Email

jk@jeffkao.com

EXHIBITIONS

2004 The Lab
San Francisco, California

2003 Gallery 16 - MARK: contemporary drawings
San Francisco, California

2003 Jack Hanley Gallery - EXACT ATTAX
San Francisco, California

2001 Fort Haggis Gallery - Friction Fit-Drawings by Jeff Kao and Xylor Jane
San Francisco, California

2001 Gallery 16 - Jeff Kao Recent Paintings
San Francisco, California

2000 San Francisco Public Library - Clam Shell Exhibitions

1999 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - Bay Area Now 2
San Francisco, California

1999 The Jewish Museum - Making Change
San Francisco, California

1999 Euphrat Museum of Art - A Good Read selections from the book arts
Cupertino, California

1998 Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens - Labrynth
San Francisco, California

1997 Gallery 16 - Jeff Kao/Charlie Milgrim
San Francisco, California

1997 Gallery 16 - Between Culture and Commerce
San Francisco, California

1996 Barrett House Galleries - New Directions '96
Poughkeepsie, New York

1996 San Bernadino County Museum - 31st Annual Open Exhibition
San Bernadino, California

1995 Berkeley Art Association - 11th Annual National Juried Exhibition
Berkeley, California

1995 University of California, Davis - Face the Nation (first place award recipient)
Davis, California

1995 Barrett House Galleries - New Directions '95
Poughkeepsie, New York

1994 Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens - Rooms for the Dead
San Francisco, California

1994 WORKS - Idiosyncratic Furniture
San Jose, California

1994 San Francisco Art Institute - MFA Graduate Exhibition
San Francisco, California

1993 Intersection for the Arts - Objects
San Francisco, California

1992 Michael H. Lord Gallery - Jeff Kao Paintings
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1991 Michael H. Lord Gallery - Group Exhibition
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

PUBLISHED WORKS

2003 Undone - hand-bound artists book of silk-screened images, edition of 100.

2001 Of Victor Fame - limited edition, hand-made book of drawings reproduced in letterpress, funded by a San Francisco Arts Commission - Individual Artist's grant.

2001 Uncle VCR - limited edition scroll book funded by a San Francisco Arts Commission - Individual Artist's grant.

1999 War Game Booklet - reproduced 32 page hand-written game instruction booklet made in 1970s. Big Business Inc.

1998 Vitamin K - a book of ten custom rubber stamps accompanied by letterpressed text. Big Business Inc.

1998 The Money Company - a book of 16 full-color plates of play money, hand-drawn and watercolored in 1970.

1995 (Illustrations for) The Whole Shebang - Timothy Ferris, Simon and Schuster

GRANTS

1999 Individual Artist Commission - San Francisco Arts Commission

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2001 ARTWEEK July-August issue, Jeff Kao at Gallery 16 by David Spalding

2000 Exhibition Catalogue, Making Change by Deborah Gar Reichman

1999 Exhibition catalogue, Bay Area Now 2 by Renny Pritikin

1999 ART ON PAPER January-February issue, Working Proof

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, 1994

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987