Jonathan Allen works in painting, public art, collage, video, and performance. He holds a B.A. in Visual Arts / Art History from Columbia University, and in New York has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, BRIC, Bronx Art Space, PS122, Exit Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, Artists Space, Lu Magnus, 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’s painting Popeye 0100 was included in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, at the Brooklyn Museum, on view October 4, 2024 - January 26, 2025. Allen and Michael Paul Britto collaborated on two exhibitions in the fall of 2024, See Your Country Clearly at PS122 Gallery, and See This Country Clearly, curated by Sara Reisman, at Bronx Art Space.

Allen continues work on INTERRUPTIONS, a series of ad interventions in New York City subway stations, which seeks to interrupt the language of advertising with text and imagery. 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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