Born 1952, Chicago 
Lives in Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION

1976

BA, Visual Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Karma, New York, Wonder Wheel

2024

Karma, Los Angeles, Are We There Yet?

2023

Karma, New York, Promised Land

Alison Jacques, London, Fist of Fury

2022

James Fuentes Gallery, New York, 99¢ Dreams

2021

Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, Lucky Food

2020

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project, New York, Hot, Hot, Hot

Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, Lucky Food

2019

James Fuentes Gallery, New York, Slot Club

James Fuentes Gallery, New York, All That is Solid Melts Into Air

2018

Steve Harvey Fine Arts, New York, Witness

2017

Boo Hooray Summer Rental, Montauk, New York, Black Plastic Buildings and Dicks

2015

Wallworks, New York, The Return of City Maze

Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, Seen

2012

University Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, Whose World Is This?

Valentine Gallery, New York, Eat Slots, Play Free

Art Omi, Ghent, New York, Out of Here

2007

Galleria Petrus, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sin Titul

Jersey City Museum, Almost There

2005

Marlborough Gallery New York, Every One’s A Winner

2003

Marlborough Gallery, New York, New Work

2001

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Out of Here

Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan, Road Trip

Worldhouse Gallery, New York, Someplace Else

Miller Block Gallery, Boston, Lucky Food

Scolar Fine Art, London, More Live Girls

1999

University Galleries, Sacramento State University, California, Almost Home

Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, New Work

1997

Temple Gallery, London, Saints Grow Up

1996

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Paradise Alley

New York Kunsthalle, Peep Show

1994

University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Peepland: Paintings by Jane Dickson 1983–1993

1993

Anne Jaffe Gallery, New York, Dill

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, Sandpaper

1992

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, Trust Me

1991

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Selected Prints

1990

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York

1989

The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Life Under Neon

1988

Fawbush Gallery, New York, Jane Dickson Drawings

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, Demolition Derby

1986

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, City of Night

1984

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, Amusements

1983

Delahunty Fine Art, London, New Work

1982

Fun Gallery, New York, Times Square

1980

Fashion Moda, New York, City Maze

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

Blue Velvet, Zurich, Courtesy

2025

Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, At Play

anonymous gallery, New York, the chair by the window is an old friend

Jeffrey Deitch, New York, Carnival

Karma, Thomaston, Maine, A Certain Form of Hell

Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, Erotic City

2024

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, In the Making: Contemporary Art at SBMA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Shifting Landscapes

Karma, Thomaston, Maine, A Particular Kind of Heaven

James Fuentes, New York, A Study in Form (Chapter Two), curated by Arden Wohl

Anthony Gallery, Chicago, Come One Come All

2023

Jeffrey Deitch, New York, Wild Style 40, curated by Carlo McCormick

University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, All Hearts Beneath the Sun

Museum of the City of New York, This Is New York: 100 Years of NYC in Art and Pop Culture

Centre Pompidou, Paris, Who You Staring At: Culture visuelle de la scène no wave des années 1970 et 1980

2022

UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, Somewhere Downtown

Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2021

Western Exhibitions, New York, New York in the 80s: Selections from The Barry Blinderman Collection

2020

Albertz Benda, New York, Fragmented Bodies

2019

Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, Summer of ’82

Andrew Freedman Home, New York, Evolution

Schunck Museum of Art, Herleen, Netherlands, Basquiat: The Artist and His New York Scene

2018

Seoul Museum of Art, East Village NY: Vulnerable and Extreme

Cooper Union Gallery, New York, We Dissent, Design of the Women’s Movement In New York

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project, New York, Zeitgeist: The Art Scene Of Teenage Basquiat

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington, DC, Brand New

Bard College Library, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Early Books

2017

Museum of the City of New York, Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York, curated by Lilly Tuttle

Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, New York, Up, In, Out and Away: Painting Across Landscapes

Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, The Painters and the Printer, In collaboration with Master Printer Gary Lichtenstein

2016

Fine Art Museum of Karamay, China, Inaugural Exhibition

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Recent Acquisitions Exhibition

Printed Matter, New York, The A. More Store

LaMama Galleria, New York, Introductions, curated by Roberto Juarez

Sacramento State University Gallery, California, Pump Up The Volume, with Joe Lewis

2015

National Academy, New York, The Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface

Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, City Lives, curated by Michael Klein

Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Painting 2.0, curated by Achim Hochdörfer, David Joselit, Manuela Ammer, and Tonio Kröner

Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Mistakes Were Made, curated by John Miller

Coney Island, New York, Coney Art Walls, curated by Jeffrey Deitch

Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, The Side Show, curated by Lisa Kereszi

Bronx Art Space, New York, Turn Up the Volume

Materials for the Arts, New York, MFTA Loves NYC: A Retrospective of Creative Reuse, curated by Olivia Roldan

Museum of American Illustration, New York, New York View

2014

Metro Pictures, New York, Bad Conscience

Ruth S. Harley University Center Gallery, Adelphi University, Long Island, New York On the Horizon: Contemporary Landscape

2012

The Bertha and Karl Luebsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, Times Square Show Revisited, curated by Shawna Cooper and Karli Wurzelbacher

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, The Female Gaze, curated by Robert Cozzolino

Art Institute of Chicago, Rarely Seen Contemporary Works on Paper

2011

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Art in the Streets, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Roger Gastman, and  Aaron Rose

2010

Kunsthalle Vienna, The Street as Studio, curated by Cathérine Hug and Thomas Miessgang

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Neither Model nor Muse, Women as Artists, curated by Rene Barilleaux

2009

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Looking at Music: Side 2, curated by Barbara London

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Recent Acquisitions

The Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, Art, Archives, and Activism: Martin Wong’s Downtown Crossings 

2008

Magasin–Centre national d’art contemporain, Grenoble, France, Espèces d’espace: Les années 1980 – Première partie, curated by Yves Aupetitallot

2006

Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Downtown, curated by Carlo McCormick with Lynn Gumpert and Marvin J. Taylor

2005

Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, New York, New York

Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, The Urban Landscape

Ruben Museum of Art, New York, The Flag Project

2004

New Museum, New York, East Village USA, curated by Dan Cameron

2001

Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing and Ghent, Belgium, Reconfiguration: Works on Paper

Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, New York, Driving Women, Identity, and the Automobile

2000

Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland and Ridgefield, New Jersey, Snapshot

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, and Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum, curated by Donna Harkavy

1999

The Art Gallery, New Orleans, and Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California, Beyond The Mountains: The Contemporary American Landscape

The Art Museum, University of New Hampshire, Durham,  Together/Working

Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, Urban Mythologies

1998

Jewish Museum, New York, The Ten Commandments

1997

Exit Art and The Art Centre, New York and Pasadena, California, Public Notice Exit Art/The First World

Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain, Além Da Água: Copiacabana

1996

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, Partners in Printmaking: SOLO Press

Franklin Furnace, New York, Voyeurs’ Delight

The Drawing Center, New York, Cultural Economies

1995

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Published by Joe Fawbush

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 47th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition

Concourse Gallery, 3M Center, St. Paul, Minnesota,Women in Print: Prints from 3M by Contemporary Women Printmakers (traveling exhibition)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Hopper and the American Imagination

Creative Time, New York, Material Matters Art at the Anchorage

Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, Alternatives: 20 years of Hallwalls

1992

Creative Time, New York, 42nd Street Art Project

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, Slow Art: Painting in New York

1991

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Art for Your Collection

New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey, Traffic Jam

Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, Setting the Stage: Contemporary Artists Design for the Performing Arts

1990

Artists Space, New York, Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing

1989

Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, Nocturnal Visions in Contemporary Painting

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, The 1980’s: Prints From the Joshua P. Smith Collection

Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, Urban Images

Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, 100 Drawings by Women

John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, The Road Show: The Automobile in Contemporary Art

Bass Museum of Art, Miami, The Future Now

1988

Dia Art Foundation, New York, Group Material: Cultural Participation

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Committed to Print

Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, Nocturne: Portraying the Night

1987

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, A Graphic Muse: Prints by Contemporary American Women; travelled to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmon; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, The Viewer as Voyeur

1986

Brooklyn Museum, Public and Private: American Prints Today; travelled to Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Weatherspoon Art Gallery at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Art on Paper

The Kitchen, New York, Group Material: Arts and Leisure

1985

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Life in the Big City

Laforet Museum, Harajuku, Tokyo, Correspondences: New York Art Now; traveled to Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan; Tahaki Hall Espace Media, Kobe, Japan

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 1985 Biennial Exhibition

Herron School of Art + Design, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, The Big Car Show

Creative Time, Brooklyn, Art in the Anchorage

1984

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, Drawings: After Photography; traveled to Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, Illinois; Aspen Center for Visual Arts, Colorado; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Awusau, Wisconsin; Newport Harbor Museum, California

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974–1984

Whitney Museum of American Art of Philip Morris, New York, On 42nd Street

Hallwalls and CEPA Gallery., Buffalo, New York, Motives

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, Call and Response: Art on Central America

1983

Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P. S. 1, Long Island City, New York, The New Portrait

Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, Regentrified Jungle

White Columns, New York, Dirty Pictures; traveled to Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut

The Kitchen, New York, Island of Negative Utopia

1982

ABC No Rio, New York, The Crime Show

1981

White Columns Gallery, New York, Cave Girls Show

Artists Space, New York, New Work

1980

Fashion Moda, New York, City Maze, in collaboration with Crash, NOC, Bobby G and Sandy Seymour, New York

Collaborative Projects Inc., New York, Times Square Show

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Fashion Moda Show

Mudd Club Gallery, New York, Lower Manhattan Drawings Show

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Institute of Chicago

Bronx Museum, New York

Brooklyn Museum, New York

Jewish Museum, New York

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS

2026

John F. Kennedy Airport, Terminal 6 (forthcoming)

2008

MTA Times Square Subway Station, New York, The Revelers

PUBLICATIONS

2024

Jane Dickson

Karma, New York

2022

Jane Dickson

James Fuentes Press, New York

2020

Jane Dickson: Hot! Hot! Hot!

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project, New York

2018

Jane Dickson in Times Square

Anthology Editions, New York

2005

Jane Dickson: Everyone’s a Winner

Marlborough Chelsea, New York

2004

Hey Honey Wanna Lift?

No Press, New York

1996

Jane Dickson: Paradise Alley

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1994

Peepland: Paintings by Jane Dickson

University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal

1989

Jane Dickson: Life Under Neon: Paintings and Drawings of Times Square, 1981–1988

Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia