Jay McCafferty
1948 Born in San Pedro, California
Lives and Works in San Pedro, California
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Jay McCafferty: Recent Solar Paintings, TransVagrant and Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2009 AMPERSAND: A Conversation with Coy Howard, TransVagrant and Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2005 On the Wall, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Jay McCafferty: Recent Works, Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2001 Obsession, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Jay McCafferty Solar Burned Works, SPF:a, Los Angeles, CA,
1996 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1992 Valerie Miller Fine Art Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
1991 Jay McCafferty - Solar Burns, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1990 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1988 Distinguished Alumni Awards, California State University, Los Angeles, CA,
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Four Seasons Hotel, Newport Beach, CA
Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1986 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Jay McCafferty: An Edited Ten Years, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland
1975 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974 Jay D McCafferty: Videotapes and Books, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1973 Gallery TJB, Newport Beach, CA
1971 Purcell Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA
Group Exhibitions
2014 Warchaw / Winter, TransVagrant and Warshaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2013 14 Featuring…,TransVagrant and Warshaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2012 PSST: Art in San Pedro 2000-2012, TransVagrant @ Warshaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2011 Pacific Standard Time: Best Kept Secret: UCI and the development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971,
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Pacific Standard Time: Once Emerging Now Emerging, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Remix, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 California Video, Getty Museum, Los Angeles. CA
2006 Driven to Abstraction, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2005 Gallery 478, San Pedro, CA
2001 Obsessions, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
2000 Horror Vacuui, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Flicker, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA,
1997 Focus VI: Orange County Artists/A Sphere of Influence, John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, CA
A Hotbed of Advanced Art: Four Decades of the Visual Arts at UCI, School of The Arts, University of CA at Irvine, Irvine, CA
1996 Blindsight. Mendenhall Art Gallery, Whittier, CA.
CSLA Alumni Exhibition, Harriet Luckman Fine Art Center, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Paper Presence, Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 The Presence of Absence, The Works Gallery South, Costa Mesa, CA
The Spirit of Matter, The Works Gallery South, Costa Mesa, CA
1991 Minimal 1960-1990, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Checkers Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
UCI Arts: The First 25 Years, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1990 Minimal: 1960 -1990, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Madrona Gallery, San Pedro, CA
FHP Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Clay, an Invitational Exhibition, California State University, Long Beach, CA
4th Annual Long Beach Art Exhibition, Long Beach, CA
Miller Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
San Pedro Abstracts, San Pedro, CA
The Works Gallery, Long Beach
1988 Art Auction, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, CA
Masks at Art Space, Art Space Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Faculty Exhibition, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA
1986 Intimate, Intimate, Turman Gallery, Department of Art, Indiana State University, IN
1986 A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Painting & Sculptures, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,
1984 45 - A Group Exhibition of Southern California Artists, Metro Rail Transport Consultants, Los Angeles, CA
Jay McCafferty & Judith Vogt, Hemmerdinger Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
Cirrus Celebrates Los Angeles Art, Part II, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Young Talent Awards: 1963-1983, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Fire & Water, Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
From Los Angeles - Cirrus Editions Ltd.: A Retrospective View, Stephen Wirt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Relief Prints: Woodcuts, Wood Engravings & Linocuts from Durer to Dine, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Some Humorous Videos, Space Gallery, East Gallery, Los Angeles
Art as Alchemy, University Art Gallery, Cal State University Domingues Hills, Carson, CA
1982 Cinque Artisti della, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galleria Del Calvallino, Venice, Italy
An Artistic Conversation, 1931-1982: Poland/USA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Art in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Paper as Image, Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Graphics - The Photographic Image, Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
Anti-Static, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Art in Los Angeles: The Museum as Site, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
L.A.V.A., Japan American Cultural & Community Center, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Drawing: At the Henry, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Object-Subject: A Printmaking Show, Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France
1979 California Hybrids, Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Group Show, Robert Freidus Gallery,
Paper as Medium, Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition,Washington, D.C.
From California - A World of Unique Textural Beauty, Zola Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Faculty Exhibit, Los Angeles Harbor College of Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Eleven San Pedro Artists, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA
Artist's Book, University of California, San Diego, CA
Miniature, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Paper Art, Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Harbor College Presents: Long Beach Museum of Art Southland Video Anthology,
Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery, Wilmington, CA
1976 New Selections/New Talent Award Winners, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Southland Video Anthology 1976: Part II, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1975 Delap - McCafferty, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
On the Other Side of the Looking Glass, Newspace Gallery at the Bowers Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Southland Video Anthology Traveling Show, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Irvine, 1965-1975, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Recent Work, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974 Contemporary Idioms, Art Galleries of University of California Santa Barbara, CA
Newspace Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Newspace at Bowers, The Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
Films, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1971 San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Small Images: 17th Annual All California Purchase Prize Competition, California State College, Los Angeles, CA
Fiber as Line, California State College, Los Angeles, CA
1970 Expo '70: 16th Annual All California Purchase Prize Competition, Laguna Beach Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA