Vue d’exposition / Installation views Jacob Kassay : Khiropractik, 2024, Art : Concept, Paris. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain DarnaudVue d’exposition / Installation views Jacob Kassay : Khiropractik, 2024, Art : Concept, Paris. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain DarnaudVue d’exposition / Installation views Jacob Kassay : Khiropractik, 2024, Art : Concept, Paris. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain DarnaudVue d’exposition / Installation views Jacob Kassay : Khiropractik, 2024, Art : Concept, Paris. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud Untitled, 2024 Verre / Glass 59,4 × 39,7 × 7,2 cm (23 ⅜ × 15 ⅝ × 2 ⅞ inches)Untitled, 2024 Verre / Glass 66,3 × 30,9 × 9 cmJacob Kassay, Vue d’exposition / Installation view Nobody’s Home, 2022, 1413 5th Avenue New York/USJacob Kassay, Vue d’exposition / Installation view Nobody’s Home, 2022, 1413 5th Avenue New York/USStar Wipe, 2020 Impression UV sur OSB sur aluminium 76,04 × 48,34 cm (29 ⅞ × 19 inches)Lap Dissolve, 2020 Impression UV sur OSB sur aluminium 75,72 × 56,36 cm (29 ¾ × 22 ¼ inches). Collection privée, FranceAxial Cut, 2020, detail. Impression UV sur OSB sur aluminium, 151,29 x 78,26 cm Axial Cut, 2020. Impression UV sur OSB sur aluminium, 151,29 x 78,26 cmJacob Kassay, Installation view: Footage, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, 2019 Photo: Biff HenrichJacob Kassay, Installation view: Footage, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, 2019 Photo: Biff HenrichVue d’exposition, X, von ammon co, Washington, 2019Vue d’exposition, Rehang, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, 2019. Photo courtesy Collezione Maramotti. Credits: Dario LasagniVue d’exposition, Love Story, Sammlung Anne & Wolfgang Titze, Belvedere, Vienna/AT, 2014Vue d’exposition, EXPO 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York/US, 2013Untitled, 2016 acrylique immiscible, sérigraphie sur toile 45,72 × 30,48 cmSans titre, 2016. acrylique immiscible, sérigraphie sur toile, 30,5 × 20,3 cmUntitled, 2016 acrylique immiscible, pastel à l’huile sur toile 22,86 × 15,24 cm (9 × 6 inches)Untitled, 2016 acrylique immiscible, pastel à l’huile sur lin 26,7 × 17,7 cm (10 ½ × 7 inches) JK/P 6809Vue d’exposition, Jacob Kassay, Fitzpatrick-Leland House, Los Angeles/US, 2015Vue d’exposition, Jacob Kassay, Fitzpatrick-Leland House, Los Angeles/US, 2015Sans titre, 2015. Peuplier, 30,3 x 39,5 cmSans titre, 2015. Peuplier, 57,1 x 69,7 cmSans titre, 2015. Peuplier, 197,4 x 99,9 cm.Sans titre, 2015, peuplier, 146 x 20,3 cmEnd User, 2014. Acrylique sur toile, 165,1 x 96,52 cmVue d’exposition, Mechanisms, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, 2018Vue d’exposition, Untitled (disambiguation)!, The Kitchen, New York/US, 2013Untitled (disambiguation)!, The Kitchen, New York/US, 2013Vue d’exposition / Installation view Jacob Kassay, IJK, 2013, 303 Gallery 507 W 24th Street, New York/USVue d’exposition / Installation view Jacob Kassay, IJK, 2013, 303 Gallery 507 W 24th Street, New York/USVue d’exposition Jacob Kassay, Protocinema, Istanbul/TR, 2013Vue d’exposition / Installation view Jacob Kassay, IJK, 2013, 303 Gallery 507 W 24th Street, New York/USSans titre, 2013. Verre, livre de bibliothèque dimensions variableSans titre, 2012, verre, livre de bibliothèque, dimensions variables, no. interne 12. Collection privée USSans titre, 2013, acrylique sur lin, châssis incurvé et cadre en chêne, triptyque, 127 x 558,8 x 1,91 cm. Collection privéeVue d’exposition, IJK, 303 Gallery, New York/US, 2013Vue d’exposition, No Goal, Dallas Power Station, Dallas/US, 2012Sans titre, 2011, acrylique et dépôt d’argent sur toile, polyptyque de 8, 122 x 122 cm, vue dexposition, Art Unlimited / Art Basel 42, 2011. Collection privéeSans titre, 2011, acrylique et dépôt d’argent sur toile, polyptyque de 8, 122 x 122 cm, vue dexposition, Art Unlimited / Art Basel 42, 2011. Collection privéeSans titre, 2012. acrylique et dépôt d’argent sur toile, 213,36 x 152,4 cm chaqueSans titre, 2011. 16mm film installation, 27 min, projecteur, looper, mixeur 5-chaines, 2 enceintes, microphone de contactVue d’exposition, exposition personnelle, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres/UK, 2011Vue d’exposition, exposition personnelle, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres/UK, 2011Untitled, 2011, acrylique sur lin, dépôt d’argent sur toile, diptyque, 25,4 x 35,56 cm. Collection privée FRVue d’exposition, exposition personnelle, Art: Concept, Paris/FR, 2012Vue d’exposition, exposition personnelle, Art: Concept, Paris/FR, 2010
Biography
Born in 1984 in Lewiston, NY, Jacob Kassay lives and works in New York.
The artist challenges the traditional parameters of artmaking in conceptually driven installations that respond to and occupy their environment in unexpected ways. The arrangement of an exhibition and how his pieces interact with the surrounding architecture – and ultimately their audience – is key to understanding the essence of his work. Kassay’s paintings interrelate and form multiple dialogues: with each other, with the space around them and with the viewer.
The language of materials is important to Kassay, who pays great attention to form, surface and physicality. Although lacking marks that could be conceived as gestural, a close inspection of his seemingly blank or monotone paintings reveals traces of their making – small incidental marks, or burnt edges, for example. Jacob Kassay’s practice also encompasses film and sculpture.
Critic Alex Bacon has written that his work “actively poses the question—what does it mean to be represented?…This kind of aesthetic activity is suspended somewhere between the “real” world that is reflected, and the particular aesthetic world a painting inhabits as an…autonomous thing.”
His work is present, among others, in the following collections: Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA; Museo Di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rovereto, Italy.
Recent solo exhibitions: Project Room: Gallery Greta Meert, Brussels/BE (2023); Nobody’s home, 1413 5th Ave, New York/US (2022); Nude descending Staircase and Jacob Kassay, 303 Gallery, New York/US (2021); FOOTAGE, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo/US (2019); X, von ammon co, Washington/US (2019); Jacob Kassay, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul/KR (2018); Alarmer 2, team gallery, inc., Los Angeles/US (2017); Curated library, Reserve Ames, Los Angeles/US (2017); OTNY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo/US (2017); Fitzpatrick-Leland House, Los Angeles/US (2015); HIJK, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels/BE (2015). Group exhibitions: Expo 1, MOMA/PS1, New York (2013) ; The Surface of the East Coast from Nice to New York, Le 109 – Les Abattoirs, Nice (2017) et Other Mechanisms à Secession, Austria, Vienne (2018).
Jacob Kassay: Standards, Surnames, Mousse Publishing, 2015, 180 pagesJacob Kassay, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2011Diacono Mario, Jacob Kassay, ed. Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, 2010
