Jaz Graf's recent body of work juxtaposes synthetic and raw materials, the virtual gaze with organic imprints, and satellite imagery with dust. It sets in motion, a contemporary discourse around intergenerational memory and cultural preservation. Graf exhibits locally and internationally, most recently featured at The Newark Museum of Art, NJ and published in the peer-reviewed journal, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. Her work has appeared in AM New York News, The Jersey Journal, World Literature Today and on NJ PBS Television Network.
Graf is the recipient of a West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY, two Newark Creative Catalyst Grants, NJ, and a Civil Society Institute Fellowship, VT among others. She has recently served on the Exhibitions Committee of the North American Hand Papermakers. She is former Vice President of Manhattan Graphics Center, a fine art print shop in New York City, and Board Member of ProArts Hudson County. Jaz holds a Master of Arts degree in Studio Art Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmedia from the University of Iowa.
Email : info(at)jazgraf.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jazgraf/
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-graf-76714385/
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY - Root Elevation (Solo show)
Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA - TBD (Solo show)
MOMA PS1, Queens, NY - Love Positive Women
Madison Community Arts Center, NJ - Portraits of Book Artists
Newark Public Library, NJ - Poetic Pigments
2022
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY - Wood & Paper
The Visual Arts Gallery & Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, NJCU - The Embankment on My Mind
Newark Arts, NJ - Open Doors Citywide Arts Festival
2021
The Newark Museum of Art, NJ - ReVision and Respond
Gallery Aferro, NJ - Newark Arts Festival
2020
Museo del Arsenal en la Puntilla, San Juan, Puerto Rico (canceled due to Covid-19)
Paul Robeson Galleries, Express Newark, NJ - Why We Do What We Do
2019
Gallery Aferro, NJ - Newark Arts Festival #NAF2019
Alexander Library, Rutgers University - What Books Do Better
Flat Tail Gallery, Minot, ND - Residuum (Solo show)
K.K. Merker Gallery, UI Center for the Book, Iowa City - Warm Tones for Cold Nights
Ana Mendieta Gallery, Iowa City, IA - At My Feet For Ages (Solo show)
2018
Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA - The Art of the Book
Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA - Matrices: The Social Life of Paper, Print, and Art (in conjunction with the American Printing History Association and Friends of Dard Hunter Conference)
AAHD Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN - #thisisart
St. Joseph County Library, South Bend, IN - Place
2017
South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN - The Art of Valor
Rutgers University, Engelhard Hall, Newark NJ - Articulations, Curated by Adrienne Wheeler (Solo show)
University of Notre Dame, Main Building, IN - Solarium
Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) Conference, Atlanta, GA - Terminus - Print Exchange Portfolio
Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture, South Bend, IN - Place
NJCU Visual Art Gallery, Jersey City, NJ - On a Different Page, Curated by Eileen Ferara
2016
AAHD Gallery, University of Notre Dame, IN - New Faces
University of Louisville, KY - MAPC Biennial Conference - Hydraulics Print Exchange Portfolio
City Hall Rotunda Gallery, Jersey City, NJ - Acts of Translation, Curated by Greg Brickey (Solo show)
Rutgers University Mabel Smith Douglass Library, New Brunswick, NJ - TFAP@10, The Feminist Art Project @ 10 Years
Newark Arts, NJ - 15th Annual Open Doors Citywide Arts Festival
Tower Fine Art Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY - Awake @ 4am Portfolio
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA - Awake @ 4am Portfolio
2015
Hostetter Gallery, The Pingry School, Basking Ridge, NJ - a clearing (Solo show and lecture series)
Lackawanna Center, NJ - Jersey City Artists Studio Tour (JCAST) Flagship Gallery
The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ - In Other Words (solo installation room)
2014
Print City Detroit, MI – Mid-America Print Council (MAPC) Biennial Conference Portfolio Show
Highline Loft Space, NYC - PaperView, Part of NY Print Week
Merseles Studios, Jersey City, NJ – Inertial Neurosis - part of Jersey City Artists Studio Tour
Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY – Monitors Ink and Undone, Portfolio Exchange Group Show
2013
Carroll House Gallery, Keene, NH – Alumni Exhibition, Curated by Rosemarie Bernardi
The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ – Raw Drawing, Curated by Jim Pustorino
City Hall Rotunda Gallery, Jersey City, NJ – Women’s History Month
Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC – Text Message II, Curated by Rich Turnbull
2012
Gallery 14 Maple, Arts Council of Morris, NJ – Remembrance of Things Past
2011
Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC – Eviscera (Solo show)
Samson Projects, Boston, MA – Chain Letter
Alexandria Museum of Art, GA – September Competition
2010
The National Arts Club, NYC – NY Society of Etchers 10th Anniversary
Jersey City Museum, NJ – A Splendid Energy
Printmaking Center of New Jersey – A Reverence for Water
2009
PACAS – ProArts ConTemporary Artists Space, Jersey City, NJ
Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ – Exquisite Corpse (Published in 30th Anniversary Catalogue)
Art House, Atlanta, GA – Sketch Book Project (Traveling Exhibit to 9 East Coast Galleries)
2008
A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, Wish You Were Here 7, Postcard Benefit Exhibition
Bolton Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI (Cranbrook Academy of Art Magnetic Print Exchange) – Push-Pull
2007
Rutgers University, Dana Library, Newark, NJ – Corporeal: Body as Book (Part of the NJ Book Arts Symposium), Curated by Amanda Thackray
Lex Leonard Gallery, Jersey City, NJ – Nested: Childhood Memories, Dreams & Nightmares and Bag the Habit
Atlantic Gallery, NYC – Playing for Keeps, Toys and their Side Effects
Mana Fine Arts, Jersey City, NJ – Mother of God, Curated by Doris Cacoilo
2006
Jersey City Artists’ Studio Tour, Jersey City, NJ - a(d)dress (Part of The Feminist Art Project)
Mana Fine Arts, Jersey City, NJ – What Have You Got To Say?
The Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY – Small Matters of Great Importance
Main Library, Jersey City, NJ – Wonder Woman: Exploration of the Subconscious Hero
Rotunda Gallery, City Hall, Jersey City, NJ – Gaia Group Show / Two Person Show / Women’s History Month Exhibition – Interview featured on NJTV (NJ’s Public Broadcast Channel)
2005
Gaia Studio, Hoboken, NJ – Art & Design Fair
Gallery Room, Main Library, Jersey City, NJ – Perimeter
2002
The New School, NYC – Art As Propaganda: Enemies of the Good Life (Multi-Media Performance), Coordinated by Kerry Malone Brown
Projects / Awards / Residencies
2023 Art on Paper & BOOKSMART, Art Fair @Pier 36, New York City, NY
2022-23 West Bay View Foundation Fellowship, Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY
2022-21 Salzberg Residency in Book Arts, Jaffe Center at Florida Atlantic University Libraries, FL
2022, 21, 20, 19 Fulbright Research Fellowship - Semi-Finalist / Alternate Candidate
2021 Residency Award - Women's Studio Workshop, NY
2021 1st Prize - Speaking Presentation, Royal Thai Embassy / CATI / SEASSI, Washington, DC
2021 + 2020 Newark Creative Catalyst Fellowship, NJ
2019-2020 Artist In Residence, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2019 (SGCI) Southern Graphics Council International Graduate Fellowship Award
2019 University of Iowa, School of Art & Art History Grant, IA
2018 SEASSI FLAS Fellowship, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI - Award funded by UCLA
2018 Liu Institute Language Arts Grant, University of Notre Dame, IN - Independent Study in NYC
2018 Silkscreen Instructor of Record (1 year) - Undergraduate Students @ the University of Notre Dame, IN
2018 Portfolio Building Presentation, University of Notre Dame, IN - (150+ Students)
2017 SLA Grant, University of Notre Dame - Awarded Grant to Study in Chiang Mai, Thailand
2017 Professional Development Grant - Awarded by GSU Notre Dame for a presentation @ SGCI-Atlanta
2017 Southern Graphics International Print Conference, Atlanta, GA - Portfolio Presentation
2017 Diversity Glass Mural, Assistant to Juan Sanchez, Duncan Student Center, University of Notre Dame, IN
2016 Civil Society Institute Fellowship - Awarded by Vermont Studio Center
2016 The Pingry School, Basking Ridge, NJ - Instructor for Sculptural Papermaking Workshop
2016 Watershed Sculpture Project with Colab Arts & Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership, New Brunswick, NJ - Image Editor / Collaborator
2015 Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, Beacon, NY - Following Rivers - Curator of Photography by No Water No Life
2015 Plainsboro Preserve, NJ Audubon, Cranberry, NJ - Across Watersheds - Curator of Photography
2014 Sam Rit Artist Residency, Thailand
2014 NWNL Spotlight on the Mekong River: Thailand and Laos - Photographer and Expedition Organizer
2014 MAPC Biennial Conference, Detroit, MI – Awake @ 4am : Wrecking Balls Print Exchange – Participant
2014 Manhattan Graphics, NYC – Undone Print Exchange – Participant
2013 MGC Project Space, New York, NY – Traces of Absence – Curator
2012 Southern Graphics International Print Conference, New Orleans, LA – Vice President Representative for MGC
2012 Manhattan Graphics, NYC – Rip-Off Print Exchange – Participant
2011 Can Serrat, El Bruc, Spain, Granted Studio Residency
2011 Summer Art Institute Scholarship, Granted by Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2010 Int’l Print Exchange / Exhibition – Curator / Portfolio Designer / Participant (Received ProArts Mini-Grant)
2010 Greenville Firehouse Kitchen Table Mural – Artist / Designer (Fundraised over $1000 via Kickstarter)
2010 Windows on Columbus, Jersey City, NJ – Guest Curator for one year, 4 solo shows of local artists in a Corporate Space
2009 Bloomsbury Auctions, NYC – Manhattan Graphics Center Benefit – Participant and Volunteer
2009 Six Sides to Every Story, Reno, NV – 600 artists woodblock collaboration – Participant
2009 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, CT – Print Assistant for MONOTHON
2008 Oregon Ink Spot, OR –Participant in Print Exchange
2008 Walsh Gallery, Newark, NJ – Participant in One Breath
2008 Jersey City Museum, NJ – Runway Model for Threads: A Wearable Art Fashion Show
2007 Canco Lofts, Jersey City, NJ – Curator of 696 (Video Gallery) and Curator of The Memory of Water & Fire
2007 International Center of New York, NYC – Guest Curator of Dirty Urban
2007 Lex Leonard Gallery, Jersey City, NJ – Curator of True Character – Photographic Works of Laos Fois
2007 New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ – The Feminist Art Project Artist Talk
2006 Gaia Studios, Hoboken, NJ – Six-week Residency
2002 Michael Ingbar Gallery of Architectural Art, NYC – Internship, Researched NY landmarks for R. Haas exhibit
2002 The New School, NYC – Enemies of the Good Life – Artistic Director, Performer & Program Designer
Presentations
2023 Stratum, Impressions, Geometries - Penland School of Craft, NC
2023 Open House with Jaz Graf @Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY
2022 "Lace Like Water, Palms Upon Silk" - William Paterson University, Ben Shahn Gallery in conjunction with A Durable Thread: The Silk Road from China to America / Across Time and Space: The Silk Road and the Silk City International Symposium
2022 "Hybrid Formations In Paper, Print & Book" - (SMFA) The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, MA
2021 "Manifestations of a Luk Khrueng: Contemporary Evolutions of Thai Papermaking Heritage" - College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, NY (Virtual Presentation with Live Q&A)
2021 "The Art and (Im)Possibilities of Belonging" - NJ Center for the Arts @ NJCU
2020 "Mapping Personal Histories/Navigating Political Tides" - SCG Int’l Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico (canceled due to Covid-19)
2019 "Thai Papermaking Heritage and Its Continuity" - Council on Thai Studies Conference, Madison, WI
2019 "Ancestral Embodiment in the Artist Book" - NJ Book Arts Symposium, Rutgers University, NJ
2018 Portfolio Development, University of Notre Dame, IN
2016 Articulations, Lecture and Slide Presentation - Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2016 The Feminist Art Project, Artist Talk - Douglass Library, Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick, NJ
2006 What Have You Got To Say?, Mana Fine Arts, Jersey City, NJ - Artist Talk
2002 Art as Propaganda, The New School, NYC - Artistic Director, Performer & Program Designer
Publications / Press
2023 Whitehot Magazine, Art on Paper 2023 Art Fair Takes off in New York, September 2023 "The Best in the Art World," by Jan Garden Castro, 9/11/23 https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/takes-off-in-new-york/5964
2023 This is Our Season, Limited Edition Book Collaboration
2022 Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Peer-reviewed journal), Eco Focus, Volume 7: Issue 1-2, Dec 2022
2021 Prompt Press - "Studies in Brotherly Love," A limited edition of 60 handmade books designed + bound by Jaz Graf. A collaborative ekphrastic artist book which includes the works of four poets (disability activists Lateef McLeod and DJ Savarese, as well as Jorrell Watkins and Claretta Holsey) responding to the art of Malcolm Corley. https://promptpress.org/publications/prompt-books#!/Studies-in-Brotherly-Love/p/370683296/category=39349202
2021 Shout Out SoCal Magazine, "Meet Jaz Graf | Paper / Print / Book Artist" https://shoutoutsocal.com/meet-jaz-graf-paper-print-book-artist/
2021 JCBA Artist of the Week, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, FL https://vimeo.com/496878475
2020 In the Studio with Artist Jaz Graf, Paul Robeson Galleries, NJ https://paulrobesongalleries.expressnewark.org/2020/05/26/in-the-studio-with-artist-jaz-graf/
2020 Books on Books Collection, Curated by Robert Bolick https://books-on-books.com/2020/07/10/books-on-books-collection-jaz-graf/
2018 World Literature Today, Collaboration w/ Patricia Hartland, September Issue
2018 The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery Catalogue, CA
https://issuu.com/seagergray/docs/___theartofthebook_2018_catalog
2017 The Juggler - Winter 2017, Volume 84, literature, art & design magazine of Notre Dame
2014 JCTV, Video Interview: http://youtu.be/3NAJ86s29OI
2013 Great Ode, Online Arts and Activist Magazine
2013 Jersey City Independent, Artist Interview featuring images of artwork, http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2013/04/a-lasting-impression-artist-jaz-graf-deconstructs-materials-to-build-new-ideas/
2010 Jersey Journal Daily Newspaper, Artist & Curator interview featuring exhibition photograph http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010/09/new_downtown_jersey_city_oil_p.html
2009 Label 228 – A Street Art Project, Published by Soft Skull Press, artwork featured on 3 pages of book (ISBN# 978-1593762490)
Exquisite Corpse, Paul Robeson Galleries 30th Anniversary Catalogue (ISBN# 978-0-9795167-7-1)
2007 Juxtapoz.com – Art and Culture Magazine Online, Reader’s Art
2006 A.M. New York Daily Newspaper – Artist interview featuring exhibition photograph
Academic Appointments + Teaching + Workshops
2023 Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY - Papermaking Workshop, weekend intensive
2023 Penland School of Craft, NC - Handmade Paper: stratum, impression, geometries, 2 week intensive
2022 SUNY Purchase College, NY - Extended Media, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2022 Caldwell University, NJ - Color Theory, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2022 Caldwell University, NJ - Drawing I, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2022 Caldwell University, NJ - 2-Dimensional Design & Color, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2020-2021 Caldwell University, NJ - 2-Dimensional Design, (Hybrid, Remote + In-Person) Undergraduate, 3 credits
2019 Felician University, NJ - Form, Space and Time (Art Foundations), Pre-College Credit Initiative for West Side High School, Newark, NJ
2017-2018 The University of Notre Dame, IN - Silkscreen I, Instructor of Record, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2016-2017 The University of Notre Dame, IN - Book Arts & Letterpress, Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate, 3 credits
2016 Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC - Copperplate Photogravure, Teaching Assistant, Continuing Education
2016 The Pingry School, Basking Ridge, NJ - Instructor for Sculptural Papermaking Workshop
2009 The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, CT – Print Assistant for MONOTHON
2007 The International Center of New York, NYC - English Language Conversation Instructor
