Jacob Yanes
Los Angeles, California
Education
2008 MFA Sculpture, University of California, Los Angeles
1996 BA Summa Cum Laude with High Honors in Studio Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1992-94 St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM
Awards / Grants / Fellowships
2012 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY
2011 Teaching Artist Fellowship, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA
2010 Visual Arts Fellowship, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2008 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
Permanent Public Art Commissions
2018 “Standing Officer”, Los Angeles Police Academy Elysian Park, Los Angeles CA. Commissioned by the City of Lost Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
2024, Forthcoming LAPD Hollenbeck Station, Los Angeles CA
Public Collections
Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA
Exhibitions
2020 Nothing's Going on Here, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Bodies of a Different Mass, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles CA
2017 All the Small Things, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
To See Is to Have: Navigating Today’s Art Ecosystem, The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio TX
2016 Brancusi 2.0, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles CA
2015 Solo Exhibition, Victor Jara / Lethe and Eunoe, Night Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2013 Show and Tell, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA
FANATIC, POST Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2012 Solo Exhibition, Philomela, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
2010 Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA
The Big Four, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
Mutual Migration, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco CA
FAWC Fellows Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown MA
2008 Some Young Los Angeles Artists, Cardwell Jimmerson Gallery, Culver City CA
Thesis Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, UCLA Broad Art Center, Los Angeles CA
Reviews
Los Angeles Times, Critic’s Choice: Jacob Yanes Offers a Tapestry of Meaning by Sharon Mizota May 14, 2012
X-TRA Contemporary Arts Quarterly: The Big Four: Michael Decker, Liz Glynn, Jed Lind, Jacob Yanes by Tucker Neel Summer 2011 Vol. 13 No. 4
Los Angeles Times, Art Review: ‘The Big Four’ at Steve Turner Contemporary by Sharon Mizota December 3, 2010
Art 21 Blog: Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection by Lily Simonson September 23, 2010