Born in Summit, New Jersey, USA, 1954. Lives and works in New York

Education

1980-81 Post Graduate Studies, Hunter College., New York
1976 BFA, Antioch University. Yellow Springs, OH
1978 Artist Seminars Program, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2007
Like Things: An Installation, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York

2006
The Shape of Time, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany,
Margaret Roeder Gallery, New York

2005              
Tide Drawings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2004              
Second Nature, Cristinerose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York

2003              
Elementary Measurements, Gallery N. von Bartha, London 

2002              
Borrowed Scenery, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
Hannover Martkirche, (Installation), Hannover,Germany
Scattered Light: new drawings and digital skies, Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany

2000              
Stacked Drawings, Wynn Kramarsky, 560 Broadway, New York (catalogue)

1998              
Monochrome in Blue, GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan
Casting and Gathering, Stark Gallery, New York
Hales Gallery, London.

1997              
Kunstraum für Neue Kunst, Hannover, Germany

1995
Beyond the Narrow Gate, Stark Gallery, New York

1994
Stark Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005
Cologne Art Fair with Margarete Roeder Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Minimal Means, Kunstverein Eislingen, Eislingen, Germany
Wide Views,  Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
Works on Paper 2005, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MI
Four Times One from Two Thousand and Six, Fruehsorge Galarie für Zeichnung, Berlin, Germany.
drawings/watercolors/collages, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
Dating Data, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Artists for Tsunami Relief, Phillips de Pury & Co., New York
Minimalist Art Now, Elvehjem Museum of Art, U. of Wisconsin, Madision, WI.

2004               
Cologne Art Fair with Margarete Roeder Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Infinite Possibilities, serial imagery in 20th-century drawings, Davis Museum,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Drawing a Pulse, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery of Art, Univ. of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI.
Brooklyn Gravity Racers:Pierogi a Go-Go, Pierogi 2000, Williamsburg, NY.
Paintings and Drawings II, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
Astonishing Knowledge, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Color Lines, Islip Museum of Art, East Islip, NY.
Gallery Artists, Gallery N. von Bartha, London, England.

2003              
From Here to There: Maps as Muse, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
The Invisible Thread, New house Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY.   
In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a New York Collection, U. Mass, Amherst, MA.
10 Jahre, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
Microwave 4, Cristinerose/JoséeBienvenu Gallery, New York
wall projects, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA.
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME.

2002              
Minimal Art – Ancient China, N. von Bartha Gallery and Ben Janssens Fine Art,
London, England (catalogue).
Ad Infinitum, a selection of serial works from the collection, Wynn Kramarsky, New York.
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK.
25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York
Digital: Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Drawing is another kind of language…, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.
“Boomerang - Collectors’ Choice”, Exit Art, New York.

2000              
Contemporary American Drawings from the Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky.
Collection, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
Drawing is another kind of language…, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Drawing is another kind of language…, Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, CT.
Endpapers, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York.
Drawing, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA

1999              
Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Sete, France.
20th Anniversary Exhibition, PS 122, New York.
Drawing is another kind of language…, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY,
Fonds regional d’arte contemporain de Picardie and Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France.  Akademie
der KünsteBerlin.  Kunst-Museum, Ahen, Germany.  Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Germany. 
Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

1998              
Visible/Invisible, White Box Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Kunstraum für Neue Kunst, Hannover, Germany.

1997              
Drawing from Life, Stark Gallery, New York.

1996              
Arbeiten auf Papier, Andrea Pintsch, Münich, Germany.
Projected, Stark Gallery, New York.

1995              
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, (Installation), CT

1994              
Selections, The Drawing Center, New York.

1992              
Pushing Painting, Stark Gallery, New York.
Cultural Fabrication, John Good Gallery, New York.
Behind Bars, The Thread Waxing Space, New York
OMI Foundation, Omi, New York.

Grants and Fellowships

2001              
Aaron Siskind Foundation, Grant in Photography.

1998              
Awagami Paper Factory, Japan. Visiting Artist.

1996              
National Endowment for the Arts. US-Japan Exchange Fellowship.

1995              
New York Foundation for the Arts. Individual Fellowship.

1994              
National Endowment for the Arts. Individual Fellowship.

1993              
Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Individual Fellowship.

1990, 1988
MacDowell Colony, Petersborough, NH. Artist Fellowship.
National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. Regional Artist Fellowship.

1987              
Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Individual Fellowship.

Selected Bibliography

2005
Bonetti, David , Faded Beauty, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 29
Lynch, Kevin, Minimal Art Now’opens at Elvehjem, Madison. com, February 4
Ross, Lauren, Dating Data at Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Art on Paper,  May/June, p.75, (illus.).

2004
Boulanger, Susan, Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings at the Davis Museum, Art on Paper, November/December p.84.
Goodbody, Bridget, A Conversation on Collecting, Art on Paper, November/December, pp.42-43.
Harrison, Helen, Color Lines, The New York Times, March 7
Infinite Possibilities, Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings, Davis Museum and Cultural Center,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York
Waltemath, Joan, Jill Baroff, Second Nature, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2004.

2002
Hirsch, Faye, Jill Baroff, Art in America, December,

2001
Akademie der Kunst, minimal – concept Zeichenhafte Sprachen im Raum, Verlag der Kunst, Berlin
Kushner, Marilyn S, digital printmaking now, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Wageman, Virginia , Language of drawing speaks of minimalism, Island News (Hawaii)
Working Proof, On Paper, November/December

2000
Kyoko, Ibe, contemporary papermaking, Japan
Kutner, Janet, Collector Drawn to Emerging Artists, The Dallas Morning News, February 27
Van Keuren, Philip , On Drawing: a conversation with Werner Kramarsky, Connie Butler, and Harry
Cooper, Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
Wei, Lilly,  Goose Skin and Chicken Child, catalogue essay for Jill Baroff: Stacked Drawings

1999
Béal, Jacques , Un mécene new-yorkais, Le Courrier Picard, May 23
Benhamou-Huet, Judith , Kramarsky, le minimalisme en 2000 leçons”, l’oeil  n?506, May, (illus.).
Bouyer, D.L.,  Le Langage du Dessin, sans titre  n?47, September
Ebert, Hiltrud,  Schöne tote Sprache, Freitag 12, December

1998
Johnson, Ken ,Art Guide, The New York Times, March 13
Pollack, Barbara, Getting a Bang for your Buck, Art News, Summer, p. 144.

1997
Müller, Franz, Von Pappe, Schådelspalter, April
Schwarz, Dieter,  Drawing is another kind of language, Harvard University Art Museums/Daco-Verlag, December, p.36, p.37 (illus.), p.38, p.39 (illus.).
Smith, Roberta , Drawing from Life, The New York Times, February 7
Zerull, Ludwig, A Cardboard Sea of Light, review, Hannover, Germany

1995
Baroff, Jill, Appearances, Number 23, cover and pp. 55-57, (illus).
McClelland, Suzanne, Bomb Magazine, Spring,  pp. 52-53, (illus.).
Schwabsky, Barry ,The Narrow Way, catalogue essay for Jill Baroff

1994
Hirsch, Faye, Jill Baroff, Art in America, November, p.132, (illus.).
Schwabsky, Barry, Jill Baroff, Artforum, Summer, , p. 93, (illus.).

1992
Blanchard, Paul,  Letter ‘S’ Road: Re-marks on site,  tema celeste, Autumn,,p. 95.
Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, August 3
Hirsch, Faye, Not Walls..., , Arts Magazine, March, p. 64 (illus.).
O’Rourke, Meg, Behind Bars, Thread Waxing Space, Exhibition Catalogue.
Scott, Andrea,  An Eloquent Silence, Tema Celeste, Autumn, pp. 80-83.

Public Collections
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Cleveland Musuem of Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Pace Collection, San Antonio, TX
Progressive Insurance Co., Cleveland, OH
Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, GERMANY.
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT