# Jared McGriff URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/jared-mcgriff/ Represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles Jared McGriff describes his paintings as fiction about reality. A self-taught artist, he has developed a luminous and vibrating visual language that is foregrounded in a space of memory. Often incorporating real or imagined memories from his family’s history—their migration from the rural south of Oklahoma to the rural west of California, McGriff creates dreamlike narratives that fold the personal into the contemporary moment. More recent paintings are moving toward a broader narrative of the natural and structural environments that bodies navigate. These newer works fuse his interest in landscape painting and the figure towards a metaphorical approach where his characters navigate between the laws of nature and the laws of man and the compromises we make between the two. Overall, his expressionistic paintings conjure mundane moments and render them in ethereal brush strokes, transforming scenes of the everyday into ephemeral philosophical ruminations. Jared McGriff was born in Los Angeles in 1977 and lives and works in Miami. He received his BA in architecture from the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and his MBA from New York University in 2008. Solo exhibitions include *Alone, Together* (2019) and *Only Touching the Ground to Jump* (2020) at Spinello Projects, and a solo exhibition at Vielmetter Los Angeles, *On Being a Wild Dream* (2023). His work has been featured in solo booth presentations at NADA Miami (2020), Expo Chicago (2022), The Armory Show (2022), 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair – New York (2023). In 2021, McGriff had his debut museum solo exhibition, Where We Are You, at NSU Art Museum, curated by Bonnie Clearwater. In 2023, he has been featured in museum group exhibitions both at ICA Miami and the Orlando Museum of Art. His work is held at the permanent collections of the Rubell Museum, ICA Miami, NSU Art Museum, Orlando Museum of Art, El Espacio 23: Collection of Jorge Perez, The Bunker Artspace: Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, The Knight Foundation, Green Family Art Foundation, and Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places. Jared was the recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant (2021) and was awarded the Orlando Museum of Art’s Florida Prize (2022). ## Exhibitions - [Jared McGriff: The Stakes Are Myself](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/jared-mcgriff-2025.md): May 17 — June 28, 2025 · Gallery IV · Artists: Jared McGriff - [Andrea BowersJared McGriff in Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/andrea-bowersjared-mcgriff-in-strike-fast-dance-lightly-artists-on-boxing.md): October 26, 2024 — March 9, 2025 · Norton Museum of Art · Artists: Andrea Bowers, Jared McGriff - [Jared McGriff: On Being a Wild Dream](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/jared-mcgriff-on-being-a-wild-dream.md): March 25 — May 6, 2023 · Greenhouse · Artists: Jared McGriff ## Biography Born in Los Angeles, CA 1999 BA Architecture, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 2008 MBA, New York University, New York, NY **Selected Solo Exhibitions** 2025 "The Stakes are Myself," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2023 "The Burden of Song Carrying," Historic Hampton House Museum of Culture & Art, Miami, FL "On Being A Big Dream," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2022-2023 "Jared McGriff," Rubell Museum, Miami, FL 2022 "Where We Are You," NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2020 "Only Touching the Ground to Jump," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL 2019 "Alone Together," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL **Selected Fair and Group Exhibitions** 2026-2027 "Friends, Lovers and Me: Recent Acquisitions," Rubell Museum, Washington DC 2026 "I Know You Are But What Am I?," La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA "Close to Home," NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL "Unreal," Seacrist Beach, Chicago, IL 2024 "Mirror of the Mind: Figuration in the Jorge M. Perez Collection," El Espacio 23, Miami, FL 2024-2025 "Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing," co-presented by The FLAG Art Foundation and The Church, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL 2023 "So Red It Looks Black," COMA Gallery, Sydney, Australia Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL 2022 "American Journey," Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL "Fire, Figure, Fantasy," ICA Miami, Miami, FL Armory Show, Javits Center, New York, NY Florida Prize Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL 2021 "Lineages: Works from the Collection," NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2020 PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL (online) "Time-Sensitive," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL 2019 PRIZM Art Fair,, Alfred Dupont Building, Miami, FL "Grounded," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL "Inter|sectionality," Moore Building, Miami, FL (traveling exhibition) "Inter|sectionality," The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC (traveling exhibition) "Inter|sectionality," Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, DC (traveling exhibition) "Makings of You," Annex Gallery, Detroit, MI 2018 PRIZM Art Fair, Alfred DuPoint Building, Miami, FL Collaboration 2018, CityPlace, Palm Beach, FL 2017 PRIZM Art Fair, MANA Downtown, Miami, FL NVisible Atelier Group Show, Warehouse416, Oakland, CA "Art of the Living Black," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 2016 MATATU Film Festival, CIIS, San Francisco, CA **Bibliography** 2025 Braver, Rita. "The art of boxing," CBS News, February 9 ([Link](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-art-of-boxing/)) 2024 "Art meets boxing in Norton Museum's "Strike fast, Dance Lightly"," Palm Beach Daily News, November 26 da Silva, José. "In pictures: sport at Art Basel," The Art Newspaper, June 14 ([Link](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/06/13/in-pictures-sport-at-art-basel)) 2023 Sokol, Brett. "Miami Has Matured into a Cultural Capital. What’s Next?," The New York Times, December 5 ([Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/arts/design/miami-new-art-capital-effects.html)) Treaster, Joseph B. "Miami’s Rise as an Art Hub Draws Artists and Offers Inspiration," The New York Times, December 5 ([Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/arts/design/miami-art-hub-basel-artists.html)) Smith, Melissa. "6 Galleries Changing the Conversation at New York’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair," artnet news, May 19 ([Link](https://news.artnet.com/market/1-54-fair-new-york-2023-2305959)) 2022 Durón, Maximilíano. "At New York’s Armory Show, Dealers Sell Works Worth Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars," ArtNet News, September 9 ([Link](https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/armory-show-2022-sales-highlights-1234638992/huma-bhabha-at-david-zwirner/)) Gómez-Upegui, Salomé. "‘Fire, Figure, Fantasy’ Reflects Miami’s Thriving Art Scene, Frieze, July 7 ([Link](https://www.frieze.com/article/fire-figure-fantasy-ica-miami-2022-review)) 2021 Iglesias, José A. "After working in tech in the Bay Area, Jared McGriff moved to Miami to make art," Miami Herald, November 29 ([Link](https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/art-basel/article256075162.html)) Sokol, Bret. "Art Basel Miami Beach Returns, Smaller but Ready to Party," New York Times, November 24 ([Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/arts/design/art-basel-miami-beach-betancourt.html)) Sugarcane Staff. "NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale Presents First Solo Museum Exhibition of Miami Artist Jared McGriff," Sugarcane, November ([Link](https://sugarcanemag.com/2021/11/nsu-art-museum-fort-lauderdale-presents-first-solo-museum-exhibition-of-miami-artist-jared-mcgriff/)) Art Miami Magazine Staff. "Jared McGriff, first solo museum exhibition of Miami artist.," Art Miami Magazine, November 20 ([Link](https://artmiamimagazine.com/first-solo-museum-exhibition-of-miami-artist-jared-mcgriff/)) Rodneu, Seph. "The Sun Also Shines In Florida," Hyperallergic, October 28 ([Link](https://hyperallergic.com/688263/under-the-florida-sun-schmidt-center-gallery/)) 2020 Sokol, Bret. "Art Basel Miami Beach Was Canceled, but the Show Goes On," New York Times, November 27 ([Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/arts/design/art-basel-miami-beach-pandemic.html)) 2019 Warren, Kaylee. "‘Love in the Time of Hysteria’—3 Miami Basel artists reflect on artistic freedom in a world of social chaos," Document, December 4 ([Link](https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/12/love-in-the-time-of-hysteria-3-miami-basel-artists-reflect-on-artistic-freedom-in-a-world-of-social-chaos/)) 2018 VoyageMIA Staff. "Check out Jared McGriff’s Artwork," VoyageMIA, August 17 ([Link](http://voyagemia.com/interview/check-jared-mcgriffs-artwork/)) 2017 Hunter Davis, Melissa. "Studio Visit: Jared McGriff," July ([Link](https://sugarcanemag.com/2017/07/studio-visit-jared-mcgriff/)) **Awards, Residencies, and Grants** 2022 Orlando Museum of Art’s Florida Prize 2021 South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant **Public Collections** The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX ICA Miami, Miami, FL Miami-Dad County Art in Public Places, FL Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL Rubell Museum, Miami, FL