Jenna Rose North
b.Burbank, CA 1976
North’s work investigates natural/virtual phenomenon as seen through energy fields of pattern and chaos. Her process in painting simulates extreme weather by heating/burning, flooding and painting directly on water. North collaborated with Meteorologists and artists to curate two shows (The Weather Reconnaissance at the Garage Biennale and The Painters Almanac at the at SFAI) that both dealt with ionosphere manipulation, global warming, and storms as a metaphor for artistic practice. Other curatorial projects were in Miami, Florida, where she co-curated an Art Now fair exhibit for Micaela Gallery, Relative Abstraction at SFAI, and as the Visual Arts Chair, North organized several local exhibitions through the Arts Council of Dickinson County, Kansas.
North currently has a studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and is included in the upcoming show there called “Breaking Ranks”. She received an MFA on a full tuition merit fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute. Recent awards include an upcoming residency and solo show at the National Art Gallery in Male, Maldives where she will complete a rooftop mural/garden, creating the illusion of the ocean washing over a coastal building, a Murphy and Cadogan fellowship, a residency at Root Division and a two person benefit show for the DeYoung and Legion of Honor Museums. Showing nationally at both the Art Now and Bridge fairs in Miami Beach, and NY, NY, and represented by Micaela Gallery and SFMOMA Artist Gallery, with solo shows at the TransAmerica Pyramid in San Francisco, Penn State University, San Mateo City Hall, Micaela Gallery and 50 Fremont in San Francisco.
CV
Upcoming Solo:
• National Art Gallery, Male, Republic of Maldives DTBD
• Thermal Expansion/ Rooftop Ocean, Public Art Project, Male, Republic of Maldives TBD (tentatively April 2011)
Upcoming Group and Two Person:
• “Periodicity”, a two-person show with Hyun Sun Jo, Root Division @ Heart, San Francisco, CA – January 2011
• “Breaking Ranks”, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA- January 2011
• Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA- January 2011
• “Cohabit”, Inhabit Gallery, Oakland, CA- 22 January 2011
Solo:
2010
• “Dispersants” Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA, August - November
2009
• “New Paintings”, 50 Fremont, (organized by Jan Casey and Associates and Miceala Gallery) San Francisco, CA
• “Forecast Front”, Vernissage, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
• North, Cannon, Yun, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
• “Relative Abstraction”, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
2006
• “Grey-tones; Cymatics” San Mateo City Hall, San Mateo, CA
• “Good Vibrations” The Retox, San Francisco, CA
• New Paintings, Junction City Arts Council, Junction City, KS
2005
• “Googie”, Penn State University
• "Greytones; Cymatics" Salina Public Library Art Gallery, Salina, KS
2004
• "The Jetsons", Arts Council of Dickinson County, Abilene, KS
1999
• “Limbo”, Catering By Design, Kansas City, MO 1999
Group and Two Person:
2010
• “Small works, large presents”, We Artspace, Oakland, CA, December
• Root Division Annual Art Auction, San Francisco, CA
• “Warehouse Sale”, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• “Paint by Number”, WeArtspace, Oakland, CA
2009
• Two person show with Tobias Tovera, Dec. 18th 2009
The De Young and Legion of Honor Benefit by the San Francisco Social, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco.
• “Patagonia Rising”, Documentary Film benefit show, Sun Power, Richmond, CA
• “Ecology”, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• “Re-Source” with Peter Foucault and other collaborators
Foster City Arts Center, Foster City, CA
• “Warehouse Sale”, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• “Annual Auction”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2008
• Bridge Art Fair, Micaela Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
• “External Influences”, collaboration with Peter Foucault, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
• “The Weather Reconnaissance”, The Garage Biennale, San Francisco, CA
• “The Painter’s Almanac”, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
• “A-Class”, Hang Art Annex Gallery, San Francisco
• Chow Fun, Swell Gallery, San Francisco
• “Root Division Annual Auction”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
• “100 Performances For The Hole”, The Garage Biennale, San Francisco
2007
• Bridge Art Fair, NY, NY
• Digital Delay, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco
• Art Now Fair, Miami Beach, Florida
• Off Space Art Auction, San Francisco
• Root Division Art Auction, San Francisco
• San Francisco Foundation, Selections from 2007 Murphy & Cadogan
• Fellowships in the Fine Arts Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
• “I Often Shoot Myself”, Diego Rivera Gallery
• “Continuing MFA”, Diego Rivera Gallery
• “Relative Abstraction”, Diego Rivera Gallery
• "SALON D'ETE - GROUP EXHIBITION 2007" Micaela Gallery
• “Mechanical Genius”, Artisans Gallery, San Rafael, CA
• Cooper Hook LLC, NYC, NY
• “Root Division Annual Auction”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
• The Art Mine Gallery, Port Hadlock, WA
• “TASTE”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
• “Grey-tones; Cymatics” The Arc, San Francisco, CA
• “Systems and Transmutations” Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2006
• “FRICTION” Anderson Gallery & Studio, Albuquerque, NM
• “Root Division Annual Auction”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
• “The Fortune Show” Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
• “The Hanging”, Arts Council of Dickinson County, Abilene, KS
2005
• Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville, VA
• “Stick to Your Guns”, Roanoke, VA
• Artists of Dickinson County, Abilene, KS
2004
• "The Jetsons" Arts Council of Dickinson County
• "Artists of Dickinson County", Train Depot in Abilene
1995-2002
• East End Gallery, Appleton, Wisconsin 2002
• “Counter North”, The Village Bookshop, Ferndale, CA 2001
• “North Counter”, Metzger’s Law Firm, Eureka, CA 2001
• Don’s Art Gallery Fortuna, CA 2001
• The Portal Gallery, Mount Shasta, CA 2001
• Michael Cross Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2000
• The Late Show Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2000
• Senior Thesis, H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO 2000
• Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kansas City, MO 2000
• Architectural Contract Furnishing, Kansas City, MO 2000
• 2nd Biennial "Light & Space Exhibition" Madison, Wisconsin 1999
• "Mapping The Territory" KCAI Student Gallery, KC, MO 1998
• Group shows in the KCAI Student Painting Gallery, KC, MO 1997-2000
• 1st Biennial "Light & Space Exhibition" Madison, Wisconsin 1996
• Store Front Installation "Utica Art Walk" Utica, NY 1997
• Munson Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY 1996/1997
• M.W.P.I. Coffee House Sculpture Light Show, Utica, NY 1996/1997
• M.V.C.C. Sculpture Light Show, Utica, NY 1997
• Three group shows in the M.W.P.I Student Gallery, Utica, NY 1995-1997
Education
San Francisco Art Institute
MFA
Painting
Full Fellowship
Kansas City Art Institute
B.F.A. 2000
Painting & Printmaking
Merit Scholarship
Munson Williams Proctor Institute of Pratt
A.A. 1997
Fine and Liberal Arts
Merit Scholarship
Recent Awards
• Artist Residency at the National Art Gallery, Male, Republic of Maldives 2011
• Full Tuition Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, 2006-2009
• Murphy and Cadogan Graduate Fellowship 2006/2007
• Root Division Artist/Teaching Residency 2006/2007
• 3 Teaching Assistantships at the San Francisco Art Institute 2007-2009
Curatorial
• The Weather Reconnaisaince, The Garage Biennale, San Francisco, CA
• The Painters Almanac, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
• Relative Abstraction, Diego Riviera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
• Artist of Dickinson County, Abilene, KS
b.Burbank, CA 1976
North’s work investigates natural/virtual phenomenon as seen through energy fields of pattern and chaos. Her process in painting simulates extreme weather by heating/burning, flooding and painting directly on water. North collaborated with Meteorologists and artists to curate two shows (The Weather Reconnaissance at the Garage Biennale and The Painters Almanac at the at SFAI) that both dealt with ionosphere manipulation, global warming, and storms as a metaphor for artistic practice. Other curatorial projects were in Miami, Florida, where she co-curated an Art Now fair exhibit for Micaela Gallery, Relative Abstraction at SFAI, and as the Visual Arts Chair, North organized several local exhibitions through the Arts Council of Dickinson County, Kansas.
North currently has a studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and is included in the upcoming show there called “Breaking Ranks”. She received an MFA on a full tuition merit fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute. Recent awards include an upcoming residency and solo show at the National Art Gallery in Male, Maldives where she will complete a rooftop mural/garden, creating the illusion of the ocean washing over a coastal building, a Murphy and Cadogan fellowship, a residency at Root Division and a two person benefit show for the DeYoung and Legion of Honor Museums. Showing nationally at both the Art Now and Bridge fairs in Miami Beach, and NY, NY, and represented by Micaela Gallery and SFMOMA Artist Gallery, with solo shows at the TransAmerica Pyramid in San Francisco, Penn State University, San Mateo City Hall, Micaela Gallery and 50 Fremont in San Francisco.
CV
Upcoming Solo:
• National Art Gallery, Male, Republic of Maldives DTBD
• Thermal Expansion/ Rooftop Ocean, Public Art Project, Male, Republic of Maldives TBD (tentatively April 2011)
Upcoming Group and Two Person:
• “Periodicity”, a two-person show with Hyun Sun Jo, Root Division @ Heart, San Francisco, CA – January 2011
• “Breaking Ranks”, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA- January 2011
• Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA- January 2011
• “Cohabit”, Inhabit Gallery, Oakland, CA- 22 January 2011
Solo:
2010
• “Dispersants” Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA, August - November
2009
• “New Paintings”, 50 Fremont, (organized by Jan Casey and Associates and Miceala Gallery) San Francisco, CA
• “Forecast Front”, Vernissage, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
• North, Cannon, Yun, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
• “Relative Abstraction”, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
2006
• “Grey-tones; Cymatics” San Mateo City Hall, San Mateo, CA
• “Good Vibrations” The Retox, San Francisco, CA
• New Paintings, Junction City Arts Council, Junction City, KS
2005
• “Googie”, Penn State University
• "Greytones; Cymatics" Salina Public Library Art Gallery, Salina, KS
2004
• "The Jetsons", Arts Council of Dickinson County, Abilene, KS
1999
• “Limbo”, Catering By Design, Kansas City, MO 1999
Group and Two Person:
2010
• “Small works, large presents”, We Artspace, Oakland, CA, December
• Root Division Annual Art Auction, San Francisco, CA
• “Warehouse Sale”, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• “Paint by Number”, WeArtspace, Oakland, CA
2009
• Two person show with Tobias Tovera, Dec. 18th 2009
The De Young and Legion of Honor Benefit by the San Francisco Social, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco.
• “Patagonia Rising”, Documentary Film benefit show, Sun Power, Richmond, CA
• “Ecology”, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• “Re-Source” with Peter Foucault and other collaborators
Foster City Arts Center, Foster City, CA
• “Warehouse Sale”, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• “Annual Auction”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2008
• Bridge Art Fair, Micaela Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
• “External Influences”, collaboration with Peter Foucault, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
• “The Weather Reconnaissance”, The Garage Biennale, San Francisco, CA
• “The Painter’s Almanac”, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
• “A-Class”, Hang Art Annex Gallery, San Francisco
• Chow Fun, Swell Gallery, San Francisco
• “Root Division Annual Auction”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
• “100 Performances For The Hole”, The Garage Biennale, San Francisco
2007
• Bridge Art Fair, NY, NY
• Digital Delay, Micaela Gallery, San Francisco
• Art Now Fair, Miami Beach, Florida
• Off Space Art Auction, San Francisco
• Root Division Art Auction, San Francisco
• San Francisco Foundation, Selections from 2007 Murphy & Cadogan
• Fellowships in the Fine Arts Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
• “I Often Shoot Myself”, Diego Rivera Gallery
• “Continuing MFA”, Diego Rivera Gallery
• “Relative Abstraction”, Diego Rivera Gallery
• "SALON D'ETE - GROUP EXHIBITION 2007" Micaela Gallery
• “Mechanical Genius”, Artisans Gallery, San Rafael, CA
• Cooper Hook LLC, NYC, NY
• “Root Division Annual Auction”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
• The Art Mine Gallery, Port Hadlock, WA
• “TASTE”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
• “Grey-tones; Cymatics” The Arc, San Francisco, CA
• “Systems and Transmutations” Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2006
• “FRICTION” Anderson Gallery & Studio, Albuquerque, NM
• “Root Division Annual Auction”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
• “The Fortune Show” Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
• “The Hanging”, Arts Council of Dickinson County, Abilene, KS
2005
• Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville, VA
• “Stick to Your Guns”, Roanoke, VA
• Artists of Dickinson County, Abilene, KS
2004
• "The Jetsons" Arts Council of Dickinson County
• "Artists of Dickinson County", Train Depot in Abilene
1995-2002
• East End Gallery, Appleton, Wisconsin 2002
• “Counter North”, The Village Bookshop, Ferndale, CA 2001
• “North Counter”, Metzger’s Law Firm, Eureka, CA 2001
• Don’s Art Gallery Fortuna, CA 2001
• The Portal Gallery, Mount Shasta, CA 2001
• Michael Cross Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2000
• The Late Show Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2000
• Senior Thesis, H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO 2000
• Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kansas City, MO 2000
• Architectural Contract Furnishing, Kansas City, MO 2000
• 2nd Biennial "Light & Space Exhibition" Madison, Wisconsin 1999
• "Mapping The Territory" KCAI Student Gallery, KC, MO 1998
• Group shows in the KCAI Student Painting Gallery, KC, MO 1997-2000
• 1st Biennial "Light & Space Exhibition" Madison, Wisconsin 1996
• Store Front Installation "Utica Art Walk" Utica, NY 1997
• Munson Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY 1996/1997
• M.W.P.I. Coffee House Sculpture Light Show, Utica, NY 1996/1997
• M.V.C.C. Sculpture Light Show, Utica, NY 1997
• Three group shows in the M.W.P.I Student Gallery, Utica, NY 1995-1997
Education
San Francisco Art Institute
MFA
Painting
Full Fellowship
Kansas City Art Institute
B.F.A. 2000
Painting & Printmaking
Merit Scholarship
Munson Williams Proctor Institute of Pratt
A.A. 1997
Fine and Liberal Arts
Merit Scholarship
Recent Awards
• Artist Residency at the National Art Gallery, Male, Republic of Maldives 2011
• Full Tuition Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, 2006-2009
• Murphy and Cadogan Graduate Fellowship 2006/2007
• Root Division Artist/Teaching Residency 2006/2007
• 3 Teaching Assistantships at the San Francisco Art Institute 2007-2009
Curatorial
• The Weather Reconnaisaince, The Garage Biennale, San Francisco, CA
• The Painters Almanac, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
• Relative Abstraction, Diego Riviera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
• Artist of Dickinson County, Abilene, KS
