Jonathan Monaghan (born September 14, 1986 in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York) is a contemporary visual artist who creates Post-Internet video art.[1][2]
Jonathan Monaghan | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 14, 1986 Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, U.S. |
| Education | New York Institute of Technology University of Maryland |
| Style | Video art |
| Movement | Post-Internet |
| Website | Jonathanmonaghan.com |
Biography
editMonaghan received his B.F.A. in computer graphics from the New York Institute of Technology in 2008.[3] Monaghan then went on to receive a M.F.A. from the University of Maryland.
Work
editMonaghan's animations have been exhibited at the Sundance Film Festival[4] and the Palais de Tokyo.[5] Monaghan's work sits in numerous public and private collections such as The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
As he stated, "My first artistic interests were [...] video game designers and science fiction movies".[3] His work Sacrifice of the Mushroom Kings is an eight-minute video of cryptic reproductions of video games characters from Street Fighter, G.I. Joe and Super Mario Bros.[6] He created the French penguin (2009), an "absurd and sad representation of power as a slave of itself"; Rainbow Narcosis (2012), a "journey through absurd worlds, loaded with historical and artistic references"; and Robot Ninja (2013), where "the environments become abstract and the spirit more masculine, almost macho".[7]
According to Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, the Finance of Art, and the Great Crypto Crash of 2022, by Zachary Small, Monaghan created what is arguably the first NFT in 2013, when he processed the editions of his digital artwork 'Mothership' through the first iteration of a bitcoin blockchain registration framework called Keidom, later ascribe.[8] In 2017, he released a series of digital futuristic Fabergé eggs.[9]
Monaghan is represented by bitforms gallery in New York.[10]
Exhibitions
editSolo
edit- 2014: Alien Fanfare (alien invasion), Studio 1469, Washington D.C.[11]
- "After Fabergé" The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
- 2016: Gotham (photographic dream cities), Galerie 22,48m², Paris[12]
- 2017: Disco Beast (symbol of unicorns), bitforms gallery, New York[13]
- "Escape Pod" bitforms gallery, New York
- "Robot Ninja" Market Gallery, Glasgow
- 2021: Den of Wolves (aesthetics of power), bitforms gallery, New York[14]
- 2022: Move the Way you Want (technology over ecology), The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.[15][16]
Select screenings
edit- LOOP Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston MA
- Hirshhorn Museum - "Experimental Media Series" Washington D.C.
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam Netherlands
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Jenkins, Mark (2013-07-22). "3-D printing can make everyone a designer". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ Kopf, Suzy (2021-06-18). "Jonathan Monaghan, 2021 Sondheim Finalist". BmoreArt. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ^ a b "Alumni Profile: Jonathan Monaghan". New York Tech. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ "Sundance Institute Celebrates New Frontier 10th Anniversary at 2016 Festival". Sundance Institute. Retrieved 2015-12-05.
- ^ "Summer exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo". e-flux. Retrieved 2018-07-08.
- ^ Jenkins, Mark (2012-01-26). "Jonathan Monaghan twists video games in exhibit at Curator's Office". Washington Post. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ Corona, Sarah (2013-08-26). "Embezzling the (un)real. Jonathan Monaghan". Arte Fuse. Archived from the original on 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
- ^ Small, Zachary (2024). Token Supremacy. Knopf. ISBN 9780593536759.
- ^ "Jonathan Monaghan's futuristic Fabergé". the PhotoPhore. 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2024-11-27.
- ^ "bitforms gallery". Retrieved 2015-05-10.
- ^ "Jonathan Monaghan's Alien Invasion: A Surrealist SCiFi World, in Dazzling CGI". Artsy. 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ "Postcard From Paris – Jonathan Monaghan's Gotham". Artblog. 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ Jones, Alex A. (2017-12-13). "JONATHAN MONAGHAN: The Disco Beast". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ "Art Exhibits, Art Magazine, Contemporary Art, Art Blogs, Art Artists". ArteFuse. 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ "Intersections: Jonathan Monaghan". Phillips Collection. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ Rule, Doug (2022-11-25). "Jonathan Monaghan at The Phillips Collection". Metro Weekly. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
External links
edit