Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, 1963
EDUCATION
1989 MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1986 BFA Appalachian Center for Arts and Crafts Smithville, TN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 “Early Works”, Gasser Grunert Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
“Doug Jeck Access”, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 “Doug Jeck: Recent Sculpture”, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco
1998 “Doug Jeck: Figurines”, William Traver Gallery Seattle, WA
1997 “Doug Jeck: Men and Boys”, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco
1995 “Doug Jeck Sculpture”, William Traver Gallery Seattle, WA
1992 “Doug Jeck Sculpture”, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1991 Connell Gallery, Atlanta GA
1990 Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 “Wet and Leather,” Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
2009 “Occidental Part,” ArtSpace Group Performance, Seattle, WA
2008 “A Human Impulse”, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2007 “Point of Departure,” Dean Project, New York, NY
2006 “Sensibility,” Ash Street Project, Portland, OR
2005 Group Show, Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004 Grand Opening, Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Bare Clay,” Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “(Im)mortal Clay,” Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City, NY
“From the Neck Up”, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2001 “Figuration in Clay: A Collection”, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2000 “Color and Fire- Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000,″ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“The Figure in Clay,” Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1999 “The 55th Scripps Annual,” Scripps College, Claremont, CA
“Clay Becomes the Figure,” Kennedy Museum of Arts, Athens, OH
1998 “The Nude in Clay II,” Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 “Figurative Ceramic Sculpture,” Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 “Clay, a Continuing Tradition,” University Washington Faculty Show, Seattle, WA
Born of Clay, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1994 “Potent Matter/Pertinent Material: Contemporary Ceramic Sculptors,” Betty K.Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1993 “Clay 1993: A National Survey,” William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Figurative/Narrative,” Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 “Open Spectrum,” David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, IL
1989 “Tattoo: Psychological Inscriptions of the Body,” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
AWARDS
2008 Neddy Fellowship
1998 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant
1997 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant
1992 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowships
LaNapoule Foundation, LaNapoule, France
National Endowment for the Arts Travel Grant
1991 Lamar Dodd Art Center Purchase Award, LaGrange National Exhibit, LaGrange, GA
1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship
Illinois Arts Council, Artist Fellowship Grant
Georgette Koopman Edowed Chair in the Visual Arts at the University of Hartford, Connecticut
Keynote speaker at CIAD, Wales, International Conference on the Fragmented Human Figure
COLLECTIONS
The Smithsonian Renwick Gallery of American Art
The Los Angeles County Museum
Mobile Museum of Art
International Museum of Ceramic Art
Lamar Dodd Art Center
The Gardiner Museum of Art
The Johnson Wax Collection
The Mint Museum
The Seattle Art Museum
The Smits Collection
The Tacoma Art Museum
The Virginia A. Groot Foundation