Jonathan Lasker

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Jonathan Lasker (born 1948 in Jersey City , New Jersey) is an American artist.

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Jonathan Lasker studied at the School of Visual Arts , New York , 1975–1977 and moved to the California Institute of the Arts , Valencia, CA in 1977. Since 1981 he has participated in group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the USA and Europe; since 1981 he has had his first solo exhibitions, including a major retrospective in 1997/1998 in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld , in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and in the Kunstverein St. Gallen ; most recently (2003) a large solo exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Düsseldorf. His abstract works follow the tradition of Minimal Art , but in search of further developed rules and systems for contemporary art, he understands them far more freely in terms of form than his fellow artists.

Jonathan Lasker was elected a full member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York in 2015 .

Prices

  • 1987 and 1989 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
  • 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant

Works in public and private collections

  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, NY
  • Birmingham Museum of Art , Birmingham, AL
  • The British Library, London, England
  • Casino Luxembourg, Forum for Contemporary Art, Luxembourg
  • The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  • De Peter Stuyvesant Stichting, Amsterdam
  • Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
  • Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • La Fondación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid
  • High Museum, Atlanta, GA
  • Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
  • MIT List Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  • Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville
  • Museum Ludwig , Cologne
  • New York Public Library, New York
  • Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
  • Whitney Museum of American Art , New York
  • Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
  • New Gallery (Kassel) , Kassel

Individual evidence

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Literature and exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • Jonathan Lasker: studies for paintings 1986-2006, exhibition cat., London, Timothy Taylor Gallery and Munich, Galerie Sabine Knust 2007, ed. by Richard Kalina, London 2007
  • Demetrio Paparoni (ed.), Jonathan Lasker: paintings 1977-2001, Milan 2002
  • Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1977-1997, exhib.-cat., Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and St. Gallen, Kunstverein 1997-1998, ed. by Hans-Michael Herzog, Ostfildern-Ruit 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Lasker, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City , New Jersey , USA