2011

BA Spanish, Weber State University

1982

MFA Painting, East Carolina University

1978

BFA Painting, Jacksonville University

2022

Fray, (solo), Museum of Art Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO

Interwoven: Kiki Gaffney, Jim Jacobs, Anna Laurie Mackay, Modern West Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

2019

The Imperfections That Render Us Visible (solo), Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT

2017

Graft (solo), Snow College, Ephraim, UT

Jim Jacobs [&] Liberty Blake, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2016

Raw and Cooked: Paul Crow, Jim Jacobs, Josh Winegar, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

1998

Jim Jacobs, Gary Barton, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

1991

Jim Jacobs, John Bowcutt, Pierpont Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

1988

Mark Petersen, Jim Jacobs, Pierpont Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

Three Person Exhibition, Sapiro Gallery, Denver, CO

1987

Jim Jacobs (solo), Salt Lake Art Center (Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, UMOCA), Salt Lake City, UT

1983

Jim Jacobs, Douglas Jaeger, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC

2024

INTERPRETING MOVEMENT: MANIFESTATIONS OF EXPRESSION, 6TH Street Gallery, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

2023

OUT THERE: A LANDSCAPE SURVEY, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT

2022

GLAM! (benefit exhibition), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

2021

Range: Big and Small, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT

2021 Statewide Annual: Craft, Photography, Video & Digital; jurors: Andres Payan Estrada, Adriene Hughes, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2021 School of Art and Design Alumni Exhibition , Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

46th Annual BDAC Statewide Competition; juror: Boris Ostrerov, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT

2020

Rocky Mountain Biennial;juror: Leah Ollman, Musuem of Art Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO

Axis Gallery 15th National Juried Exhibition;juror: Marcela Pardo Ariza, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Dancing in the Stream, a collaboration with dance directors Jo Blake and Erik Stern in which I provided an installation as a set for a performance by Orchesis dancers at Weber State University, Ogden, UT

2019

53rd Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show; juror: Carlton Bradford; Joseph A Cain Memorial Art Gallery, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX

2018

Small Matters: A National Juried Exhibition; juror: Jared Steffensen; 437CO Gallery, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO

National Juried Competition; juror: James Surls; The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX

Sculpture, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

Overlay, (pop up exhibition), Studio Elevn, Salt Lake City, UT

Seven Deadly Sins, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

Gallery 110 8th Annual Juried Exhibition; juror: Sara Krajewski, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA

2017

Statewide Annual 2017: Painting, Sculpture, & Installation; jurors: Jan Schall, Zhi Lin; Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT (catalog)

Winter Group Show A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2016

LA Artcore 2nd Annual Online Competition and Exhibition; jurors: Andi Campognone, Peter Frank, Mark Steven Greenfield, Tracey Landworth, Ramone Munoz; Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA

Summer Group Show, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

Append, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2015

Winter Group Show, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

The (Not So) Secret Life of Plants, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (catalog)

2015 Alumni Exhibition, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Viridian Artists’ 26th International Juried Competition, Director's Choice (digitally displayed), Viridian Gallery, New York, NY

Structurally Speaking; jurors: Peter Gabak, Joanna Poag; Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY

Art by America: A Review of 2-Dimensional Contemporary Art, jurors: James Yood, Ginny Voedisch; The Art House, Chicago, IL

Art Now Series: Painting 2015; juror: Peter Williams, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI

2014

Faculty Exhibition, Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

Rec Center (pop up gallery), Group Exhibition, Ogden, UT

Phillips Gallery Group Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT

2013

This Is The Place, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2012

Phillips Gallery Group Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT

Faculty Exhibition, Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

2011

Phillips Gallery Group Exhibit, Salt Lake City, UT

2010

The Legacy of Paul Hartley, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville NC

The Legacy of Paul Hartley, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh NC

Group Exhibition, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2009

Phillips Gallery Group Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT

2008

Phillips Gallery Group Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT

Faculty Show, Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

2007

Artists Council 38th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Transformations, Arts and Literature Laboratory, New Haven, CN

2006

Faculty Exhibition, Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

2005

Utah ’05 Painting and Sculpture Shaw Gallery, Weber State University; jurors: Kate Wagel, Gregory Sale

Faculty Exhibition, Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

2004

Group Show, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2001

2001 Equinox: A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana; jurors: Linda Hodges, Christine Giles

Faculty Exhibition, Collett Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

1999

Participated in the Design Team assessments for public art in Ogden, work was exhibited in the Weber County Library and shown at the Americans for the Arts Conference in Santa Monica

Utah Painting and Sculpture 1999 Union Station, Salt Lake City, UT

1998

Faculty Exhibition, Collett Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

1997

Design consultant for the new dance center and public spaces at the Eccles Art Center, Ogden, UT

1996

Faculty Exhibition, Collett Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

1995

Group Exhibition, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

1994

Group Exhibition, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

Faculty Exhibition, Collett Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

1993

Completed two commissions for Salt Lake City “Block 57” project, Salt Lake City, UT

Commission for private collection in Salt Lake City

1992

National Invitational Art Exhibition, Brenau College, Gainesville, GA; Leo Castelli, juror

Faculty Exhibition, Collett Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

1991

4th Annual McNeese National Works On Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA; Ivan Karp, juror

National Small Painting Exhibition, Boise State University, Boise, ID; Deborah Curtiss, juror

Utah '91: Works on Paper, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT

1990

Small Works National, New York University, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY; Ivan Karp, juror

Group Show, Maralyn Wilson Gallery, Birmingham, AL

Faculty Exhibition, Collett Gallery, Weber State College, Ogden, UT

1989

"Utah '89: Works on Paper", Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Paul Cummings, Bill Whitaker, jurors

Group Exhibition, Dooly Gallery, Park City, UT

1988

Faculty Exhibition, Collett Gallery, Weber State College, Ogden, UT

Utah 88, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Local Motion, Pierpont Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

1987

Dimensions, Carson-Sapiro Gallery, Denver, CO

One Person Exhibition, Salt Lake Art Center (now Utah Museum of Contemporary Art), Salt Lake City, UT

1986

Utah 86, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Henry Hopkins juror

Faculty Exhibition, Collett Gallery, Weber State College, Ogden, UT

1985

New Faces, Swanston Fine Arts, Atlanta, GA

New Faculty Exhibition, Collett Gallery, Weber State College, Ogden, UT

1984

27th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition, Chautauqua, NY

16th Annual W&J Painting Show, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA; Peter Plagens juror

1984 Triennial Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Howard Fox juror

Architecture and Artists, Greenhill Gallery, Greensboro, NC

1983

Small Works National, Zaner Gallery, Rochester, NY; Pattersons Sims juror

Do You See What I See?, Sawtooth Center for Visual Design, Winston-Salem, NC

2021

Jurors' Award, 2021 Statewide Annual: Craft, Photography, Video & Digital, Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
jurors: Andres Payan Estrada, Adriene Hughes

2020

Grand Prize, Rocky Mountain Biennial, Museum of Art Fort Collins
juror: Leah Ollman

Aesthetica Art Prize—Longlist
jurors: Ameena M. McConnell, Andreas Gegner, Dr. Beatrice Bertram, Cherie Federico, Claire Catterall, Damon Jackson-Waldock, Diane Smyth, Dryden Goodwin, Eliza Williams, Dr Ope Lori, Pierre Saurisse, Sarah Allen, Shasti Lowton, Yuen Fong Ling

2019

Utah Visual Arts Fellowship
juror: Laura Addison

2018

Work Acquired, Utah Division of Arts & Museums

2013

Ogden, Utah, Mayor's Awards in the Arts: Visual Arts

2005

Jurors' Award, Utah ’05 Painting and Sculpture
jurors: Kate Wagel, Gregory Sale

1989

Purchase Award, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Utah '89: Works on Paper
jurors: Paul Cummings, Bill Whitaker