Jillian Crochet
jilliancrochet@gmail.com
Education
MFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. 2020
BFA Sculpture and Digital Media, Cum Laude with honors, University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa, AL. 2006
Solo Installations/Shows
My Beating Heart, South Baldwin Regional Medical Center, Foley, AL. 2016
Limbs of an Ethereal Heritage, Mobile Arts Council, Mobile, AL. 2015
Hooked in Tentacles, Fairhope Brewery, Fairhope, AL. 2015
My Beating Heart, Mobile Arts Council, Mobile, AL. 2015
Once in a Blue Moon, PortAL Studio, Mobile, AL. 2014
Art Play, The Hive, Mobile, AL. 2013
Figures, The Blind Mule, Mobile, AL. 2013
Crochet Me Lovely, Optera Gallery, Mobile, AL. 2013
Keep On, The Powder Room, Fairhope, AL. 2012
Group Shows
Here to Lounge, Nook Gallery, Oakland, CA. 2020
Recoding CripTech, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA. 2020
A Library that Wanted to Be a Garden, Meyer Library, Oakland, CA. 2019
Other Bodies, Mimesis Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2019
Anthropocene, E.M. Wolfman, CA. 2018
Memory Order, Isabelle Percy West Gallery, Oakland, CA. 2018
Caught in the Fray, College Ave Gallery, Oakland, CA. 2018
Out of Body, PS8 gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2017
New Look, Hubble Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2017
A Pose By Any Other Name, First City Art Center Gallery, Pensacola, FL. 2016
The Biennial 2015, Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy, AL. 2015
Psyche Solstice, PortAL Studio, Mobile, AL. 2015
The Art and Design of Mardi Gras, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL. 2014
Windows are the eyes…, Lunatix & Co., Mobile, AL. 2014
Psychquinox, PortAL Studio, Mobile, AL. 2014
Temporal City Festival, The Temple, Mobile, AL. 2014
Excess Migration Fashion Show, Lunatix & Co, Mobile, AL. 2014
Temporal City Festival, abandoned warehouses, Mobile, AL. 2013
Figure Show, PortAL Studio, Mobile, AL. 2013
Nudes in November, Blue Velvet Gallery, Mobile, AL. 2013
Mobile Arts Council Members Show, Mobile, AL. 2013
Vessel 5, 401 Dauphin St., Mobile, AL. 2013
Psychquinox , PortAL Studio, Mobile, AL. 2013
Friday Art Walk , The Blind Mule, Mobile, AL. 2013
Eastern Shore Art Center Members Show , Fairhope, AL. 2012
Nudes in November , Blue Velvet Gallery, Mobile, AL. 2012
20 Pages , Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center, Ocean Springs, MS. 2012
Members Juried Show , Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL. 2012
Eastern Shore Art Center Members Sales Gallery , Fairhope, AL. 2012
Performances
Wippppp, Beauty Supply Arts, Oakland, CA. 2019
Performance Takeover, Hubble Galleries, San Francisco, CA. 2019
Unearthed, Counterpulse, San Francisco, CA. 2019
Unearthed, ProArts, Oakland, CA. 2018
Performance Night III, Provoke Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2018
Performance Night II, The Trapezoid, San Francisco, CA. 2018
Performance Night, The Trapezoid, San Francisco, CA. 2017
Work Experience
Gallery Assistant, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. 2019-20
Teaching Assistant, California College of Arts, Intro Textiles. 2018, Art of Duration.
2019, Disability and Art. 2020
Co-curator, Useless Initiatives, Performance Night I-III and Takeover. 2017-20
Co-director, 3:1, critique group. 2018-19
Connects Fellow, Southern Exposure, research and development. 2018
Connects Fellow, Tenderloin Museum, exhibitions and design. 2017
Instructional Assistant, 3D: Shifting 2d+3d, CCA, sewing. 2017
Teen Coordinator, Fairhope Public Library; organize volunteers, marketing, outreach,
grants, programming, creation of Makerspace, teach makers. 2009-17
Artist member of Mobile Arts Council. 2012-17
Freelance Graphic Designer. 2010-ongoing
Artist member of Rumor Union, artist cooperative. 2012-15
Commissions & Awards
Thesis Prize, California College of the Arts. 2020
Ginny Kleker Award, California College of the Arts. 2019
Connects Fellowship, California College of the Arts. 2017
Fine Arts Scholarship, California College of the Arts. 2017
CCA Scholarship, California College of the Arts. 2017
Kay Sekimachi Endowed Scholarship, California College of the Arts. 2017
Graduate Chair Award, California College of the Arts. 2017
Commission for installation, Seagrass Festival, Dauphin Island, AL. 2014
Collaborative commission, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL. 2014
Commission for ceramic figurative sculpture, private collection, Fairhope, AL. 2013
Sculpture Merit Award, Eastern Shore Art Center Members Juried Show. 2012
Commission for 6 sculptures for the Morris Dees Justice Awards, University of
Alabama, School of Law and Skadden Law Firm. 2007
Presentations
Workshop, Haptic Encounters, Headlands Center for the Arts. 2020
Workshop, Haptic Encounters, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. 2019
Workshop, Haptic Encounters, Beauty Supply Arts. 2019
Artist lecture, Mobile Arts Council. 2015
Artist lecture, Mobile Museum of Art. 2014
Press
Westin Monica. “In ‘Recoding CripTech’, Artists Highlight the Vital Role of Hacking in
Disability Culture”, Art in America, February 2020.
Seikaly, Roula. “Recoding CripTech Proudly Asserts Disability as an Identity and
Culture”, KQED , February 2020.
Lee, Kevin. “ Classic Mobile Tale ”, Lagniappe , July 2015.
Lee, Kevin. “At the Heart of the Matter ”, Lagniappe , February 2015.
Lee, Kevin. “ Group Effort ”, Lagniappe , December 2014.
Ickenberg, Tamara. “Artwalk this Way ”, AL.com , August 2013.