Born 1967, Princeton, West Virginia. Lives and works in Pound, Virginia.
EDUCATION
1996 M.L.I.S, Library and Information Science, University of Southern Mississippi
1994 M.A. English, Western Kentucky University
1990 B. A. History, University of Wyoming
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Appalachian Dream Mechanics: Twenty Years of Art by JJ Cromer, Reece Museum, East Tennessee
State University, Johnson City, TN
2010 JJ Cromer: A Study of Passing Events, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
2009 Fill: A Failure of Imagination: New Work by JJ Cromer, Ellen Von Dehsen Elmes Gallery, Southwest Virginia
Community College, Richlands, VA; The Booth Center Gallery, Appalachian School of Law, Grundy, VA
2008 Our Stampedes are Compatible: A Selection of Works by JJ Cromer, Staniar Gallery, Washington &
Lee University, Lexington, VA
2006 District Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Nelson Fine Arts, Lexington, VA
2003 Grey Carter-Objects of Art, McLean, VA
2001 Appalshop Art Center, Whitesburg, KY
Southwest Virginia Community College, Richlands, VA
2000 Lonesome Pine Regional Library, Wise, VA
Tulgey Wood Gallery, Wytheville, VA
1999 Brainerd Gallery, Bluefield, WV
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS
2023 BOP! Adventures in Collage, curated by Ray Borchers and Paloma Trecka, The Dime (T.F. Projects),
Chicago, IL
2022 unSEEN: The Unpredictable Forms of Drawing, curated by Brian Novatny, Mirjana Dušić, and
Ljuba Jovićević, Belgrade, Serbia
Slight of Hand: Small Works by Contemporary Artists (online exhibit), curated by Mepaintsme,
Mepaintsme.com, USA
DRAW – WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND WHAT CAN IT ALL BE?, curated by Tomas Vu,
Brian Novatny, Stipan Tadić, and Marija Stipišić Vuković, the Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia
Visionary Virginians: The Folk Art Collection of William and Ann Oppenhimer, Virginia Museum of History
& Culture, Richmond, VA
I Walk Thru Walls (online exhibit), curated by Mepaintsme, Mepaintsme.com, USA
À La Racine, curated by Stéphane Blanquet, Aix en Provence, France
Natural Abstraction, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Embracing the Question: A Conversation with Eclectic Artwork, Reece Museum, East Tennessee State
University, Johnson City, TN
Nexus Singularity Takeover, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Outsider Art Fair NYC (online exhibit), American Primitive Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Art Brut Global -- Phase III: Here and Now (online exhibit), Outsider Art Fair with American Primitive
Gallery, New York, NY
Outsider Art Fair Paris (online exhibit), with American Primitive Gallery, New York, NY
2019 PARENTING: An Art without a Manual, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
2018 Self-Taught Art by Any of Its Names, Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2017 NEW HORIZONS: Self-Taught Art in the 21st Century, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
The Unusual Universe: JJ Cromer and Fabrizio Molinario, Copenhagen Outsider Art Gallery,
Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Ordinary Wonders (Tam Tam: Normali Meraviglie, la Mano), Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy
1st Triennial of Self-Taught Visionary Art, Muzej naivne i marginalne umetnosti (MNMU), Jagodina, Serbia
Welcome outsiders, Galerie Béatrice Soulié, Paris, France
Contemporary Redux, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
2015 dRaw, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL
Lands Beyond: Otherworldly Landscapes and Visionary Topographies, Loft Gallery, The Bascom,
Highlands, NC
Biological Clocks: Transience and Illusion, American Primitive Gallery, NY, NY
Rebecca and Joseph Meyerhoff Permanent Collection Gallery, American Visionary Art Museum,
Baltimore, MD
2014 One of a Kind: Artwork from the Collection of Stephanie Smither, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
Les Arts Buissonniers, Musée des Arts Buissonniers, Saint-Sever-du-Moustier, France
The Outsiders, Galerie Grand’Rue, Poitiers, France
Georgia and Beyond: Southern Self-taught Art, Past and Present, Madison-Morgan Cultural
Center, Madison, GA
13-14 Raw Vision: 25 Years of Outsider Art, the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France
2013 Outsider Art Fair, Paris, France
International Drawing Project, Café Royal Books. Hanover Project, The University of Central Lancashire,
Preston, UK
Splotch/Asterisk, Art Enables, Washington, DC (Collaboration with Steve Loya)
2012 Works on Paper from the Folk Art Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Likeness | Interpretations of Portraiture, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
Messages from Outsiderdom, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
Trust the Eye, Art Enables. Washington, DC
11-12 All Things Round: Galaxies, Eyeballs & Karma, The American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
2011 Three-Ring Circus: Highlights from the William and Ann Oppenhimer Folk Art Collection, The Longwood
Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA
Throat Truck Show, Throat Art, Brooklyn, NY
Wallpaper, Art & Design Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
New Appalachian Geographies, UVA-Wise, Wise, VA
First Decade Celebration: Tenth Anniversary of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, The Joel
and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA
2010 The Strange Horses Came, Kentucky Folk Art Center, Morehead, KY
2009 8th Annual Invitational: Writers' Choice, Nelson Gallery, Lexington, VA
08-09 The Marriage of Art, Science & Philosophy, The American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
2007 Others, An Art Show, New York, NY
Outsider Art: The Exceptional Brought to Light, Falk Gallery, Christopher Newport University,
Newport News, VA
05-08 The Intuit Show, Intuit Art Center, Chicago, IL
2004 Gallery in the Woods, Brattleboro, VT
Life in the South, Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany
2003 The Rhodes-Nadler Collection, Strathmore Halls Arts Center, Bethesda, MD
2002 Pittsburgh Folk and Outsider Art Show, Pittsburgh, PA
Apparitions, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
01-20 Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY
Studio Artists, Grey Carter-Objects of Art, McLean, VA
2001 Outsiders Outside, Harbert, MI
Lab School Art Show, Washington, DC