Jerome Caja

1958-1995

EDUCATION

1986 MFA San Francisco Art Institute
1984 BFA, Cleveland State University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2007
“Jerome Caja,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2005
“Jerome Caja,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1999
"Jerome Caja: Paintings From the Smithsonian Archives of American Art," Visual Arts Center, Fullerton, CA

1994
"Dirty Little Secrets," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1990
"Compact," Art Lick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1989
"Cosmetic Miracles," Force Nordstrom Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000
"Made in California," LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Odyssey and Underworld," SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998
"Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
"Cocktail Hour: New Imagery in the AIDS Era," SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

1997
"Nature vs. Nurture," SF State University, San Francisco, CA

1996
"In A Different Light," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
"Millennium Coming: The New Degenerate Art Show," The Lab, San Francisco, CA

1995
"Day Without Art," Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA

1994
"Toilet Water," Kiki, San Francisco, CA
"Bad Girls," Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993
"In Out Of The Cold," Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, San Francisco, CA

1991
"Tricks and Treats," Art Lick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Facing the Finish," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

1990
"X-Mas Show," Art Lick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Sophia," Art Lick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1989
"X-Mas Show," Art Lick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Cats," Force Nordstrom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Hospital Party," A Different Light Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Go-Go To Hell," Art Lick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986
Art Now '86, Master of Art Graduate Exhibition, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA

1985
"Art From God," Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1982
May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH
Cleveland State Student Exhibition, Cleveland, OH

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abbot, Steve "As The Legend Grows: A Chat With Jerome About His Life and Art," Bay Area Reporter, April 5, 2023
Avena, Thomas Jerome: After the Pageant, Bastard Books, San Francisco, 1996
Avena, Thomas Life Sentences, Writers, Artists, and AIDS, Mercury House Books, 1994
Baker, Kenneth "Critics Preview Yerba Events," San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 2023
Bonetti, David "Drag Queen Waxes Cosmetic to Create 'Compact' Exhibit," San Francisco Examiner, April 11, 2023
Crowder, Joan "And In The End," Santa Barbara news Press, July 19, 2023
Ford, Dave "Glamour? Jerome," Bay Area Reporter, April 5, 2023
Friedman, Robert "From Jesus To Bozo, "The Sentinel, April 12, 2023
Helfand, Glen "Visible Alternatives," SF Weekly, April 11, 2023
Green, Roger "Probing Show Tackles Social Conventions," Lagniappe, New Orleans, January 11, 2023
Knight, Christopher "10 California Artists "Facing The Finish," Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2023
Koskovich, Gerard "He Covers The Garbage Front: Jerome Caja Turns Trash Into Treasures," The Advocate, December 4, 2022
The 65th May Show, Ceramic Monthly, November, 1984
Marclay, Catherine "New World, New Gallery, New Visions,"San Jose Mercury News Eye, October 22, 2022
Probart, Jeff "X-Art Coalition deals in Gender and Prepresentation," Crescent City Star, New Orleans, January 18, 2023
Strauss, David Levi "Jerome Caja, Force Nordstrom Gallery," Artforum, April 1989
Turner, Fred "Resurrection," The Boston Phoenix, December 1996
Van Proyen, mark "Born To Shop," Artweek, October 24, 2022
"Art Now '86"San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Graduate Exhibition Catalogue, 1986
"'Bad Girls':Feminism on Wry," Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2023
"Dear Diary:What A Party! From Weird To Outrageous During Gay Freedom Week," San Francisco Examiner, June 28, 2023
"Explosion of Gay AIDS Art," San Francisco Examiner, June 28, 2023
"Facing the Finish," ARTnews, December, 1991
"Give 'em that ol' tired religion," San Francisco Examiner, April 15, 2023
"Modernism Goes International,"San Francisco Examiner, September 20, 2023
"The Vision of A Saint," Bay Area Reporter, April 5, 2023

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