Neil Jenney
NEIL JENNEY
North America Divided, 1992–99
Acrylic on panel with painted wood frame
39 1/4 x 152 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (99.7 x 387.4 x 9.5 cm)

Neil Jenney was born in 1945 in Torrington, CT.  His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide, including a retrospective in 1981 at the University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (1981) that travelled to the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (1981); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1981); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1982); Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, Copenhagen (1982); and Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (1982).  His work was also shown at two Whitney Biennials (1973, 1981) and in other shows including, “New Image Painting,” The Whitney Museum of American Art (1978); “Bad Painting,” the New Museum of Contemporary Art (1978); and “Neil Jenney: The Bad Years 1969-70,” Gagosian Gallery (2007).