Biography

Biography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

1945

born in Bardowick, Northern Germany as a son to ukrainian refugees

1950

The artist's family emigrates to Boulder, Colorado, USA

1969

Master of Fine Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

1969

Moves to New York

1973-74

Stipend to stay and work in Hamburg, Germany

1977-1978

DAAD-Stipend in Berlin, Germany

1981

Fellowship for painting by the National Endowment for the Arts

1992-2010

Professorship for painting at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Munich, Germany

Lives and works in Munich and New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1971 What`s Happening in SoHo, University of Maryland,
Baltimore (C)

1973 Prospect 73: Maler, Painters, Peintres, Kunsthalle
Düsseldorf (C)

1974 Geplante Malerei, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Galleria Milione, Mailand (C)
Grado Zero, Galleria La Bertesca, Mailand
Galleria 2, Bologna,
Galleria La Bertesca, Düsseldorf (C)

1975 Fundamental Painting, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
(C)
Empirica, Museo Castelvecchio, Verona (C)

1976 I Colori della pittura: Una Situazione Europea, Instituto
Italo-Latino- Americano, Rom (C)

1977 documenta 6, Kassel (C)
Bilder ohne Bilder, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn (C)

1978 Abstraction Analytique, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de
la ville de Paris (C)
In the Realm of the Monochromatic, Susan Caldwell Gallery,
New York
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (C)

1979 New Painting New York, Hayward Gallery, London (C)
Painting and Structure, Rosa Esman Gallery , New York

1980 ROSC 80 - The Poetry of Vision, Dublin (C)

1981 Directions 1981, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Sarah Campbell Plaffer Gallery, University of Houston (C)
Painting about Painting, Ben Shahn Gallery
William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey (C)
Dark Thoughts, Black Paintings, Pratt Manhattan Center
Gallery, New York

1982 Hommage au Monet, Neue Pinakothek, München
Purism, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York

1983 Nocturne, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York
New Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Color Painting: 3 New York Painters, Druckwerk, München
Bilder von 7 Malern, Klausstr. 11, Hamburg
Von der Ungleichheit des Ähnlichen in der Kunst: Arbeiten
auf Papier, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, Städtisches
Museum Gelsenkirchen, Kunstverein Unna (C)
1984 Radical Painting, Williams College Museum of Art,
Williamstown, Massachusetts (C)
Präsenz der Farbe: Radical Painting, Verein für Aktuelle
Kunst Oberhausen (C)
Heroic Poetic: Six New York Painters at Mid-Career and in
Two Scales, School of Visual Arts, New York

1985 A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton, Faculty
1979-1985, The Art Museum, Princeton University, New
Jersey (C)

1986 Abstract Painting, Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York

1987 Gegenstand: Malerei, Neue Galerie, Staatliche und
Städtische Kunstsammlungen Kassel (C)

1988 Discreet Power, New Issues in Reductivist Painting,
Rockford Art Museum, Illinois (C)
Summer Weight, Bali Miller Gallery, New York

1989 Einleuchten, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (C)
Distant Cousins, Michael Walls Gallery, New York

1990 Radikal auf Papier, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargau (C)
Quotations: Galerie Annemarie Verna, 1969-1989, Part III,
Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zürich

1993 James Reineking - Jerry Zeniuk, Künstlerwerkstatt
Lothringerstraße, München (C)
Galerie Karin Fesel, Düsseldorf (C)
abstrakt. Der Deutsche Künstlerbund in Dresden 1993,
Albertinum der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen,
Militärhistorisches Museum und Dresdner Schloß, Dresden
(C)

1994 Begegnungen, Galerie Hartl, Stuttgart
prima idea. Der Deutsche Künstlerbund in Mannheim 1994,
Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit, Mannheim (C)

1995 Verlangen (James Reineking, Jerry Zeniuk), Galerie
Friebe, Lüdenscheid
Eurami, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (C)

1996 Reimer Jochims, Winfried Virnich, Jerry Zeniuk,
Galerie Michael Zink, Regensburg

2000 "Paintings", Maximilian Krips Galerie, Köln

2004
"Das erinnerte Haus", Mobile Städtische Galerie im Museum Folkwang, Essen

2006
"Rolf Rose - Adrian Schiess - Jerry Zeniuk", Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany
"Painted in Munich", Rupert Walser, München, Germany
"Plane/Figure", Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Germany
"Color Based Paintings II", Bergner + Job Galerie, Mainz, Germany

2007
"paint it blue", Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

2008
quattro pro : Kornbrust, Prangenberg, Reineking, Zeniuk Rupert Walser, München
inventur – Zeitgenössische Radierung in Deutschland, Kunstverein Reutlingen
Color Based Paintings, Bergner & Job Galerie, Mainz

2009
inventur – Zeitgenössische Radierung in Deutschland, Picasso Museum - Münster
Gipfeltreffen der Moderne Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn