NEWS AND SELECTIONS FROM THE ARCHIVE
NEWS:Creative Capital Awardee 2024, Photo by Robbie Acklen
NEWS:Solo Exhibition at The Kitchen, Selected Views. Still from archive of footage
PUBLICATION:
Alison Berstein, Gilberto Rosa-Duran and J Jan Goeneboer, “Reflecting on ‘Selected Views’ with J Jan Groeneboer,” ON MIND, The Kitchen, June 26, 2024.
PUBLICATION:Svetlana Kitto, “Pulse: On Jonah Groeneboer's, The potential in Waves Colliding,” Girls Like Us Issue Nine : Dance and Dancing, 2017. Issue edited by Emma Hedditch.
PUBLICATION:David Getsy, “Seeing Commitments: Jonah Groeneboer's Ethics of Discernment," Temporary Art Review, March 8 2016
PANEL:
In conjunction with Zoe Leonard's retrospective Survey at The Whitney Museum of American Art. Panelists include Gregg Bordowitz, Jonah Groeneboer, Katherine Hubbard, Fred Moten, Cameron Rowland, and Christian Scheidemann. Moderated by Elisabeth Sherman. 2018
WRITING:Groeneboer, Jonah. Fragments, Fields, and Bodies: Formations of Selfhood Through Trans Depiction. Texte Zur Kunst. (2023, May 31).
Groeneboer, Jonah. Leonardo Drew at Galerie Lelong & Co. Artforum International. (2021, September 30).
Groeneboer, Jonah. Leslie Hewitt at Perrotin | New York. Artforum International. (2019, October 1).
BIOGRAPHY
J Jan Groeneboer is a conceptual multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. In his visual practice, he investigates how representation and abstraction connect to different forms of visibility, legibility, and comprehension. Groeneboer often works in abstraction to address the politics of representation. He developed this strategy to examine the expectation that trans people be readily available for visual scrutiny. Groeneboer’s work has shown at David Zwirner Gallery (2018), Boston University Galleries (2017), MoMA (2016), Art in General (2016), the Queens Museum (2016), CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art (2016), MoMA PS1 (2015), Contemporary Art Museum Houston (2015), Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts in Winnipeg (2015), Andrew Edlin Gallery (2013), Shoshawna Wayne Gallery (2010), and Exile, Berlin (2010), among others. Essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Art21.com, Mute Magazine, Artforum.com, Temporary Art Review, Art Journal, and in the essay in Pink Labour on Golden Streets, “Appearing Differently: Abstraction’s Transgender and Queer Capacities.” David Getsy’s 2016 essay “Seeing Commitments: Jonah Groeneboer’s Ethics of Discernment” was included in the “Opacities” section of Getsy and Che Gosset’s “A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History” (Art Journal, Winter 2021). Residencies include Ox-Bow School of Art, the Fire Island Artist Residency, and Recess. He is a grant recipient from Canada Council for the Arts (2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022) and NYSCA (2023), and is a Creative Capital Awardee (2024). As a writer, Groeneboer has participated in numerous panels and symposiums. His essays on transgender representation have been published in Texte Zur Kunst (2023) and in the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2023). His most recent solo show Selected Views was presented at The Kitchen NYC (2024).
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Selected Views, The Kitchen, New York, NY2015
Blue Shift, Platform Center for Photographic and Digital Arts,
Winnipeg, MB2013
The Dislocated Center of the Material World, Galveston Art
Residency, Galveston, TX2008
The Measure, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NYSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
This is not a Prop, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY2017
A Collection of Slow Events, The Luminary, St. Louis, MOOppositions, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
Occupancy, Boston University, Boston, MA
2016
Ten, PopRally at MoMA, New York, NYTwo Years of Looking, New Art Projects, London, England
Sites Of Exchange: Lavender Diaspora, Clifford Chance, New York, NY
Shifters, Art in General, Brooklyn, NY
The Queens International, The Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Objects are Slow Events, Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries, Bard College, NY
Language of Birds, 80WSE, New York, NY
2015
Greater New York, MoMA PS1,
Queens, New York, NYIsland Time, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Double Mouth Feedback, Recess Sessions, New York, NY
2014
Shandaken Project Retrospective Exhibition, New York, NY2012
B-OUT, Andrew Edlin
Gallery, New York, NYHerstory Inventory. 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Herstory Inventory. 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2011
Pretty Vacant, Collective
Projects, Brooklyn, NYResurrection, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A Certain Ratio, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
2010
The Every Other Day, Ideobox Artspace, Miami, FLMaterial/Immaterial, Shoshawna Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Lost Horizon, EXILE Ausstellungraum, Berlin, Germany
Ox-Bow Centennial Show, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
2009
Evading Customs, Brown Gallery, London, EnglandDiSoRgAnIzEd, Museum 52, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Bellwether, New York, NY
2008
Sonata for Executioner and Various Young Women, Andre Schlechtriem, New York, NYK48 (Installation), Torpedo Kunstbokhandelen, Oslo, Norway
New Black, Triple Canopy, Starr Space, Brooklyn, NY
O Canada, MC Gallery, New York, NY
K48, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
If I told you you were beautiful, Oliver Kamm, New York, NY
2007
Beginnings, Why and Wherefore. Curitorial Website Project by
Summer Guthery, Lumi Tan and Nicholas Weist.All is Well That Begins Well and Has No End, 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY
07/08, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
Look Away, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
Aspects, Forms, and Figures. Bellwether, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2024
The Wexner Center for the Arts Film and Video
Residency, Columbus OhioCreative Capital Awardee, New York, NY
2023
NYSCA Grant Awardee, New York, NY2022
Canada Council for the Arts: Explore and Create GrantPrinceton Arts Fellowship Finalist
2021
Canada Council for the
Arts: Explore and Create Grant2019
Canada Council for the Arts: Explore and Create Grant2018
Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, FinlandCanada Council for the Arts: Arts Abroad Grant
2016
Art in General's New Commissions Program, Brooklyn, NYRema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant nominee
Art Matters Grant nominee
2015
Recess Session Program, Recess,
New York, NY2014
FIAR, Fire Island Artist residency, Fire Island, NY2013
Special Projects Residency,
Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX2008
Artist in Residence, Ox-Bow, Saugatauk, MIARTIST TALKS AND PANELS
2024
Visiting Artist Lecture, Pratt Fine Art MFA
Program, Brooklyn, NYSelected Views Panel with Zoe Leonard, Malik Gaines, and Ethan Philbrick, The Kitchen, New York, NY
2020
Carrie Yamaoka and Jonah Groeneboer in Conversation, hosted by Commonwealth and Council, LA. Online.‘Punk as Flick’ Queer Punk Retrospective panel, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Online.
Alexandro Segade’s The Context Book Launch, hosted by Participant Inc. and Human Resources, LA. Online.
2019
arms ache avid aeon: A SymposiumIn conjunction with arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified, The Beeler Gallery, Columbus Ohio
Presenters include Jill H. Casid, Jonah Groeneboer, Thomas J. Lax, and Elisabeth Lebovici.
Artist Talk, School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY
2018
Strange Fruit, Panel in conjunction with Zoe Leonard's retrospective Survey. Panelists include Gregg Bordowitz, Jonah Groeneboer, Katherine Hubbard, Fred Moten, Cameron Rowland, and Christian Scheidemann moderated by Elisabeth Sherman, The Whitney Museum, New York, NY2017
Artist Talk, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NYArtist Talk, Boston University Galleries, Boston, MA
2016
Rethinking Residencies Panel,
Triangle Arts, Brooklyn, NYArtist Talk, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2015
Artist Talk, MoMA PS1, Queens, NYArtist Talk, Platform, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Reading, Adult Contemporary Reading Series, New York, NY
2014
FIAR Artist in Residency Talks,
Fire Island Artist residency, Fire Island, NYHerstory Inventory Panel Paricipant, The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, Shandaken Artist Residency, Shandaken, NY
2010
4 x 4: Four Contemporary
Artists, Four Approaches to Drawing, The Drawing Center, New York, NY2009
# Class Collecting Panel Participant,
Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY2008
Visiting Artist Lecture, New
York University, New York, NYArtist Talk, Ox-Bow, Saugatauk, MI
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Groeneboer, J Jan. Fragments, Fields, and Bodies: Formations of Selfhood Through Trans Depiction. Texte Zer Kunst. (May 2023)Groeneboer, J Jan. Erasure through Representation in Boys Don’t Cry. Journal of Gender and Sexuality. (April 2023)
2022
David J. Getsy and Che Gossett. “A syllabus on transgender and nonbinary methods for art and art history.” Art Journal. (2022, February 4).Jack Halberstam in Features. (n.d.). “Trans representation after the figure.” Frieze. (April 29, 2022). Online. https://www.frieze.com/article/trans-representation-after-figure
2021
Groeneboer,
Jonah. “Leonardo Drew at Galerie Lelong & Co.” Artforum International. (2021,
September30). Online.https://www.artforum.com/picks/leonardo-drew-86850
2019
Groeneboer, Jonah. “Leslie Hewitt at Perrotin | New York.” Artforum International. (2019, October 1). Online.https://www.artforum.com/picks/leslie-hewitt-80928
2017
O’Rouke, John. “Occupancies Explores the World of Our Bodies.” Boston University Today, 24 February,2017. Online.http://www.bu.edu/today/2017/occupancies-art-show/
Mcquaid, Cate. “At BU, the Art of Protest.” The Boston Globe, February 16, 2017.
Kitto, Svetlana. “Pulse: On Jonah Groeneboer’s The potential in Waves Colliding.” Girls Like Us, Issue
Nine : Dance and Dancing.
2016
Getsy, David J. “Seeing Commitments: Jonah Groeneboer’s Ethics of Discernment.” Temporary ArtReview, March 8, 2016. Online. https://temporaryartreview.com/seeing-commitments-jonah-groeneboers-ethics-of-discernment/
2015
Schwarzler, Dietmar et al., eds. “Appearing Differently: Abstraction’s Transgender and Queer Capacities,an interview with David Getsy,” William Simmons, interviewer, in Pink Labour on Golden Streets: When
Form Becomes Politics (Vienna: Schriftenreihe of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and Sternberg Press,
Fall 2015).
2014
Getsy, David J. “The Unforeclosed,” Flex catalogue essay.2013
Getsy, David J. and Jennifer Doyle. “Queer Formalisms: Jennifer Doyle and David Getsy inConversation,” Art Journal 72.4 (Winter 2013).
Thacker, Eugene. “Black on Black.” Mute Magazine. MetaMute, 17 July 2013. Online. <http://www.metamute.org/editorial/occultural-studies-column/black-black>.
2012
Schwendener, Martha. “Collaborative and Solo, With a Certain Feminist Bent.” The New York Times,September 7, 2012.
2010
Fitzgerald, Ali. “Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop / Lost Horizon at Exile.” Art 21 Blog. Art 21, 02September 2010. Online. http://blog.art21.org/2010/09/02/head-shoplost-horizon-at-exile/
2008
Scott, Andrea, “Jonah Groeneboer,” The New Yorker, Feb 4, 2008, p. 12.Rosenberg, Karen, “Jonah Groeneboer, The Measure” The New York Times, Feb 1, 2008. P. E35.
Willse, Craig, “Craig Willse talks to Jonah Groeneboer,” NY Arts Magazine, Jan 2008, Vol. 13, No. ó,
p.36.
Weist, Nicholas, “A Look at Jonah Groeneboer,” ARTslant, Jan 8, 2008.