Education
M.F.A. Brooklyn College, New York, 1981
B.F.A. Indiana University, 1979
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Jim Torok, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin Tx
2017
The New Age of Uncertainty, Pierogi Gallery, NYC
Jim Torok: 51 Drawings and 2 Paintings, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2015
Jim Torok: New Portraits and Other Work, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2014
Jim Torok: Drawings, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY
Jesus, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
There is Nothing Wrong with You, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
New Work, Molloy College Public Square Art Gallery, Rockville Centre, New York
2011
Walton, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2010
You Are a Vibrant Human Being, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Jim Torok: Clowns and Portraits, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
Jim Torok, Everything is Breaking Apart, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
2008
Jim Torok: Life is Good, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2007
New Work, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Portraits Organized by Paul Morris and Marc Selwyn, Marc Selwyn Fine Art Art, Los Angeles, California
2005
Artists Are Great, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Auston, TX
Jim Torok: Things are Better, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn,IL
2004
Everything Is Great!, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2003
A Family: Portraits by Jim Torok, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
New Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2002
Story Boards and Self Portraits, Bill Maynes Gallery
2001
Portraits, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2000
Up Close and Personal: Portraits by Jim Torok, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas
1999
hi tech lo tech, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Portraits, Galerie Haas and Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
1998
Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
1997
Portraits, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
South Hampton Art Center, South Hampton, NY
2019
Mary Carlson and Jim Torok (two person show), CAS Art Center, Livingston Manor, NY catalog with essay by Nancy Princenthal PDF of catalog
2018
Under Erasure, curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein, Pierogi, Gallery, NY
2016
The 4rd Quadrennial, The Ballot Show, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pioneer Lust, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2015
I am a Lie and I am Gold, Yossi Milo Gallery, NYC
Group Exhibition curated by Marco Breuer
Idenities, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2014
PIEROGI XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Peirogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Salon, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
Fountains of the Deep Art Show, curated by Darren Aronofsky
2013
Unhinged, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Summer Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
Word, One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ
2012
Modus Vivendi, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2011
Subjective/Objective, Pierogi,Brooklyn, NY
In-and outside-writing, Voorkramer, Belgium
Art Squared, Flag Foundation, New York City
Williamsburg 2000, Art 101, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Size Matters, Flag Foundation for Arts, NYC
Portraiture Now - Communities , National Portraiture Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
One for All , Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Do I Know You?, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
L
OL, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2009
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Lens and the Mirror: Self-Portraits from the
Collection 1957 - 2007 , NYC
About Face , Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC
Note to Self, Schroeder Romero Gallery, NYC
Carousel - life performance, Dixon Place, NYC
2008
Comic Worlds, Nancy Margolis Gallery,
NYC
Here's Looking at Us, Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, NYC
Words Become Pictures, Molloy College, Rockville Center, NY
Attention to Detail, curated by Chuck Close, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York
2007
Pierogi Flatfiling, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
Block Party II: An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Subject, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
Summer Group Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
PIEROGI Leipzig, Germany
B Side, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (March 31-April 30) Curated by Caroline Cox
Portraits, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (January 27-March 2)
2005
Star Star; Toward the Center of Attention, CAC (Contemporary Arts Center), Cincinnati, OH
Next Next, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY (4 October-17 December)
2004
Vacation Nation, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Drawn Page, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2003
One-On-One, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Painter's Forms, The Work Space, New York, NY
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh
(curated by Vicky Clark and Barbara Bloemink); traveled to CCA, New Orleans, and the University of North Texas
American Art Today: Faces and Figures, Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, FL
Brooklyn on 57th Street, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
New Work New York, Annie Herron's Selections from the Pierogi Flatfiles, Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, Carlsbad, New Mexico
2002
Works on Paper, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2001
Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
Picture This, Flipside, New York, NY
Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Meat Market Art Fair, Pierogi, New York, NY
Haulin' Ass: Pierogi in LA, Post, Los Angeles, CA
Good Humor, EPC, New York, NY
2000
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Reconfigured, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY
Inaugural Exhibit, Indiana University Art Gallery, Southbend, IN
Drawing from Pierogi: Selection from the Flat File, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Stop That Racket, Dixon Place, New York, NY
Rage for Art, Pierogi
2000,
Brooklyn, NY
Face to Face, Concordia College, Bronxville, New York
1999
Portraits, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Popcorn, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Changing Faces: Contemporary Portraiture, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
Traditions, Transitions, and Transformations: Exploration of Art Making with Pinholes,
Pixels, and Moving Pictures, Samuel Chen Fine Art Center, Central Connecticut State University Galleries, New Britain, CT
Salute to Animation, Concourse Gallery, John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, CA
Avant Garde-O-Rama, PS 122, New York, NY
Short Stuff, Film Festival, Huntington Beach Art Center, CA
Trench Waveforms, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York (curated by Norman Douglas)
Benefit Auction, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1998
Current/Undercurrent, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
International Short Film & Festival, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Reflex and Reverie, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Carousel, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
New York State Biennial, New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Benefit Auction, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
River of Mud, The Kitchen, New York, NY
1997
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
When the Whim siécle, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice;
Ice House Gallery, Belgium
New York Drawers, The Gasworks, London; Corner House, Manchester, UK
Moonworks Festival, Stella Adler Conservatory, New York, NY
1996
Invitational +, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY
The Art Exchange Show, New York, NY
Slide Masters, Dixon Place, New York, NY
Too Many Clothes, The Kitchen, New York, NY
1995
Avant Garde-O-Rama, P.S. 122, New York, NY
Film Club, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
Yikes!, Cucaracha, New York, NY
1994
Open Book, 450 Broadway Gallery, NewYork, NY
Whateva, Dru Arstark Gallery, New York, NY
The Faust Festival, Nada, New York, NY
The Jupiter Project, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
Aaron's Cabaret, Nada, New York, NY
Promotional Copy Event, The Kitchen, Printed Matter, New York, NY
1993
Bad Girls, The Reading Lounge, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Promotional Copy Opening, The Guggenheim Downtown, New York, NY
Drawing Show, Park Slope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1992
City Life, Bridgewater/Lustberg, New York, NY
Columbus, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY
1991
The Eccentric Object, Bridgewater/Lustberg, New York, NY
Museum Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles
Awards
Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Fund for "Diptych Self-Portrait", 2002, The Academy of Arts and Letters