Lives and Works in Brooklyn, NY

Andrew Jilka’s work is about looking for comfort in the unfamiliar while confronting the uneasiness and dread of the routine. It is an attempt to reconcile his “aw-shucks” plainspoken midwestern Wal-Mart culture with the language of capital P Painting. Jilka thinks of his work as a distillation of collective nervousness, anxiety, and optimism. His bright, colorful compositions use the illusion of logic and stability to ask what the painting’s relationship can be to the palpable uneasiness of the present. Through his painting practice, he explores the deviations that evolve into tradition, questioning the structures and foundations that inform contemporary life.

 

STUDIES

 

2017
MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, United States

2009
BFA, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2021 Galeria Tiro al Blanco, Guadalajara, México, Terra Firma

2019
Team Gallery, New York, NY, Meditations
Collaborations by Tania and Thomas Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Alissa McKendrick)

2017
Coustof Waxman, New York, NY, that unclouded

2016
SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY, The Secret: Shape of Destiny

2015
BOW, New York, NY, Bow 5

2014
Idiosyncrasy Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Welcome Home

2013
Deadleaf, Kansas City, MO, Thank Goodness

2012
Invisible Hand Gallery, Lawrence, KS, God Willing

 

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

 

2021
Collaborations, Copenhagen, DK, Slash of Summer Lauren Powell Art, Los Angeles, CA, Moved Still Lives
Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK, Cave Canem

2020
1209 Garage, Austin, TX, Beautiful Bastards – Curated by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

2019
Team Gallery, New York, NY Scenes of the American Landscape

2018
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, An Opera of Canaries – Curated by James Siena

2017
Life Lessons, New York, NY Landing
Open House, Brooklyn, NY, Filtergeist
Beverly’s, New York, NY, Maybe It’s Time to Go Home

2015
Motel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Strangers Forming a Group Waiting to Kiss

2012
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, Bemis Underground

2010
Tula Art Center @ The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, 68.57: From Point A to Point A