Jack Pierson, a conceptual artist, was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1960. He received a BFA degree from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in 1984. He lives and works in New York, southern California and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Pierson's work includes photographic transparencies exhibited in light boxes, written words and large letters and calligraphic symbols displayed on gallery walls. "Ocean + 1st (Pinkscape)," 1995, 72" x 71.7", color photograph with mixed media on canvas, is a photographic view of a southern California neighborhood with palm trees and the sun's glare brightly whiting out the center of the picture.

In "You Got What You Deserved," 1991, 14" x 11", these words are scrawled in graphite in block letters on light blue paper, with "Right off Hollywood Blvd" scrawled in script below it. "Teen Star," 60" x 98", spells just that in very large letters of varied size and color on a wall.

Jack Pierson's exhibitions include:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Thaddeus Ropac, Paris

2001
Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm
Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels
Photology, Milan
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Under the top, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Glenn Horowitz Bookstore, East Hampton

2000
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Robert Pearre, Tucson
Princetown Art Association and Museum
Cheim & Read, New York

1999
Galleri Roger Björkholmen, Stockholm
Cheim & Read, New York
About the world, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
About the World, Kunstverien Heilbronn, Heilbronn
Espacio Aglutinador, Havanna, Cuba
Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown
The Art Association, Provincetown
Texas Gallery, Houston

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