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Jane Fine (born 1958) is an American visual artist known for paintings that blend cartoonish, pop-culture abstraction with personal and socio-political subject matter. Her work has been associated with graffiti and the work of Philip Guston, who she had a chance to meet when he was a visiting artist at Harvard. Since 2007, in addition to her individual work, she has also created and exhibited work with her husband, the painter James Esber, as the artist-duo J.Fiber.

Early life and education
Jane Fine grew up in New York City. She attended Hunter College High School and enrolled at Harvard University as a mathematics major, but then switched majors to focus on studio art. After graduating with a B.A. magna cum laude in Visual and Environmental Studies, she studied painting for two years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and went on to receive her M.A. from Tufts University. In 1989, she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture along with Chris Ware, Eve Sussman, and Leonardo Drew, among other artists. At Skowhegan, she worked with fellow painters Terry Winters and John Walker.

Career
In 1985, Fine became one of the founding members of 124 Ridge Street Gallery in the Lower East Side, and was active in the gallery until 1988. In 1986, Fine moved to Williamsburg and became an active participant in the neighborhood's growing artist community. Early influential friendships with artists in the neighborhood included Amy Sillman, Fred Tomaselli, and Katherine Bradford, as well as Bruce Pearson and Joe Amrhein.

In the mid-1990s, Fine was represented by Casey Kaplan. Her 1995 solo show at Casey Kaplan was the gallery's inaugural exhibition. Fine showed her work in some of the first commercial exhibition spaces in Williamsburg, including Annie Herron’s Test-Site and Pierogi (originally named Pierogi 2000). She was represented by Pierogi for over 20 years, where she had seven solo exhibitions. Other one-person exhibitions by Fine have been held at locations including the Barbara Davis Gallery, White Columns, and the Bernard Toale Gallery.

In 2018, after a 23andMe test, Fine discovered that the man she thought was her biological father was not. She was able to determine the identity of her biological father, a pediatrician she knew as a child named Henry Eisenoff. This patrilineal discovery had a profound impact on the direction of her work, which began to incorporate text as a means to explore the complex range of memories, perceptions, and emotions associated with the event. As stated in the press release for the exhibition Love, American Style (2018) at Pierogi, the new work deals with the "profound emotional and conceptual gap between the cheerful American dream of her childhood and the growing disappointment and disgust of the Trump years".

Teaching
Fine has held academic teaching positions at several institutions including Alfred University, Hamilton College, the University of California, Davis, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Vassar College. Notably, in 2009, she was the Christian A. Johnson Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Middlebury College.

Awards and fellowships

 * The New York Foundation for the Arts, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting (2024)
 * Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2013, 2001)
 * The New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting (2008)
 * The New York Foundation for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship (1994)
 * Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Provincetown, Massachusetts (1992, 1993)
 * National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship (1989)

Residencies

 * Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York (2021, 2011, 2001, 1998, 1996)
 * MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire (2019)
 * Stephen Pace Artist Residency, Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown, Provincetown, Massachusetts (2018)
 * Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, Englewood, Florida (2015, 2016)
 * Golden Foundation Residency, New Berlin, New York (2013)
 * Central City Artist Project, Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans (2010)
 * Cité Internationale des Arts, Residency, Paris, France (1998)
 * Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York (1990)

Selected solo and two-person exhibitions

 * Love, American Style, Pierogi, New York (2018)
 * Contents Under Pressure, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York (2015)
 * Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Remain Calm, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York (2014)
 * Formulas For Now, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York (2012)
 * Jolly Quagmire, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, California (2010)
 * Where Boys with Guns Wear Bows in Their Hair, Prospect 1.5, The Wesley, New Orleans, Louisiana (2010)
 * Glad All Over, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York (2009)
 * J. Fiber: World War Me, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York (2008)
 * Skirmish, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany (2007)
 * Shock and Awe, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas (2007)
 * Friendly Fire, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (2006)
 * After Sugar Time, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York (2004)
 * Jane Fine: New Work, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York (2000)
 * Jane Fine, Casey Kaplan, New York (1996)
 * Jane Fine, Casey Kaplan, New York (1995)
 * White Room: Jane Fine, White Columns, New York (1992)

Selected group exhibitions

 * Tectonic Abstraction, Bill Arning Exhibitions, Houston, Texas (2022)
 * Re:Presentation, curated by Dan Cameron, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana (2021)
 * Chromomania: Intoxication via Color, Bill Arning Exhibitions, Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas (2020)
 * Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (2020)
 * The Chaney Family: A Contemporary Art Collection, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas (2021)
 * Mediums of Exchange, Shirley Fiterman Art Center and Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, New York (2019)
 * Labyrinths of the Mind, Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York (2019)
 *  Summer of Love, Freight + Volume, New York (2018)
 * Broad Stripes and Bright Stars, Ely Center, New Haven, Connecticut (2017)
 * Pop-up Exhibition, NYFA Curatorial/McKinsey & Company, New York (2015)
 * Pierogi XX: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York (2014)
 * Made in Paint, Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, New York (2013)
 * image/clot, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (2012)
 * Melt, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York (2011)
 * Counterpart, West Collection, SEI Corporate Campus, Oaks, Pennsylvania (2011)
 * Thinking Through Drawing, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York (2011)
 * Zeichnungen, Graphiken und Fotografien aus New York und Leipzig, Kunstmühle Mürsbach, Mürsbach, Germany (2010)
 * Mutant Anxiety, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, California (2010)
 * Pierogi, et. al., Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2008)
 * Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (2008)
 * Future Tense, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York (2008)
 * 100 Artists, 100 Watercolors, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York (2006)
 * New Turf, curated by Evelyn Hankins, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont (2005)
 * American Obsessive Drawing, Völcker and Freunde, Berlin, Germany (2005)
 * Open House, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (2004)
 * Works on Paper, Völcker and Freunde, Berlin, Germany (2003)
 * The Brooklyn Rail, Selection I, curated by Phong Bui, Wythe Studio, Brooklyn, New York (2002)
 * Inter-sex-tion, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts (2002)
 * Pop Science, g-module, Paris, France (2001)
 * New Prints, International Print Center, New York (2001)
 * Compelled, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey (2001)
 * @, P.P.O.W., New York (2000)
 * Yaddo Centennial, Art in General, New York, and the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York (2000)
 * Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina(2000)
 * Haulin' Ass, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2000)
 * Fields, P.P.O.W., New York (1999)
 * Working in Brooklyn: Current Undercurrent, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York (1997)
 * Redefinitions: A View from Brooklyn, Nicholas and Lee Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California (1997)
 * Unconditionally Abstraction, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri (1996)
 * Jane Fine, Joanne Greenbaum, John-Paul Philippe, Arena, Brooklyn, New York (1995)
 * Paintings, Petzel Gallery, New York (1994)
 * Pure Pop for Now People, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (1993)
 * Update 1992, White Columns, New York (1992)
 * Salon of the Mating Spiders, Herron Test-Site, Brooklyn, New York (1992)
 * High Density Abstraction, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York (1991)
 * Selections 42, Drawing Center, New York (1988)

Collections

 * Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
 * Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
 * Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York
 * University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
 * Williams College Museum of Art, Williams, Massachusetts
 * University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany
 * Museum of Art, Rhode Island College of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
 * Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
 * The Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
 * Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
 * Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Georgia
 * Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art
 * West Collection
 * Artist Pension Trust