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2026
Carrier

2025
Scherben: Two Roses & A Briar Pipe
White Hydrogen
2024
Maison Fragile
Millennial Hallway
2023
Athi Patra Ruga: …looking for The One.
Survival on Land & Sea
Desire
Reckless Rolodex
2022
Sketch for a Movie
Soccer Pictures
2021
Amina Ross: Man’s Country
Oli Rodriguez: Papi
John Neff: 101
2020
Bequest of Robert Blanchon
2018
Kevin Killian: Spreadeagle
Kelly Kaczynski, Thomas Kong, Patric McCoy, and John Neff: Curated by John Neff, Curated by Jamie Stevens
Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon, Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, John Neff
2017
Blue Bathroom Blues Set for Frederick Weston
Authorization Sessions 
Dani and Sheilah ReStack: Stack for Carrington’s Hyena
Hervé Guibert: How Could It Be Otherwise?
Arnold Kemp
Eternal Youth
Militant Eroticism: The Art+Positive Archives

2016
Joe Cassan: Bed, Bath, and Beyond
Chicago and Vicinity
Tony Greene Movie (2014-2016)
2015
Thomas Kong / John Neff Making Chances Militant Eroticism: The Art+Positive Archives
Robert Beck / Robert Buck
Kelly Kaczynski: Oh! Oh! Oh!
2014
Tony Green
2013
Kaplan Project
Mark Jackson / Tony Lewis / John Neff
John Neff
2012
Mark Jackson: Darkness and Light
John Neff
Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)
2011
Intimacies
John Neff Prints Robert Blanchon
Kelly Kaczynski
2010
The Book of the Tumblr on Fire
Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out
2009
The Analog Hole (Or “Abundance”)
Artist Run Chicago/ Artists Run Chicago Digest
Basic or Boring Pictures
Doug Ischar: An Interview. In “Marginal Waters.”
2008
Dead Center / Marginal Notes Bathers and Other Liquid Pictures Father, can’t you see I’m burning Nocturnes for Boston Trans Blueprints and Trans Study
2007
Snowfall 
Printed Space
I’m Not Saying It Does & I’m Not Saying It Doesn’t- An Interview with Fred Camper.
2006
Pornographic Pantograph with Allusion to Juan Sanchez Cotan (In Progress, Patent Pending)
Monuments of the Prosaic. BAT Journal
2004
Travels Between the First and Third Dimension
2003
Hysterical Pastoral
Stray Show Catalogue (with Hypothetical Continent)
2002
Loop
Papers on Work- Collages and Explanations
2001
Triptych
Untitled (To My Mother)
2000
Cold Conceptualism
Figure / Ground
Repetitions
1999 Empty Space
1998
Two Comparsions
1997
Documentuh
Vexations
1996
214 West Gilman St. #2


2023Survival On Land & Sea
John Neff, Thomas Love
 Exhibition

October 28 – December 3

Scherben
Berlin, Germany
The title of the show, Survival On Land & Sea, is also the title of a survival manual the U.S. Navy issued to John Neff’s grandfather during his service on the Pacific Theater during World War II.

In the exhibition, a wood-frame wall runs two thirds of the length of the gallery. Positioned across from the gallery’s entrance is an opening in the stud wall. In that opening hangs a mink coat belonging to Neff’s grandmother – also worn by his mother. His grandfather’s U.S. Navy knife hangs from the ceiling. A set of photographs in clip frames depicting rat holes is installed on the long wall of the exhibition space. They are photographed using a iphone. The photos have an unreal, landscape-like quality. Chicago, where the artist lives, is a city of alleys. It’s also a city with lots of rats. The rats chew through garbage cans left out in the alleys. Neff has been photographing these rat holes since 2022.

Affixed to the the shorter wall is John Neff’s contribution to the ninth issue of the journal Portable Gray, published in October 2022. The special issue was titled “Arts of Psychoanalysis” and edited by Seth Brodsky. In this piece, Neff documents his mother’s open heart surgery and the infestation of her childhood dollhouse by mice. The dollhouse, a replica of the house his mother grew up in, was designed and built by her father.

The exhibition also includes a set of sculptural objects by Thomas Love collectively titled Cock-of-the-Rock, all from 2023. These include Lek, a bird carved out of limestone, and a series of stacks of fake rocks cast out of resin, titled Cairns. Such resin rocks are typically used to hide a key around the exterior of a house. An additional text is available in the gallery to accompany Cock-of-the-Rock.

Lorenz Liebig