Miguel Abreu Gallery

Biography

Flint Jamison is a conceptual artist working with sculpture, digital media and video, publication, as well as performance. He co-founded the art center Yale Union in Portland, Oregon (2008–2020), and the artist-run center Department of Safety, which operated from 2002 until 2010 in Anacortes, Washington. Jamison is the founder and editor of the ongoing serial publication Veneer Magazine, an 18-book publishing project established in 2007.

Flint Jamison was born in 1979 in Montana. Since receiving his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006, he has initiated the long-term serial publishing project Veneer, and has exhibited internationally, presenting solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2022–2023), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen (2019), Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2025, 2017 and 2015); Air de Paris, Paris (2025, 2021, 2015 and 2012); Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf (2021 and 2017); Pied-à-terre, Ottsville, PA (2016); ETH Zürich (2015); Artists Space, New York (2013); Cubitt, London (2013); Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva (2012); Artspeak, Vancouver (2012); castillo/corrales, Paris (2011); and Open Satellite, Bellevue, Washington (2010). His work was included in sum at Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2026), Stand Up Comedy – Personals at 80WSE, New York (2024), Signal or Noise at S.M.A.K., Ghent (2018), Other Mechanisms, curated by Anthony Huberman at the Secession, Vienna (2018), the 2017 Whitney Biennial, curated by Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks, the 2014 Liverpool Biennial, curated by Anthony Huberman and Mai Abu ElDahab, and the 2016 Incorporated! – Les Ateliers de Rennes, curated by François Piron. In 2008, Jamison co-founded Yale Union, a contemporary art center in Portland, Oregon, and oversaw the transfer of its property rights to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation in 2020.

His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library; and the Princeton University Library, among others.