Jeffrey Bishop (b. 1949) incorporates a diversity of artistic practices in his works. Through his combinations of digital and traditional mediums, he investigates both the autonomy of abstraction and the role of painting within the rapidly progressing real of technology. His works often integrate elements with black and white rippled patterns that morph into bulbous forms, reminiscent of the characteristics present in optical art in their vibration and overall visual effects. Combined with other geometric and organic, liquid-like forms, Bishop’s works embody the qualities found in music, specifically the rhythm, improvisation, and energy of jazz. The artist draws his inspiration from a variety of subjects - from physics, cosmology and architecture, to poetics and technology - to produce abstract works infused with an unsettling yet fervent energy through a collision of forms, colors and textures.

Based in Brooklyn, NY, Jeffrey Bishop has exhibited his works in galleries and museums locally and abroad including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), amongst others. he was also the recipient of the Betty Bowen Memorial Award from the Seattle Art Museum along with awards from the Art Matters Foundation and the Seattle Arts Commission.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019
John Molloy Gallery, NYC, NY
Mural at Ideal Glass Studio, NYC, NY

2018
Nomadic Mechanics, Monoprints 2014-2018, SRO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Talking Pictures: 6 Paintings, Brooklyn, NY

2016
Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Quiver-Alchemy, 490 Atlantic Gallery (two person show), Brooklyn, NY

2014
ShapeShifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Roger Smith Hotel, NYC, NY

2011
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

2008
Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

2006
OHT Gallery, Boston, MA, USA

2005
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohia, USA

2001
OHT Gallery, Boston, MA, USA

2000
Westminster School, Simsbury, Connecticut, USA

1997
Meyerson & Nowinski Gallery, Seattle,WA

1994
San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Turbulence, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, NYC, NY
Drawing Invitational, Talking Pictures, Brooklyn, NY
Sideshow Nation VI, The Greatest Show on Earth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2017
Yellow Chair, Holiday Extravaganza, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
Hygge, Small Works, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
MYkono Biennial, Mykonos, Greece
True Believers, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
GAMUT, A Group Show about Color, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY
Alter(native) Facts, Pleiades Gallery, NYC
The Trace (Abscence/Presence), Lichtunfire Gallery, New York, NY
The Talking Picture Invitational, 106 Van Buren, Bed-Stuy, NY
Thru the Rabbit Hole 2, Nation V, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016
DSC Flat File Exhibition, DSC Gallery (David & Schweitzer Contemporary) Brooklyn, NY
Quiver/Alchemy, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
NoMENCoLorATURE #1, Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY
NoMENCoLorATURE #2, Centotto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art Du Jour, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
In Monitoring, The Buggy Factory, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Works on Paper NYC IV, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, NYC, NY

2015
Small Works, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, NYC, NY
Last GREXIT to Brooklyn, Centotto Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
Take Five, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY

2014
Group 17, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Germany
Back in Situ, or Turns, Centotto: Galleria [simposia] Salotto, Brooklyn, NY
Abstraction and its Discontents, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY

2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Brooklyn, NY
Organic Connections, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, NYC, NY
100 Year Anniversary Artists, Westminster School, Simsbury, CT

2012
Studio of the Absurd, M55 Gallery, LIC, NY
Ill Bienal Internacional de Pintura de Guayaquil, Museo Alvarro Naboa, Guayaquil, Ecuador

2006
Spring Highlights, Winston Wachter Gallery, Seattle, WA

2004
Diagnostic Arts, Monserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

AWARDS

1996
Art Matters Foundation, NY

1994
Seattle Artists, Seattle Arts Commission

1982
Seattle Art Museum, Betty Bowen Memorial Award

1974
Boston Museum School, 66th James William Paige Traveling Fellowship