JADE WALKER
jadewalker.org
(e) jadeloriwalker@gmail.com (ig) jadewalker_studio
EDUCATION
2005 MFA, Sculpture, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2000 BFA, Sculpture, The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
UPCOMING
2024 Cloud Shadow, grayDUCK Gallery, Austin, TX (two-person exhibition)
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Wayfinding, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX (solo exhibition)
2022 Migration, Art Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX. (two-person exhibition)
2021 Reweaving 2021, Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX (solo exhibition)
Mire + Mend, ArtResponders: City of Austin public arts project, Austin, TX (solo public arts project)
The Bartlett Project, Curated by Leslie Moody Castro, Bartlett, TX (four person exhibition/residency)
Not, Pylon Public Arts Project, Big Medium at Canopy, Austin, TX (solo commission)
2020 In the Arc of Your Mallet, Dimension Gallery, Austin, TX
2019 Heartfelt, The Museum of Pocket Art, Austin, TX
Little Soldiers, Dimension Gallery, Austin, TX
2016 Four Cornered, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2012 Contact, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2011 Texas Biennial: Jade Walker, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX (curated by Virginia Rutledge)
2010 Spectator Sport, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX (curated by Andrea Mellard)
2009 Trophy Room, Domy, Austin, TX
2008 Merriment, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, TX
2007 Guggenheim Elsewhere, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro, NC
2005 In the Home, Project Room, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Bare Minimum, Safulak Art Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Upwelling, ICOSA, Austin, TX
Titles, Northern Southern, Austin, TX
2018 Seasons of Fruition, Dimension Gallery, Austin, TX
2015 Art on the Green Sculpture Invitational, Kemp Art Center, Wichita Falls, TX (curated by Erin Cunningham)
2014 A Catalogue, Tiny Park, Austin, TX
2013 transFIGURATION, Canopy, Austin, TX (curated by Rino Pizzi)
New and Greatest Hits: Texas Biennial 2005-2011, Canopy, Austin, TX (curated by Michael Duncan + Virginia Rutledge)
2012 Sharing, Fuse Box Festival, Austin, TX
Temporal Figuration, LVL3, Chicago, IL April 2012
2011 Texas Uprising: Selections from the Texas Sculpture Group Part Two, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
2010 3rd Coast National, K Space, Corpus Christi, TX (juried by Trent Doyle Hancock)
2009 Faculty Exhibition, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX
Texas Biennial Group Exhibition, Sites across Austin, TX (juried by Michael Duncan)
Austin City Hall People’s Gallery 2009, Austin City Hall, Austin, TX
2008 Hasta La Basura Se Separa (Even The Trash Separates Itself), Centro Cultural de Nuevo Laredo, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
New American Talent: 23, Arthouse, Austin, TX (juried by Nato Thompson)
Austin City Hall People’s Gallery 2008, Austin City Hall, Austin, TX
2007 Fall Faculty Salon Exhibition, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX
Fuse Box 2007, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
Interaction with Color, Meat Market Gallery, Washington, DC
Come Together, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2006 ID, Gallery 621, Tallahassee, FL
2005 Shine! 2005: Moonglow, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Art 101, The Space, Austin, TX
Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Community Initiatives Grant, City of Austin, TX (2018)
Visual Artist of the Year, Critics Round Table Awards, Austin, TX (2016)
College of Fine Arts staff member of the year, The University of Texas at Austin, TX (2012)
Group Study Exchange Recipient, Italy Rotary Club International (2008)
Dedalus Foundation nominee (2005)
Joan Mitchell Foundation nominee (2005)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Andrews, Scott. “Jade Walker’s ‘Quadri-Poise’ at Blue Star.” San Antonio Current, May 4, 2011.
Barnes, Michael. “Jade Walker at the Ney Museum: Weaving together artistry and meaning.” Austin-American Statesman, July 16, 2021
Castillo, Salvador. “Women & Their Work: Sliding through an artist’s work in 15 minutes.” The Austin Chronicle, May 14,
2008.
Cook, Rachel. “Jade Walker: Merriment.” The Austin Chronicle, March 7, 2008.
Douberley, Amanda. “Collaboration from Conception.” The Austin Chronicle, December 14, 2007.
Faires, Robert. "Reweave: 2021" at the Elisabet Ney Museum.”The Austin Chronicle, July 23, 2021.
Faires, Robert. “Bearing Fruit.” The Austin Chronicle, November 9, 2018.
Faires, Robert. “The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards.” The Austin Chronicle, May 27, 2011.
Faires, Robert. “In the Game.” The Austin Chronicle, January 22, 2010.
Faires, Robert. “UT's new Visual Arts Center connects its art department with the world.” The Austin Chronicle,
September 24, 2010.
Faires, Robert. “A Strange Land is a Changing Land.” The Austin Chronicle, January 30, 2009.
Faires, Robert. “The First Time. Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on.” The Austin
Chronicle, July 17, 2009.
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Glasstire. “Five-Minute Tours: The Bartlett Project.” Glasstire.com, June 10, 2021.
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Heckenlaible, Victoria. “Artist Alumni Collaboration at the Creative Research Lab.” Daily Texan, July 21, 2008.
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Martin, Deborah. “The Museum of Pocket Art returns to Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio for Second Saturday.”
San Antonio Express News, March 9, 2020.
Menezes, Eva. “Artist Turns Trash into Beauty.” ABC NEWS On Campus, December 10, 2008.
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Purcell, Barbara. “Review: In Bartlett, building from the past.” Sightlines, July 6, 2021
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Rosenblatt, Josh. “Adjusting to the Mise-en-Scene.” The Austin Chronicle, July 13, 2007.
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Schlesinger, Paul. “Bartlett Project Wraps up.” Bartlett Tribune Progress, July 7, 2021.
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Statesman, August 29, 2016.
Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Generous Art with Jade Walker.”Austin-American Statesman, October 8, 2016.
Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Artists alter their own portraits in Fusebox Festival event.” Austin-American Statesman, April
14, 2013.
Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Austin Visual Arts Awards 2010 winners.” Austin 360, January 2011.
Zavistovski, Katia. “Review: Jade Walker at Lawndale Art Center.” Arts + Culture Texas, February 8, 2012.
RESIDENCIES
Facebook, AIR Program, Austin, TX (2020)
Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro, NC (2007)
Artist in Residence at Webb School in Knoxville, TN (2006)
Safulak Art Village, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2004)
Penland School of Art, Penland, NC (1999)
SELECTED COMMISSIONS + COLLECTIONS
Jaime Jo Fisher and Chris Campbell
Nicole Blair
Annette Carlozzi and Dan Bullock
Beau and Val Armstrong
Shawna and Eric Mari
W. Tucker and Sylvia
CORE Health Foundation
Kati Hernandez Cowles
Ronald McDonald House
Nina Bergen Dress Studio
Ken and Mona Hale
Anne Allen
Nancy Whitenack