Jacob Kassay, Vue d’exposition / Installation view Nobody’s Home, 2022, 1413 5th Avenue New York/US 
Jacob Kassay, Vue d’exposition / Installation view Nobody’s Home, 2022, 1413 5th Avenue New York/US 
Lap Dissolve, 2020. UV print on OSB on aluminium, 75,72 x 56,36 cm (29 13/16 x 22 3/16 in.). Private Collection 
Axial Cut, 2020, detail. UV print on OSB on aluminium, 151,29 x 78,26 cm (59 9/16 x 30 13/16 in.) Available 
Axial Cut, 2020, detail. UV print on OSB on aluminium, 151,29 x 78,26 cm (59 9/16 x 30 13/16 in.) Available 
installation view, X, von ammon co, Washington/US, 2019 
Installation view, Rehang, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, 2019. Photo courtesy of Collezione Maramotti. Credits: Dario Lasagni 
Installation view, Mechanisms, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, 2018 
Untitled, 2016. Immiscible acrylic, oil stick on canvas, 26,7 x 17,7 cm (10 1/2 x 7 in.) Available 
Untitled, 2016. Immiscible acrylic, oil stick on canvas, 42 x 28 cm (16 1/2 x 11 in.) Available 
Installation view, Jacob Kassay, Fitzpatrick-Leland House, Los Angeles/US, 2015 
Installation view, Jacob Kassay, Fitzpatrick-Leland House, Los Angeles/US, 2015 
Untitled, 2015. Poplar, 30,3 x 39,5 cm (11 7/8 x 15 1/2 in.) Available 
Untitled, 2015. Poplar, 57,1 x 69,7 cm (22 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.) Available 
Untitled, 2015. Poplar, 197,4 x 99,9 cm (77 3/4 x 39 3/8 in.) Available 
Untitled, 2015, poplar, 57 1/2 x 8 in. Available 
Installation view, Love Story, Sammlung Anne & Wolfgang Titze, Belvedere, Vienna/AT, 2014 
End User, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 165,1 x 96,52 cm (65 x 38 in.) Unavailable 
Ensamble, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 25 1/2 x 60 1/4 in. Private collection US 
Installation view, Untitled (disambiguation)!, The Kitchen, New York/US, 2013 
Installation view, Untitled (disambiguation)!, The Kitchen, New York/US, 2013 
Installation view, EXPO 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York, 2013 
Untitled, 2013. Glass, library book, variable dimensions. Available 
Untitled, 2012, glass, library book, dimensions variable, internal no.12. Private collection US 
Installation view, Jacob Kassay, Protocinema, Istanbul/TR, 2013 
Untitled, 2013, acrylic on linen, curved wood stretcher with oak frame, triptych, 50 x 220 x 0 3/4 in. Private collection 
Installation view, IJK, 303 Gallery, New York/US, 2013 
Installation view, No Goal, Dallas Power Station, Dallas/US, 2012 
Untitled, 2012. Acrylic and silver deposit on canvas, 84 x 60 in. Private collection US 
Untitled, 2011. 16mm film installation, 27 min, projector, looper, 5-channel mixer, 2 speakers, contact microphone. Available 
Untitled, 2011, acrylic and silver deposit on canvas, polyptych of 8, 48 x 48 in. Installation view, Art Unlimited / Art Basel 42, 2011. Private collection 
Untitled, 2011, acrylic and silver deposit on canvas, polyptych of 8, 48 x 48 in. Installation view, Art Unlimited / Art Basel 42, 2011. Private collection 
Installation view, solo show, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London/UK, 2011 
Installation view, solo show, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London/UK, 2011 
Untitled, 2011, acrylic on linen, silver deposit on canvas, diptych, 10 x 14 in. Private collection FR 
Installation view, solo show, Art: Concept, Paris/FR, 2012 
Installation view, solo show, Art: Concept, Paris/FR, 2010
Biography
Born in 1984 in Lewiston, NY, Jacob Kassay lives and works in New York.
The artist challenges the traditional parameters of artmaking in conceptually driven installations that respond to and occupy their environment in unexpected ways. The arrangement of an exhibition and how his pieces interact with the surrounding architecture – and ultimately their audience – is key to understanding the essence of his work. Kassay’s paintings interrelate and form multiple dialogues: with each other, with the space around them and with the viewer.
The language of materials is important to Kassay, who pays great attention to form, surface and physicality. Although lacking marks that could be conceived as gestural, a close inspection of his seemingly blank or monotone paintings reveals traces of their making – small incidental marks, or burnt edges, for example. Jacob Kassay’s practice also encompasses film and sculpture.
Critic Alex Bacon has written that his work “actively poses the question—what does it mean to be represented?…This kind of aesthetic activity is suspended somewhere between the “real” world that is reflected, and the particular aesthetic world a painting inhabits as an…autonomous thing.”
His work is present, among others, in the following collections: Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA; Museo Di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rovereto, Italy.
Recent solo exhibitions: Project Room: Gallery Greta Meert, Brussels/BE (2023); Nobody’s home, 1413 5th Ave, New York/US (2022); Nude descending Staircase and Jacob Kassay, 303 Gallery, New York/US (2021); FOOTAGE, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo/US (2019); X, von ammon co, Washington/US (2019); Jacob Kassay, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul/KR (2018); Alarmer 2, team gallery, inc., Los Angeles/US (2017); Curated library, Reserve Ames, Los Angeles/US (2017); OTNY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo/US (2017); Fitzpatrick-Leland House, Los Angeles/US (2015); HIJK, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels/BE (2015). Group exhibitions: Expo 1, MOMA/PS1, New York (2013) ; The Surface of the East Coast from Nice to New York, Le 109 – Les Abattoirs, Nice (2017) et Other Mechanisms à Secession, Austria, Vienne (2018).