'Golden Years', 2010/2014
Limoges Porcelain Collector's Dessert Plate
One of the most intriguing artists to emerge in the 1990's, Jack Pierson has received critical acclaim for his work in a variety of media. His art is concerned with the grand themes of life-love, pain, desire, memory and mortality. Often grouped with fellow 'Boston School' artists, Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe and Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Pierson works in a variety of mediums such as sculpture, language, photography, painting and installation. Pierson's primary medium is photography. He is especially interested in the photograph as a means to stimulate the imagination and fantasies of the viewer. His subject is America as paradise - a perfection that can be sought but never captured. Pierson records fragments of America's landscape - both urban and rural - exploring the seduction of lush, sexually charged locales such as Miami Beach, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas.
Pierson's work is found in major public collections, including Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
As of May 2022 Lisson Gallery represents Pierson across London, New York and China, alongside his roster of galleries – Regen Projects, Thaddaeus Ropac and Xavier Hufkens.
SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
'Jack Pierson: The Miami Years', The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL (9/24/25 - 8/16/2026)
2024
'Jack Pierson: /08/', Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain
'Jack Pierson', Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2023
'Nan Goldin and Jack Pierson', Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
Jack Pierson: Pomegranates', Lisson Gallery, New York, NY
2022
'Jack Pierson: Miss Otis Regrets', Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
'Jack Pierson: Remnants', Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
'High Desert Test Sites (HDTS) 2022: The Searchers' (site-specific group exhibition), Wonder Valley, CA
2021
'Jack Pierson', Museo Ettore Fico, Torino, Italy
'Jack Pierson: New Photography', Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany
'Jack Pierson: Less and more', Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
'Any distance between us' (group exhibition), RISD Museum, Providence, RI
'Jack Pierson: Old Glory', The National Exemplar Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2020
'Dog Days: Katherine Bradford, Ryan McGinley, Jack Pierson', LAUNCH F18, New York, NY
2019
'Jack Pierson: Five New Pieces', Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York, NY
'Pathos' (group exhibition), Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamos, Italy
'Jack Pierson: Some Old Homo', Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
'Pride: group exhibition celebrating #stonewall50' (group exhibition), Postmasters, New York, NY
'THINK IN PICTURES' (group exhibition), AMELCHENKO, New York, NY
'Queer as I' (group exhibition), HERE, New York, NY
'Jack Pierson and Kunle Martins: Pee Party', Jeffrey Stark Gallery, New York, NY
2018
'Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844–2018' (group exhibition), Luma Arles, Arles, France
'The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004)' (group exhibition), Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2017
'Jack Pierson: Angel Youth', Maccarone, New York, NY
'Jack Pierson', Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
'Jack Pierson - Marina Karella', Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece
'Jack Pierson: Walking Around', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, Paris, France
'Jack Pierson: 5 Shows from the ’90s', Aspen Art Museum (AAM), Aspen, CO
2016
'Jack Pierson: Journal', Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
'Bottega Veneta's "Art of Collaboration"' (group exhibition), Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
'Human Interest: Portraits from The Whitney's Collection' (group exhibition), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
'Ordinary Pictures' (group exhibition), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
'Still Life with Fish: Photography from the Collection' (group exhibition), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015
'Jack Pierson: onthisisland', CHEIM & READ, New York, NY
2012
'Jack Pierson', GALERIE XAVIER HUFKENS, Brussels, Belgium
2011
'Jack Pierson: Twilight', ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY, Portland, OR
'Jack Pierson and Elliott Puckette: Collage', DANZIGER PROJECTS, New York, NY
2010
'Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography' (group exhibition), WALLRAF-RICHARTZ-MUSEUM & FOUNDATION CORBOUD, Köln, Germany
'Sweat' (group exhibition), PATRICIA LOW CONTEMPORARY, Gstaad, Switzerland
'Jack Pierson', GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC, Paris, France
'Jack Pierson: Go there now and take this with you', BORTOLAMI GALLERY, New York, NY
'Jack Pierson', KUKJE GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
'Jack Pierson', REGEN PROJECTS, Los Angeles, CA
'DENIM' (group exhibition), 80 WASHINGTON SQUARE EAST GALLERY, New York, NY
2009
'Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex' (group exhibition), BASS MUSEUM OF ART, Miami Beach, FL
'Jack Pierson: Abstracts', CHEIM & READ, New York, NY
'STARS!' (group exhibition), SALON 94 FREEMANS, New York, NY
'NUDES!' (group exhibition), PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York, NY
'Rencontres d'Arles 2009' (group exhibition), RIP (Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie), Arles, France
'Jack Pierson', CAC (Centro de Arte Contemporáneo) DE MÁLAGA, Málaga, Spain
'White Noise' (group exhibiton), JAMES COHAN GALLERY, New York, NY
'Jack Pierson: New Works', GALLERIA CHRISTIAN STEIN, Milan, Italy
'Location' (group exhibition), DANZIGER PROJECTS, New York, NY
'Kids Behaving Badly' (group exhibition), CLAMPART, New York, NY
2008
'Ego Documents' (group exhibition), KUNSTMUSEUM BERN, Bern, Switzerland
'Jack Pierson', GALERIE XAVIER HUFKENS, Brussels, Belgium
'Jack Pierson', IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Dublin, Ireland
'The Sum of Its Parts' (group exhibition), CHEIM & READ, New York, NY
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