Born in Magnolia, AR
Lives and works in Dallas, New York City, and Berlin.
EDUCATION
Kansas City Art Institute, BFA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Memphis College of Art
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Room With a View, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
Somewhere Between Now and Then, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX (April)
2023
The Light Within, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
2022
Lineage, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY
Prints by Jay Shinn, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Auf des Seits des Lichts / Side of Light, Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany
2021
Step Forward / Stand Back, South Arkansas Arts Center, El Dorado, AR.
And The Days Go By, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2020
Drawings, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2018
Silver Moon, Texas Art House, Johnson City, TX
2016
Air Space, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
With or Without, Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy
2014
Cathedrals in the Sky, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Language of Man: Pard Morrison & Jay Shinn, Galerie knoerle & baettig, Winterthur, Switzerland
2013
Neonish 24.7, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Art In Buildings/Time Equities, 55 Fifth Ave, New York, NY
Highlight, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Menageries, South Fork, Memphis, TN
2012
Jay Shinn: Illuminations, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Gallery of Contemporary Art Colorado Springs, CO
Double Surge, Soho billboard project, New York City
2011
Axel Anklam and Jay Shinn: Luxplus, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
Centerfolds, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Jens Hanke and Jay Shinn: A Twisted Mind Was Left Alone, Stunden 48 Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
2010
Jay Shinn & Eileen Cubbage: Riff, Alice Gryphius Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany
Refuge, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
2009
Spatial Shifts: Rupert Deese and Jay Shinn, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2008
With the Grain, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006
Columns, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004
Erased Drawings, Torrefazione, Dallas, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Collage / Assemblage, Barry Whislter Gallery, Dallas, TX
Summer Exhibition – Select Gallery Artist, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Decades, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022
Bounds of Our Perception, CityCentre, Houston, TX
Seriality +, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Learning to Draw, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2021
Holiday Group Exhibition, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Deep Cuts: Relief Prints by Manneken Artists, Bloomington, IL
2020
Intersect Chicago, SOFA Expo, Barry Whistler Gallery, Chicago, IL, Virtual Expo
The Pandemic Art Fair, Dallas, TX, Virtual Art Fair
2019
Monumental II, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2018
44 Artists From Texas, LHUCA Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
New Edition & Jonathan Cross’ Transitions, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
MAD In Paris Art Fair, Galerie Jordan/Seydoux, Berlin
2017
Seattle Art Fair, William Shearburn Gallery, Seattle, WA
Dallas Art Fair, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX & William Shearburn Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
Art Paris, Galerie Jordan/Seydoux, Berlin
2016
Black and White, William Shearburn Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
SITE Gallery Houston at The Silos on Sawyer, Houston, TX
NeonAsia, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX
Expo Chicago, William Shearburn Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dallas Art Fair, Louise Alexander Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015
Hypothèses, La Couleuvre, Curated by Phillipe Richard, Paris, France
Circus, Galerie Jordan/Seydoux, Berlin, Germany
Public Installation, Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX
Iterations, Lisa Beck, Michael Scott, and Jay Shinn, Theodore Art, Brooklyn, NY
artgenéve art fair, Louise Alexander Gallery, Genéva, Switzerland
Art15, Louise Alexander Gallery, London
2014
Real Estate, Ventanna 244 Gallery, Curated by Peter Soriano and Philippe Richard, Brooklyn, NY
Drawing, Barry Whistler, Dallas, TX
Art Paris, Louise Alexander Gallery, Paris, France
Art 14 Art Fair, Louise Alexander Gallery, London, England
Unpainted New Media Art Fair, Louise Alexander Gallery, Munich, Germany
Texas Contemporary, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Elemental, Jay Shinn, Ilya Volum and Pascal Haudressy, Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy
2013
Run With Us, Galeria Miejska Museum of Art, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Opticks, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2012
Post-Op, Mixed Greens Gallery New York, NY
Houston Fine Art Fair, "Double Bend", public space projection with paint.
Dallas Art Fair, "Quintet", public space projected painting installation
Mile Marker 30th Anniversary, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Silent Transmissions, featuring John Pomara, Frances Bagley, Vincent Falsetta, James Marshall, and Jay Shinn, Stephen F. Austin University, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX
2011
Linear Thinking, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2010
Small Works: Art+Objects, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Landmarks, Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
Dallas Art Fair, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Next 2010 Art Fair, Manneken Press, Chicago, IL
2009
Two x Two for aids and art, The Rachosfky House, Dallas, TX
Frontroom=Backroom, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Group Exhibition, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Architectonic, CADD ARTLAB, Dallas, TX
Salmagundi: Works on Paper, Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington DC
2008
New Directions '08, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Sculpture Center, SVA, New York, NY
Manneken Press @Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL
Group Hug, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007
Aqua Art Miami, Marty Walker Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, FL
Two x Two for Aids and Art, The Rachosfky House, Dallas, TX
Art in the Metroplex, Templeton Art Center, TCU, Fort Worth, TX
New Direction '07, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Group Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Continuum, Art in Motion, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Elemental, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005
A Friend in Deed, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Studio Selection, Dallas Museum of Art, Beaux Arts Ball, Dallas, TX
Art in the Metroplex, Templeton Art Center, TCU, Fort Worth, TX
2003
Studio Selection, Dallas Museum of Art, Beaux Arts Ball, Dallas, TX
New Texas Talent 2003, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
500X Juried Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2002
No History to Speak of but Great Shopping and Terrific Food: New Art from Dallas, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Rice University Collection, Houston, TX
Charles Schwab Headquarters, Westlake, TX
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen, Germany
Texas A&M University, Zachary Public Art Collection, College Station, TX
Kansas City Chiefs Public Art Collection, Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO
J P Morgan Chase, Dallas, TX
Houston Intercontinental Airport, Houston, TX
Gardere, Wynne, Sewell, LLP, Dallas, TX
Houston Hobby Airport, Houston, TX
Francis J. Greenburger, Travellers Tower, Southfield, MI
Tom Ford, New York, NY
Langham Hotel, Chicago, IL
DFW Airport, Corporate Aviation Terminal, TX
W Hotel, Dallas, TX
The Neiman Marcus Collection, Dallas, TX
One Arts Plaza, Dallas, TX
Microsoft Corporation, WA
Fidelity Investments, Westlake, TX
Capital One Collection, Dallas, TX
The State Department, Washington, DC
Gray Reed, Houston, TX
Armstrong Teasdale, LLP, St. Louis, MO
2100 Ross, Dallas, TX
PRESS
2024
Revett, John, “Jay Shinn’s Icebergs,” Glasstire, December 10, 2024.
Anspon, Catherine D., “Gallery Action,” PaperCity, Dallas, April 2024.
2023
Anspon, Catherin D., “Art Notes,” PaperCity, Houston, January – February 2023.
2021
Sherman, Rebecca, “Masterful Strokes,” PaperCity, Dallas, May 2021.
Reese, Christina & Zech, Brandon, “Top Five,” Glasstire, March 4, 2021.
2020
Singer, Daniel, “On Paper,” The Dallas Morning News, April 5, 2020.
2019
Avram, Danielle. “Playing with time, space,” Dallas Morning News, May 2019.
2017
Dennison, Ray. "The Art Aviator," Modern Luxury, Dallas, May 2017.
Dennison, Ray, "The Art Aviator," Modern Luxury, Houston, April 2017.
Granberry, Michael, "Love to DFW to IAH, airports provide a bold artistic canvas, as Dallas' Jay Shinn knows all too well," Dallas Morning News, February 10, 2017.
2016
Israel, Nancy Cohen, "The Right Angles," Patron Magazine, September August 2016
Sachson, Gail, "The Crow Lights Up Teens's Lives," art+seek, May 2016.
Anspon, Catherine, "Must Sees 2016 Dallas Art Fair," PaperCity Magazine Dallas, April 2016
Cerrute, Margaux, "Dallas: Potential Insiders," Whitewall Magazine, April 2016
2015
Lenzi, Nicole, "Jay Shinn: Drawing and Geometrical Abstraction," Expanded. Contemporary Drawing Practices, July 1, 2015.
Green, Lauren A., "Light Show: Artist Jay Shinn Taps the Inner Recesses of His Mind to Conjure Up His Decidedly Modern and Abstract Works of Light," luxe interiors + design, DFW, Sumer 2015.
2014
Tommaney, Jim T., “Jay Shinn’s Cathedrals in the Sky Where Octagonal Is the Way to Go.” Houston Press, Houston, TX, May 1, 2014.
2013
Hegert, Natalie, “A Surfeit of Space: the Francis J. Greenburger Collection,” ArtSlant, Los Angeles, August 13, 2013.
Jamie Derringer, “Capturing Light: A Chat with Artist Jay Shinn,” Design Milk/MSN, Dallas, May 23, 2013.
Andy Amato, PhD, “Review: Jay Shinn,” Arts + Culture Texas, March 7, 2013.
The Jealous Curator, “I’m Jealous of Jay Shinn,” February 22, 2013.
Mattingly, June, “Texas Contemporary Artists: Second Edition,” January 7, 2013.
2012
Van Pelt, Rhonda, “Everything is Illuminated, Jay Shinn employs light to create a warm ‘visual confusion’”, Colorado Springs Independent, October 3-9.
Murdock, Christian Colorado Springs Gazette, "Projection Project", September 29.
Lee, David, “Artist in residence at Art Omni,” Register-Star, Hudson, NY, June 26, 2012.
Williamson, Caroline, "Jay Shinn", Design-Milk.com, March, 8.
2011
Simek, Peter, "A Geometric Trio: Shape-shifters at Marty Walker, Holly Johnson and Conduit," D Magazine: FrontRow, Dallas, April 15.
Wilson, Christen, "Dallas Art Fair. The Art Wave," PinkMemo, Dallas, April 12.
Anspon, Catherine D., "Art Notes: Dallas Art News for April," PaperCity, Dallas, March 30.
Carter, Steve, "Centerfold Attraction", Modern Luxury, Dallas, February
2010
Britt, Douglas, “Shinn's Refuge seems simple at first glance, ” Houston Chronicle, August 11.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, “Capsule Art Reviews: Jay Shinn: Refuge,” Houston Press, August 11
Mattingly, June, "Jay Shinn," regularmain.com, August 9.
Anspon, Catherine D., “Space, Light, Architecture,” Papercity Houston, July.
Anspon, Catherine D., “Dallas Art Fair 2010: The Official Wrap-Up / Behind the Canvases, Inside the Booths, ” Papercity Dallas, March 31.
Anspon, Catherine D., “Dallas Art Fair, Volume 2,” Papercity Dallas, February 5.
2009
Simblist, Noah, “Spatial Shifts,” Artlies, Fall.
2x2 for aids and art, catalogue, amfar/Dallas Museum of Art/The Rachofsky House
2008
Studio Visit Magazine, Fall 2008 juried by Carl Belz, Director Emeritus, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University.
New American Paintings 78, October/November 2008, juried by Andrea Karnes, Curator, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Martin, Lisa, “The Radar Design”, Modern Luxury Dallas, March.
Robinson, Gaile, “Jay Shinn: With the Grain”, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Friday, January 4.
Durham, Anne, “Grain Elevator, See the Works of Shinn”, Dallas Observer, January 3.
DeLollis, Barbara, “For Hotels, Pampering is a Fine Art”, USA Today, January 11, 2008
2007 O’Brien, Titus. “Five artists, and Mother Nature, pull together nicely”, Fort Worth Star
Telegram, Sunday January 14.
2006 Daniel, Mike, “Jody Lee and Jay Shinn at Marty Walker Gallery”, Dallas Morning News, Friday June 23
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
EXHIBITION CATALOGS
2022 - “Jay Shinn: Auf des Seits des Lichts / Side of Light”, Till Richter Museum, Essay: Dr. Till Richter.
2021 - “Jay Shinn: Step Forward / Stand Back”, South Arkansas Art Center, Essay by Christina Rees.
2020 - “Jay Shinn: Drawings”, Barry Whistler Gallery.
2016 - “Jay Shinn: Air Space”, Barry Whistler Gallery, Essays by Barry Whistler and Dennis Kardon.
2014 - “Jay Shinn: Cathedrals in the Sky”, Barbara Davis Gallery, Essay by Barbara Davis.
2013 - “Jay Shinn: Highlight”, Marty Walker Gallery.
2012 - “Jay Shinn: Illuminated”, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Galleries of Contemporary Art, Essay Saul by Ostrow.
2011 - “Axel Anklam and Jay Shinn: Luxplus”, Kunstverein Neukölln, Essay by Dr. Martin Steffens.
2010 - “Jay Shinn: Refuge”, Barbara Davis Gallery, Essay by Kurt Mueller.