Lives and works in New York, NY
Jake Still is a painter based in New York City. He holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BFA from Syracuse University, and has exhibited internationally in Athens, Milan, Seattle, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles. Recent residencies include the NARS Foundation and Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
His work moves between writing and painting, using text as an initial framework that gives way to a material process. Each painting develops through the accumulation of layers, where washes, pours, and gestures build a surface that holds depth and memory.
As the work unfolds, movement and direction emerge through repetition and variation. The behavior of the paint, how it settles, disperses, or resists, becomes central to the composition.
The paintings reflect and extend the qualities of the writing, translating rhythm, metaphor, and atmosphere into color and form.
EDUCATION
2018 Master of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Bending the Arc, Perry Lawson Fine Art, Nyack, NY
2024 Prospectors, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, GR
2024 A Precarious Night at Plumb Point, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, GR
2024 Body Objects, Room57 Gallery, New York, NY
2024 A Stone’s Throw, Storefront Media Gallery, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2023 Mirror, Portal, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Shadow-work, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2023 A Precarious Night at Plumb Point, VRAL, Milan Machinima Festival, Milan, IT
2023 Digital Rorschach, Green Kill, Kingston, NY
2021 CHEAPSHOT, Storefront Media Gallery, 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2021 Find Your Ritual, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
2020 CHEAPSHOT, Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, NY
2020 0rphan Drift, Public Records TV Public Access, Brooklyn, NY
2019 The Glitch, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Boiling Point, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2018 Commencement Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 Thesis Exhibition, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2017 All College Honors Exhibition, Hubbell Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 The Immediate Archive, Oakland, CA
2016 Shiro Oni Residency Exhibition, Onishi, JP
DISTINCTIONS
2023 NARS Foundation Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Anderson Ranch Residency, Snowmass Village, CO
2018 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Award Finalist, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016-2018 Graduate Merit Scholarship Award, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016-2018 Fine Arts Scholarship Award, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 All College Honors Graduate Scholarship Award, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016 Shiro Oni Residency, Onishi, JP