JILLIAN CONRAD
www.jillianconrad.com
Education
2004 Master of Fine Arts with Honors, Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI
1995 Bachelor of Arts with Honors, Liberal Arts, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM
Academic Appointments
2015– Associate Professor with tenure, Sculpture, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2009–15 Assistant Professor, Sculpture, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2004–06 Visiting Assistant Professor, Sculpture, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Solo Exhibitions
2023 The Earth as Air, Galerie Mireille Cartet, Ménerbes, France
2022 Hydras, BioScience Research Center, Rice University, Houston, TX. (curated by Ylinka Barotto)
2019 Airspace, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX
2016 Silent h, Central Features, Albuquerque, NM
2015 Exact Nature, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX
2014 Sites and Settlements, Behal Fejer Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
2013 Ley Lines, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX
2011 Splits, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX
On Tenterhooks, Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, MO. (curated by Marie Heilich)
Construct, Art Palace, Houston, TX
2007 The solid matter of a celestial body, Clough-Hanson Gallery,
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN (catalogue)
Hollow Mountain, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Festival of the Beautiful, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2020 Animal Crossing, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2018 40 Years of Discovery: The Gifts of Clint Willour. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston, TX
2017 Works on Paper, Devin Borden Gallery, Houston, TX
2015 Drawings, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY (Curated by Joshua Lubin- Levy and Nova Benway)
2014 In/Situ, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL (Curated by Renaud Proch)
Artadia Anniversary Exhibition, Longhouse Projects, New York, NY (Curated by Gianni Jetzer)
2013 On Line, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012 Not-Not-Not Image Objects, Meulensteen Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Vista, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Heat Island, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Natalie Campbell)
Soft Power, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Elizabeth Hirsch and
Amanda Friedman)
Summer Work, Gensler Architecture, Houston, TX
PODA Public Art Project, American Association of Museums,
New York, NY
2010 Jillian Conrad and Jeff Foerster, Houston Art Alliance, Houston, TX
Core Residency Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2009 Core Residency Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Colliding Islands, Cast Gallery, Hobart, Australia (Curated by
Louise Rollins)
Interface Nature, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Andrea Horisaki-Christens)
2007 Here and Elsewhere, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Art Daze Group Show, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
Ridgefield, CT
Grants and Awards
2020, 2022 Echoglyph Research Grant, Department of Research, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Materialist Impact Grant, Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2017, 2022 Faculty Development Leave (Sabbatical), University of Houston, Houston, TX
2012 Artadia Award, The Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York, NY
2011 Kittredge Foundation Grant, Boston, MA
Individual Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX
2011 Project Grant, American Association of Museums, New York, NY
2008-2010 Eliza Grant, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, to support Santa Fe Art Institute Artist in Residence, New York, NY
2006–2008 Artist Teacher Program, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
2005 Community Learning Grant, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2003 DataTel Scholarship, DataTel Corporation, Fairfield, NJ
2002-2004 S.L.Y. Herman Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, RI
Graduate Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Artist Residencies
2022 Dora Maar House (France), Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2015 Process Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
2011 Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, Sausalito, CA
2008-2010 Core Program Artist in Residence, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2008 Triangle International Artist Residency, New York, NY
2007-2008 Lower Eastside Printshop Keyholder Residency, New York, NY
2007 Santa Fe Art Institute Artist in Residence, Santa Fe, NM
2006-2007 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, New York, NY
2006 Artist in the Marketplace Program (AIM), Bronx Art Museum, Bronx, NY
Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT
2005 Art Omi International Artists’ Residency, Omi, NY
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Arts, Red Wing, MI
Lectures
2023 Seeing in the Dark: on cave art and contemporary art, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2020 Art & Magic, Pandemic Salon with Danielle Tegeder
2018 School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY
2017 Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2016 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2011 Rice Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
2010 Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
2007 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Bibliography
Stéphanie Esposito,“La terre comme l’air, une œuvre de Jillian Conrad,” La Provence, June 20, 2023.
Julia Li, “Jillian Conrad’s ‘Hydras’ debuts at the BRC,” Rice Thresher, February 2, 2022.
John Yau, “A Studio Visit with Jillian Conrad”, Hyperallergic, June 9, 2022
Lisa Kim and Rebecca Roberts, eds., Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program (Volume 2, 2002–2016) (Columbia, PA: Mullen Books, 2016), p138-139.
Christopher French, “On Drawing: Line”, catalogue essay, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX, June 2013 Molly Glentzer, “Jillian Conrad Lays Tracks with Ley Lines”, Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX, June 19, 2013
Jennifer King, “Splits”, Artforum, March, 2012. 284
Marie Heilich, “On Tenterhooks”, exhibition catalogue, Hunt Gallery, St. Louis MO
Rachel Hooper, “Jillian Conrad at Art Palace”, …might be good, #162, February 19, 2011
Melissa Venator, “Jillian Conrad”, Art Lies, #68, (Spring, 2011): 89
Amanda Friedman and Elizabeth Hirsch, “Soft Power”, exhibition catalogue, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY, 2011
Martha Schwendener, “Creative and Commercial: The Starving Artist Has to Eat”, New York Times,
New York, NY, May 3, 2007
Tom Sleigh, “Sequins and Cardboard”, exhibition catalogue, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2007
Hamlett Dobbins,“The solid matter of a celestial body”, exhibition catalogue, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis,TN 2007
