b. Massachusetts
Education
M.F.A. Painting and Drawing University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design
B.F.A. Painting and Drawing University of North Texas, College of Visual Arts and Design
Residencies
2007- 2008
Artist in Residence, Southside on Lamar, Dallas, TX
2006- 2008
Officer & Member, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Exhibition Record
Solo Exhibitions
2020
A Pact to be Tender, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2016
The Invisible Thread of the Marvelous, JoAnne Artman Gallery:Chelsea, New York, NY
2014
The Gentle Act of Disappearing, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2013
Tiny is the Last Refuge of the Enormous, Not an Exit Gallery, San Diego, CA
2012
Shattered, Art San Diego 2012: A Contemporary Art Fair, San Diego, CA
2008
Leave a Tender Moment Alone, IGLOO, Portland, OR
The Moment After a Wave Crashes, Lewisville Arts Center, Lewisville, TX
2007
to move smoothly and slowly, site specific installation, good good things, Dallas, TX
You Are Here, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Group Exhibitions
2020
Recurrence, The Orange Advisory, Minneapolis, MN (3-person show)
2019
This is 40, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX (Invitational)
2017
2017 Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Juror: Claire Gilman, Senior Curator, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA, Scott White Contemporary Art
Diverge/Convene: Contemporary Mixed Media, SDAI
Curator: Ginger Shulick- Porcella & Kate McNamara
Extra-Ordinary Collusion, SDAI, San Diego, CA
Curator: Chi Essary
All Natural, SDSU Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA
Curator: Chantel Paul
Nasty Women: San Diego, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
2016
Facet, Wriston Art Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Curator: Dr. Beth Zinsli, Director & Curator, Wriston Art Galleries
Under Pressure: Contemporary Printmaking, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA (catalogue)
Curator: Jennifer Anne Bennett
MAS Attack 11, SDAI, San Diego, CA
Curator: Ginger Shulick Porcella in collaboration with Artra Curatorial
Significant Others, San Diego Public Library- Central Library Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
Curator: Kara West
Palm Springs FIne Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA, Scott White Contemporary Art
2015
Art Miami, Miami, FL, Scott White Contermporary Art
Women and Abstraction , Cornell FIne Arts Museum, WInter Park, FL
Curator: Amy Galpin, Ph.D.
Art Miami New York, Pier 94, New York, NY, Scott White Contermporary Art
Abstract San Diego, City Gallery, City College, San Diego, CA
Curator: Stephan P. Curry
Significant Others, San Diego Public Library- Central Library Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
Curator: Kara West
Reimagined, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach, FL
Curator: Melanie Johnson, Curator, Cornell Museum of Art
Show Me Your Lone Star, Brick City Gallery , Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
New Contemporaries VIII, Valencia Gallery, San Diego, CA
MAS Attack 8, SDAI, San Diego, CA
Curator: Ginger Shulick Porcella in collaboration with Artra Curatorial
Inaugural Group Show, Left Field Gallery, San Luis Obispo
Curators: Nick Wilkinson & Ryan Travis Christianson
2014
Crystal Methods
Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Curator: Michael Hernandez
Object Object!!: A Selection of Smaller Works, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA (catalogue)
Horizon, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Intersecting Lines: The 10th Annual Drawing Invitational,
San Diego Public Library- Central Library Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
Curator: Kara West
Sublime, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Between Oak and Mulberry, Norwood Flynn Gallery, Dallas, TX
Curator: Vincent Falsetta
We Love Art: 50 Artists Show Their Love, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2013
New American Paintings Juried Exhibitions in Print, No. 109, Pacific Coast Issue
Juror: Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA
Botanically Inclined, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA (catalogue)
Curator: Shannon Sullivan
2012
Superposition and Lateral Continuity, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Curator: Ingram Ober
Into Abstraction, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
Curator: Jennifer Bennett
Temporary Occupants, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
Curators: David Willburn & Iris Bechtol
2011
Trash, New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA (catalogue)
Curators: Rachel Teagle, Executive Director, New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA
Lauren Popp, Assistant Curator, New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA
Pattern Plan, grayDUCK Gallery, Austin Texas
Curator: Jill Schroeder, Director, grayDUCK Gallery, Austin, TX
Objects of Desire, Art San Diego 2011, San Diego, CA
Laid Bare, The Loft Studios and Galleries, San Pedro, CA (catalogue)
Curator: Lara Bullock
Suspension, DN/ZA Projects, San Diego, CA
Curator: Lauren Popp, Associate Curator, New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA
Welcome to Anywhere: Southern California Abstraction, Southwestern College Art Gallery,
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
Curator: John Oliver Lewis
Cartographic, Roy C. Moore Art Gallery, Gainesville State College, Oakwood, GA
Curator: Beth Sale, Gallery Director
Love Show 2011, Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR
2010
Here Not There: San Diego Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Curator: Lucía Sanromán, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Incognito 2010, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Love Show, Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR
Midnite Snacks: Chicago, 1366 Space, Chicago, IL (invitational)
Curators: Josh Reams, Brian Hubble, Travis Wyche & Amie Cunat
2009
Sculpting Color: Works in Polymer Clay, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA (invitational)
Curator: Kathleen Dustin
Jessica McCambly & Janis Goodman JK Gallery, Culver City, CA
Go West: Jessica McCambly & John Oliver Lewis, CR Gallery, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
Curator: Shannon Sullivan
Sound Migrations, BLOK Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia (invitational) (traveling exhibition)
Trade Show (invitational) (traveling exhibition)
Edgar Varela Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
11th Istanbul Biennial, Parallel Exhibition, Isik University Gallery
Family Show, Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR
Incognito 2009, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Shades: Drawing the Space, O’Kane Gallery, Houston, TX
Curator: Anila Agha, Assistant Professor of Drawing, Herron School of Art and Design
2008
Paper Jam, My House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
5x7, (traveling exhibition)
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Island, The Art Gallery at the College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY
Nightmares, Morton J. May Foundation Gallery, Maryville University, St. Louis, MO
Wish!, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX (invitational) (catalogue)
Your Favorite Artist Was a Member: 30 Years at 500X, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX (invitational) (catalogue)
2007
Drawing Conclusions, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Saturday Night Fever, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Red Hot Red Dot, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
Summer Breeze Makes Me Feel Fine, good good things, Dallas, TX
Visual Directions: Texas (Invitational), Craighead- Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Cool and Warm, good good things, Dallas, TX
Pretty Wonderful, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX (collaborative installation with Thomas Feulmer)
Cast, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX (collaborative installation with Paul Booker)
Continuum, The 2007 Art Ball, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (invitational) (catalogue)
Curators: Laura Elcock & Nancy Hanley
The Best MFA Program in Texas, Union Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Paint Trap, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX
On Paper, Gallery 219, Eastfield College, Mesquite Texas
Curator: David Willburn, Director, Gallery 219 & President, 500X Gallery
Wish!, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX (invitational) (catalogue)
Valenshine, The Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX (invitational) (catalogue)
2006
I-35 Biennial Invitational, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Curators: Talley Dunn and Lisa Brown, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Tight, And/ Or Gallery, Dallas, TX
Curator: Vance Wingate
Formica Formatted, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX (invitational) (brochure)
Curator: Joan Davidow, Director/ Curator, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art
Sweet Tart, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Big as Night 2, Turner St. Lofts, Dallas, TX
Curators: Veronica DeAnda & Erik Tosten
EASL Art Heist, Southside on Lamar, Dallas, TX
White Trash Delight, Arttruck Productions, Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Curator: Brennan Bechtol
Red Hot Red Dot, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
Annual Members’ Show 2006, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
5x7, (traveling exhibition)
Dunn and Brown Gallery, Dallas, TX
Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX
500X: Love Us For Good, The Bungalow Show: Motel 3 at Johnson Courts, Contemporary Art Month,
San Antonio, TX
Curator: Anjali Gupta, Artl!es Magazine
Draw_Drawing 2, London Biennale, The Foundry Gallery, London, England
Curator: Giacomo Picca
Force, The Dallas Natural History Museum, Dallas, TX
Voertman’s Annual Exhibition, SoVA Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Curator: Rainey Knudson, Founder/ Director of Glasstire
30th Annual Union Art Competition, Union Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Juror’s Award
Juror: Holly Johnson, Director/ Owner, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Organic Edge, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
Curator: Jen Rose
2005
Mosaic, Awalt Building, Dallas, TX
Curator: Susan Cheal, Assistant Professor of Painting/ Drawing, University of North Texas
Art Conspiracy, Texas Theater, Dallas, TX
Curator: Sarah Jane Semrad, Founder/ Director, La Reunion Residency, Dallas, TX
The Exchange Show, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Curator: Galo Moncayo, Associate Professor of Sculpture, Indiana University
Celestial Conflicts, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX
Curator: Brian Spolans
The White Show, the Murchison Performing Arts Center, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Curator: Kristen Butler, Founder, Crooked Space Gallery, Denton, TX
Red Hot Red Dot, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
Art in the Metroplex 2005, Templeton Art Center, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
Juror’s Award
Juror: James Elaine, Curator, Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Out of Site: An Altered Environment, Site- Specific Installation, Denton, TX
5x7, (traveling exhibition)
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
New Texas Talent 2005, Craighead- Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Juror: Nancy Cohen Israel
New Art ’05: Reason and Squalor, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Juror: Laura Steward- Heon, Director/ Curator, Site Santa Fe
Practicum, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX
Voertman’s Annual Exhibition, SoVA Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Juror’s Award
Juror: Regine Basha, Adjunct Curator, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
Crossing2, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
29th Annual Union Art Competition, Union Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Juror: Diane Walker-Gladney, Craighead- Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Crossing, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX
Expo 2005, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Juror: Beth Taylor, The Barron Foundation
1998
Open Up and Say Ahhhhh!, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Emerging Art Experiment, Salt Lick, Dallas, TX
B.F.A Exhibition, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, TX
1996
Deep Ellum Art, July Alley, Dallas, TX
Viewing Programs
Artists Space: The Irving Sandler Artists File
ArtSlant LA
Saatchi Online
Bibliography
2016
Under Pressure: Contemporary Printmaking, Hyde Art Gallery (catalogue)
Tiny Altars and Other Meditations, Scott White Contemporary Art (catalogue)
2015
Women and Abstraction, Cornell Fine Arts Museum (catalogue)
2014
Jessica McCambly, Fresh Paint Magazine, Issue 4, July 2014
Studio Visit: Jessica McCambly, Fresh Paint Magazine, July 2014 (online)
Art Attack, Modern Luxury Riviera San Diego, 7/14
In Shatters: Jessica McCambly, The Artsy Forager, 5/14
Object Object!!: A Selection of Smaller Works, Helmuth Projects (catalogue)
Re:Creation- Admired Artist: Jessica McCambly, Pacific Magazine, 3/14
The Gentle Act of Disappearing, Morris Graves Museum of Art (catalogue)
We Love Art: 50 Artists Show Their Love, Kenise Barnes Fine Art (catalogue)
Agenda- United States, Art- “Sublime”, Wall Street International Magazine, 1/21/14
PEEKblog, 1/16/14 (reproduction of work)
2013
New American Paintings, No. 109, Pacific Coast Edition
Juror: Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Botanically Inclined, Morris Graves Museum of Art (catalogue)
Arts & Power, Modern Luxury Riviera San Diego, 11/13
San Diego Art that Made an Impact in 2013, San Diego City Beat, 12/13
Object Object!: a Selection of Smaller Works, Helmuth Projects (catalogue)
2012
San Diego City Beat, Art Struck in 2012: 11 Art Makers, Curators and Gallerists Share Their Favorite Works of the Year, Amy Galpin, Associate Curator, San Diego Museum of Art 12/26/12
brightstupidconfetti.com, (reproduction of work), 3/12
The Radar: Art- Tres Magnifique, Modern Luxury Riviera Magazine San Diego, 1/12 p.62 (reproduction of work)
2011
Float, video interview, thinkplaycreate.org, New Children's Museum, San Diego, CA
Laid Bare, The Loft Studios and Galleries (catalogue)
Brian Fee, Fee’s List, Pattern Plan, 10/12/11
Brian Fee, Heart to Art: Jill Schroeder of grayDUCK Gallery, New American Paintings Blog, 10/13/11
Angela Carone, Turning Trash into Art, Culture Lust, KPBS, 10/21/11
Art Beat, Around the Nation, PBS.org 10/25/11
Todd Camplin, Review: “Pattern Plan” at grayDUCK Gallery, Modaustin.net, 10/30/11
2010
Leah Ollman, Art Review: ”Here Not There: San Diego Art Now” at the Museum of Contemporary
Art San Diego, Culture Monster, Los Angeles Times, 7/15/10
Found: SD MOCA, Cultural Spelunking, 8/25/10
Fuller Craft Museum Polymer Exhibit, Your Daily Muse, 1/30/10
2009
Jessica McCambly, Orange Sherbet Moon: Diary of Art Viewed in LA, 12/25/09
“The Possibility of Everything” @ Culver City, Drawing Bees, 11/15/09
Janis Goodman & Jessica McCambly Exhibition, SHIFT Blog, 10/09
Grant Diffendaffer,Fuller Craft Museum, Many Parts, 8/15/09
“Go West” Exhibit Features Two CR Artists, The Times-Standard, 2/27/09
Shades- Drawing the Space, Visit Houston, 3/26/09
2008
First Thursday Picks, PORT-Portland Art+News+Reviews, 11/04/08
WW Picks- Visual Arts, Willamette Week, 11/19/2008
Jessica McCambly: Leave a Tender Moment Alone, IGLOOart, 11/3/08
Anjali Gupta, “500X Gallery”,Artlies, #56 Winter 2008, p. 74-79. (reproduction of work p. 77)
Steve Carter, “X-Box Live: Launch Pad for Cutting-Edge Artists Celebrates the Big 3-0!”,
Dallas Modern Luxury Magazine, 1/08, p. 54-55
McCambly’s Polymer Clay Installations Inspire, Polymer Clay Daily, 7/08
Your Favorite Artist Was a Member: 30 Years at 500X, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX p.36 (catalogue)
Wish! 2008, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX (catalogue)
2007
Holly Johnson Presents “Drawing Conclusions”, Pegasus News, 7/07
Continuum: The Art Ball 2007, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,TX (catalogue)
Wish! 2007, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX (catalogue)
Dan Goddard, Artists Find Another Use for Motel, San Antonio Express News, 06/30/07
2006
David Wilson, “Art Front”, The Dallas Observer, 12/7/06, p.33. (reproduction of work)
Risa Puleo, “Formica Formatted”, Exhibition Brochure Essay for Formica Formatted
Jeff Prince, “Best of 2006- Gallery Show, Staff Choice: Organic Edge”, FW Weekly, 9/20/06
Formica Formatted, Video Interview with Quin Matthews, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art
Charissa Terranova, “I-35 Biennial Invitational”,ARTnews, v.105 number 8, 9/06, p.153
Noah Simblist, “Out of Site: An Altered Environment”, Artl!es,#49, Winter 2006, p. 108-109
Valenshine, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX p.22. (catalogue)
2005
Gaile Robinson, “Adopt an Artwork”, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9/25/05, Fine Arts, p.5D
Curatorial Experience
2016
Wouldn’t it be nice… Selections from San Diego, H Gallery, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX (catalogue)
(co-curated- a project of good good things)
2014
Object Object!!, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA (catalogue)
(co-curated- a project of good good things)
5 from 1, Glasstire Southern California, online virtual curatorial project
(co-curated- a project of good good things)
2013
Object Object!: A Selection of Smaller Works, a project of good good things, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA (catalogue)
2012
5 from 1, ongoing virtual curatorial project on Glasstire Southern California, www.glasstire.com/socal
(co-curated with John Oliver Lewis)
Big and Bright: New Work from Texas, SWC Art Gallery, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
2011
5 from 1, ongoing virtual curatorial project on Agitprop the Blog
(co-curated with John Oliver Lewis)
2007
Luscious Edge: New Works by Shannon Sullivan, good good things, Dallas, TX
(co-curated with John Oliver Lewis)
Summer Breeze Makes Me Feel Fine, good good things, Dallas, TX
(co-curated with John Oliver Lewis)
2005
Out of Site: An Altered Environment, Site-Specific Installations, Denton, TX
Representation
The Orange Advisory, Minneapolis, MN
