JIM ISERMANN
1955 Born Kenosha, Wisconsin, lives Palm Springs, CA
1977 BFA University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1980 MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
SOLO
1981 Modern Tempo, Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles
1982 Motel Modern, The Inn of Tomorrow, Anaheim, CA, and Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
Patio Tempo, Artist's Space, New York
1984 Suburban, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
1985 Installation at West Beach Cafe, Venice, CA
Starburst, Onyx Cafe, Los Angeles
1986 Flowers, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
Nu-Flowers, Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA
1988 Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
Josh Baer Gallery, New York
Matching Chairs and Paintings, Feature, Chicago, IL
1989 Shag Ptgs, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
Shag Ptgs, Feature, New York
1991 Shag Paintings and Sculpture, Feature, New York
1992 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Feature, New York
1994 Handiwork, Feature, New York
Handiwork, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Highlights, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles
1995 Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm, Sweden
Weaves, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1996 CubeWeave, Feature, New York
Isermann/Pardo, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1997 Project Space, Chicago Fine Arts Club, Chicago, IL
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm, Sweden
Robert Prime, London, UK
1998 Herringbone & Houndstooth, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1998–99 Fifteen: Jim Isermann Survey, curated by David Pagel, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Diverse-Works Artspace, Houston, TX; The University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX; Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Vega, Le Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
Camden Arts Center, London, UK
2000 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Logic Rules, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2001 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Feature Inc., New York
2002 Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Hammer Projects wall installation, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2005 Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Deitch Projects, New York
2006 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2007 Vinyl Smash Up, 1999–2007, Deitch Projects, New York
Jim Isermann (Chairs & Paintings, 1987), Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2008 Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2009 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Plug In #52. Lily van der Stokker and guest: Jim Isermann, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
2010 Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Art Kabinett, Praz-Delavallade, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
2011 Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2012 Reunion, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2013 Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2014 Jim Isermann Paintings and Drawings, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Jim Isermann Paintings and Drawings, Studio Blomster, Guerneville, CA
2016 Jim Isermann. Constituent Components, organized by Henry Coleman and Rupert Norfolk as part of the exhibition series Physical Information, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
Jim Isermann @ Placewares: Patterns & Products, Placewares, Gualala, CA
2017 Jim Isermann Sculpture, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2019 My Show on Your Arm, Open Arms, Riverside, CA
2020 Jim Isermann: Copy. Pattern. Repeat., organized by Brooke Hodge, Palm Springs Art Museum, Architecture and Design Center, Palm Springs, CA
2021 Hypercube, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
2023 Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
2024 Wrapture, PDC Design Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
PROJECTS
1982 Video sets for The Bangles and The Three O’Clock on MTV’s The Cutting Edge
1984 Art Direction and sets for Lin Hixon’s Hey John, Did You Take the El Camino Far?, Art of the Spectacle, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
1985 Book cover, Monday, Monday, writings by David Trinidad (Cold Calm Press)
1986 TV Room, video screening room, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (destroyed 1994)
Voices the character Eddie, a boy involved in a brief Oedipal story, in the Jim Shaw animated segment “The Andersons,” part of the larger video work My Mirage
1987 Catalog cover, LA Hot & Cool: The Eighties, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1988 TV Lounge, permanent installation at the American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
1990 Calendar commissioned by Fuji Oil, Osaka, Japan
Magazine cover, Shiny, the Magazine of the Future, New York
1991 Calendar commissioned by Fuji Oil, Osaka, Japan
Silkscreen print edition published by Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, TX
Book cover, Hand over Heart, writings by David Trinidad (Amethyst Press)
1992 Calendar commissioned by Fuji Oil, Osaka, Japan
1993 Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, permanent installation, Fifth Street Station, Metro Blue Line, Long Beach, CA, commissioned 1993, completed 1995
1995 Artist project in L’Endroit Ideal (Ideal Place), ed. Eric Troncy, published by L’Ile du Roy, Centre d’art et Jardin, Val de Reuil, France
1996 Throw, custom woven design for Art Matters
Art & Design no. 51, Art & The Home, ed. David Greene, November– December 1996
1999 “Jim Isermann’s Top Ten,” Artforum, April
2000 Contravision, shopfront vinyl window treatment, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2002 Wallwork, permanent installation, l.a. Eyeworks, Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Suite of three silkscreen prints, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Elevator floor indicators, permanent installation in eight cans, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, Flom, New York
Designs a mouse pad for the Hammer Museum as a membership perk
2003 Five Pendant Chandelier and Carpet, the University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay Campus
Vacuum form multiple, four panels, edition of fifty white and fifty silver, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Art + Architecture, portfolio and postcard, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
2004 I – Tile, custom shaped tile commissioned for ten exterior balconies and the residential lobby of a mixed use building in North Hollywood, CA. Tile manufactured by Heath Ceramics
Upholstery textile, commissioned by Rosenthal Einrichtung, Germany, for the “Flying Carpet” Chair
It House, custom vinyl graphic applique for TK Architecture’s off-the-shelf featherweight aluminum and glass house, Los Angeles
2005 Vinyl link entrance mats, permanent installation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Cyber café ceiling project, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, commissioned 2005, completed 2006
Tilfords, a monumental architectural screen LA Metro Customer Service Center at Wilshire and La Brea, Los Angeles, commissioned 2005, completed 2006, building demolished 2015
Modular metal and light wall sculpture, Genomics Building, University of California, Riverside, commissioned 2005, completed 2009
2006 Untitled (Greek Key), 200-foot-long chain link and 40,000 Put-In-Cup construction fence, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Untitled, vacuum form wall, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2007 Untitled (Love Letter to Louis Kahn), temporary installation, construction fence consisting of 15,000 Put-In-Cups and nine 8 × 10 chain link sections, Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
"Damn Everything but Sister Corita," email conversation between Pae White and Jim Isermann, afterall.org
Untitled (Piccadilly Line Tube Wrap), vinyl wrap of an underground train, April– October, London, UK
2008 Untitled (SEAS/ORFE), thirty-foot-long, chrome plated aluminum and illuminated acrylic sculpture for the Fisher and Partners designed Sherrerd Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, commissioned 2007, completed August 2008
2009 Crump, vacuum-formed wall commission. Stanford University, Standford, CA, commissioned 2008, installed March 2009
2010 Untitled, vacuum-formed wall, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX, commissioned 2009, installed 2010
Untitled (Screen/Sculpture), roto-molded polyethylene and bronze anodized aluminum wall for a McKim, Mead & White residence, New York, commissioned 2009, installed March 2010
Untitled, vinyl wall work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2011 Paperworks, temporary installation of custom poster/multiple/wallpaper, St. Austell, UK
2012 Petit Five, forty roto-molded polyethylene seating modules for the courtyard of Hagerty Hall at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, commissioned 2011, installed 2012
Untitled, limited edition digital print for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s 150th Anniversary, Buffalo, NY
I-block, two open edition projects: I-block, a color integrated concrete block system and Utility (Happy) Blanket, a custom screen printed moving/pet blanket, The Workshop Residence, San Francisco, CA.
2013 Eyewear cleaning cloth, l.a. Eyeworks, Los Angeles
Paint Job, painted facade, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
2014 Untitled (Cougar Pride), nineteen 8 × 8-foot mosaic/seeded concrete panels forming a wall and plaza, University of Houston TDECU Stadium, Houston, TX
2015 Cloverleaf, custom napkins, tablecloths, and rental chair covers for the annual CalArts REDCAT Gala, Los Angeles
Vinyl Rug, temporary installation of sixty-four 4 × 4-foot vinyl decal area rug defining the new foyer of the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2016 Jim Isermann @ Placewares, open edition of molded, birch plywood trays, stools and
coasters in five sizes and four patterns, tote, bag, and coffee mug collaboration with Placewares
2017 Dawn & Dusk, limited edition yoga mat design in two colorways for Infinity Strap, Huntington Beach, CA
Space Invader, exterior pavers and interior vinyl wall covering, Southmead Pathology, Bristol, UKUK
2019 Guest DJ and Playlist for Sad Tuesdays, KCHUNG Radio, Los Angeles, June 12, 2019
Untitled (David’s Ceiling), permanent installation of 196 2 × 2-foot vacuum formed translucent panels and an off-the-shelf drop ceiling grid, Pat’s International, Guerneville, CA
Pool (beach) Towel, limited edition 35 × 70-inch terrycloth towel in two colorways, self- produced to coincide with Jim Isermann. Copy. Pattern. Repeat, Palm Springs Art Museum, Architecture and Design Center, Palm Springs, CA
2020 Two concrete tile designs: Polygonal, a hexagon shaped tile in three colorways and endless compositional possibilities, and Hedge, a square tile in four colorways and multiple prescribed compositions, Tesselle, Riverside, CA
Cover, Palm Springs Life magazine, The Modernism Issue
Redwood + River, two reopening graphic designs for vinyl banners, window decals, and face masks commissioned by the Russian River and Monte Rio Chambers of Commerce, funded through Creative Sonoma, Sonoma County, CA
2021 Swim trunk design for NormalNot.com
2022 Umbrella, bath towel and pin designs, plus 2 open edition prints for Open-Editions, San Francisco
2024 Book cover, Sleeping with Bashō, haiku by David Trinidad (BlazeVOX Press)
Palm Springs Pride Monument, commissioned 2024 for a 2025 completion.
GROUP
1981 Southern California Artists, curated by Barbara Haskell, LAICA, Los Angeles
Some Painters, Security Pacific Plaza (now Bank of America Plaza), Los Angeles
Fictive Victims, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, curated by Robert Longo
The Fix-It-Up Show, LACE, Los Angeles. Work altered by Jeffery Vallence and Michael Uhlenkott
1983 Group Show, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant, curated by Robert Pincus, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles
Spy-Tiki Modern, installation with Jeffery Vallance and Mark Kroening,
Fun Gallery West, San Francisco, CA
1984 LA Apocalypse, Whiteley Gallery, Los Angeles
Furniture, Furnishings: Subject and Object, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Contextual Furnishings: Isermann, McMakin, Vaughn, Mandeville Art Center, University of California, San Diego, CA
Spies and Boyfriends, Vickman’s Restaurant, Los Angeles
1985 Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
Fashion, LAICA, Los Angeles
Future Furniture, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1986 Meanwhile Back at the Ranch . . ., Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
California Chairs, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
TV Generations, curated by John Baldessari and Bruce Yonemoto, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Greenberg's Dilemma, Loughelton Gallery, New York
1987 Nature, Feature, Chicago, IL
Avant-Garde in the Eighties (with Ilene Segalove), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
A Different Corner, curated by Christian Leigh, US Pavilion, I Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Museo de Arte Moderna, Cuenca, Ecuador
CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s), curated by Suzanne Ghez, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA
(of Ever-Ever Land i speak, curated by Christian Leigh, Stux Gallery, New York
L.A. Hot & Cool: The Eighties, curated by Dana Friis-Hansen, List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1988 LACA Boys, Feature, Chicago, IL
Walk out to Winter, curated by Christian Leigh, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
Home Show, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
After Abstract, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Abstract Painting: Three Sensibilities, curated by Kimberley Burleigh, Siegfried Gallery, Ohio University School of Art, Athens, OH
1989 Temporary Installations 89, Manhattan Beach Public Arts Program, Children's Section, Public Library, Manhattan Beach, CA
Recent Work from Los Angeles, curated by Elizabeth Shepard, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1990 Representation-non-Representation, curated by Stephen Berens, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Material Conceits, curated by Mark Leach, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Geometric Abstraction, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles
1991 Office Party, Feature Inc., New York
The Legacy of Hank Herron, Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, TX
Presenting Rearwards, curated by Ralph Rugoff, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 Studio to Station: Public Art on the Metro Blue Line, FHP Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Primi Pensieri, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Rosamund Felsen Clinic and Recovery Center, curated by Ralph Rugoff, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 Project Unité, curated by Yves Aupetitaillot and Robert Fleck, Unité d'habitation, Firminy, France
Technocolor: The Future That Never Was, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Guys Who Sew, curated by Elizabeth Brown & Fran Segal, Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Surface de Réparation, curated by Eric Troncy, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
LAX 94, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Forging Ahead, curated by Al Harris, State University of Buffalo, Fine Arts Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Three Person Exhibition (with Tom Friedman and Jennifer Pastor), Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Difficult Conceptualists, curated by Paul Tzanetopoulos, The Brewery, Los Angeles
Sour Ball, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles
1995 Crystal Blue Persuasion, Feature, New York
Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York
The Moderns, curated by Tony Payne, Feature, New York
Conceptual Textiles, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Flowers, curated by Irit Krieger, Boritzer/Gray/Hamano, Santa Monica, CA
I Gaze a Gazely Stare, Feature, New York
Felicity, curated by Phyllis Green, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
Gay Men Love Chairs, curated by Cary S. Leibowitz, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Very, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Division of Labor: Women's Work in Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1996 Mod Squad, curated by Michael Darling, Spanish Box, Santa Barbara
Ab Fab, Feature Inc., New York
Some Grids, curated by Lynn Zelevansky and Carol Eliel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
How will we behave?, Robert Prime, London, UK
Just Past, Selections from the Permanent Collection 1976–1996, curated by Ann Goldstein, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Patterns of Excess, Beaver College Gallery, Glenside, PA
1997 Lovecraft, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. 1960–1997, curated by Lars Nittve and Helle Crenzien, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Women Work: Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Fake Ecstasy with Me, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Thread, Cristinerose Gallery, New York
Dramatically Different, Le Magasin - Centre d'art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
Maxwell's Demon, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 LA Times, curated by Francesco Bonami, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy
Pop Abstraction, curated by Sid Sachs, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Homemade Champagne, curated by David Pagel, Peggy Phelps Gallery and East Gallery, The Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Weather Everything, Galerie für Zeitgenönissische Kunst Leipzig, Germany
Roommates, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Michelle Grabner & Jim Isermann, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Lovecraft, South London Gallery, London, UK
1999 Etcetera, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
Post-Hypnotic, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
In the Midst of Things, curated by Nigel Prince and Gavin Wade, Bournville, Birmingham, UK
This Season, curated by Gemma de Cruz, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Objecthood 00, Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece
2000 Ultralounge: The Return of Social Space (with cocktails), curated by Dave Hickey, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Haute de Forme et Bas Fonds, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme, France
From Rags to Riches, Fondation de la Tapisserie, Brussels, Belgium
Work on Paper from California, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA
What If ?, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Made in California: Now, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Artworkers, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
Pure De(sign), Otis Gallery, Otis College of Fine Art & Design, Los Angeles
2001 Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, The Fourth International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Magic Hour, curated by Alex Farquharson, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Tele(visions), curated by Joshua Decter, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2002 Crisp, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
The Galleries Show, curated by Norman Rosenthal and Max Wigram, Royal Academy of Fine Art, London, UK
Trespassing: Houses by Artists, curated by Cara Mullio, The Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA and MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Contemporary Art Museum, Blaffer Art Gallery, Houston, TX; Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA, 2003–2005.
Now Is the Time, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Five Years, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Deluxe, Plaza de España Contemporary Art Centre, Madrid, Spain
Flatlines, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 Jim Isermann / Monique Prieto, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Variance, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
The LAPD Project: The Legacy of Pattern and Decoration, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
Contemporaries: Five Years of Grant Making in the Visual Arts/California Community
Foundation, RedCat Gallery, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Of the Moment: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
On the Wall: Wallpaper by Contemporary Artists, RISD Museum, Providence, RI; The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Formes + Signes: Jim Isermann, Daniel Pflumm, Philippe Decrauzat, John Armleder, Praz- Delavallade, Paris, France.
Suburban House Kit: Adam Kalkin with Jim Isermann, Martin Kersels, Aernout Mik, Tobias Rehberger, Haim Steinbach, Deitch Projects, New York
2005 In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Bidibidobidiboo: La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Milan, Italy
LA, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York
Icestorm, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
op…ish, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2006 Unit Structures, organized by Pablo Lafuente, Lisboa 20, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 Painting < = > Design, organized by David Pagel, Peggy Phelps and East Galleries, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
PLASTIC / A Proposal of John Tremblay, Works in Vacuum Formed Plastic from the
1960s to Today, Cabinet des estampes, du Museé d'art et d'historie, Geneva, Switzerland
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, curated by Alex Farquharson, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK, and CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Sculptors' Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
POST DEC: Beyond Pattern and Decoration. Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Los Vinilos, curated by Henry Coleman, El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Stephanie Dafflon/Jim Isermann/Oiliver Mosset, Le Spot, Le Havre, France
2008 Intervention/Decoration, commissioned by Foreground, multiple sites, Frome, Somerset, UK
A Colour Box, Arcade, London, UK
Downtown Le Havre, curated by le Spot, exhibition in/on the Oscar Neimeyer designed Le Volcan's Cabaret Electrik, La Havre, France
Living Box, curated by Laurence Gateau, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
index: conceptualism in california from the permanent collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Angels in America, curated by Terry R. Meyers, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
these are the people in your neighborhood, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
20 Years Ago Today: Supporting Visual Artists in LA, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
Art on the Underground: 100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art, A Foundation Gallery, Rochelle School Arnold Circus, London, UK
Los Vinilos, curated by Henry Coleman, Zoo Art Fair, London, UK
2009 yield, curated by Dana Turkovic, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, organized by Christian Rattemeyer with Cornelia H. Butler, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2010 Haute, curated by Roman Stollenwerk, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2011 Moment—Ynglingagatan 1, curated by Thomas Ekström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Post Pacific Standard Time: Three Artists from Los Angeles in the 1980s, University of C alifornia, Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
Nouvelles boîtes!, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012, organized by Douglas Dreishpoon, Louis Grachos, and Heather Pesanti, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Your History Is Our History, curated by Rene-Julien Praz, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
buzz, curated by Vik Muniz, Galeria Nara Roesler, Roesler Hotel #21, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013 Made in Space, curated by Peter Harkawik and Laura Owens, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; summer version at Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan, New York
DECORUM: Carpets and Tapestries by Artists, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2014 Jim Isermann and B. Wurtz, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
California Dreamin': Thirty Years of Collecting. Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Philippe Decrauzat, Julian Hoeber, Jim Isermann, Johannes Wohnseifer, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2015 Jim Isermann & James and Tilla Waters, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Cut from the Same Cloth, curated by John Weston, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
NOWHAUS: Domestic Objects in the Modernist Tradition, Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
Recent Acquisitions & Favorites, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Seeing The Light: Illuminating Objects, Palm Springs Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, Palm Springs, CA
Super Superstudio: Radical Art and Architecture, curated by Andreas Angelidakis, Vittorio Pizzigoni, and Valter Scelsi., Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Geometric Obsession: American School 1965-2015, curated by Robert Morgan, Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Folklore Planétaire, curated by Arnauld Pierre, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
Instilled Life: The Art of the Domestic Object from the Permanent Collection of the UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
2017 I Love LA, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
Color Block, Triple V, Paris, France
Dress Me Up, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2018 Softcore, curated by Matt Paweski, South Willard, Los Angeles
Welcome to the Dollhouse, curated by Rebecca Matalon, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
West By Midwest, organized by Charlotte Ickes with Michael Darling, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2020 Soft Vibrations, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
La terre est bleue comme une orange, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2022 Conversation Pit, curated by Marina Pinsky, Winona, Brussels, Belgium
MIRROR I ЯOЯЯIM: American Self-Portraits in the Expanded Field, curated by Jonathan F. Waltz, The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia
Perris, co-curated with The Fulcrum Press, Tyler Park Presents, Los Angeles
2023 Barrage I Bliss: Jessica Stockholder, Jim Isermann, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
Shiny Happy People: Jim Isermann & Lily van der Stokker, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2024 Geometrie a Mano, Circolo, Milan, Italy
To Move Toward the Limits of Living: LGBTQ+ Works from the Collection, curated by
Robert J. Kett, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
AWARDS
1984 Visual Artist’s Fellowship in sculpture from the National Endowment for the Arts
1986 Fellowship award Art Matters, Inc., New York
1987 Visual Artist’s Fellowship in painting from the National Endowment for the Arts
1999 California Community Foundation J. Paul Getty Fellowship for the Visual Arts
2001 Guggenheim Fellowship
COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme, France
Le FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Poitier, France
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA
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