Jonathan Allen works in painting, collage, video, and performance. He holds a B.A. in Visual Arts / Art History from Columbia University, and in New York has exhibited at BRIC, Lu Magnus, PS122, Exit Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, Artists Space, Gitler & ____, Bravin Lee, FiveMyles, and Caren Golden, among others. He has participated in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)’s Workspace, Process Space, and Swing Space residency programs, the Bronx Museum of Art’s Artist in the Marketplace program, and has been awarded residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy, Cill Rialaig in Ireland, Milvus Artistic Research Center in Sweden, and Blue Mountain Center. He is a recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner, Chenven, Puffin, George Sugarman Foundations and Brooklyn Arts Council.
Allen and Michael Paul Britto will collaborate on two shows in the fall of 2024, one in Manhattan and one in the Bronx. Allen’s recent work includes the following series of paintings: ON COURSE, WHIPLASH, and POPEYE. Allen frequently collaborates with poets and performers, and continues to work on INTERRUPTIONS, a series of ad interventions in New York City subway stations, which seeks to interrupt the language of advertising with imagery from our current political predicament. INTERRUPTIONS is viewable on instagram @jonathanallenstudio.
Allen is on the Programming Committee of VoCA (Voices in Contemporary Art), and lives and works in New York City.
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