Jonathan Monk
Born: 1969
Hometown: Leicester, England
Lives and Works: Berlin, Germany
About The Artist
British-born artist Jonathan Monk often appropriates ideas, works, and strategies from Conceptualist and Minimalist artists of the '60s and '70s. With photographs, sculpture, film, installation, and performance, his works recontextualize and rework these quotations, often infusing them with Monk’s personal history and working-class family upbringing. These aspects add a humanizing and down-to-earth sensibility to the original works' utopian ideals and notions of artistic genius. Monk's extensions and reinterpretations of seminal works by John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Sol LeWitt, among others, challenge authenticity, authorship, and value in art with quirky humor and wit.
Galleries
Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
Lisson Gallery, London, England
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Select Permanent Collections
Atelier Augarten-Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst der Österreichischen Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Norton Collection, Santa Monica, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Statens Museum für Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
TATE Modern, London, England
Works by the Artist
