Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
1996 MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1992 BFA University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Solo Exhibitions
2024 solo exhibition Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2023 Duet, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 Weathers, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Forest, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 Window Prism Eyes, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Reflector, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Falling, Flowing, Still, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Arm of the Sea, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Sun Drawing Water, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Deep Sky Objects, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Monte Vista to Central, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Sun and Moon, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Looking Through Trees, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 David Patton Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2006 New Paintings, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 project.1, Mason Gross Art Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2004 Paintings, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Future points once past, London Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Two-Person Exhibitions
2019 The Day in the Night | Katy Cowan and Pamela Jorden, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Heliotrope | Pamela Jorden and John Pearson, Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2024 The Sky Has a Thousand Windows: Rema Ghuloum, Sky Glabush, Pamela Jorden, Sophie Treppendahl, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Hover: Alicia Cheatham, Amy Green, Pamela Jorden, 515 Bendix, Los Angeles, CA
The Holographic Principle, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pocket Universe, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Eureka! Creativity in California: Artists of the Golden State, California Governor's Mansion, Sacramento, CA (ongoing)
Holly Coulis, Jackie Gendel, Pamela Jorden, Yoora Lee, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
87 Franklin Inaugural, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Funhouse: A Celebration of Los Angeles Painting, Rory Devine Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Flying Colors, Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, Ohio (catalog)
2020 Brathwaite, Cheng, Coulis, Cowan, Dodge, Dove, Glabush, Huckaby, Jorden, Luck, O'Neill and Petit-Frère, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Club Kirk, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
No More Land West, Arm Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by David Bell and Visitor Welcome Center)
2019 Making Light @serioustopics, Barely Fair, Chicago, IL
Synthesis: Some Abstraction in Los Angeles, Peggy Phelps & East Galleries, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2018 Take Up Space, Pizutti Collection, Columbus, OH
Genius Loci 6: Focus Los Angeles - Present Progressive, Seterah Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Carry the Bend, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
Glass Tambourine, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA
2017 Wrong II, Post Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Selections: NYC, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
Her California Continuum, 60 Wall Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Small Painting, County Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2015 Around Flat, Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY
Made by Hand, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Now-ism: Abstraction Today, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
2013 Paper, AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Alice Konitz, Pamela Jorden, Jeff Ono, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Forms of Abstraction, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2012 The Subterraneans, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Summer Sun, Taylor de Cordoba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Bon Voyage, WPA, Los Angeles, CA
Snowclones, ArtBlogArtBlog, New York, NY
Being There, UT Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
The Working Title, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY, (catalog)
2010 One Year Anniversary Group Show, WPA, Los Angeles, CA
Swap Thing, WPA Los Angeles, CA
Sun Zoom Spark, WPA, Los Angeles, CA (curator)
2009 Newman's Subconscious, West Los Angeles College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
An Exhibition of Selected Skills of the Unemployed, WPA, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Pruesspress, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
Some Abstraction Occurs, 65Grand, Chicago IL
2007 'jerks, balks, outblurts, and jump-overs', Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Public Park, Antai Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Themes and Variations, New Abstraction in Los Angeles, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Superfudge, Balmoral, Los Angeles, CA
Between the Clock and the Bed, David Patton Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (curator)
2006 Jim and Rebecca [heart symbol] Painting, Pasadena City College Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Reality is an Activity of the Most August Imagination, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(Keep Feeling) Fascination: Recent Abstract Painting in Los Angeles, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
CRG Presents Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, CRG, New York, NY
2005 The Picture I Carry in My Head, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 31+ Flavors, Antai Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art For Kerry, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
July Indies, Gallery Augusta, Chicago, IL
Mail in Show, London Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Next Wave, The Black Dragon Society Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Time Lines, Signal 66 Artspace, Washington, DC (catalog)
2001 Saturation, Project Gallery at the Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
Stone Soup, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Studio 870, Los Angeles, CA
Fricxtion, Centre d’Art microscopique de Paris, Paris, France
2000 Cellar Dweller, Studio 870, Los Angeles, CA
1999 One Night Stand, Park Plaza Lodge, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Line of Sight, Cool Ranch, Lancaster, CA
Public Collections
Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts/University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL)
Columbus Museum of Art/The Pizzuti Collection (Columbus, Ohio)
Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)
Fidelity Collection (Boston, MA)
New York-Presbyterian (New York, NY)
Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI)
Publications/Press
Sarah Hotchkiss, “Paintings that Feel Like an Eerily Helpful Tarot Reading,” KQED, October 15, 2021.
Rahel Aima, “Why Artists Are Turning to Tondo Paintings,” Artsy.net, November 11, 2021.
David Rhodes, “Pamela Jorden: Reflector”, The Brooklyn Rail, June 2020.
Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson, Art in the Making: Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2016) 51.
Pamela Jorden 2004 – 2014, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2015.
New American Paintings, Editor’s Pick, 2015, Pacific Coast, Issue #121.
Kenneth Baker, “Pamela Jorden”, Artnews, January 2015.
Geoff Tuck, “Peripheral Vision and Conversation with Pam Jorden,” Notes on Looking, July 21, 2013.
Kaveri Nair, “Alice Konitz, Pamela Jorden, Jeff Ono,” Critics Picks, Artforum.com, May 2013.
Mark Van Proyen, “Pamela Jorden”, Art in America, December 2011.
Mark Van Proyen, “Presence Past and Reverie Future: Thoughts on Recent Abstract Painting”, Squarecylindar.com, Oct. 5, 2011.
Zachary Royer Scholz, “Looking Through Trees”, Artpractical.com, Sept 2011.
Stephen Maine, "Variety Trumps Argument at the Bronx River Art Center", Artcritical.com, April 23, 2011.
Mario Vasquez and Pamela Jorden (interview), Super Mario’s Art: Fine Art in the Fast Lane, mariosartworld.blogspot.com.
Dan Gunn, “Some Abstraction Occurs”, Newcity Chicago, January 11, 2008.
Peter Frank, “ ‘Themes and Variations’ at the Torrance Art Museum”, Artweek, November 2007, p. 19.
Stephen Maine, "Pamela Jorden", Art in America, April 2007.
Julie Joyce, "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", Exhibition Brochure, 2006.
Katherine Satorius, "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", Artweek, June 2006.
Stephen Maine, "Dateline Brooklyn", Artnet, December 14, 2004.
Elizabeth Pence, "The Next Wave", Artweek, May 2004, p.21.
Judy Jashinsky, Time Lines, November 2003, Exhibition Catalogue.
"Free Spirits", Los Angeles Times Magazine, September 24, 2000, p. 27.
Rex Ravenelle, "Cool Ranch", Finger, Newsletter for Contemporary Cultural Phenomena, October 1998, p. 3.
Florian Haas and Martin Schmidl, Greater Los Angeles, Hausser, Frankfurt, Germany, 1998, p. 125. (Interview)
Teaching Experience/Visiting Artist Workshops/Panels
2020 Visiting Artist Presentation, The Spence School, New York, NY
2019 Painting Workshop, Simultaneous Contrast: Experiments with Color, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
2018 Visiting Faculty, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2015-17 Adjunct Faculty in Painting, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2015 Visiting Faculty, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Visiting Artist Lecture and Student Exhibition Juror, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Adjunct Faculty in Painting, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2012 Adjunct Faculty in Painting, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2010-11 Visiting Lecturer in Drawing and Painting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2009 Painting Panel Discussion, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Visiting Artist, The Spence School Summer Arts Program, New York, NY
2005 Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1996 Teaching Assistant, Beginning Video Production and Critique, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Assistant Photography Instructor, Community Arts Partnership, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA