Jasper Johns: Copy/Trace

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) was born in Augusta, Georgia, and briefly studied art in South Carolina before moving in 1953 to New York, where he spent the majority of his adult life. He had his first solo exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1958. In 2021, the retrospective Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror was on view simultaneously at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Johns lives and works in Sharon, Connecticut. Jeffrey Weiss is an independent curator and critic regarded for his monographic exhibitions and extensive scholarship on twentieth-century European and American art. Between 2010 and 2018, he was a senior curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where, with Francesca Esmay, he co-organized the Panza Collection Initiative, an eight-year study project devoted to the institution's vast holdings in minimalist and post-minimalist art. Weiss organized the celebrated 2007 exhibition Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965 during his tenure at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where he was curator and head of modern and contemporary art from 2000 to 2008.