Alison Jardine
www.alisonjardine.com // +214 417 2209 // alison@alisonjardine.com
Bay Area, CA, US
EDUCATION
2017 Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art (Painting & Drawing), University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2015 Graduate Studies, Art & Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
1994 BA (Hons), Politics, Philosophy and History, University of London, Birkbeck College, London, UK
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Ohlone College, College of Art & Social Sciences, Fremont CA
2024-present Digital Painting & Drawing, Drawing 1 & 2, Painting 1 & 2, Watercolor painting
Foothills College, Los Altos Hills, CA
2024-5 Design 1, Digital Painting 1 & 2
University of Cincinnati, Dept. of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, Cincinnati, Ohio
2023 The Nature of Art: Environmental Space and Constructed Place in Contemporary Art Practices. Interdisciplinary Studio Arts (Foundations) (UC)
2022 Drawing I (Foundations) (UC)
2022 4D Foundations (video, photography and durational art foundations)
2022 3D (sculpture foundation)
2021 3D Sculpture Foundation
2021 Digital Painting (advanced)
2020 4D Studio (Video and duration art foundations)
2020 2D Studio (2D design foundations)
University of North Texas, College of Visual Art & Design
2018 Professional Practices, University of North Texas, College of Art & Design
2018 Painting II, University of North Texas, College of Art & Design
2018 Watercolor Painting, University of North Texas, College of Art & Design
2017 Drawing I, Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas, College of Art & Design
2017 Figure Drawing, Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas, College of Art & Design
2015-7 Drawing I, Drawing II, Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of North Texas, College of Art & Design
PUBLISHED BOOKS
2020 Make Great Art on Your iPad by Alison Jardine. Second Edition, revised. Octopus Press (London, UK);
Ilex Publisher (NY, USA); worldwide publication. Publ. March 2020.
2018 Dessiner Facilement sur Ipad avec Procreate by Alison Jardine.Dessain & Tolra/LaRusse (France)
2017 Make Great Art on Your iPad by Alison Jardine. Octopus Press (London, UK); Ilex Publisher (NY, USA);
2014 Cover design, Sensation and Perception, Yantis, S., (Worth) ISBN: 978-0-7167-5754-20
2013 Cover design, Hunted, JD Novice (ISBN: 1493733168)
AWARDS, PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2019 Prize Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center for a month’s residency.
2017 The Thomas Norby Memorial Scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2016 Finalist for the Hunting Prize, Painting & Drawing, Houston, TX
2016 New American Paintings?No. 126, West edition, USA
2016 The Joann Elliot Bond Memorial Scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2015 Best in Show award, 500 XPO, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 The Henderson Art Prize for public art, Dallas, TX
RESIDENCIES
2023 Hambidge Fellowship (July, 2023)
2020 Arte Ventura, Seville, Spain (awarded, but postponed through covid)
2019 Vermont Studio Center, US. (Full Prize Fellowship Award)
2013 Resident Fellowship, Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas, TX
SOLO SHOWS
2024-5 Paintings for a Distributed Consciousness, Basketshop Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2019 Still Life from the Amazon, Basketshop Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2019 Inside, Out, Divisible Gallery, Front Street, Dayton, OH
2017 Objects from a Future Past, Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016 Landscapes from the Anthropocene, Northlake College, Irving, TX
2015 Some Found Form, ModArt Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 Solar Explorations, LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012 PixelNation, Ro2, Dallas TX
2011 PixelNation, ArtCentre of Plano, Plano TX
2011 Intermittent Light, Laura Moore Gallery, McKinney TX
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS & COLLABORATIONS
2024 The Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Center “Ukrainian House”
Accompanying an exhibition“Szilvashi Circles”, part of the KNO group showSeptember 13 to October 27,
2024
2021 6th Biennial of Reduction and Non-Objective Art (satellite show), Alison Jardine, Paige Williams, Heather Braulin-Jones, FrontStreet Gallery, Dayton Ohio
2020 With Devotion, The Contemporary, Dayton, OH. Gianna Commito, Alison Jardine, Heather Jones, Paige
Williams & Jennifer Omaitz.
2019 KNO – Kiev Non-Objective Project (Divisible, Front Street Gallery). M17 Contemporary, Kiev, Ukraine.
Part of the Big Circle Initiative. Jeffrey Cortland Jones, Heather Jones, Douglas Witmer, Matthew Langley,
Jessica Snow & Alison Jardine.
2019 Open Source, Summer Show, The Carnegie, Covington, KY.
2018 “Reductive Non-Objective – Cincinnati: New Work for A New System” – Co-Curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones (USA) & Billy Gruner (AU), Produced in association with West Projects, Australia; WEST PI & Assoc International;
Divisible, Dayton Ohio; and the Biennale of Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Grenoble France.
2018 OSO Bay Painting Biennial XX, A&M University, TX
2017 Summer Show, Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas TX
2016 ONE, curator Nathan Madrid, The Art Room, Fort Worth, TX, USA
2016 Lightweight, curator Lisa Alembic,Hambidge Center, GA, USA
2016 500XPO, juror Erin Cluley, 500X, Dallas, TX, USA
2016 Summer Show, Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
2015 Ipseity, Liz Trosper & Alison Jardine. Curator Christopher Blay, Tarrant County College, Arlington, TX
2015 Exhibit, Alison Jardine, Luke Harnden and Liz Trosper, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2014 Urban Ecologies, Liz Trosper & Alison Jardine, CentralTrack Residency, Dallas, TX
2015 The Consortium, 500 Singleton, Dallas, TX
2014 Group Exhibit, Zener-Schon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 500XPO, juror Aaron Parazette, 500X, Dallas, TX
2012 125 Show, juror: Ryder Richards & Laura Green, The ARTs Gallery, Plano, TX
2012 Juxtaposition, curator Alysss Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT
2012 Paperwork, Ugallery, San Francisco, USA
2011 Third Coast National, juror Trenton Doyle Hancock, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
2010 Affordable Art Fair, presented by Ugallery, Manhattan, New York, NY
2010 Summer Show, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
PUBLIC ARTWORKS
2015 Aurora Festival of Light; “Nothing Stays Put”, Zhulong Gallery, Dallas TX
The Inside Out Collective (Alison Jardine, Liz Trosper & Lauren Cadieaux)
2012 The LiveLIVE project, UK’s Cultural Olympiad, London, UK
2013 Aurora Festival of Light, “Silent Spring” video projection, Dallas, TX
SELECTED TALKS & WRITINGS
2017 Patron Magazine, “Best of the Arts”, summer edition, 2017
2017 Is Painting Dead? (Episode 6) Interview/discussion as part of a podcast by CreateHub, London, UK
2017 Thomas Motley, “Objects from a Future Past”, Eutopia (eutopia.us)
2017 Georgia Erger “Urban Flora: An Interview with Alison Jardine“, Peripheral Vision Arts, Issue 4
2017 Sidonie Sawyer, Alison Jardine, Dallas Observer, January
2015 State of the Arts: Arts & Technology, by KERA at the Dallas Museum of Art (Panelist), Dallas TX
2015 Lauren Smart, “Inside Out Collective Wiggled Their Way into Our Heads”, Dallas Observer (October 14
2015 Drawing with Thread: Gabriel Dawe by Alison Jardine, published on KERA’s Art & Seek website, Dallas TX
2011 CBS National News, TV feature, nationwide