Jared leClaire
Visual Artist
Education
2024 (Forthcoming) Syracuse University, MFA Sculpture
2020 University of Wisconsin Stout, BFA Studio Art Sculpture
Solo Exhibitions:
2020 Gallery 209, Garden of Forking Paths Menomonie, WI
2018 Shift, Line Meditations, Eau Claire, WI
The Raw Deal, Fredrick is Dead, Menomonie, WI
2017 A Clean Poorly Lighted Space, Street Candy, Menomonie, WI
Group Exhibitions:
2023 Ki Smith Gallery, Liquidity, New York City, NY
MCAD 148 Gallery, Spaces Between, Minneapolis, MN
Flush Gallery, Mirrored Enchantments, New York City, NY
Governors Island, Passage Beyond, New York City, NY
Governors Island, Outsiders, New York City, NY
Ubique Gallery, 23 artist in 2023, online exhibition
2022 The Lofts, Folding the Maze, Los Angeles, CA
Missiongathering Pasadena, House of Stained Glass, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Foot in the Door V, Minneapolis, MN
Casket Factory, If it’s true it’s true. But it’s not, Minneapolis, MN
Corona Portrait, Corona Portrait Project, online gallery created by Benjamin Mefford
Social Distance Gallery, BFA and MFA thesis shows, online gallery created by Benjamin Cook
2019 Gallery 209, Your head is older than your feet, Menomonie, WI
Gallery 209, Put it in your mouth, Menomonie, WI
Showroom 121, Steve’s Big Break, Menomonie, WI
2018 Gallery 209, Row Dash, Menomonie, WI
Art Fly, Touch Me Baby, Eau Claire, WI
Gallery 209, Just passing through, Menomonie, WI
Furlong, National Association School of Art and Design Juried Show, Menomonie, WI
2016 Furlong, Prometheus, Menomonie, WI
Residencies:
2023 Governors Island Residency (12 weeks), New York City, NY
2022 LA Turner Residency (15 weeks), Los Angeles, CA
Related Experience:
2024 Teaching Sculpture I at Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
2023 Teach sculpture II at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Project Lead for install of Nao Bustamante’s Bloom, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2022 Teaching Sculpture I at Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
Panel Speaker for Art & Design Week at University of Wisconsin Stout
Art Assistant for Nao Bustamante
Stagehand for Boney Manilli workshop by Edgar Arceneaux
2021 Shop technician at Comstock Art Facilities, Syracuse, NY
Co-owner of Random Access, Syracuse, NY
2019 Founder and co-owner of Gallery 610, Menomonie, WI
Teacher Assistant to Kelly O’Brien at University of Wisconsin Stout, Menomonie, WI
2018 CSII Controversial Art on Campus Workshop, Menomonie, WI
2017 Jewelry and Contemporary Metals Lab monitor, Menomonie, WI
Awards:
2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Alumni Microgrant
2020 Mike’s Art & Supply Stipend Award
Ambient Ink, Chippewa Valley Artist Relief Fund
Publications:
2023 Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Interview and featured photo for Liquidity at Ki Smith by Clare Gemima
2021 Journal of Student Research, UW Stout
2020 Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Featured photo in Interview with Benjamin Cook, creator of The Social Distance Gallery Project
2019 UW-Stout News, Two art students, alumnus start Gallery 610 in Menomonie
Stoutonia, For Artists, by Artists
Volume One, UW-Stout Art Students Open New Gallery Space in Menomonie