

Lives & Works - Cathedral City, CA

Education

2011 - MFA in Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY

2002 - BFA in Painting, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY


Solo & Two Person Exhibitions

2022 - Jay Gaskill & Sadia Fakih (presented by PARADICE PALASE), Future Fair, New York, NY

2020 - Variation In Production, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR

2018 - Air Raid, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA

2018 - In No Time, One River Gallery, Portland, OR

2016 - Mise-en-Abyme (w/ Alyse Ronayne), Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY

2014 - Mesh Point, One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 - A Line to You, curated by Christian Rogers, Noon Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2023 - Lullabies for a daydream, curated by Hannah Antalek, PARADICE PALASE, online exhibition

2020 - Organic, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR

2019 - This Is Our Summer Group Show, HOLDING Contemporary, Portland, OR

2019 - Em Dash, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR

2013 - Same Same but Different, Guest Spot at the Reinstitute, Baltimore, MD

2012 - Two River, One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ

2012 - Same Same but Different, Parallel Art Space, Ridgewood, NY

2012 - Same Same but Different, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA

Curatorial Exhibitions

2022 - Golden States, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Los Angeles, CA

2021 - Quiet Fire, an online exhibition to benefit Seeding Sovereignty, presented in collaboration with Far x Wide

Curatorial Projects

2019 - 2021 // Air In Space

2017 - Present // The Drawing Exchange

Press

2024 - "Interview: Jay Gaskill", by Kat Ryals, Paradice Palase

2024 - Workhouse Rising #2, pp 41 - 42.

2021 - Interview with Jen Hitchings

2020 - "‘The Future of the Art World Is Direct-to-Consumer’: As the Market Shifts Online, a Growing Number of Artists Are Thriving Without the Middle Man" by Sarah Cascone, Artnet News

2018 - "The Art Journey of Jay Gaskill" by Matt Ross, One River Blog

2018 - "Jay Gaskill" edited by Maria Zemtsova, Art Maze Mag

2016 - "Jay Gaskill" by Emily Burns, Maake

Artist Talks

2018 - Washington State University, Vancouver, WA

2013 - Queensborough Community College, Flushing, NY

2013 - Guest Spot at the Reinstitute, Baltimore, MD

2012 - One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ

2012 - University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Awards

2013 - Emergency Opportunity Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY

2011 - Judy and Arthur Zankel MFA Award in Art, Hunter College, NY

Apparel

2016 - "Starflower", Cotton Bureau

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