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Life and Education1948
Born in San Pedro, California
2021
Died in Hollister Ranch, California
Lived and worked in San Pedro and Hollister Ranch, California
1971
B.A., Los Angeles State University, Los Angeles, CA
1973
M.F.A., University of CA, Irvine, CA
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions2024
“Jay McCafferty Solar Painting,” Breland-Harper, Los Angeles, CA
2016
“On Being Blue,” Gallery 478, San Pedro, CA
2014
“Jay McCafferty: Recent Solar Paintings,” TransVagrant and Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2009
“Ampersand: A Conversation with Coy Howard,” Warschaw Gallery San Pedro, CA. Curated by TransVagrant
2005
“On the Wall,” Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“New Works,” Gallery 478, San Pedro, 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 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Mark Moore
1999
“Flicker,” Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996
“Mosaic,” Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994
“Psalms,” Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993
The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1992
Valerie Miller Fine Art Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
1991
“Jay McCafferty and Jeffrey Frisch,” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1990
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989
“Jay McCafferty,” The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
“Jay McCafferty Roman Numerals and Mark Lazerson Lead Works,” Madrona Gallery, San Pedro, CA
1988
“Distinguished Alumni Awards,” California State University, Los Angeles, CA
“New Work,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Four Seasons Hotel, Newport Beach, CA
“Michael Davis and Jay McCafferty,” The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1986
“New Paintings,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985
“New Paintings,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984
“Jay McCafferty: An Edited Ten Years,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA. Curated by Kathy Huffman
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983
“Jay McCafferty, New Solar Burn Paintings,” Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“New Paintings,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Jay McCafferty, Paintings and Drawings; Neil Tetkowski, Ceramics,” DBR Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1982
“New Solar Burn Paintings,” Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“New Paintings,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980
“New Solar Burn Paintings,” Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Solar Burn Collages,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Jay McCafferty,” Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
1979
“Roman Numerals,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Jay McCafferty,” La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. Curated by Robert Mc Donald
1978
“Solar Burn Paintings,” Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977
“New Works,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Photographs,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976
“Solar Burn Works,” Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland
“Art 7 1976,” Basel, Switzerland
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
1975
“Solar Burns,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“McCafferty; DeLap,” Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1974
“Jay McCafferty: Videotapes and Books,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA. Curated by Jan Ernst Adelmann
Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1973
Gallery TJB, Newport Beach, CA
“Recent Sculpture,” University of California, Irvine, CA
1971
“Something before the eyes that fixes the mind,” Purcell Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions2026
“Living Proof / Living Archives: Action / Artifacts from Cirrus Gallery,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Alberto Cuadros
2019
“Altered States,” Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2018
“Burn Baby Burn,” Heather Gaudio Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
“7 Painters,” Gallery 478, San Pedro, CA. Curated by Ron Linden
2015
“Untethered,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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 at Warshaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
2011
“Best Kept Secret: UCI and the development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964–1971,” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, 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
“Process Art. West Coast, 70s, 80s, 90s,” Bakersfield Museum of Art and Todd Madigan Gallery at California State University, Bakersfield, CA
“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 California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
1996
“Blindsight,” Mendenhall Art Gallery, Whittier, CA
“CSLA Alumni Exhibition,” Harriet Luckman Fine Art Center, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1995
“Made in L.A. The Prints of Cirrus Editions,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Bruce Davis
1994
“Paper Presence,” Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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
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, CA
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
“Shared Realities,” The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA. Curated by Kathy Rae Huffman
1986
“Intimate, Intimate,” Turman Gallery, Department of Art, Indiana State University, IN
“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
“Shared Realities: A Cultural Arts Cable Programming Series,” Cable television, aired on Long Beach Cablevision’s local Channel 3, LBMA Video, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA. Executive Producer: Kathy Rae Huffman
“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, CA
“Art as Alchemy,” University Art Gallery, Cal State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
1982
“909 Cirrus a Venezia,” Galleria del Cavallino, 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
“Echange Entre Artistes 1931–1982, Pologne – USA: Une Experience Museographique,” ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
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
“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
“Paper as Medium,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
“From California – A World of Unique Textural Beauty,” Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Faculty Exhibit, Los Angeles Harbor College of Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, NY
1977
“Eleven San Pedro Artists,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA
“Artist’s Books,” University of California, San Diego, CA
“Miniature,” California State University, Los Angeles, CA
“Paper Art,” Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College / Pomona College, Claremont, CA
“Harbor College Presents: Long Beach Museum of Art Southland Video Anthology,” Los Angeles Harbor College Fine Arts Gallery, Wilmington, CA
“The Whitney Counterweight Exhibition,” New York, NY
Contemporary Graphics Center, Santa Barbara, CA
“Material Abstraction,” Showcase Galleries, Southfield, Detroit, MI
“Hill, McCafferty, Kish, Sturman,” Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
“PRINTS: Hill, McCafferty, Kish, Sturman,” Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, NY
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
Krebs Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
1975
“Landscape Studies in Video,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA. Curated by David Ross
“On the Other Side of the Looking Glass,” Newspace Gallery at the Bowers Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Video Anthology I,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
“Recent Work,” Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“University of California Irvine, 1965–1975,” La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
“The First Decade,” Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1974
“Contemporary Idioms,” Art Galleries of the 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
1973
“The Festival of Contemporary Arts,” Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
1971
“San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition,” M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and other venues, San Francisco, CA
“Small Images: 17th Annual All California Purchase Prize Competition,” California State College, Los Angeles, CA
“Fiber as Line,” California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1970
“Expo ’70: 16th Annual All California Purchase Prize Competition,” Laguna Beach Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

Selected Publications2024
Pindera, Agnieszka, with Polit, Paweł and Słaboń, Natalia, eds. The 1982 Cultural Exchange Between Łódź and Los Angeles, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland.
2015
Untethered. Gerard Bane, Charles Christopher Hill, Jane Hugentober, Ted Kerzie, Gloria Kisch, Jay McCafferty, and Ed Moses, Cirrus Gallery.
2012
Franck, Peter, Linden, Ron (curator), and Plagens, Peter. PSST: Art in San Pedro 2000–2012, TransVagrant at Warshaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA.
2011
Kook-Anderson, Grace; Peter Frank; Marilyn Nix. Best Kept Secret: UCI and the development of contemporary art in Southern California, 1964–1971, Laguna Art Museum.
Platt, Mary (editor). The Chapman University Collections, Chapman University Press, Orange, CA.
2010
Kienholz, Lyn and Betinski, Elizabeta, Nelson, Corinne (contributing editors). L.A. Rising. SoCal Artists Before 1980, California International Arts Foundation, 2010.
2008
Phillips, Glenn. California Video: Artists and Histories, Getty Research Institute, 2008.
Los Angeles 1955–1985 Birth of an Art Capital, Center Pompidou, Paris.
2005
Linden, Ron. Jay McCafferty, Gallery 478, San Pedro, CA.
1997
Schipper, Merle. Process Art. West Coast, 70s, 80s, 90s, The Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield and The Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA.
1995
Davis, Bruce and Barron, Stephanie. Made in L.A. The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995.
1986
Church Holland, Katherine. The Art Collection, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
My Heart Belongs to Pasadena, Pasadena Art Alliance.
1982
Pagé, Suzanne, Hultén, Pontus, and Stanislawski, Ryszard. Echange Entre Artistes 1931–1982, Pologne – USA: Une Experience Museographique, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
1981
Barron, Stephanie. The Museum as Site: Sixteen Projects, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1979
Larsen, Susan C. Jay McCafferty’s Roman Numerals, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
McDonald, Robert (Senior Curator, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art), Jay McCafferty.
1977
Douke, Daniel and Ballatore, Sandy. Miniature, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA.
1975
St. Pierre, Jean. McCafferty DeLap, Baxter Gallery, CalTech, Pasadena, CA.
1971
Linhares, Philip. San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
Selected CollectionsLACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA
The Chapman University Collection, Orange, CA
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, CA
Awards and Grants1976
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship Grant
1974
“The New Talent Award,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Teaching1976–2019
Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA
Selected Press2012
Mahbubani, Rhea. “A Burning Artistic Passion.” Los Angeles Times, December 20.
2008
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Rewind and Play: 40 Years of California Video Art.” Los Angeles Times, March 16.
2005
Allen, James Preston. “Painting with Fire.” Random Length, December 23.
2004
Gilbert, Rick. “Jay McCafferty and John Paul Jones.” Artweek.
1991
Bulmer, Marge. “Jay McCafferty.” ArtScene, July/August.
1990
Frank, Peter. “Ralph Humphrey, Anna Bialabroda, Jay McCafferty.” LA Weekly, November 30.
1988
Bravin, Jess. “A Burning Mission.” Los Angeles Times, October 26.
1986
Schipper, Merle. “Excavations of Landscape.” Artweek.
1984
Shirle, Gottlieb. “Artist Who Does a Slow Burn.” Press-Telegram, January 27.
Pincus, Robert L. “To See Ourselves as Others See Us.” Los Angeles Times, February 19.
1983
Zimmerer-McKelvie, Kathy. “Some Humorous Video.” Images & Issues, November/December.
Larsen, Suzan C. “Jay McCafferty.” ARTnews, September.
1982
Singerman, Howard. “Art in Los Angeles.” Artforum, March.
1980
Knight, Christopher. “Review: Jay McCafferty, Cirrus Gallery Ltd.” Artforum, May.
Boettger, Suzaan. “Creation by Fire.” Artweek, February 23.
Wortz, Melinda. “Hieroglyphic Umbrellas.” ARTnews, May.
1979
Wortz, Melinda. “Collaborating with Nature.” Artweek, no. 10, March 17.
1977
Spellman, Martha. “McCafferty Works with Photographs.” Artweek, November.
1976
Ballatore, Sandy. “McCafferty at Cirrus.” Art in America, March/April.
Dunham, Judith L. “Making Art with the Sun.” Artweek, June 19.
1975
Welling, James. “Landscape Video.” Artweek, October 25.
Spelman, Martha. “Jay McCafferty Works with Photography.” Artweek, November 19.
Ballatore, Sandy. Review of “Jay McCafferty” at Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles. Art in America, March/April.
1974
Wortz, Melinda. “Jay McCafferty: Videotapes and Books.” Artweek, April 27.