Selected Exhibitions and Performance 2021 - 2000:
Well-Read: Artists Inspired by Literature, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, May 12 – August 31, 2021 (P)
Dark Paintings Redux, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri, March 6 – August ?, 2020 (solo) (review: Elizabeth Kirsch, KC Studio)
Look Me in the Eye: Portraits of Kansas City, The Epsten Gallery, Leawood, Kansas, September 15 - November 29,2019
Fugitive Color, Kim Weinberger Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, March 1 through April, 28th, 2018
the vortex trinity, Todd Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, April 7 – May 27, 2017 (five paintings)
New American Paintings, (Juried Exhibition in Print #120), Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2015 (Juror, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.)
besame…, Todd Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 2015 (solo) (six paintings)
Catalyst: Leaving a Lasting Impression, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Snelinsgrove, Pennsylvania, 2015
Hix Fragments & (pash’n), Todd Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, November 1 – 23, 2013 (solo) (ten paintings) (Reviews: Neil Thrun Kansas City Star; Liz Cook, The Pitch)
Be Inspired!, Kemper Museum at the Crossroads, Kansas City, Missouri, September 7, 2012 through May 3, 2013
(Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Francis Family Foundation Gift, 2011
Graphic, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansa City, Missouri, February 3 through 25, 2012 (solo)
Witness: Perspectives on War, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri, November 6, 2009 - February 8, 2010. (Three large acrylic paintings, including “DEMO-“, 124 x 96 inches) (Reviews: Chris Packham, The Pitch; Blair Schulman, Kansas City Star)
WORD, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas, September 11 – November 20, 2009. (Five, moderately scaled “text-and-image” paintings) (Review: Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star)
Dream Bodies: Transformative Figures, Epsten Gallery of the Kansas City Jewish Museum, Overland Park, Kansas, July 5 – August 16, 2009. (Site-specific, installation: “Dream Bodies”, digital print on self-adhesive vinyl, 15 x 20 feet) (Review: Elizabeth Kirsch, Kansas City Star)
Opera Gallery, Venice, Italy, 2007-09: Paris, France, 2010-11.
DEMO-, Artsounds, Vanderslice Auditorium, Kansas City Art Institute, October 9, 2007. (Collaborative Live Performance: forty-three minute digital projection with the Dan Thomas Jazz Quintet)
2007 KCAI Faculty Biennial Exhibition: It’s Only Natural, H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City, Missouri, January 20 – February 17, 2007. (Site-specific installation: “Clone”, digital print on self-adhesive vinyl, 8.5 x 17.5 feet)
Jim Sajovic: Evolution, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, October 1, 2005, through January 22, 2006. (Solo) (Exhibition included thirty-two examples of my work from 1989 to 2005, organized thematically and installed in four, separate, gallery spaces within the museum plus a site-specific installation in the entry lobby, digital prints on self adhesive vinyl, 15 x 21 feet and 10 x 6 feet.) (Catalogue with essay by Leesa Fanning, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)
Dreamer-Ecstasy, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri, February 4 – May 7, 2005. (Solo) (Twelve acrylic paintings and three editionned prints) (Review; Alice Thorson, Art in America, November 2005)
New Works by Selected Gallery Artists, Bill Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 2003. (“Study for Millennium Garden” published in ArtScene) (Mentioned in Kansas City Star “Artnotes”) (Reproduction with text in Review)
The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2002. (Curator: Norman Lundin) (Catalogue)
New American Paintings, (Juried Exhibition in Print) Volume XXXXI, Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002, (Juror, Bill Arning, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Jim Sajovic, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2000. (Solo)
Selected Exhibitions:
Kim Weinberger Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Todd Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 2013 (solo), 2014, 2015 (solo), 2017
Kemper Museum at the Crossroads, Kansas City, Missouri, 2012-13
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri, 2012 (solo), 2009-10
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas, 2009
Epsten Gallery of the Kansas City Jewish Museum, Overland Park, Kansas, 2009
Opera Gallery, Venice, Italy, 2007, 2008, 2009; Paris, France 2009-10
H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, 2005-06 (solo)
Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri, 2005 (solo)
Bill Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 2003
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2002
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City Iowa, 2002
Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1997 (Solo), 2000 (Solo)
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri, 1998 (Solo)
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1996
Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 1991-92 (Solo), 1993 (Solo), 1995 (Solo)
University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1995
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, 1972, 1973 (Award), 1976, 1994 (Award)
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, 1990 (Solo)
Gallery 9, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1990 (Solo)
Francine Ellman Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1989
Art Source, L.A., Los Angeles, California, 1988 (Solo)
Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Missouri, 1971, 1977 (Solo), 1979, 1989
Batz/Lawrence Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 1984 (Solo), 1985, 1987 (Solo)
Nelson/Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1974, 1976, 1982, 1984; Awards: 1985, 1986, 1987
Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, 1985 (Purchase), 1987 (Solo)
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1972, 1984
Kornblee Gallery, New York City, New York, 1981
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1981
Galleria Tinoghelfi, Vicenza, Italy, 1980 (Solo)
Davenport Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa, 1980 (Award)
University of Missouri Art Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 1979, 1980 (Honorarium)
Galleria d’Arte del Cavallino, Venice, Italy, 1975, 1977, 1980 (Solo)
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 1976 (Solo), 1978
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, 1969, 1975 (Award, Purchase)
Incontri Internazionale d’Arte, Rome, Italy, 1975
Galleria Valsecchi, Milan, Italy, 1975
Richard Demarco Gallery, Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland, 1974, 1975
Gilman Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, 1973, 1974 (Solo), 1981
Peterloo Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, 1974
Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 1974
Burleighfield House, Stamford, United Kingdom, 1974
A.A.C. Gallery, River Quay, Kansas City, Missouri, 1972 (Solo), 1974
Education and Academic Honors:
M.F.A. (Painting), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (Highest Honors, William H. Chandler Award, Phi Kappa Phi, Graduate Teaching Assistantship)
BFA. (Painting), University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois(Highest Honors, Bronze Tablet Award, Phi Kappa Phi, Lynda E. Bates Scholarship)
Selected Publications and Reviews:
Doe, Donald Bartlett, Motion Pictures: The Art of Jim Sajovic, (Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas, 1990.)
Cook, Liz, “Jim Sajovic Raises A Blush At Todd Weiner Gallery”, The Pitch, November 28 – December 4, 2013, 15
Emont Scott, Deborah, “Curator’s Statement”, Winners-86: M-AAA/NEA Fellowship Awards, (Mid-America Arts Alliance,
Kansas City, Missouri, 1987), IX, 30, 31
Hix, H. L., Rational Numbers, (Truman State University Press, www2.truman.edu/tsup) (cover) Ley Lines, (Wilfred Lauier University Press, BH39.L49 2014) 168-69
Fanning, Leesa, “Jim Sajovic: Evolution”, (Catalogue essay, Daum Museum of Contemporary At, Sedalia, Missouri, 2005-06.)
Lambert, Don, "Jim Sajovic”, New Art Examiner, March, 1985, 53
Lundin, Norman, The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of American Figure Drawing, (Frye Art Museum, in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London) 53, 139
Maugeri, Salvatore, “Mostre d’Arte”, Giornale di Vicenza, 16 October, 1980, 7
Barbara O’Brien, Studio Visit, volume twenty-three, (Open Studios Press, 2013) 165
Rainey, Nan, "Jim Sajovic," Flash Art, summer, 1996, 132, 133
Shapiro, Steve, “Jim Sajovic,” Forum, November, 1984, 13, 14
Thorson, Alice, “Dark Paintings’ Look at Man”, Kansas City Star “Preview”, September 15, 1995, 18
Thorson, Alice, “Jim Sajovic at Belger Art Center”, Art In America, November 2005, p188-189
Warren, Leland, “Jim Sajovic,” New Art Examiner, April 1991
Weinberg, Adam, “Introduction” New American Talent, The Tenth Exhibition, (Texas Fine Arts
Association, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, 1994)
Williams, Hiram, Notes for a Young Painter, (Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) 129, 143
Zevitas, Steven T. (Ed), New American Paintings, (Number IV, 1996, 82-83); (Number XXIX, 2000, 126-129);
(Number XXXXI, 2002); (The Open Studios Press, Boston, Massachusetts)
Selected Collections:
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri
DST Systems, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri
Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
Galleria Tinoghelfi, Vicenza, Italy
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Kemper Insurance Companies, Chicago, Illinois
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka Kansas
Grants:
Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Painting ($5000)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Three Faculty Development Grants)
Kansas City Art Institute Special Project Award ($5000)
Crosby Kemper Foundation
Selected Lectures/Presentations:
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas 2009
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2008
Kansas City Art Institute, “Language+Image+Culture”, Kansas City, Missouri 2006
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri 2005
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri 1998
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 1990
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas 1990
Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 1985
College Art Association/F.A.T.E. Panel “Igniting the Flame: Models of Effective Visual Arts Programs”, Los Angeles, California