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jane south

Born in Manchester, England, Jane South worked at as set designer in experimental theater before moving to the US in 1989. South has had recent solo exhibitions at the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN, the Queens Museum, Bulova Center, NY, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Site-specific installations include Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany and White Columns, NY. She has been included in numerous exhibitions including those at The Drawing Center, NY, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA. Her work was included in “Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions” at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria in 2007 and “SLASH: Paper Under the Knife” at MAD (Museum of Arts & Design), New York in 2009/2010. Among her fellowships, grants, and residencies are those from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001,2008), the New York Foundation for the Arts (2007), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2008), the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Brown Foundation Fellowship at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France (2009), the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (2002, 2004) and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2001, 2002). South was recently a recipient of a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant and a 2010 Camargo Foundation Residency in Cassis, France.