JACK DAWS
Born 1970, Kentucky. Lives and works in Seattle.
Awards/Grants
2013
Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art Museum
Neddy at Cornish Award Finalist, Behnke Foundation
2008
Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship
2006
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Solo Exhibitions
2014
The House That Jack Built, Walden 3, Seattle WA
2011
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
2007
Nothing to Lose, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle WA
2003
Kentucky Windage, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
2002
A Nice, Swift Kick in the Head, King County Art Gallery, Seattle
Bicycle Thief, Video Installation, Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma WA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
Mount, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City MO
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Lewis-Clark College, Lewiston ID
Neddy at Cornish Award, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle
Love Me Tender, Belleve Art Museum, Bellevue WA
2011
The Magic Show, Bumbershoot, Seattle
The Gun & Knife Show, Centraltrak, University of Texas, Dallas
Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston MA
2010
Paper! Awesome!, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco CA
Made in USA, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
2009
World Upside Down, Muse'e d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec
I.D., Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Dark Americana, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco
Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum
2008
Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest, Seattle Art Museum
.meta, Linfield College Art Gallery, McMinnville OR
Multiplex, Western Bridge, Seattle
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Art Museum, Helena MT
World Upside Down, Etherington Art Centre, Queen's Universtiy, Kingston, Ontario
2007
Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest, Art Basel Miami Beach FL
Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum
Campfire, Motel 1, Bridge Motel, Seattle
Loyal Opposition: Art as a Vehicle for Protest and Dissent, Texas State University, San Marcos TX
2006
Building Tradition: Contemporary Northwest Art from Tacoma Art Museum, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA
World Upside Down, Walter Phillips Gallery, the Banff Centre, Alberta
Scope Hamptons, with Jack the Pelican Presents, New York
2005
Affair @ the Jupiter Hotel, Portland OR, with Greg Kucera Gallery
Fresh Trouble, 4246 SE Belmont, Portland
Ergonomicon, Consolidated Works, Seattle
2004
Northwest Biennial: Buildingwise, Tacoma Art Museum
101 Ways to Remove A President From Power, CoCA, Seattle
Vexed, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
Art and Social Commentary, Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
2003
The Best Coast, Portland OR
International Abstraction, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
2002
Collaborators, SOIL, Seattle
States of the Union: Before and After, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Gun Show, SOIL, Seattle
Mustang Summer, SOIL, Seattle
NW Annual, CoCA, Seattle
LAVA 2002, Noodleworks Invitational, Seattle
First War of the New Millennium, SOIL, Seattle
2001
Pacific NW Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA
NW Annual, CoCA, Seattle
Selected Collections
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Tacoma Art Museum
Western Bridge, Seattle
Additional Experience
2013
Guest Presenter, Seattle Art Museum
2011
Visiting Artist/Guest Presenter, University of Nevada, Reno
2009
Visiting Artist/Guest Lecturer: “Art and Popular Culture,” Western Washington University, Bellingham WA
2002
Visiting Artist/Guest Presenter, Olson Sundberg Architects, Seattle
Selected Publications
Carrier, David and Pissarro, Joachim. “Wild Art,” Hardback, 480 pages, 350 color illustrations, Phaidon Press, 2013
Eler, Alicia. “Critic’s Pick: MOUNT @ Haw Contemporary, Kansas City,” Artforum, October 25, 2013
Cook, Liz. “With Mount, Haw Contemporary opens big – and small,” The Pitch, October 9, 2013
Cover art: “Two Towers, 2003” The Stranger, September 7-13, 2011, Vol. 21, No. 1
Simek, Peter. “Art Review: What an Art Show Says About Gun-Obsessed Texas,” D Magazine, May 16, 2011
Lee, Jennifer 8.
"Brooklyn Woman Finds Counterfeit Penny Made of Gold," New York Times, November 4, 2009
Hushka, Rock and de Lima Greene, Alison.
"NW Biennial, 2009," Catalogue with reproductions, Tacoma Art Museum, 2009
Hackett, Regina.
"Video artists take the temperature of our region at Seattle Art Museum," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 21, 2008
Graves, Jen.
"The State of Video Art (It's Not About Video)," The Stranger, March 5, 2008
DeVuono, Frances.
"Jack Daws: Nothing to Lose," Artweek, November 2007
Graves, Jen.
"Who's Afraid of Jack Daws?" The Stranger, October 11, 2007
Hackett, Regina.
"Artist Jack Daws is an all-American troublemaker," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 13, 2007
Scott, Carrie E.A.
"Checkout Time," Seattle Weekly, September 12, 2007
Hackett, Regina.
"The Pennies of Jack Daws" May 16, 2007
Hackett, Regina.
"Daws is too edgy for the Stranger?" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 12, 2005
DeVuono, Frances.
"101 Ways to Remove a President From Power at the Center on Contemporary Art," Artweek, October, 2004
Hackett, Regina.
"Anti-Bush Artists Trumpet Their Political Views in a Trio of Shows," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 6, 2004
de la Paz, Diane.
"Provocative Ideas Inspire Young Artist," Tacoma News Tribune, April 17, 2004
Hackett, Regina.
"Life's Flaws Inspire Jack Daws' Wicked Sense of Play," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 15, 2003
DeVuono, Frances.
"Jack Daws: A Nice, Swift Kick in the Head," Artweek, February 2003
Jahn, Jeff.
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"Rewind with Bill Radke," Interview with Luke Burbank, National Public Radio, November 15, 2002
Esquivel, Karla.
"Jack Daws' Delinquent Art," The Tablet, 11/14 - 11/27, 2002
Brown, Elizabeth and Corrin, Lisa.
"View from Seattle...The Mountain Is Out," Modern Painters, Autumn, 2002
Fahey, Anna.
"First War of the New Millinneum," Art Papers, Sept/Oct, 2002
Webb, Dan.
"Jack Daws: Whatever Means Necessary," LAVA 2002 catalog with essays and reproductions, published by THREAD, 2002