Jane South

Born in Manchester, UK, Jane South began her artistic journey in experimental theater before moving to the United States in 1989. Her multidisciplinary practice has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Halfway Off (2023), Switch Back (2020), and Raked (2014) at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; Floor/Ceiling (2013) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut; and Box (2011) at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee.

South’s work has been featured in prominent group exhibitions such as the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; SLASH: Paper Under the Knife at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria; as well as exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland.

Her work has garnered critical attention in publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, New York Magazine, Frieze, ArtNews, and The New Yorker. She is represented by Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York.

South has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), a Brown/RISD Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2015), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2009). Her work has also been supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001, 2008) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2007). She has held residency fellowships at the Camargo Foundation in France (2010), Dora Maar House in France (2009, 2022), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy (2008), MacDowell in New Hampshire (2002, 2004), and Yaddo in New York (2001, 2002).

In 2018, South was elected to the National Academy of Design. She currently serves as Chair of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute in New York, where she co-founded Pratt>Forward with artist Mickalene Thomas.