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Jane South, Untitled (elipse), 2005, Cut & folded paper, ink, acrylic, balsa wood, 23" x 8" x 29"
Jane South
Untitled (elipse), 2005
Jane South, Untitled (concave / convex), 2005, Cut and folded paper, ink, balsa wood,, 60" diameter x 10" depth
Jane South
Untitled (concave / convex), 2005
Jane South, Untitled (irregular rectangle), 2005, Cut & folded paper, ink, acrylic, balsa wood, 42" x 10" x 59"
Jane South
Untitled (irregular rectangle), 2005
Jane South, Untitled (gray construction), 2005, Cut & folded paper, ink, acrylic, balsa wood, 25" x 11" x 37"
Jane South
Untitled (gray construction), 2005
Jane South, Untitled (Linear Construction), 2005, Cut & folded paper, ink, acrylic, balsa wood, 47" x 15" x 232"
Jane South
Untitled (Linear Construction), 2005
1984 Fine Art Foundation Course, Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston, UK.
1987 BA Theater Set and Costume Design, Central/St. Martins School of Art, London, UK.
1997 MFA Painting and Sculpture, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC.

Selected Exhibitions

2009
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
2008
Queens Museum of Art, Bulova Center, Queens, NY
"Jane South”, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX
2007
"Infrastructures”, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, traveling to the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2006
Gallerie Pfriem, Savannah College of Art and Design Lacoste, France
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2004
"New Work", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA (project space)
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
2002
MASS MoCA, Installation and Animation exhibit, North Adams, MA.
2001
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY.
"Art in Everyday Places", Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
1998
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM.

Group Exhibitions

2009
“The Weekend Inventor”, Artspace, New Haven, CT
“SLASH: Paper Under the Knife”, Museum of Arts and Design, (MAD), New York, NY
“Cut: The Makings of Removal”, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2008
"Contemporary: Paper and Space”, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
"Cut”, Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Karen Rapp
"GEN-X: Post- Boomers and the New South”, Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama
"Spot Check: Academy Contemporary”, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA,
2007
"Material Pursuits”, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
"New Directions in American Drawing”, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, traveling to Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2006
"Technocraft”, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Chaffey Collage, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
"Burgeoning Geometries”, Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, NY, curated by Apsara
DiQinzio, with Tara Donovan, Phoebe Washburn, Charles Long
2005
"Odd Lots”, White Columns, NY
"Drawing Narrative” College of Wooster, OH
"Constructed Worlds”, f a projects, London, UK
"Solitude and Focus - Recent Work by MacDowell Colony Fellows in the Visual Arts", Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2004
ArtBasel Miami Beach, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"Drawn and Quartered", SECCA, NC.
"Paper Chase", Mueller De Chiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2003
"All Nine", Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
"Bits and Pieces", Dumbo Art Center, New York, NY
"Take Out", Dieu Donne, New York, NY.
"Knockabout", Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
Faculty Group Exhibition, Williams College of Art, Williamstown, MA
LISTE 03, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
"Perforations", McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2002
"Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, MA.
Drawing Center, 25th Anniversary exhibit, New York, NY.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, MA.
The Armory Show, with Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY.
2001
"12 Views", The Drawing Center, NY
2000
Downtown Ithaca Sculpture Exhibit, Ithaca, NY
Tiverton Four Corners Art & Education Center, RI.
1999
Convergence X111 City Arts Festival, Providence, RI.
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
1998
"Escape Velocity", Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY.
Sculpture Project, College of Santa Fe, NM.
1997
Triad Artists Exhibition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), NC.

Bibliography

2007
Halperen, Max, "Jane South”, Art Papers, September/October
Conner, Jill, Sculpture Magazine, July/August
Mendelsohn, Meredith, "Paper Pushers’, ARTnews, May
HGM, "Sculpture Now”, Artkrush, August 22
Ganis, William V., "Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions", Iconophilia, March
"Goings On About Town: Whitney Museum at Altria”, New Yorker, February 5
"Highlights: Constructed Abstractions”, The Architects Newspaper, January 11
Scott, Andrea K., "Burgeoning Geometries”, The New York Times, January 5
May, Whitney, "Paper Industry”, NY Arts, January/February
2006
Grosz, David, "Unfinished Business: Gallery Going”, The New York Sun, December 7
The New Yorker, October 16
Cohen, David, The New York Sun, October 12
Kino, Carol, "Teaming with the artists to buoy the bottom line”, The New York Times, Section G, pg. 10, March 29
Turvey, Lisa, "Jane South”, Artforum, December
Whitney, Kathleen, "Obsessed”, Sculpture, April, vol. 25 no. 3, pgs 44-49
Auerbach, Erin, "Going High-Tech: Exhibit shows technology still needs human touch”, The Press-Enterprise, February 6, pg D2
"Hip New Buyers Boost Sales at Armory Show”, ARTnews, March 28
2005
"Susanne Vielmetter presents Jane South”, Art Cologne Fair interview by Vernissage TV, www.vernissage.tv, November 5, 2005
Ollman, Leah, "Wall sculptures for construction”, LA Times, September 16, 2005
2004
Roug, Louise, "The Arty Circuit", Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2004
Leffingwell, Ed, Exhibition Review, Art in America, September issue, 2004
Mendelsohn, Meredith, Exhibition Review, ARTnews, June 2004
Wilson, Michael, Exhibition Review, Frieze, issue 83, 2004
Johnson, Ken, Exhibition Review ,The New York Times, March 5, 2004
Exhibition Review, The New Yorker, March 1, 2004
Rosenberg, Karen, "Paper Tiger", Exhibition Review ,New York Magazine, February 23
Levin, Kim, Exhibition Review ,The Village Voice, February 25 - March 2, 2004
2003
Exhibition Review, New York Magazine, August 4, 2003
2002
Mendelsohn, Meredith, Exhibition Review, Tema Celeste, March/April issue, 2002

Public Collections

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania, PA
The Peter Norton Family Foundation, NY
The Broad Foundation, CA
The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2009
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2008
The Rockefeller Foundation - Bellagio Center Residency
2007
NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture
2006
SFAI (Santa Fe Art Institute) Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency
2004
MacDowell Colony Residency
2003
Massachusetts Cultural Council Award.
2002
Grant, Williams College Center for Technology in the Arts & Humanities.
Grant, Dieu Donne Papermill.
2001
Grant, Pollock Krasner Foundation.