# Colter Jacobsen

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{{Short description|American painter (born 1975)}}
'''Colter Jacobsen''' (born 1975) is an American artist based in [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco). His work includes drawings, paintings and [installations](/source/Installation_art).

==Life==
Jacobsen was born in [Ramona, California](/source/Ramona%2C_San_Diego_County%2C_California) and had a [Mormon](/source/Mormon) upbringing there. He later moved to San Francisco and studied at the [San Francisco Art Institute](/source/San_Francisco_Art_Institute).<ref>Johnny Ray Huston, [http://www.sfbayguardian.com/entry.php?catid=107&entry_id=1095 ''A present from the past'' p1]{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'', July 11, 2006.</ref> He has worked as a care-giver for the blind and disabled.<ref>Johnny Ray Huston, [http://www.sfbayguardian.com/entry.php?page=2&entry_id=1095&catid=107&volume_id=317&issue_id=379&volume_num=42&issue_num=34 ''A present from the past'' p2]{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'', July 11, 2006.</ref>

==Work==
For the San Francisco group show "17 Reasons" (2003) he draped a public bronze commemorative tablet with packing boxes and fruit crates, altered with paint, glue, collage, watercolors, and pencil.<ref name=killian>Kevin Killian, [http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4934 ''Goldie winner -- Visual art: Colter Jacobsen''], ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'', Nov 7, 2007.</ref> [Matthew Higgs](/source/Matthew_Higgs), another participant in the exhibition, invited him to stage an installation at [White Columns](/source/White_Columns) in [New York City](/source/New_York_City).<ref name=killian/> His White Columns exhibition in 2005 consisted of cardboard signs and labels, a clock, photographs and drawings based on photographs.<ref>Roberta Smith, [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/arts/design/25wall.html ''Even a Little Space Can Hold an Abundance of Ideas''], ''The New York Times'', Nov 25, 2005.</ref>

His pencil drawings and watercolor paintings are based on found snapshots. He makes two versions. The first is an exact rendering of the image, and the second is drawn from memory. The artist describes his subject as the way "the dream of memory gets watered down and changes".<ref>Julian Myers, [http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/colter_jacobsen ''Colter Jacobsen''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415033415/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/colter_jacobsen |date=2008-04-15 }}, ''Frieze'', Sept 2007.</ref>

He was selected as a 2010 [SECA Art Award](/source/SECA_Art_Award) winner for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, along with Mauricio Ancalmo, Ruth Laskey, and [Kamau Amu Patton](/source/Kamau_Amu_Patton).<ref>[http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/preview-fifty-years-of-bay-area-art-a-2010-seca-awards-exhibitions-sfmoma ''2010 SECA Art Award''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927203749/http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/preview-fifty-years-of-bay-area-art-a-2010-seca-awards-exhibitions-sfmoma |date=2015-09-27 }}, ''Juxtapoz'', Dec 07, 2011.</ref>

Jacobsen is represented by [https://web.archive.org/web/20150330022221/http://www.corvi-mora.com/gallery/Artists/colterjacobsen/19/ Corvi Mora] in London and [Gallery Paule Anglim](/source/Gallery_Paule_Anglim) in San Francisco.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64211&Itemid=714 Interview in ''NY Arts'' magazine.]
*[http://www.lateralfilms.com/keyofg/ Documentary film featuring Colter (and others) working as caregivers.]
*[http://kadist.org/en/people/colter-jacobsen Colter Jacobsen] at [Kadist Art Foundation](/source/Kadist_Art_Foundation)
*Colter Jacobsen at [Gallery Paule Anglim](/source/Gallery_Paule_Anglim)

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Category:1975 births
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:21st-century American painters
Category:American draughtsmen
Category:American installation artists
Category:Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area
Category:Living people
Category:People from Ramona, San Diego County, California
Category:American contemporary painters
Category:20th-century American male artists

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