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BIOGRAPHY
[ Link to The Jay DeFeo Trust online biography]
Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was a major figure in the San Francisco Bay Area art world. Her work is included in the collections of the the Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Pompidou; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. In the 1950s she exhibited at the Dilexi Gallery in San Francisco and the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. Exhibitions of her work include Sixteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art (1959); WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2007, traveled to multiple venues); Traces of the Sacred in Twentieth Century Art, Centre Pompidou / Haus der Kunst, Munich (2008); elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou (2009). In 2012 there will be a retrospective of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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