Jonathan Gillette

 

American, b.1980

 

Lives in Chicago, IL

   

 

EDUCATION

2005
  

MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2003

Post - Baccalaureate, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2002

BA Union University, Jackson, TN

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005

Gallery Elliot Layda, Chicago, IL

2004

Preparing a Hog, 3 x 5 Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002

The Man, The Myth, The Legend,  Union University, Jackson, TN

 

Recent Paintings,  Jackson State College


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006

Gallery 2, Chicago, IL

2005

Summer Show, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Amerian Drawing Biennial 8, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA

 

Taboo, Studio Montclair, New Jersey

 

Art Scholar Competition, Civic Union League, Chicago, IL

 

NOVA, Devining projects + editons, Chicago, IL

 

Drawn to Drawing, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago MFA Exhibition

 

Players, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL

 

immaculate, 1926, Chicago, IL

 

Curated Alumni Exhibition, Union University Gallery of Art, Jackson, TN

2004

Contemporary Approaches to Working Class Identity, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL

 

From Dusk to Dawn, Caladan Gallery, Beverly, MA

 

The Stray Show,  General Store, Chicago, IL

 

Chicago All-Stars, Hotcakes Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

 

Yellow Wall Hall,  Harrisburg, PA

 

J.U.S.T Invitational, The Carneige, Jackson, TN

  The Shady Grove Co., Gallery Urbis Orbis, St. Louis, MO
  Nippon Steel Awards Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2003 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago MFA Exhibition, P-B
  Mirror, Mirror, Z Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Beautiful and Challenging, Fleur Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Stuff My Stocking, Fleur Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Nippon Steel Awards Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2002 Artists of the 21st Century, University of Tennessee at Martin, TN
   

GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
2005 Best in Show, Taboo, Studio Montclair, NJ
2004 George and Isabella Brown Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2003-04 Nippon Steel Award Tuition
2003 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Presidential Scholarship
   
COLLECTIONS
  Union Univeristy, Jackson, TN
   
PUBLICATIONS
2003 Chicago Reader, September
  Morning News Sunday, ABC, featured work in a gallery segment
2002 The Jackson Sun, May