Jackie Gendel paints luminous and mysterious portraits of people who appear to have floated out of, or into, paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and other masters in the history of art. Simultaneously abstract and representational, Gendel’s paintings embody the artist's creative process in which figures or images appear, get lost, and then reappear, often transformed. Gendel won the 2007 Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Richard Dixon Welling Prize and the Yale Norfolk Teaching Fellowship at Yale University where she received her MFA in 1998, and the Milovich Award at Washington University in St. Louis, MO where she was an Eliot Scholar and received her BFA in 1996. Gendel has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the U.S. and internationally.

EDUCATION
1998 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1996 BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Portraits, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
2003 Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 The Show's So Nice, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
Magical Mundane, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2006 A Certain Likeness, Gallery West 52, New York, NY
Twist it Twice, Hasson Moti Gallery, New York, NY
HotPics, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2005 Hunch and Flail, curated by Amy Sillman, Artists Space, New York, NY
New Prints, IPCNY, New York, NY / traveled to Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Suggestion, Belief and Emptiness, Jessica Murray Projects, New York, NY
2004 Chris Doyle and Jackie Gendel, Galerie Volcker & Freunde, Berlin
Summer Drawings---and Some are Not, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
2003 Sweet Tooth, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
How Deep is Your Love, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Human Nature, curated by Ellen Altfest, Red Dot, New York, NY
2002 Regarding Gloria, curated by Catherine Morris and Lauren Ross, White Columns, New York, NY
Women Paint Women, Harlem Flophouse, New York, NY
2001 All American, curated by Ellen Altfest, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
Five Women: The Figure in Contemporary Landscape, Makor, New York, NY
Spring Exposition, Joseph Silvestro Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Flat File, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2007 Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2005 The Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Residency with Fiona Rae, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2004 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1998 Richard Dixon Welling Prize, Yale University
1997 Yale Norfolk Teaching Fellowship
1996 Eliot Scholar, Washington University
Milovich Award, Washington University