JEF BOURGEAU is an American painter, curator, digital pioneer and conceptual artist.
Bourgeau's art has exhibited in galleries in London, Amsterdam, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, New Mexico, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Berlin, Beijing, and Austria. His work has been shown in museums in Boston, Houston, Columbus, Detroit, San Jose, Cleveland, Portland, Honolulu, Mumbai, Roubaix, Vienna.
His work and concepts have been written about in many publications and art journals, including: Art in America, Flash Art, Art News, Vanity Fair, NY Times, and Artforum. And in several books, including: Visual Shock by Michael Kammen (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Cultural Policy by Toby Miller and George Yudice, and The Artist's Quest for Inspiration by Peggy Hadden.Bourgeau is also the founding director of Detroit's Museum of New Art (MONA), of Detroit’s artCORE (empty storefronts to galleries), Changing Cities, and co-founder of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography.and Tokyo.
"Jef Bourgeau's work interrupts familiar art tropes and invites the viewer to untangle art history."
- Jan van der Marck, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
"Bourgeau's work is original and elaborate in form and color as if at the hand of a reborn Picabia, a sort of Cubism freshly discovered after a century of Modern Art."
- Lucio Pozzi: Letter from America, The Art Newspaper
"Since 1981, Jef Bourgeau has eaten the brains and guts of the first hundred years of abstraction - only to transpose it all back onto canvas in new and playful ways as he drags and drops, scans, compresses and unpacks, crashes and reboots."
- Jerry Saltz, Pulitzer Prize art critic
Bourgeau's art has exhibited in galleries in London, Amsterdam, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, New Mexico, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Berlin, Beijing, and Austria. His work has been shown in museums in Boston, Houston, Columbus, Detroit, San Jose, Cleveland, Portland, Honolulu, Mumbai, Roubaix, Vienna.
His work and concepts have been written about in many publications and art journals, including: Art in America, Flash Art, Art News, Vanity Fair, NY Times, and Artforum. And in several books, including: Visual Shock by Michael Kammen (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Cultural Policy by Toby Miller and George Yudice, and The Artist's Quest for Inspiration by Peggy Hadden.Bourgeau is also the founding director of Detroit's Museum of New Art (MONA), of Detroit’s artCORE (empty storefronts to galleries), Changing Cities, and co-founder of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography.and Tokyo.
"Jef Bourgeau's work interrupts familiar art tropes and invites the viewer to untangle art history."
- Jan van der Marck, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
"Bourgeau's work is original and elaborate in form and color as if at the hand of a reborn Picabia, a sort of Cubism freshly discovered after a century of Modern Art."
- Lucio Pozzi: Letter from America, The Art Newspaper
"Since 1981, Jef Bourgeau has eaten the brains and guts of the first hundred years of abstraction - only to transpose it all back onto canvas in new and playful ways as he drags and drops, scans, compresses and unpacks, crashes and reboots."
- Jerry Saltz, Pulitzer Prize art critic