About
Jon Gomez is a Chicano multimedia artist and educator with a M.F.A. from New York’s School of Visual Arts.
Jon Gómez is an interdisciplinary artist exploring his Mexican and Native heritage through projects that frame immigration, identity, and nationalism in 21st century America. Gómez’s work takes on the task of forging his Mesoamerican ancestry and his present life in hopes of finding some resolve to an identity rich with knowledge but suppressed by colonialism. His current work incorporates tattoo influences, chicano aesthetics from the eighties and nineties, and Mesoamerican motifs. Gómez received an MFA in Fine Arts from The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and BFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He teaches drawing and painting nationally and internationally. Gómez was born in Los Angeles, has lived in Mazatlan, Mexico and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Email
a.jon.gomez@gmail.com
Studio
Brooklyn, NY
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Born in Los Angeles, California 1981. Lives and Works in Brooklyn, New York
Education
MFA, Fine Arts - School of Visual Arts, 2017
BFA, Film/Video - California Institute of the Arts, 2007
Residencies
2016 & 2017 - International Artist Residency Program at Arizona State University Museum
Group Exhibitions
2021- This Is Not My Tree, @ NARS Foundation
2019- America @ Satellite Art Fair, Miami Basel
2018- May Contain Moving Parts, El Museo Del Barrio @SVA, Chelsea, Manhattan
2017- States of Incarceration: Seeking Asylum, Resisting Detention, Project For Empty Space, NJ
2017- Cognitive Dissidence, Brooklyn, NY
2017- Mysysyphn, Nemeth Art Center 40th Anniversary Permanent Collection Exhibit, MN
2016- Flux Art Fair, Harlem, NY
2014- Body of the Palace, Dax Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2013- LADies, Cella Gallery, North Hollywood, CA
2012- Divine Gluttony, Nye + Brown, Culver City, CA
2011- Drawing Expanse, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA
2010- Stillness: Motion, Los Angeles, CA
2005- The Ray Bradbury Presentation, Lincoln Heights, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2015- La Frontera, Bow-Versuch, New York
2009- Green Sea Gallery, Montecito
2007- Jon Gomez on Paper, Stevenson Blanch @CalArts, Valencia
Teaching
2017 - Painting Instructor, Sitka Fine Arts Camp, Sitka, Alaska
2017 - Visiting Artist, Museum of Walking, Phoenix, Arizona
2013-16 - Drawing Instructor, Pi Art Center, NY
2012-08 - Faculty, California Institute of the Arts – Character Animation
2011 - Guest lecturer, University of Hawaii Academy for Creative Arts, Manoa
2011 - Guest lecturer, Riverside Community College