Jake Berthot

Photo: John Berthot, 1995

Jake Berthot (b.1939 - 2014) was born in Niagara Falls, NY in 1939.  He attended the New School for Social Research and Pratt Institute in the early 1960’s.  He exhibited regularly in New York since the early 1970’s with the O.K. Harris, the McKee Gallery and currently with the Betty Cuningham Gallery . Berthot was included the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Annual in 1969 and again in 1973; The Corcoran Biennial in 1975; the Venice Biennale, 1976;  New Painting – New York at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1979; American Art: 1950 to the Present at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1979; New Works on Paper in 1981 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1984; New York/Beijing, Beijing Art Institute, Beijing, China in 1987; Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York in 1992; and Square Painting/Plane Painting at the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington, 1997. Additionally, he received several grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1983 and an Academy Institute Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1992. 

SELECT Exhibitions

  • What happened to Abstraction?, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, 2023

  • JAKE!, Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, NY, 2020

  • Jake Berthot: From the Collection and Promised Gifts, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2016

  • Jake Berthot, Drawing and Painting, Visual Prose, Poetry-Presence, Gaze, University of Tulsa School of Art, Tulsa, OK, 2012

  • Refocusing the Spotlight: 21 American Painters, curated by Michael Walls, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2011

  • Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2009

  • Berthot Rotterdam Ryman Tapies Twombly, Storrer Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 1984

  • Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition: The McCrory Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1980

  • American Art: 1950 to the Present, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1979

Selected Public Collections

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

  • The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

  • The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

  • Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX,

  • The Rose Art Museum (Brandeis) Waltham, MA

  • The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC