Résumé
Born: Lewiston, ID
Resides: Salt Lake City, UT
EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES
2009 Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Redline, Denver, CO
1999 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Johnson State College, VT
97-98 Studio residency and summer school, The International School of Art, Umbria, Italy
95-96 Studio residencies, Vermont Studio Center, four one-month residencies
91-94 Postgraduate studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1983 Bachelor of Fine Arts, cum laude, Utah State University, Logan, UT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Land Lines, Lewis Clark Center for Arts & History, Lewis Clark State College, Lewiston, ID
2022
Ellen Vieth & Jean Arnold: A Conversation, Moscow Contemporary, Moscow, ID
2019
Passages, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2018
Southwest Branch, Weber County Library, Roy, UT
2012
Excavation, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2009
Momentum, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Onrush, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2008
Perpetual Motion, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Traversing New Mexico, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2006
Urban Organica, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
The Gallery at Union Station, Ogden, UT
Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2005
Ten-Year Survey, Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, KS
Architectonics, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
3, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Notate, Accumulate, Transform, College of Eastern Utah, Price, UT
2003
Moving Perceptions, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2002
Visual Arts Fellowship Award Exhibition, Rio Gallery, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, UT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Creativity (forthcoming), Little Pink House Gallery, Genesee, ID
Our Delicate Ecosystems, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Stories of Fire: Ground Truths, Confluence Lab, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
2022
Paint Paint, Little Pink House Gallery, Genesee, ID
Inside/Outside, Little Pink House Gallery, Genesee, ID
Melange/Montange, Little Pink House Gallery, Genesee, ID
2021
EDGE OF THE ABYSS: Artists Depict the Berkeley Pit, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
Renewal, Little Pink House Gallery, Genesee, ID
Wildfires in Utah Art, Homes and Lands, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
2020
Through the Looking Glass, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Inside/Outside, Little Pink House Gallery, Genesee, ID
Our Global Climate Crisis, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2019
Through the Looking Glass, The Leonardo, Salt Lake City, UT
2016
Radical Jewelry Makeover, form & concept, Santa Fe, NM
2015
Desert Mythos, Altamira Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2014
Creation and Erasure, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT Abstract, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Driven to Abstraction, Patrajdas Contemporary, Ogden UT
2012
Gala, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2011
ZBCA Affordable Art Fair, Zane Bennett, Santa Fe, NM
2010
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Salt Lake Art Center, UT
Untitled, Rio Gallery, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, UT
2009
Artists’ Choice, Lohin Geduld, New York City, NY
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Ifs, Ands, & Butts: New Acquisitions, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
The Truth of Abstraction, Patrick Moore Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2008
Visions, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
City Crossings, Women’s Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
National Juried Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Visions, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Exposed, The Pickle Company, Salt Lake City, UT
Notions of Landscape, TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2006
Cities Different, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
National Juried Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
This Is Our Land, Meridian International Center, Washington, DC
Grantee Showcase, Rio Gallery, Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, UT
Four Rooms, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT
2005
Landscape Revisited, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
National Juried Competition, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Utah Artist Juried Show, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT
Nevada Triennial, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Rocky Mountain Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
Drawing From Perception, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2004
Landscape and Environment, Boise Art Museum, ID
Modes and Methods: Diversity in Contemporary Art, Amarillo Museum of Art, TX
environMENTAL, Screening Room Gallery, Sundance, UT
AWARDS AND HONORS
2020 Best Palouse, Palouse Plein Air contest, Moscow, ID
2005 Artist’s Grant, Utah Arts Council
2005 2nd Prize, Central Utah Art Center Juried Show, Ephraim, UT
2004 Juror’s Prize, Drawing From Perception, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2002 Visual Arts Fellowship Award, Utah Arts Council
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Salt Lake City, UT
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Brigham Young University Idaho, Rexburg, ID
Chantal Corporation, Houston, TX
College of Eastern Utah, Price, UT
J.T. Dyke Collection, Little Rock, AR
Fidelity Investments, Salt Lake City, UT
Flagstaff City Library, Flagstaff, AZ
Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, KS
Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT
Leucadia National Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Phillips Collection – Jane’s House, Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake County Art Collection, Salt Lake City, UT
State of Utah Fine Art Collection
Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
The Venetian, Las Vegas, NV and Macao, China
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2021
Alexandra Karl, “Wildfires in Utah,” exhibit catalog
Geoff Wichert, “Prophecy Becomes the Present at BDAC,” 15 Bytes, January 11, 2021
2019
Alexandra Karl, “Through the Looking Glass,” exhibit catalog,
2019
Current Biology, “The Anthropocene,” cover art, Volume 29, Issue 19, October 07, 2019
2014
Sean P. Means, “UMFA Goes Deep,” Salt Lake Tribune, May 30, 2014, Section D
Glen Warchol, “Bingham Canyon Mine as Art,” Salt Lake Magazine, May 29, 2014
Hikmet Syndey Loe, “Absence Through Visual Representation: Bingham Canyon Mine at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts,” 15 Bytes, June 2014, p. 1 & 7, Salt Lake City, UT
Scotti Hill, “An Emotional Response: Abstract Art at the Rio Gallery,” 15 Bytes, June 2014, p. 4, Salt Lake City, UT
2010
Donna Poulton, “Painters of Utah’s Mountains and High Plateaus,” Gibbs Smith Publishing, UT
2009
Leanne Goebel, “Best new gallery space in Denver features urban ambler Jean Arnold,” The Adobe Airstream Blog, April 30, 2009
Michele Corriel, “Illuminations: Ones to Watch,” Western Art & Architecture, Winter-Spring 2009, p. 60-61
Hikmet Sydney Loe, “The Truth of Abstraction,” 15 Bytes, April 2009, p. 7, Salt Lake City, UT
2008
Sheryl Gillilan, “Life in the Slow Lane: Jean Arnold, Peak Oil and the Modern Flaneur,” 15 Bytes, April 2008, p. 1 and 4, Salt Lake City, UT
Ruth Lubbers, “Apples and Oranges: Jean Arnold the Illustrator Comes to Town,” 15 Bytes, February 2007, p. 4, Salt Lake City, UT
2007
Mary Dickson, “Anatomy of Exposed,” Catalyst, October, 2007, p. 20-22, Salt Lake City, UT
2006
Richard Tobin, “ARNOLD/ARONSON/MORPER: CITIES DIFFERENT,” THE Magazine, November, 2006, p. 53, Santa Fe, NM
Bonnie Gangelhoff, “Metropolis in Motion,” Southwest Art, May, 2006, p. 126 – 129, Houston, TX
Van Lewis, “What Gets Filtered Out By Speed,” 15 Bytes, June 2006, p. 1, 6 Salt Lake City, UT
Dave Gagon, “Painter, ceramist make great exhibition couple,” Deseret News, June 4, 2006, p. E3, Salt Lake City, UT
2005
Paul Weideman, “High-velocity cityscapes,” Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo, September 2, 2005, p. 30-31, Santa Fe, NM
Kristy Carras, “Culture Collage,” Salt Lake Tribune, May 22, 2005, p.D1, Salt Lake City, UT
Ann Poore, “The Old Collage Try,” City Weekly, May 5, 2005, p. 31, Salt Lake City, UT
Scott Abbott, “Polka-dotted Truth,” Catalyst, May 2005, p. 3, 70-71, Salt Lake City, UT
Jean Arnold, “Hidden Treasures of a Beat Generation Collage Artist,” 15 Bytes, May 2005, p.1,Salt Lake City, UT
Ellipsis, Westminster College, cover art, Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Flats Annual, UCTE/LA, cover art, Layton, UT
2004
Brian Staker, “Second Nature,” City Weekly, September 30, 2004, p. 25, Salt Lake City, UT
American Art Collector, Central States, Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA, p. 10
Jud Yalkut, “The Reality of Drawing From Perception,” Dayton City News, April 8-15, 2004, Dayton, OH
R. Jensen, “Gallery East displays abstract exhibit featuring three artists from Salt Lake,” Sun Advocate, February 5, 2004, Price, UT
R. Jensen, “Gallery East prepares to ‘Transform, Notate, Accumulate,’ “ The Eagle, January 29, 2004, Price, UT
2002
Dave Gagon, “Form and Function,” Deseret News, October 6, 2002, p. E1, Salt Lake City, UT
John Erickson, “Jean Arnold Is Up To Something,” 15 Bytes, September 2002, p. 1, Salt Lake City, UT
Jean Arnold, “The Road Is Rarely Straight,” 15 Bytes, September 2002, p. 2,Salt Lake City, UT
2002 Utah Visual Arts Fellowship Award catalogue, Utah Arts Council
Dave Gagon, “3 Artists Share Similarities,” Deseret News, July 7, 2002, p. E2, Salt Lake City, UT