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Jay Batlle

Birthplace

Syracuse, NY

Birth year

1976

Lives in

New York and France

Works in

New York and France

Website

http://www.jaybatlle.com

Representing galleries

1000 Eventi Gallery, Nyehaus

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Statement

Jay Batlle is an American artist born in 1976, who received his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA in 1998. He attended the Ateliers in Amsterdam from 1998 to 2000. His work has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including The Chelsea Museum, Exit Art, and The Dorsky Gallery in New York, and Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenossische Kunst in Muenster, Germany.

Jay Batlle's epicurean paintings, drawings, and sculptures use gourmet cooking and foodie practices as both inspiration and social critique.

Batlle collects and recreates restaurant stationery, which he gleans from different eating establishments around the world. The stationery serves as the backdrop for his highly visceral medium, which includes food coloring, red wine, and coffee stains, along with traditional paint. Batlle adds to the back of his finished stationery paintings deconstructed recipes and vignettes from his life, such as photographs, found objects, and old exhibition cards, that fill yet another layer of meta-discursive reflection in the pieces, footnotes of a life.

Recently Batlle’s work was presented in New York at Casey Kaplan Gallery in a group exhibition called Everything Must Go organized by José Noé and Eduardo Sarabia. This Fall Batlle will present a solo exhibition titled Sauce Américaine at Clages Gallery in Köln, Germany. Batlle’s Free Lunch at the Museum of Fine Arts Santiago, Chile is his first one-man museum exhibition and a catalog will be published for the occasion. Batlle had the last solo exhibition at Nyehaus’s Gramercy Park location called Cutting Out The Middleman in 2009. His work was included in Swell, a group exhibition at Metro Pictures, Fredrich Petzel Gallery, and Nyehaus curated in 2010 by Tim Nye and Jacqueline Miro.

Education:	University of California Los Angeles, 1998 BA. Atelier's 63 Fellowship, Amsterdam 1999-2000
Solo Exhibitions	2011 Free Lunch (forthcoming with catalog) Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile 2009 Cutting Out The Middleman Nyehaus, New York, NY RESTAURANT-RESTAURANT AFP Gallery, Fuller Building, New York, NY 2007 Last Minute Reservations AFP Gallery, Fuller Building, New York, NY Joie de Vivre (site-specific project) Jolie Restaurant, Brooklyn, NY 2005 Epicurean Drawings Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, NY Excellent Napkins 1000eventi Gallery, Milano, Italy 2003 The Trouble with Having an Interior Designer for a Mother, 1000eventi Gallery, Milano, Italy 2002 Ten Sculptures Esso Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions	2011 Everything Must Go Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY LocalHost AUSSTELLUNGSHALLE ZEITGENOSSISCHE KUNST MUENSTER, GERMANY 2010 Swell Metro Pictures, Nyehaus, & Fredrich Petzel Galleries New York. NY #2 Made In China Faire, defaire Studio, Paris, France 2009 #1 Made In China Faire, defaire Studio, Paris, France Naked! Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY #0 Made In China Faire, defaire Studio, Paris, France 5 + 1 1000eventi gallery, Milan, Italy 2008 Not So Subtle, Subtitle Curated by Matthew Brannon Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY Regional Delicacies: Alef's art mezze Curated by Ana Finel Honigman XVA Gallery Phillips de Pury, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2007 And Who Are You? Curated by Ana Finel Honigman Sara Tecchia Roma Gallery, New York, NY Rock, Paper, Scissors Judy Goldman Gallery, Boston, MA Arte Povera Now and Then Esso Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Music to My Eyes Esso Gallery, New York, NY The Food Show, The Hungry Eye Curated by Robert Edelman and Gina Flore The Chelsea Museum, New York, NY Mutiny Curated by David Hunt The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA Seeing Blue curated bu Charlie Scheips Gallery at Buck House,New York, NY The Monty Hall Problem Curated by Slater Bradley Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Flex Your Textile Curated by Travis Boyer/Ginger John Connelly Presents, New York, NY 2005 No Facsimile Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN 2004 I, Assassin Curated by Slater Bradley Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY Relentless Proselytizers Curated by David Hunt Feigen Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Labor Day, curated by David Hunt, Rare Gallery, New York, NY City Mouse/Country Mouse, curated by David Hunt, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Collaborative Exhibitions	2010 Way Out West RITA MC BRIDE Clages Colonge Germany with special Appearance by Foie Gras Luxe Sculpture 2007-6 The Myways ReadingsWhitney Museum & Printed Matter, New York, NY Short stories by Rita McBride et al., Printed Matter, Inc.; Whitney Museum of American Art; Arsenal Pulp Press. 2006 2003 Free at Last With Matthew Ronay, curated by Ken Freed Loop Gallery, Berlin, Germany BatllePagk With Paul Pagk, curated by Adrian Dannatt Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY 1998 A Sound Goodbye Demand With Slater Bradley Studio 870, Los Angeles, CA
Awards	Levenson Scholarship, UCLA 1996-1998 Atelier's 63 Post-Graduate Fellowship, Amsterdam 1999-2000
Published Writing	2001 Liminal Nostalgia, Press Release for Rita McBride Alexander and Bonin Gallery, NY (April) 2000 In a Times Squared Burger King, Normative Structures Collapse, P.S.1 Emerging Artist Series (September) 1998 Een Bleek Haus, Metropolis M, Amsterdam, May Issue

Recent Exhibits

Jay Batlle participated in these exhibits:

May, 2012	Parties of Six or More
	Nyehaus

Apr, 2012	Gourmand
	Art Finance Partners The Fuller Building

Nov, 2011	Sauce Américaine
	Clages

Aug, 2011	Free Lunch
	Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

Jun, 2011	EVERYTHING MUST GO
	Casey Kaplan Gallery

Jun, 2009	CUTTING OUT THE MIDDLEMAN
	Nyehaus

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Exhibited with these artists

Jay Batlle has Exhibited with these artists:

Exhibited at these venues

Jay Batlle has Exhibited at these venues:

Art Finance Partners The Fuller Building			Nyehaus
Clages			Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Casey Kaplan Gallery			Sara Tecchia Roma New York
Esso Gallery

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The Monty Hall Problem Curated by Slater Bradley