Jonathan Parsons

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1970, Redhill, England

Education
1989-1992
University of London Goldsmiths� College, BA Honours degree in Fine Art
1988-1989
West Surrey College of Art and Design, College diploma in foundation studies

Solo Exhibitions
2008
Archaic/Logical, Waverley Abbey, Surrey
Light, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2005
Graffiti, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles:
2003
Jonathan Parsons, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
Works on Paper, Percy Miller Gallery, London
2002-3
Grids, Richard Salmon, London
2000-1
System + Structure, The Lowry, Manchester; Quay Arts, Isle of Wight; Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston; James Hockey Gallery, Farnham
1999
Recent Work, Richard Salmon, London
1996
Jonathan Parsons, Richard Salmon, London
1994
Jonathan Parsons, Heber-Percy Gallery, Leamington Spa

Group Exhibitions
2010
Double or Quits, 335 Wick Road, London
2009
The Golden Record, The Collection, Lincoln
2008
The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Waldweben, Kasteel Schuurlo, Belgium
ArtVaults Season 4, a space, Southampton
Is there anybody out there?, England & Co. London
The Jerwood Sculpture Prize, Bay Art, Cardiff
2007
Shifting Ground, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
The Jerwood Sculpture Prize, The Jerwood Space, London
2006-7
Grotto, Studio 1.1, London
2006
Braziers Workshop Open Day, Braziers College, Oxfordshire:
Paintings, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
2005-6
About Painting II, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
2005
Art Out of Place, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Post Notes, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Florence Loewy, Paris
A Warlike People: Victims or Perpetrators?, Shade Projects at Monorchid Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2004
Jonathan Parsons; Jason Wallis-Johnson, England & Co., London
Green: Jane Harris, Jonathan Parsons, Katie Pratt, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
Martyn Last; Jonathan Parsons, Buro Empty, Amsterdam
Drawing, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
2003-05
Bad Behaviour, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Metropole Gallery, Folkestone; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; The Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle; Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham; Tullie House, Carlisle
2003
Side Track (secondary practice), Percy Miller, London
The Map is Not the Territory III, James Hockey, Farnham
As Long As it Takes, Pump House Gallery, London
2002-03
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002, University of Gloucestershire; The Jerwood Space, London; mac, Birmingham; Glasgow School of Art; EICH Gallery, Hull; The Lowry, Manchester
2002
Vivid, Mead Gallery, Coventry; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
As Long as it Takes, Angel Row Galley, Nottingham
The Green Room, Percy Miller Gallery, London
2001-02
Vivid, Richard Salmon, London
2001
A Matter of, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Tenable, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2000-01
British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition
2000
Drawing, Percy Miller Gallery, London
See For Yourself, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
Ripe, Crafts Council Gallery, London
1999
East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Saatchi in Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Furniture, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1998
Educating Barbie, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York
Anthem, Milch, London
Craft, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
In a Meeting, Grayson House, London
1997-99
Sensation, Royal Academy, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
1997-98
Pictura Britannica: Art From Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Te Papa, New Zealand
1997
Craft, Kettle�s Yard, Cambridge
Light, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Sequence, Richard Salmon, London
Plastic, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery
Building Site, Architectural Association, London
1996
Plastic, Arnolfini, Bristol
1994
The City of Dreadful Night, Atlantis Lower Gallery, London
Every Now and Then, Rear Window, London
1992
The Coventry Open, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry

Bibliography
Jonathan Parsons, Uncharted Planet, Turps Banana, Issue 9, winter 2010
Lesley White, Land of Hype and Glory � The Union Jack in British art, Sunday Times Magazine, 18 April 2010
Paul Carey-Kent, Jonathan Parsons � new work, Art World, Issue 7, October/November 2008
Staff Reporter, Art work unveiled at British embassy in Doha, Gulf Times, 26 March 2008
Charles Darwent, Battle for the big time, The Independent on Sunday, 29 April 2007
Charlotte Cripps, The elegant beauty of our railways, The Independent, 28 March 2007
Martin Herbert, sexiness and the city, Modern Painters, November 2005
Dan Smith, CAN.05, Art Monthly, September 2005
Staff Reporter, Plans to fly monochrome Union Flag are dropped, Eastern Daily Press, 22 June 2005
Jane Denny, Artist sees red, white and blue over flag ban, Norwich Evening News, 21 June 2005
London Republic Issue, Time Out, 3-10 March 2004
Morgan Falconer, Jonathan Parsons: Works on Paper, What�s On, 12 February 2003
Louisa Buck, Jonathan Parsons: New Works on Paper, The Art Newspaper, February 2003
Charlotte Edwards, Makers and Shakers, Art Review, February 2003
Richard Dyer, Jonathan Parsons: New Work on Paper, Contemporary Magazine, January/February 2003
Sara Manuelli, Art of Craft, Design Week, 30 January 2003
Morgan Falconer, Jonathan Parsons, Art Monthly, Dec �02 � Jan �03
Richard Dyer, News: London, Contemporary Magazine, December 2002
Louisa Buck, Jonathan Parsons: Grids, The Art Newspaper, November �02
John Cornall, As long as it takes, [a-n] magazine, July 2002
Pernilla Holmes, Jonathan Parsons: Significant Times, Art Review, April �02
Alex Coles, Jonathan Parsons, Art in America, July 2001
John Tozer, Vision On, Art Monthly, December/January 2000/2001
Sherman Sam, Profile, Art Review, December/January 2000-1
Jessica Lack, Jonathan Parsons, The Guardian, 28 October 2000
Duncan MacMillan, Not So Subtle Wordplay, The Scotsman, 12 April 2000
Robin Young & Jonathan Morgan, Broad canvas for new face of Tate Britain, The Times 4 March 2000
Gaby Wood, This is British Art: The Work, Observer Magazine, 19 March �00
Izi Glover, Jonathan Parsons, Time Out, 19-26 Jan 2000
Mark Currah, Neil Goldberg, Jonathan Parsons, Time Out, 2-9 Sept 1998
Louisa Buck, LONDON CALLING: Milch Moves South, The Art Newspaper No.83, July-August 1998
The Hot 100 (& front cover image), Sunday Times Magazine, 24 May 1998
John Windsor, Let The Love Affair Begin, Independent Saturday Magazine, 17 January 1998
Maria Alvarez, Red, White and Cool, Telegraph Magazine, 8 November �97
Courtney Kidd, Pictura Britannica, Art Monthly, November 1997
Richard Dorment, Sensation? What Sensation? Daily Telegraph, 17 Sep �97
Elaine Paterson, Arts About Face, Time Out, 10-17 Sept 1997
Robert Garnett, Plastic, Art Monthly, Oct 1996
CRITIC�S CHOICE, Time Out, 17-24 July 1996
Sacha Craddock, Around The Galleries, The Times, 16 July 1996
Iain Gale, There Are More Ways of Seeing, The Independent, 16 July 1996
Mark Currah, Jonathan Parsons, Time Out, 10-17 July 1996
CRITIC�S CHOICE, Time Out, 10-17 July 1996
PICK OF THE WEEK, Jonathan Parsons, The Independent, 2 July 1996
Rob Kesseler, The City of Dreadful Night, Untitled, Spring 1995
Tania Guha, The City of Dreadful Night, Time Out, 7-14 Dec 1994
Sacha Craddock, Around The Galleries The Times, 29 Nov 1994
Gareth Jones, Every Now and Then, Flash Art, Oct 1994
Mark Currah, Every Now and Then, Frieze, June-Aug 1994
Mark Currah, Every Now and Then, Time Out, 11-18 May 1994
William Harvey, Every Now and Then, Untitled, Summer 1994

Publications
Katherine Harmon
The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
Joe Moran
On Roads: A Hidden History, Profile Books, London, 2009
Jos� Mar�a Parre�o et. al.
Fr�gil, Museo de Arte Contempor�neo Esteban Vicente, Madrid 2008
Rachel Campbell-Johnston et. al.
Jerwood Sculpture Prize, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, London 2007
BIAW
Braziers International Artists Workshop 2006, BIAW, London 2006
Susan Ferleger Brades, Emma Mahoney
Bad Behaviour, Hayward Gallery, London 2003
Jane England, Christine Kapteijn
The Map is Not the Territory, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham 2003
Mark Beasley, Jonathan Parsons
Approaching Content, Crafts Council, London 2003
Deborah Dean, David Lillington
As Long as it Takes, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham 2002
Tanya Harrod, Christine Kapteijn, Jonathan Parsons
Jonathan Parsons: System + Structure, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham 2000
Judith Bumpus, Pippa Coles, Matthew Higgs,
Tony Godfrey, Jacqui Poncelet
British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery, London 2000
Isobel Johnstone et. al.
The Saatchi Gift to the Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London 1999
Jonathan Barnbrook ed.
Young British Art: the Saatchi Decade, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London 1998
Simon Watney, Janis Jefferies, Roy Voss, Joan Key
Craft, Richard Salmon, London; Kettle�s Yard, Cambridge 1997
Norman Rosenthal et. al.
Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts; Thames and Hudson, London 1997
Bernice Murphy ed.
Pictura Britannica, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1997
Neil Cummings, Paul Heber-Percy, Joan Key
Plastic, Richard Salmon, London; Arnolfini, Bristol 1996
Rear Window
Mirror Mirror, Rear Window Publications, London 1996
Richard Salmon et. al.
Jonathan Parsons, Richard Salmon, London 1996