Resume
Jesse Howard
jessehowardstudio@gmail.com
Phone: 708-878-7261
Permanent Collections:
2024 – Illinois State Museum – Douglas Stapleton Associate Curator
2018 – Depaul University Art Museum – Julie Widholm Collection Manager/Exhibition Coordinator
2018 – Beloit College – Christa Story Collections Manager/Exhibition Coordinator Wright museum of Art
2018 – Oak Park Public Library – Jim Madigan Permanent Collection Executive Director
2015 – Beloit College – Jo Ortel Chairman and Collections Manager/Exhibition Coordinator Wright museum of Art
2015 – Diasphoral Rhythm Artist Group – Patrick Mccoy Permanent Collection Executive Director
1980 – West ‘80/Art and the Law/Minnesota Museum of Art, National Drawing Competition West Publishing Co. – Purchase Award and Traveling Exhibition – Curator, Artist Jack Levine
1977 – Rutgers’s National Drawing Competition – Lee Bontecou and Ilya Bolotowsky jurors – Rutger’s art permanent collection
Film:
2018 – Featured Artist – The Color of Art Documentary – Director David Weatherby. Winner of Black Film Excellent Award
2018 – Video: – The Color of Art Promo
2017 – Featured artist WYCC PBS – Art Chicago, Producer Mario Tharpe
Publication:
2022-Studio Visit Magazine volume 49- 50
2021-Artist Spotlight Booooooom.com
2021- Scapi Magazine author Tanya Kornilovich
2020- Wednesday Journal– Author Michelle Dybal
2020- Village Free press -Author Michael Romain
2018 – The Chicago Sun-Time film critic Richard Roeper – ”What a glorious feast for the eyes and the soul” Black Harvest Film Festival
2018 – The Village Free Press, Maywood artist lights up void
2017 – Project Fusion , Water Street Studio Exhibition
2017 – New American Paintings – in – Print – Midwest Issue, Juror Arnold Kemp, Artist, Dean of Graduate Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2016 – Village Free Press, Jesse Howard Wants To Make Black Life Visible – Editor Michael Romain
2015 – The Village Free Press – Editor Michael Romain
Awards/Grants:
2022- 3ARTS Visual Art Nominee
2018 – 61st Annual Beloit & Vicinity Exhibition, Award Winner – Curator Christa Story
2018 – Oak Park Art League, Through The Cracks The Light Comes In, International Competition & Exhibition, Award Winner – Curator Douglas Stapleton Associate Curator of Art Illinois State Museum
2017-Purdue University National Drawing Exhibition, Drawing Resurfaced II – Grand Prize winner Curator Elizabeth Erlewine
2015 –ONE STATE CONFERENCE – Arts Alliance Illinois Scholarship
2015 – Art/Teaching 3Arts Nominee
2015– 58th Annual Beloit & Vicinity Exhibition- First Place
2014 – 38th Annual Beverly Arts Center Competition Judges Award – Curators, Edra Soto and Alberto Aguilar
2014 – Oak Park Art Council Regional Competition First place winner – Judge, Sabina Ott owner Terrain Gallery
2013 – Visual Arts 3Arts Nominee
2013 – Ragdale Foundation Residency Scholastic Award
2013 – 37th Beverly Art Competition Honorable Mention
2011 – Carriage House Gallery National Juried Exhibition & award winner– Juror, David M. Sokol
2010 – Oak Park Art League – Best of Show & People’s Chose Award
1980 – Illinois Art Council Project Completion Grant/Solo Show
1978 – University of Illinois Medical School purchase award
1978 – America Artist First National Art Competition – Awarded Honorable Mention
1978 – Chautaugua 21st National Juried Drawing Show – Awarded the Harriet De Weese Award – Juror, Patterson Sims Whitney Museum curator New York, NY.
1977 – Rutgers’s National Drawing Competition – Awarded a permanent collection – Jurors, Lee Botecou and IIya Bolotowsky
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 – Lewis University – Natalie Swain – Art Gallery Coordinator Wadsworth Family Gallery
2023 – Northern Illinois University – Peter B. Olson Assistant Director and Curator Jack Olson Gallery
2023 – Saint Xavier University – Curator Associate Professor Ruggie Saunders, Catherine –
2023 – Riverside Art Center – Curator Joanne Aono
2023 – Harold Washington College – Curator Stephanie Burke Assistant Professor of Photography
2023 – Monmouth College – Stephanie Baugh Associate Dean Professor Art Design
2022 – Water Street Studio- “ A Woke Village”- Executive Director Steve Sherrell
2021 – Bert Green Fine Art Gallery- “A Village That Won’t Be Quite”
2020 – South Side Community Art Center– “Spirit Of Community “ Executive Director Monique Brinkman Hill
2019 – Robert Morris University – The Love & Hate Of A Culture In Defiance – Art Department Chairman Shelley M. Lamantia
2019 – Waubonsee College – The Hieroglyphics of an Urban City, Art Coordinator Cecilia Vargas
2018 – Northeastern Illinois University – The Streets are Talking , Art Coordinator Heather Weber
2018 – South Suburban College – The Abyss of Urban Street Life – Art Department Chairman Jack Kirkpatrick
2017– University Club of Chicago – Curator Kate Pollasch
2016 – Wright Museum Beloit College – Curator James F. Pearson
2015 – Elmhurst College – Professor Sueellen Rocca, Curator/ Gallery Director
2015 – Chicago Artist Month – Host, Trinity United Church of Christ
2014 – Morton College – Curator / Gallery Director Diana Gabriel
2012 – Aurora Public Art Commission – Solo Show / Gallery Director and Curator Rena Church
2012, 2002 – Concordia University – Solo Show /Curator/ Gallery Director Betty Ann Mocek
Group /National Exhibitions:
2024 – Governors State University – Jeff Stevenson Director and Curator, Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park and Visual Arts Gallery
2023 – Bert Green Fine Art – EXPO CHICAGO
2022- Bert Green Fine Art EXPO CHICAGO 22
2021- Museum Of Contemporary Art– “The Long Dream” Curators Carla Acevedo Yates & Naomi Beckwith
2021- 12th Annual Drawing Discourse-International Contemporary Drawing Exhibition- Host UNC Asheville/ Juror, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
2020- Beloit College Logan Museum- “Being American” Christa Story Collection Manager & Exhibitions Coordinator
2020- Booooooom Magazine- “Artist Spot Light” Director of Publication Kimi Hamada
2020 – 54th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculture – Jurior Katherine Liontas-Warren
2019 – New American Paintings – in – Print – Midwest Issue, 143
2019 – South Shore Art 76th National Salon Show – Award winner – Juror David Klamen
2019 – Teresa Hofhmeier Gallery – ”Sense of Gravity”
2019-Quincy Biennal Quad-State Exhibition – Jurior, John Schuerman
2018 – Wright Museum of Art Beloit College, An Activist Poiesis; Black Matter/ing – Curator M Shadee Malaklous
2018 – DuSable Museum – Diaspora Rhythms, Collectors Exhibition, The Love Affair Continues – Curator Juarez Hawkins professor Chicago State University
2018 – Beverly Arts Center 42nd Annual Competition & Exhibition – Jurors Paul Nudd, Bert Green
2018 – Oak Park Art League, Through The Cracks The Light Comes In, International Competition & Exhibition, Award Winner – Curator Douglas Stapleton Associate Curator of Art Illinois State Museum
2018 – I AMerican Tall Grass Art Association – Curator Sergio Gomez
2018 – Bridgeport Art Center Annual Competition & Exhibition – Curator Lelde Kalmite
2017-Purdue University National Drawing Exhibition- Curator Elizabeth Erlewine
2017- We Are Enough National Exhibition
2017 – Chautauqua 60th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art – Jurors Lois Jubeck, and Judy Barie
2017- Bridgeport Art Center – Inspired by Social Issues: Male Artists of Color Reflect on Today’s Urban Experience – Curator Lelde Kalmite
2016- Elmhurst Museum Biennial – Chicago Statement, Curator Staci Boris
2015 –ARC gallery, I CAN’ BREATH National Exhibition – Juriors, Romi Crawford, PhD and Mary Patten
2014 – 23rd Evanston Vicinity Biennial Competition / Curators Sergio Gomez 33 Contemporary Gallery Director / Allison Peters Quinn Senior Curator Hyde Park Art Center
2013- Dominician University / Urban Insights- Gallery Director and Curator, Angela Bryant
Professional Experience:
2024 – Lewis University – Guess Lecture / Drawing Workshop
2023 – Northern Illinois University – Guess Lecture / Drawing Workshop
2023 – Saint Xavier University – Guess lecture / Drawing Workshop
2019 – Waubonsee Community College – Guess Lecture / Drawing Workshop
2019 – Robert Morris University – Guess Lecture / Drawing Workshop
2018 – King High School – Drawing Workshop sponsored by Diaspora Rhythm Collectors
2017 – Proviso East High School – Guess Lecture / Drawing Workshop
2016 – Waubonsee Community College – Guess Lecture
2016 – Elmhurst Museum Biennial – Guess Lecture
2015 – Chicago Community Policing Office – Guess Lecture
2015 – Elmhurst College – Guess Lecture / Drawing Workshop
Podcast:
Studio Noize podcast – Host Jamaal
Collaborative Projects:
In 2022 a collaboration was begun with ETC-Industries/C.Editions in Chicago. The objective was to explore stone lithography as a means to create editions. The first project was an eight color stone lithograph produced between April-July 2022 (Blue Nile with Daughter). The project was published by ETC-Industries/C.Editions and Bert Green Fine Arts. The proofing and printing was done by Thomas Cvikota (ETC-Industries/C.Editions). A second project was begun in November 2022 with Steve Campbell and Black Rock Editions at the ETC-Industries/C.Editions workshop in Chicago. The edition (Street Poet in Reflection) was printed in Chicago by Richard Repasky at his workshop. This editions was published by ETC-Industries/C.Editions.
An invitation was extended by Steve Campbell – Director/Printer of Black Rock Editions in Santa Fe, New Mexico to create large scale stone lithographs. Those editions are currently in production and will be published by ETC-Industries/C.Editions and Black Rock Editions in February 2023