Born: Chicago
Studied: Photography: Institute of Design, Chicago, 1975-1978
Lives: Northern Michigan
Exhibitions
2024
Color, Shape, Line: Six Degrees of Separation Between Andrew Zimmerman, Fran Shalom and Jesse Hickman, New Jersey
Common Grounds Coop, Traverse City, Michigan, Jesse Hickman (solo)
2023
57W57 Arts, New York, New York, Jesse Hickman – 7 Stripes
2022
Ramsdell Regional Center For The Arts, Manistee, Michigan, Art Is Art
2021
Wright Gallery, Northport, Michigan, Jesse Hickman & Pier Wright
Wright Gallery, Northport, Michigan, You Know You Know
Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery at the Harper Center for the Arts, Clinton, South Carolina, The Idiosyncratic Pencil Redrafted
2020
57W57 Arts, New York, New York, Jesse Hickman – Rowing the Boat
2019
Leelanau Studios, Traverse City, Michigan, Northwest Michigan Salon des Refusés
Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery at the Harper Center for the Arts, Clinton, South Carolina, The Idiosyncratic Pencil Resharpened
2018
Wright Gallery, Northport, Michigan, Materials
da Fonseca Contemporânea,
Wilton Manors, Florida, Collective Identity
Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery at the Harper Center for the Arts, Clinton, South Carolina, The Idiosyncratic Pencil
Glen Arbor Arts Association, Glen Arbor, Michigan,
New Gallery/New Work
2017
The Ann Arbor Arts Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
95th Annual All Media Exhibition
ODETTA, Brooklyn, New York, Appearances
Wright Gallery, Northport, Michigan, Project Room: Boneyard (solo)
Wright Gallery, Northport, Michigan, Extrapolation
Gallery 71, Edina, Minnesota, SEQUENTIAL
The Provincial, Kaleva, Michigan, Cities, like dreams, Swamps where cedars grow
The Painting Center, New York, New York, FIGHT OR FLIGHT
PRIVATEVIEW at VOLTA NY, New York, THE INVITATIONAL SOLO PROJECT FAIR FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (solo)
Trestle, Brooklyn, New York, Introductions 2017
2016
BLK MRKT, Traverse City, Michigan, The Great Big Black and White Little Drawing Invitational
Wright Gallery, Northport, Michigan, His Little Room (solo)
ODETTA, Brooklyn, New York, Scribing the Void
The Painting Center, New York, New York, The Retrieval of the Beautiful
Water Street Gallery, Douglas, Michigan, SCRABBLE: A Play on Words
BLK MRKT, Traverse City, Michigan, Jesse Hickman Notes (solo)
Water Street Gallery, Douglas, Michigan, Dot to Dot: Patterns
2015
Elizabeth Lane Oliver Center for the Arts, Frankfort, Michigan, The Annual All-Media Juried Show
Elizabeth Lane Oliver Center for the Arts, Frankfort, Michigan, Jesse Hickman And Carolyn Swift
Tamarack Gallery, Omena, Michigan, 2-Person Show
The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio, After the Pedestal, the 8th Exhibition of Small Sculpture from the Region
Sidac Studio, HG Leiden, Netherlands, Schetsen uit de map, Sidac studio 20th anniversary
Water Street Gallery, Douglas, Michigan, Drawn To Scale
2014
Elizabeth Lane Oliver Center for the Arts, Frankfort, Michigan, Annual All-Media Juried Exhibition
Wright Gallery, Northport, Michigan, Art is Good
2013
Water Street Gallery, Douglas, Michigan, It’s a Matter of Opinion
Wright Gallery, Northport, Michigan, The Only Show
2012
Water Street Gallery, Douglas, Michigan, The Ray – Jesse – Middy Show
Dennos Museum, Traverse City, Michigan, Northwest Michigan Regional Exhibition
2011
Kuhlhaus Gallery, Harbor Springs, Michigan, Annual Opening Exhibition
2010
Water Street Gallery, Douglas, Michigan, Annual Group Show
2009
Kuhlhaus Gallery, Harbor Springs, Michigan, Annual Opening Exhibition
Water Street Gallery, Douglas, Michigan, Annual Group Show
2008
Kuhlhaus Gallery, Harbor Springs, Michigan, Annual Opening Exhibition
Water Street Gallery, Douglas, Michigan, Annual Group Show
2003
Petoskey Contemporary Arts, Petoskey, Michigan, This is Black
Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, Photowork ’03
Petoskey Contemporary Arts, Petoskey, Michigan, Mail Art Show
2002
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago,
Face Off
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, Michigan, Me and Jesse, Len and Me
2001
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Just Good Art
1999
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Altered Objects
1998
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, Love, Error and Eros
1996
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, Michigan, Davis, Varga, Hickman
1994
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Art on the Map
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois, A Passionate Perspective
Klein Artworks, Chicago
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, Primarily Paint
1992
Klein Artworks, Chicago, The City Series (solo)
The Bemis Foundation, Omaha, Nebraska, Terra Incognita: New Landscape Painting
Columbia College, Chicago, Maps, Borders and Boundaries
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Breakdown
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Address
Harcus Gallery, Boston, Expressive Systems
1991
Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Bay Harbour Islands, Florida (solo)
Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Grand Slam
Klein Artworks, Chicago, Contemporary Abstraction
World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, Chicago for Chicago Invitational
1990
Harcus Gallery, Boston, Kansas (solo)
Chicago International Art Exposition/ Klein Artworks, Chicago, Crossroads (solo)
Klein Artworks, Chicago, County Series (solo)
Bemis Foundation, Omaha, Nebraska, Introductions: Painting
Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, Paper Works
1989
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Past Perfect, Future Indicative
Struve Gallery, Chicago, Dennis Adrian, A Critical Subject
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Just Good Art
1988
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, The Flower Show
1986
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Portraits
1985
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
1840 West Hubbard Street Gallery, 1840 Show
1984
Objects Gallery, Chicago (solo)
1983
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (solo)
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Looking at Women
1982
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Selections From the Dennis Adrian Collection
West Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, The Salon Show
The University of Maryland Art Gallery College Park, Maryland, Selections From the Collection of Jim and Danielle Sotet
1981
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 7 Artists
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Midwest Photography
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Hats
1980
One Illinois Center, Chicago (solo)
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, Betty Asher’s Cups
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Recent Work of Three Photographers
1979
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois (solo)
1977
Photographics Gallery, Chicago (solo)
Facets Gallery, Chicago
GRANTS
2015
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1991
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1981
Illinois Arts Council Project Grant