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Jonathan Lasker (American, 1948)
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Jonathan Lasker
Exclusive Expression 2007
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Jonathan Lasker
Reason and Free Will 2007
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Jonathan Lasker
Reasonable Love 2007
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Jonathan Lasker
Scenic Remembrance 2007
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Jonathan Lasker
The Quotidian and the Question 2007
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Biography |
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1948 |
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Born in Jersey City, NJ, USA |
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1975 - 1977 |
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School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA |
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1977 |
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California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA |
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1981 |
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First one-person show, Landmark Gallery, New York, NY |
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1987 |
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National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant |
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1989 |
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New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant |
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1989 |
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National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant |
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2000 |
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Honorary Visiting Professorship, The London Institute, London, GB |
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Lives and works in New York |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden |
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2008 |
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Out of Storage – Peintures de la Collection MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg |
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2008 |
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Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (solo) |
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2007 |
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Galerie Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich, Germany (solo) |
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2007 |
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Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (solo) |
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2007 |
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Atomations, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA |
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2007 |
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Contemporary, Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC |
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2007 |
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Conversations - Artist and Collector, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND |
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2007 |
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PAINT IT BLUE - Werke aus der ACT Art Collection / Siegfried Loch, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany |
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2007 |
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Cheim & Read Gallery, New York (solo) |
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2006 |
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo) |
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2006 |
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Galerie Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium (solo) |
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2006 |
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Broken Surface, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany |
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2006 |
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Patrick Heron, Jonathan Lasker, Katie Pratt, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, England |
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2006 |
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From Drawing to Painting to Drawing, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark (solo) |
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2006 |
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From Drawing to Painting to Drawing, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland (solo) |
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2006 |
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hot spring in autumn, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria |
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2006 |
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Affinities, Centre Européen d’Action Artistiques, Strassbourg, France |
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2006 |
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The 181st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York |
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2006 |
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Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden |
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2006 |
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Modern and Contemporary Master Drawings, Connaught Brown Gallery, London, England |
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2006 |
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Summer Eyes/Summarize, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
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2006 |
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Gunnar A. Kaldewey: Artist Books for a Global World, Four Collaborations in Depth, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
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2006 |
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Paint it Blue- Werke aus der ACT Art Collection Siegfried Loch, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany |
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2006 |
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Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany |
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2005 |
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Galleria Cardi, Milano, Italy (solo) |
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2005 |
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Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland (solo) |
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2004 |
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Coloured Scribbles, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo) |
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2003 |
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Jonathan Lasker Retrospective, Museo Nacional Centrade Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Travelling to: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo) |
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2002 |
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Drawing and Painting, Sperone Westwater , New York, USA (solo) |
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2002 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Kiezle und Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany |
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2002 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
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2002 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galeri Wang, Oslo, Norway (solo) |
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2002 |
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Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany, UK |
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2001 |
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New paintings, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, USA |
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2001 |
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Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, The Centre of Contemporary Art, “American Art from the Goetz Collection, Munich” |
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2001 |
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Between Language and Form, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA |
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2001 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden (solo) |
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2000 |
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Jonathan Lasker: Oeuvres Récentes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo) |
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2000 |
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Jonathan Lasker (Complete Print Survey), Jan Weiner, Kansas City, USA |
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2000 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris France |
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2000 |
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Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio, Museo d Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy |
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1999 - 2000 |
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Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity, Paintings from the 1990s, St. Louis, MO, USA; Toronto, Canada; Birmingham, AL, USA |
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1999 |
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In Site: Constructing the JCC Collection, Johnson County College, Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS, USA |
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1999 |
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The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, USA (solo) |
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1999 |
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The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (solo) |
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1999 |
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Rose Ar tMuseum,Brandeis University, MA (solo) |
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1999 |
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Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity, Paintings from the 1990s |
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1999 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA (solo) |
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1998 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
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1998 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain |
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1998 |
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Pop/Abstraction, Museum of American Art of Pennsylvania Academy of F.A. Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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1998 |
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ART C. Association Art Contemporain Ville d'Issoire, France |
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1997 - 1998 |
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Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1977-1997, Germany; The Netherlands; Switzerland |
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1997 - 1998 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France |
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1997 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Velge et Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium (solo) |
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1997 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris France (solo) |
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1997 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Kienzle und Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
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1997 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galleria Milleventi, Torino, Italy (solo) |
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1997 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis, USA (solo) |
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1997 |
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Abstraction/Abstractions--Géometries Provisoires, Musée d'Art Moderne: curators DeChassey & Morineau St. Étienne, France |
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1996 |
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Playpen & Corpus Delirium, Kunsthalle Zurich Zurich, Switzerland |
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1996 |
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Jonathan Lasker: New Paintings, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA (cat.) |
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1995 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain (solo / cat.) |
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1995 |
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Sarah Campell Blaffer Gallery (& other locations) University of Houston, TX, USA |
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1993 |
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The Permanent Collection Revisted, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, DC, USA |
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1993 |
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Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo) |
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1992 |
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Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pensylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (solo) |
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1989 |
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Horn of Plenty, Stedelijk Museum, curator Gosse Oosterhof Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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1985 |
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Vernacular Abstraction, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan |
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1981 |
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Patrick Verelst, Antwerp, Belgium |
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Literature |
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2006 |
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Brita Sachs, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 11, "Endlosschleifen: Jonathan Lasker bei Ropac in Salzburg", Illus: "The World is My Garden", color, p. 52 |
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2006 |
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Johanna Hofleitner, Die Presse: Schaufenster, January 20, "Schauplätze: Jonathan Lasker bei Ropac", Illus: "The World Is My Garden", color, p.55 |
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2006 |
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Susan Shatter, Annette Blaugrund and Nancy Malloy, The 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, catalogue essays for group exhibition at National Academy Museum, New York, paperbound, 159 pp., Illus: "Reasonable Assembly", color, p. 75 |
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2006 |
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Mark Cheetham, Abstract Art Against Autonomy: Infection, Resistance, and Cure Since the 60s. Cambridge Univesity Press, hardbound, 177 pp. |
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2006 |
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Rupert Mason, Wessex Scene, May 9, 2006, "Abstract Art From Three Generations", Illus: "Canaletto", "Perspect Meadows", b/w |
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2006 |
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Brandon Taylor, Viewpoint, March 2006, "Freedom and Constraint: Three Painters at the Hansard", Illus: "Canaletto", b+w, p. 1 |
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2006 |
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Serge Hautmann, DNA, April 15th, 2006, "Les affinities de Dejean et Gangloff" |
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2006 |
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CEAAC, Affinités: Cahier Pedagogique, Centre European d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines (CEAAC), Illus: ""Town and Country", color, p. 18 |
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2003 |
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Raphael Rubinstein, A Quiet Crisis, Art in America, March, pp. 39-45 |
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2003 |
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Jonathan Lasker 1977-2003, Pinturas Dibujos Estudios, catalogue, Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
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2002 |
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Dimetrio Paparoni, Jonathan Lasker Paintings 1977-2001, Milano |
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2002 |
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Sven Lütticken, Allegories of Abstraktion, Diss. Vrjie Universiteit, Amsterdam |
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2002 |
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Sid Sachs, essay in the catalogue: Transcendent & Unrepentant, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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2002 |
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David Ryan, Joseph Masheck, Talking Painting. Dialogues with Twelve Contemporary Abstract Painters, New York |
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Allgardh, Sophie, ‘Jonathan Lasker at Galleri Lars Bohman’, Svenska Dagbladet, September 29th |
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Johnson, Ken, ‘Boxy at Dee/Glasoe’, The New York Times, September 28th, p. E36 |
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2001 |
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Keiper, Elke; Jakob, Susanne & Merkel, Klaus, ‘Die Sammlung als Bild: Kugelkopf’, catalogue essays for group exhibition at Staedtische Galerie Waldkraiburg |
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2001 |
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Milazzo, Richard, ‘The Disaters of Painting’, ‘Caravaggio on the Beach: Essays on Art in the 1990’s’, Editions d’Afrique du Nord |
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2001 |
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Anonymous, ‘Working Proof; Jonathan Lasker’, Art On Paper, February, p. 79 |
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2001 |
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Gauthier, Michel, ‘Mona dans l’espace: Sur les Native Drawings de Pascal convert’, Les Cahiers de Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, No. 75, Spring, pp. 5-21 |
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2001 |
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Juncosa, Enrique, ‘the thrill of Seeing: Willem de kooning and Postmodern Painting’, catalogue essay for exhibition at IVAM, Valencia, Spain and Fundació, pp. 9-29 |
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2001 |
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Ryan, David, ‘Visible thoughts: An Interview with jonathan Lasker’, Art Papers, September/October, pp. 28-33 |
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2001 |
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Smolik, Noemi, et al. ‘American Art from Goetz collection’, catalogue essays for group exhibition at Rudolfinum Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic |
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2001 |
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Burkard, Lene; Steffensen, Erik; Cameron, Dan; et al., ‘Patters: Between Object and Arabesque’, catalogue essays for group exhibition at Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Ddenmark |
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2000 |
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Thorson, Alice, Driven to Abstraction, The Kansas City Star, 16 January, 2000, pp. J1, J4. |
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2000 |
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Kastner, Jeffrey, Jonathan Lasker; Sperone Westwater, Artnews, Vol 99, No. 2, February 2000, p. 163 |
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2000 |
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Gofrey, Tony, Jonathan Lasker: the dialectics of touch, contemporary visual arts, issue 28, pp.22-27 |
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2000 |
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Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio, exhibition catalogue, 2000, Museo d Arte della Citta di Ravenna/Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, p. 79 & 80 |
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2000 |
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Jonathan Lasker, Tema Celeste retrospective, excerpt from Codici di gestualità, Jonathan Lasker, conversazione con Demetrio Paparoni, January 1990, Summer 2000, p. 151 |
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2000 |
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Schwabsky, Barry, Jonathan Lasker, Artforum, September 2000, p. 175 |
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2000 |
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Bonetti, David, Gallery Watch, San Francisco Examiner, October 12, 2000, C-11 |
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2000 |
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Baker, Kenneth, Odd Abstractions, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 October 2000, p. D2 |
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2000 |
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Gian Enzo Sperone; Torino, Roma, New York; 35 Anni di Mostra tra Europa e America, 2000, p. 370, 402-403, 456 |
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2000 |
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Da Warhol al 2000, Palazzo Cavour, Regione Piemonte, exhibition catalogue, 2000, p. 73 |
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1999 |
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Essays, 1984–1998. Essays published in Likovne Besede Artwords, no. 47-48, Mai1999, Slovenia, pp. 57-69, 86-87. |
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1998 |
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Jonathan Lasker: Complete Essays, 1984–1998. Published by Edgewise Press, New York, Paris, Turin, paperbound, 62 pp. |
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1996 |
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Sleep and Poetry: The Consciousness of Animals, essay published in Art & Design no. 48: Painting in the AgeofArtificial Intelligence |
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1995 |
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Plastic Made Perfect: Measuring Mondrian: New Math. Published in Artforum, September |
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1994 |
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Willelm De Kooning: Paintings for the Living. Published in Jong Holland, issue #1/94 |
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1994 |
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Beauty in the Age of Roadkill. Published in 99, Turn of the Century Magazine, fall issue |
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1991 |
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Pariahs. Essay published in An Anthology of Statements: White Columns, Collins & Milazzo, Editors |
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1989 |
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Not A First. A book of drawings by Jonathan Lasker and poetry by John Ashbery, published by the Kaldewey Press Poestenkill, NY |
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1988 |
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Racing Form. Essay published in Journal of Contemporary Art, volume 1/number 2 |
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1987 |
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Abstraction After Itself. Essay published in Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial catalogue |
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1987 |
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Falling In Lava. Essay published in Eugene Leroy, catalogue for exhibition at Musée d Art Moderne Villeneuve d Asco |
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1986 |
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Untitled essay. Effects Magazine, winter issue |
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1986 |
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After Abstraction. Published in What It Is, catalogue for exhibition at Tony Shafrazi Gallery |
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1981 |
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Cave Pictures. A book of drawings by Jonathan Lasker and poetry by Everett Potter. Published by the Kaldewey Press, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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