Photo courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery. Photographer Raphael Lugassy

Ep.220 Jake Troyli (b.1990, Boston, MA) received his BFA from Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN (2013), where he played Division 1 basketball, his MFA from the University of South Florida, Tampa (2019), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME (2019). Solo exhibitions include moniquemeloche. Chicago, IL (2024/2022); Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL (2018); and ArtsXchange, St. Petersburg, FL. (2018).

Troyli’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Galerie Droste, Düsseldorf, DE (2024); Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2023-24); Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY (2023); Galerie Droste, Paris, FR (2021); The Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL (2021); Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL (2019); San Francisco Art Institute, CA (2018). Troyli’s work will be included in the group exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, curated by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Seph Rodney, and Katy Siegel, at SFMoMA, which travels to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Pérez Art Museum Miami and will be accompanied by a scholarly publication.

His work is in the permanent collections of the Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, FL; the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; and Pierce and Hill Harper Arts Foundation, Detroit, MI.

He is the recipient of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship (2019 2020) and the Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, Largo, FL (2017).

Troyli was a 2023 Visual Artist recipient of the Academy of Fine Arts x International City of Arts program in Paris, France. He is a current resident at Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ.

Artist – https://www.jaketroyli.com/

moniquemeloche – https://www.moniquemeloche.com/artists/48-jake-troyli/biography/

Perrotin https://leaflet.perrotin.com/view/898/light-of-winter

Galerie Droste https://www.galeriedroste.com/exhibitions/92-reading-the-language-of-images-jammie-holmes-andrew-schoultz-jake-troyli/overview/

Newcity https://art.newcity.com/2024/10/15/a-bloodline-through-the-histories-a-review-of-peter-and-jake-fagundo-at-m-leblanc/

NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/arts/sfmoma-exhibit-sports-art.html

ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/for-freedoms-activates-art-installations-democratic-national-convention-chicago-1234714497/

WBEZ | NPR https://www.wbez.org/arts/2024/07/22/jake-troyli-artist-chicago-mural-dnc-democratic-national-convention-art

Cité internationale des arts https://www.citedesartsparis.net/en/jake-troyli

Chicago Sun Times https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2024/07/26/chicago-murals-jake-troyli-dnc-democratic-national-convention-skyart-east-garfield-park

Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2024/8/anticipating-a-season-of-art-five-to-talk-to-jake-troyli

White House Magazine https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/slow-clap-at-monique-meloche/5358

It’s Nice That https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jake-troyli-art-170222

Chicago Reader https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/jake-troyli-contains-multitudes/

Mana Contemporary https://www.manacontemporary.com/jake-troyli/

Kavi Gupta https://kavigupta.com/artworks/10328-jake-troyli-portrait-of-the-artist-with-hors-doeuvre-2020/

The Province Town Independent

https://provincetownindependent.org/arts-minds/2020/03/12/show-and-tell-with-jake-troyli/

The TRiiBE https://thetriibe.com/2022/04/painter-jake-troyli-invites-us-into-the-spectacle-of-black-skin-at-expo-chicago/

Sunday Best for the Martyring, 2024
oil on canvas
72 x 48 in
121.9 x 152.4 cm
Image courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery.

The Welcome Wagon, 2024
oil on canvas
64 x 96 in
162.6 x 243.8 cm
Image courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery.

Into the Fray, 2024
oil on canvas
72 x 72 in
182.9 x 182.9 cm
Image courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery.