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One-Person Exhibitions
2023
Gallery F2, Madrid, Spain,
 
La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain,


2022
Marukawa Collection, Ashiya, Japan,
 
Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH,


2021
Atsumi Projects, Tokyo, Japan,
 
Sokyo annex (Marukawa Collection), Kyoto, Japan,
 
Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan,


2019
Gallery F2, Madrid, Spain,


2015
Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York


2014
Arion Press/Grabhorn Institute, San Francisco, CA
 
Salon Vert, Komoro, Japan
 
Galeria Fucares, Madrid, Spain


2012
Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York
 
Derfner Museum, Bronx, NY
 
Shizaru Gallery, London


2011
l'Ecole d'Art du Beauvaisis, Beauvais, France


2010
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
 
Maison des Monedieres, Correze, France
 
Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris
 
John Tevis Gallery, Paris
 
Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects, New York


2009
Bernardaud Foundation, Limoges, France
 
Galeria Fucares, Madrid


2007
Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona (catalogue)


2006
Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico city
 
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus Ohio (catalogue)


2005
Galeria Fucares, Madrid (catalogue)
 
S.E. Gallery, Bergen, Norway


2004
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
 
Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona (catalogue)
 
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco


2003
Paul Morris Gallery, New York


2002
Galeria Fucares, Madrid (catalogue)
 
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio


2001
Refusalon, San Francisco
 
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York


2000
Galeria Fucares, Madrid (catalogue)
 
Miller Bloch Gallery, Boston


1999
Lotta Hammer Gallery, London
 
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio


1998
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
 
Jennjoy Gallery, San Francisco
 
San Francisco Art Institute, McBean Gallery
 
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York


1997
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
 
Ibel Simeonov, Columbus, Ohio
 
Galerie Neu, Berlin


1996
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
 
Allez les Filles, Columbus, Ohio


1994
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York


1993
Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cologne
 
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California


1992
Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles




Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
The Power of Setouchi, Kagawa Museum (Setouchi Triennale) Takamatsu, Japan,
 
Building Collection Campocerrado, Palacio de les Aguila, Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain,


2021
Sculpture 1, Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH,


2019
10 year anniversary exhibition, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, NY,
 
Bunny, Sok-yo Gallery, Kyoto,


2018
Blacklight, CCCB (center for contemporary culture), (curated by Enrique Juncosa), Barcelona


2015
Metalpoint, Garvey/Simon Gallery, New York
 
Us Is Them, , Pizzuti Collection, Columbus


2013
Bay Area Now Revisited, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco


2012
Jack Helgesen Family Collection, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
 
New Prints: Jonathan Hammer, Monica Giron, Carlos Capelan, Trykerriet Center for Graphics, Bergen, Norway


2011
Mark Making: the presence of Line, Derfner Judaica Museum, Riverdale, New York


2010
Sin techo esta pelon! (from the Jumex Collection), Universidad de Guanajuato, Cervantino Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico
 
Steps into the Arcane, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Ittingen, Switzerland


2009
meditation practice, Gallery Miyako Yoshinaga, New York
 
Project 304,805, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco


2008
I won't grow up, Cheim and Read Gallery, New York


2007
Orodautore, Arezzo Contemporary Art Gallery, Arezzo, Italy (catalogue)
 
Contemporary Photography, Galeria Fucares, Almagro, Spain


2005
Het Offer/The Sacrifice, Museum de Beyerd, The Netherlands (catalogue)
 
BBVA Contempraneos (Hasta pulverizarse los ojos), curated by Enrique Juncosa, Palacio de Marques de Salamanca, Madrid (catalogue)
 
travels to BBVA, Bilbao, Spain
 
Childhood revisited, M.Y. Art Prospects, New York


2004
Contemporanea Arte: la luz la tiniebla el ambito y la memoria, Sala Amos Salvador, Logrono, Spain (catalogue)
 
Arte Termite contra Elephante blanco, ICO Foundation,Madrid, Spain (catalogue)


2003
Ninos, Centro De Arte, Salamanca, Spain (catalogue)
 
Ten Years After, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
 
Group Exhibition, Grimm, Rosenfeld Gallery, Munich


2001
Group Exhibition, Gallery Fucares, Almagro, Spain
 
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)


2000
Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts Benefit Exhibition: Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
 
2000 Clowns, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal
 
Back Room, Jennjoy Gallery, San Francisco
 
[Climax], Jennjoy Gallery, San Francisco
 
Waiting, Mjellby Konstgard, Halmstad, Sweden (catalogue)
 
Sentimental Education, Deitch Projects, New York


1999
Draw, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago
 
Group Exhibition, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
 
Reflet des relieure contemporain, Bibliotheque de Reims, France (catalogue)
 
The Salon of 1999: Friends and Enemies


1998
Collectif Generations, Centre d'Art, Nimes, France
 
Matrix/Berkeley: 20 years, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley (catalogue)
 
Portrait/Human Figure, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
 
Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art


1997
New Work: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 
Group Show, Ibel Simeonov Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
 
La tentation du livre, Espace Culturel de Tinqueux, Tinqueux, France
 
Bookbinding and Design, Dutch National Library, The Hague, Holland
 
Bay Area Now, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco (catalogue)
 
Woven in Oaxaca, A/D Gallery, New York


1995
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
 
Into a New Museum: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 
Artist/Book, City College of San Francisco
 
In a Different Light, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley (catalogue)


1993
Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York
 
Sick Joke, Kiki, San Francisco


1992
Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 90s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
 
Leonora Carrington Retrospective, Mexican Museum, San Francisco


1991
Collectif Generation, Center for the Book Arts, New York
 
Collectif Generation, Beverly Hills Library, Beverly Hills, California
 
The Regilded Age, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey (catalogue)
 
Artists' Books, Lorence/Monk Gallery, New York
 
Contemporary American Bookbinding, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, Paris; Traveled to the Grolier Club, New York; and Bibliotecka Wittokania, Brussels (catalogue)




Honors
Pew Charitable Trust, Philadelphia,
Arp Foundation, Berlin,
Artis Foundation (Villa Bergerie), NY/Tel Aviv,
Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York
The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York
The Swiss Arts Council (Pro Helvetia), Zurich
Art Matters, New York
360 Series, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Miro Foundation, Palma de Mallorca
Bernardaud Foundation, Paris/Limoges
Trykerriet Center for Graphics, Bergen, Norway




Publications
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell, The Arion Press, San Francisco 2013 with 24 hand colored prints
"Ball and Hammer", Jonathan Hammer, Yale University Press, 2002 (winner of AAUP book award 2003)
"Rewriting the Game: Dada, Critical Revision and Theories in Play" by Joel Coleman, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Georgia at Athens, 1998
"On Clowns", Norman Manea (Spanish edition,Tusquets, 2006). Cover Illustration
"1830", Rene Crevel, Elysium Press, VT. with laid-in hand colored etchings
"KOVNO", 12 etchings by Jonathan Hammer with text by Elias Canetti, Poligrafa, Spain, 2008
"Arthur Cravan" Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich 2008, Illustration
"Escritoire", Tina Petra Editions, Los Angeles
"Sophie Taeuber Arp", Art Forum, May 2011




Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
New York Public Library, New York
Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles
University Art Museum, Berkeley
Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles
Jumex Collection, Mexico City
Caldic Collection, Rotterdam
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus
Marukawa Collection, Ashiya, Japan,
Fidelity Investments, London
Khalili Family Trust, London
Bernardaud Foundation, Paris/Limoges
LA Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Los Angeles
Human Rights Watch, New York
Amma Foundation, Mexico City,
Fundacion Pilar i Joan Miro, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Dutch National Library, Den Haag
Dartmouth College, Hanover
University of Vermont
Yale University, New Haven
Ohio State University, Columbus
University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor




Press Bibliography
Geijutsu Shincho, the deep and wonderful bond between Jews and Japan hidden in leather marquetry, January 2022,
Bijutsu Techo, Operation Octopus, October 20, 2021,
Naosuke Maeshiba, A condensation of Jewish refugee experience, the Kyoto Shimbun, August 21, 2021,
Yomiuri Group, Nagano, Japan, May, 2014
Manuel Caillaud, Autre Visage de la Porcelaine, Le Montagne, Correze, France, July 12, 2010
Marie Darrieussecq, Paris, Art Review, London, April 2010
Thomas Lapointe, Made in France by Americans , Metiers d'Art, Paris France, March/April 2010
Anne Bony-Gurrey, Objects d'integration: des oeuvres surprenantes, La Gazette de l'Hotel Douot, Paris, France, March 19, 2010
Marie-Aude Roux, Des artistes americains bousculent la tradition de la ceramique a la franciaise , LE MONDE, Paris, France, August 9, 2010
Corinne Merigaud, Ceramique, un vent nouveau venu des Etats-Unis, La Tribune, Paris, France, July 8, 2009
Marie Darrieussecq, Jonathan Hammer's "Traum der Damonen", DU magazine, Switzerland, summer issue, 2007
Jonathan Hammer, La Vanguardia, Culturas, February 21, 2007
Aleix Mataro, Jonathan Hammer descubre la historia en la Joan Prats, ABC, Spain 2007, February 2
J.V.O., Jonathan Hammer, Arte y Parte, No. 67, Spain 2007
Frederic Montornes, Jonathan Hammer, Exit/Express, Madrid, February 2007
Angela Molina, Momentos de supervivencia (Jonathan Hammer at Joan Prats), El Pais/Babelia, Madrid,January 27, 2007
Josep Casamartina i Parassols, Lithuania (Jonathan Hammer at Joan Prats), El Pais, Madrid, January 25, 2007
Javier Hontoria, Jonathan Hammer, El mundo, Madrid, November 24-30, 2005
Bodil Garvik, Kjent Oslo-samler kjopte rubble og bit, Bergens Tidende, Bergen, Norway, April 8, 2005
Olga Spiegel, Galerias de Barcelona, El Pais, Madrid April 3, 2004
Angela Molina, Subversius de salo, La Vanguardia, Barcelona, March 2004
Mike McGonigal, Ball and Hammer, Bookforum, New York, Fall 2002
Ball and Hammer, Bardian, Annandale-on-Hudson, Fall 2002
Mariano Navarro, Jonathan Hammer: cabalgando sobre amapolas azules, El Mundo/El Cultural, Madrid, November 7, 2002
Stephen Beachy, Dada dearest, San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 30, 2002
Who's your dada? Chronicle of Higher Education, October 4, 2002
Christopher A. Yates, Voodoo sects of Brazil inspire works, Columbus Dispatch, April 2002
Will Shenk, May Art, San Francisco Bay Area Reporter, May 18, 2001
Holland Cotter, Sentimental Education, The New York Times, July 14, 2000
Sentimental Education, The New Yorker, July 3, 2000 p.15
Adam Fisher, Hammer Time, Wired Magazine, June 2000 p.126
Pablo Llorca, Risa Congelada, El Periodico del Arte, Madrid, No. 33 May 2000
A.H. Pozuelo, J. Hammer, El Cultural del Mundo, Madrid, May 24 2000
Sergio Rubira, Jonathan Hammer, Lapiz, Madrid No. 164, 2000
Our choice of London contemporary galleries, The Arts Newspaper, London, May 1999 (illus.)
Contemporary collision finds art and collecting at odds, Chicago Tribune, Thursday, March 11, 1999 (tempo section 5, illus.)
Projector: Chicago cultural guide, March 1999, issue 7 (illus.)
At the Galleries/New York: Jonathan Hammer, Flash Art, October 1998
Johnson, Jonathan Hammer, The New York Times, October 9, 1998
Edith Newhall, Jonathan Hammer, New York Magazine, September 14, 1998
Appolinaire Scherr, Over there: Jonathan Hammer, East Bay Express, September 18, 1998
Jonathan Hammer, The New Yorker, October 19, 1998 p.13
Kay Koeninger, Hammer's Fantast series takes inspiration from dada, The Columbus Dispatch, November 3, 1997
David Bonetti, Bay Area Now: The Young at Art, San Francisco Examiner, June 18, 1997 p.C-4 (illus.)
Jonathan Hammer A+, Gallegiate Report Card, Coagula, May 1997
Jonathan Hammer, The New Yorker, March 10, 1997, p. 20-21
Simon Maurer , Joseph Cornell, Jonathan Hammer , Zuritip, August 23, 1996
Jacqueline Hall, Elaborate works more than covers, Columbus Dispatch, March 10, 1996
David Kenning, Making artist's books, Printmaking Today, Autumn, 1995
Nancy Princenthal, Jonathan Hammer, Art in America, February, 1995
Thad Zolkowski, Jonathan Hammer, Artforum, February 1995
Also of Note: Critic's choices, The New York Times, November 25. 1994 p.C24
Bound and Determined, The New Yorker, October 24, 1994
Jonathan Hammer, Nikkei Image Climate Forecast, Tokyo, October 1993
Fay Hirsch, The Generous Mr. Hammer, Print Collector's Newsletter, Sept-Oct 1993
Kunst im Karton: Jonathan Hammer, Kolner Stadtanzeiger, May 13, 1993
Welt Zwischen Buchdeckeln, Koln Rundschau, May 8, 1993
Larry Rinder, Jonathan Hammer, Matrix Publication 156, Feb-Apr., 1993
Barrett Watten, Jonathan Hammer at the University Art Museum Berkeley, Artweek, April 8, 1993, p.36
Karen Hershenson, Craftsman's vision Sires Ties that Bind Art, Contra Costa Times, April 2, 1993 p.27
David Bonetti, Fresh readings on relationships, San Francisco Examiner, feb 19, 1993
Dan Cameron, Sweet Thing, Artforum, December, 1992, p.58 (illus.)
Barbara Parsons, Jonathan Hammer Books, Visions Magazine, September, 1992
Bruce Davis, Jonathan Hammer, Art Issues, February/March 1992
Tory Minton, Bookbinder's war against tradition, San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 1992
Glen Helfand, Bound to be Noticed, SF Magazine, January 1992
Peter Frank, Larry Rivers, Lawrence Weiner, Jonathan Hammer Books, LA Weekly, Jan. 10, 1992
Contemporary American Bookbinding, Art et Metier du Livre, 1991