Alexander Jarman
Alexander Jarman has worked as an educator and curator for art museums and institutions including the Walters Art Museum, The San Diego Museum of Art, and Point Loma Nazarene University. He has also curated exhibitions for Maryland Art Place, School 33 Art Center, Helmuth Projects, and Southwestern College. He is co-Founder and Curator at Cardinal gallery space and runs the monthly listening party called Baltimore Kissa Society.
As a curator, he has worked with artists including Roberto Lugo, The Protest Banner Lending Library, Maria Chavez, The Yes Men, Yinka Shonibare, M.B.E., Pierre Bismuth, Jon Rubin, My Barbarian, Mark Tribe, Steve Lambert and Jaimie Warren. He has served as a Board Member for arts organizations including The Motor House, Jubilee Arts, and SDSpace4Art. He has been a guest lecturer/visiting critic at University of Maryland Baltimore County and Maryland Institute College of Art.
Occasionally, his personal art practice shows up in galleries around the country.
Curatorial Experience
Hidden Paths: An Exhibition About Walking As Art, Cardinal, Baltimore, MD – 2019
Time and Place, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD – 2019
Crisis of Connection: Constructing Male Identity, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD – 2019
ART/SOUND/NOW 2019, The Walters Art Museum; Baltimore, MD – 2019
Intention/Resolution, Cardinal, Baltimore, MD – 2019
Roberto Lugo: Kicking in the Doorway, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD – 2018
Waving and Wavering: Contemporary Artist Flags, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD – 2018
ART/SOUND/NOW 2018, The Walters Art Museum; Baltimore, MD – 2018
Muses Past: Photographs by David Amos, Cardinal, Baltimore, MD – 2018
The Post Contemporary Records Store, Cardinal, Baltimore, MD – 2017
ART/SOUND/NOW 2017, The Walters Art Museum; Baltimore, MD – 2017
Sillage: Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum; Baltimore, MD – 2016
ART/SOUND/NOW 2016, The Walters Art Museum; Baltimore, MD – 2016
What’s Right for Your Family?; multiple venues in FL, MI, TX, OR, MN, and NC – 2016
ART/SOUND/NOW 2015, The Walters Art Museum; Baltimore, MD – 2015
Jaimie Warren: You Are Not Alone, Helmuth Projects; San Diego, CA – 2014
Summer Break, The San Diego Museum of Art; San Diego, CA – 2013
Double Portraits, The San Diego Museum of Art; San Diego, CA – 2013
The Summer Salon Series: Beyond the Banner, The San Diego Museum of Art; San Diego, CA – 2012
Imagined as the Truth: Works by Yinka Shonibare, M.B.E., The San Diego Museum of Art; San Diego, CA – 2012
In the Garden of Earthly Delights: A Writerz Blok Mural, The San Diego Museum of Art; San Diego, CA – 2011
The Summer Salon Series: What Does A City Need?, The San Diego Museum of Art; San Diego, CA – 2011
More Real Than Life, Southwestern College; San Diego, CA – 2011
The Summer Salon Series, The San Diego Museum of Art; San Diego, CA – 2010
Exhibitions as an Artist
-Ritual, Heavy Bubble, Philadelphia, PA, 2016
-Lure, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA 2014
-Who is Your Neighbor?, Bread and Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA 2013
-The Afterfuture, Canvas Gallery, San Diego, CA 2013
-Object, Object!, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA 2013
-New Contemporaries: The San Diego Art Prize, San Diego, CA 2012
-ReCover, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011
-This is a City, Sala de Espera, San Diego, CA 2011
-Picnic, Art Labs San Diego, San Diego, CA 2011
-CityBeat Covers, Alexander Salazar Gallery, San Diego, CA 2011
-Social Climbing, Seminal Projects, San Diego, CA 2009