CLARE E. ROJAS
Born 1976 in Columbus, Ohio, USA
Lives and works in San Francisco, USA
Education
| 2002 | M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1998 | B.F.A., Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | Go Placidly, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York City, USA |
| 2022 | Clare Rojas In Mima Reload, Mima Museum, Brussels, Belgium The Magic of It All, Jessica Silverman, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2021 | Here We Go, Jessica Silverman Gallery, California, USA Wayfinder, San Jose Museum of Art, California, USA |
| 2019 | Shifted Horizons, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, USA |
| 2018 | Clare Rojas, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA “Somewhere there will be music” – Jane, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, USA Faultline, Toby’s Art Gallery, Point Reyes, USA |
| 2016 | Orphaned Wells, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, USA New Geometries, Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, USA The inexhaustible middle, Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2015 | New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA |
| 2014 | Caerulea, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA Everyone Has Those Spaces, Kavi Gupta CHICAGO | Elizabeth St., Chicago, USA |
| 2013 | Clare Rojas, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York, USA |
| Clare Rojas, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 2012 | Spaces In Between, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA |
| Pith, Prism, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Piecemeal, Gallery Paulie Anglim, San Francisco USA | |
| 2010 | We They, We They, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK |
| Through the Woods, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, USA | |
| We They, We They, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, USA | |
| 2009 | Believe Me, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA |
| 2008 | Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Riverside Art Museum, California, USA |
| 2007 | Forget Me Not, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands |
| Sympathetic Magic, Laboratorio 987, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Leon, Spain | |
| Kitty Buck, Lizabeth Oliveiria Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
| P.S. Hurray!, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA | |
| Sympathetic Magic, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK | |
| Clare Rojas: Hope Springs Eternal, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA | |
| 2006 | Moody Loner, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA |
| Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, USA | |
| Clare Rojas, Nicolai Wallner Galeri, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 2005 | Hah! Ha, ha, ha!, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA |
| Clare Rojas, Modern Art, London, UK | |
| Sub-Urban: Clare Rojas, Knoxville Museum of Art, USA | |
| 2004 | Table Turner, Deitch Projects, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Doing My Day, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA |
| Maybelle Crick, Lizabeth Oliveria, San Francisco, USA | |
| Walk Like Man, New Image Art, Los Angeles, USA |
Group Exhibitions (selected)
| 2022 2021 2020 |
Group Exhibition, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, USA Abstraction & Social Critique, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA We Are Here, Jessica Silverman Gallery, California, USA The Figure In Solitude, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, USA FAULTline 2.0, Timbuk2, San Francisco, USA |
| 2018 | Way Bay, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA DNA of Painting, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, USA The House Imaginary, San José Museum of Art, San José, USA |
| 2017 | Independent New York, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA Big Sky Little Moon, Watari-Um Museum, Watari Musem, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | McArthur Binion, Jose Lerma, Angel Otero, Clare Rojas, Jessica Stockholder, Tony Tasset, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA |
| New Geometries, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA | |
| 2015 | Paule Anglim – Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA |
| For the Love of Paper – Limited Edition Prints, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, USA | |
| 2014 | Initial Public Offering: New works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, San José Museum of Art, San José, USA |
| Folklore, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, USA | |
| Art Alliance: The Provocateurs, curated by Shepard Fairey, Block Thirty Seven, Chicago, USA | |
| 2012 | 10 Revolutions Around the Sun, Headlands Art Center, Sausalito, USA |
| 2010 | Orde di segnatori, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy |
| Paper!Awesome, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, USA | |
| 2TheWall, New Image Art Gallery, West Hollywood, USA | |
| 2009 | Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA |
| Instruments, SolwayJones, Los Angeles, USA | |
| American Realities, New Image Art Gallery, West Hollywood, USA | |
| 2008 | Prospect.1 New Orleans, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, USA |
| Anniversary Exhibition, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| The Wizard of Oz, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA | |
| Journey to the End of the Night, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland | |
| Eureka!, ICA San José Institute of Contemporary Art, San José, USA | |
| Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland | |
| Untitled (Waves), Primo Marella Gallery Beijing, Beijing, China | |
| The Big Sad: Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, USA | |
| Size Matters: XS, Recent Small-Scale Paintings, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA | |
| 2007 | Existencias, Musac-Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain |
| Some kind of Portrait, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Size Matters: XS, Recent Small-Scale Paintings, HVCCA Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA | |
| Joy Feasley & Clare Rojas: Pow-Wows or The Long Lost Friend, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA | |
| Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK | |
| Panic Room. Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece | |
| In The Fullness of Time: The Luggage Store 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco, USA | |
| 2006 | Jen Liu + Bjorn Melhus + Clare Rojas, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
| Drawing is a Fine Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA | |
| Girl on Guy, Columbia College of Chicago, Chicago, USA | |
| Men, I-20, New York, USA | |
| 2005 | Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA |
| In Search of a Continuous Present, International Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic | |
| Eureka Fellowship Award Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA | |
| Art Part II: Dazzle Dogs, Clare Rojas, Erin Rosenthal and Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Beautiful Losers, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, USA | |
| 2004 | Beautiful Losers, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA |
| Beautiful Losers, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA | |
| Change of Address, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Your Heart is No Match For My Love, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, USA | |
| It’s a Wonderful Life, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, USA | |
| Altoids Collection 2003, Travelling collection | |
| East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA | |
| 2003 | Pocket Atlas, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA |
| Outerspace Hillbilly, Luggage Store, San Francisco, USA | |
| 2002 | Scratch Off the Serial, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA |
| 2001 | Widely Unknown, Deitch Projects Wooster Street Space, New York, USA |
| East Meets West, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA |
Selected Film Festivals
| 2003 | New York Underground Film Festival, New York, USA |
| 2000 | New York Underground Film Festival, New York, USA |
| Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Harbor, USA | |
| Sarah Lawrence Experimental Film and Video Festival, Sarah Lawrence, USA | |
| Hi Mom Film Festival, Chapel Hill, USA | |
| Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, USA | |
| Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, USA | |
| Central Florida Film Festival, Orlando, USA | |
| Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, USA | |
| New York Expo Film Festival, New York, USA |
Awards
| 2007 | Eureka Fellowship Award, San José, USA |
| 2006 | Eureka Fellowship Award, San José, USA |
| 2005 | Eureka Fellowship Award, San José, USA |
| 2003 | Tournesol Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, USA |
| Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York, USA | |
| 2000 | Isabella Liddell Art Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival |
| 0-5 minute category, 2nd Prize at the Sarah Lawrence Experimental Film and Video Festival | |
| Audience Choice, 3rd Prize at the Hi Mom Film Festival | |
| Best Animation at the New York Underground Film Festival |
Residencies
| 2003 | Tournesol Award, 1 year residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, USA |
| Project Space Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, USA |
Selected Performances
| 2003 | Noise Pop, San Francisco, USA |
| 2002 | In the Street Festival, San Francisco, USA |
| 2001 | Institute of Contemporary Art, East Meets West (Opening night), Philadelphia, USA |
| Material Clothing Company (Debut party), Tokyo, Japan |
Selected articles/reviews
| 2017 | “Clare Rojas’ Religion of Shape”, Katy Donoghue, Whitewall, June 1, 2017 |
| 2013 | On View, “Claire Rojas Gets in Touch With Her Abstract Side”, Times, November, New York, USA |
| 2012 | “Clare Rojas, Pith”, Andrew Berardini, Art Review, November 29, London, UK |
| “Clare E. Rojas: Spaces in Between”, Art+Auction, December Issue, New York, USA | |
| “Inside the Artists’ Studio: Clare Rojas, The Bard”, Lauren Goodman, 7X7SF, November 20, San Francisco, USA | |
| “14 Must See Painting Shows”, Steven Zevitas, The Huffington Post, October 16, New York, USA | |
| “Clare Rojas: Kavi Gupta Gallery”, Robin Dluzen, Visual Art Source, October 2, Woodland Hills, USA | |
| “Artist Spotlight: Clare Rojas”, Dolan Geiman, Daily Dolan Geiman, September 24, Chicago, USA | |
| “Clare Rojas explores abstract ‘Spaces in Between,’ through her paintings, and through her musical persona, Peggy Honeywell”, Joe DeCeault, WBEZ, Radio Interview, September 19, Chicago, USA | |
| “Interview with Clare Rojas”, Chris Lux | |
| “Clare Rojas”, Cherie Louis Turner, Art Ltd. Magazine, March Issue, Woodland Hills, USA | |
| 2009 | “Clare E. Rojas, Believe Me”, Karsten Lund, Flavorpill, July 14, New York, USA |
| “Clare E. Rojas”, Lori Waxman, ArtForum, October Issue, New York, USA | |
| “Clare E. Rojas”, Ruth Lopez, Artnews, October Issue, New York, USA | |
| “Clare E. Rojas”, Susan Snodgrass, Art in America, October Issue, New York, USA | |
| 2005 | “Female Fairy Tales”, Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun-Times, November 4, Chicago, USA |
| “Call Them Dazzle Dogs”, Art Nelson, L.A. Weekly, March 18-24, Los Angeles, USA, p. 34 | |
| 2004 | “Art in Review: Clare Rojas at Deitch Projects”, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, December 10, New York, USA |
| “Arts and Craft: Clarity”, Eric Nakamura, Giant Robot Magazine, Issue 32, The Beholders, Los Angeles, USA, pp. 32-35 | |
| 2003 | “One From the Heart: Welcome to the World of Clare E. Rojas”, Kimberly Chun, SF Bay Guardian, Sept. 17, San Francisco, USA p. 56 |
| 2002 | “Review of “Maybelle Crick”, Laura Richard Janku, Contemporary Magazine, December Issue, p. 79 |
| “Widely Unknown”, Brendan Fowler, Mass Appeal Magazine, Issue 14, Brooklyn, USA, pp. 30-31 | |
| 2001 | “Widely Unknown”, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, December 14, New York, USA |
Publications
| 2016 | Plain Black: Abstract Paintings, Kavi Gypta, Chicago, USA |
| 2010 | Pidgy, Clare Rojas, IKON and Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Birmingham, UK |
| 2007 | Clare Rojas Hope Springs Eternal (exhibition catalogue), Rose Museum of Art, Waltham, USA |
| Blue Deer and Red Fox, Clare Rojas, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands | |
| 2005 | SubUrban: Clare Rojas (exhibition catalogue), Dana Slef, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA |
| Art Part II: Dazzle Dogs (exhibition catalogue), Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
| 2004 | Table Turner (exhibition catalogue), Deitch Projects, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Outerspace Hillbilly, Leig Goldberg, Barry McGee, Clare Rojas & Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
Albums
| 2005 | Faint Hums, Peggy Honeywell, self-produced |
| 2002 | Super Unreleased, Peggy Honeywell, self produced |
| 2001 | Honey For Dinner, Peggy Honeywell, Galaxia Records |
| 2000 | Walk Like Man, Peggy Honeywell, self-produced |
| Peggy Honeywell and the Dew Loves You Too, Peggy Honeywell, self produced |
