Jerome Caja – Biography
| Jerome Caja *This Bibliography was created in 2000 for the exhibition |
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| Education | |
| 1986 | MFA San Francisco Art Institute |
| 1984 | BFA, Cleveland State University |
| Solo Exhibitions and Performances | |
| 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, 1990 | |
| 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, 1993 | |
| Bonetti, David “Drag Queen Waxes Cosmetic to Create ‘Compact’ Exhibit,” San Francisco Examiner, April 11, 1993 | |
| Crowder, Joan “And In The End,” Santa Barbara news Press, July 19, 1991 | |
| Ford, Dave “Glamour? Jerome,” Bay Area Reporter, April 5, 1990 | |
| Friedman, Robert “From Jesus To Bozo, “The Sentinel, April 12, 1990 | |
| Helfand, Glen “Visible Alternatives,” SF Weekly, April 11, 1990 | |
| Green, Roger “Probing Show Tackles Social Conventions,” Lagniappe, New Orleans, January 11, 1991 | |
| Knight, Christopher “10 California Artists “Facing The Finish,” Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1992 | |
| Koskovich, Gerard “He Covers The Garbage Front: Jerome Caja Turns Trash Into Treasures,” The Advocate, December 4, 1990 | |
| The 65th May Show, Ceramic Monthly, November, 1984 | |
| Marclay, Catherine “New World, New Gallery, New Visions,”San Jose Mercury News Eye, October 22, 1993 | |
| Probart, Jeff “X-Art Coalition deals in Gender and Prepresentation,” Crescent City Star, New Orleans, January 18, 1991 | |
| 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, 1991 | |
| “Art Now ’86″San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Graduate Exhibition Catalogue, 1986 | |
| “‘Bad Girls’:Feminism on Wry,” Los Angeles Times, February 8, 1994 | |
| “Dear Diary:What A Party! From Weird To Outrageous During Gay Freedom Week,” San Francisco Examiner, June 28, 1990 | |
| “Explosion of Gay AIDS Art,” San Francisco Examiner, June 28, 1990 | |
| “Facing the Finish,” ARTnews, December, 1991 | |
| “Give ’em that ol’ tired religion,” San Francisco Examiner, April 15, 1994 | |
| “Modernism Goes International,”San Francisco Examiner, September 20, 1990 | |
| “The Vision of A Saint,” Bay Area Reporter, April 5, 1990 | |





