Jonathan Adams
Jonathan Adams is an artist from Bristol, VA/TN. He earned his Bachelor's in Fine Art with a concentration in Drawing from East Tennessee State University and his Master's of Fine Art in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from Rutgers University. His work has been exhibited Internationally and
Nationally, including but not limited to The Studio Museum of Harlem's Studio Magazine, The Brooklyn Army Terminal, Crosstown Arts, Chautauqua Visual Art galleries, Wiregrass Museum of Art, William King Museum of Art, Dots Gallery, The Kansas African American Museum in was a Part-time Lecturer in Drawing at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Adams works as a full-time artist and lives with his family in Knoxville, TN.
b. 1991, Bristol, VA/TN lives and works in Knoxville, TN
Education
2021 Arrowmont Visions Intern, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
2020 The Chautauqua School of Art residency
Master of Fine Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (Mason Gross Visual Arts Graduate Fellow)
2016 Bachelor of Fine Art, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2023 Gospel-l, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia
2020 The Last Safe Place on Earth, Smallbany Gallery, Albany, NY
2019 Faraday Cage, Civic Square Building, New Brunswick, NJ
2016 Reactions to Innate Stimuli,
Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN.
Group Shows
2023 Holler If you See Me: Black Appalachia, The Kansas African American Museum Wichita, KS
2022 unSEEN: The Unpredictable Forms of Drawing, Belgrade, Serbia
Elements, Kenosha, Wisconsin
2021 From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands, Abingdon, TN
Destruction Before Creation, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2020 B20 Wiregrass Biennial, Dothan, AL
IN THE PULL OF THE FUTURE | Mercurial Tranquility, Curated by Adriana Blidaru
Presented by EFA Project Space
30 Under 30 ‘Directors choice’, Viridian. INC, New York, NY
Devil in the Details, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2019 Dark, Dark, Dark Looms the Canopy of Clouds, Westerhoff School of Art and Music, Metuchen, NJ
Silenced Narratives Black Americanx Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN Curated by Shai Perry and Terrell Carter
con•flu•ence, Coral Street Arts House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art of the South 2019 juried by Bethany Springer, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Kara Walker Presents: Museums, Monuments and Memorials, Brooklyn Army Terminal Brooklyn, NY
Like a Day; The Day After, 21 Ludlow st, Brooklyn, NY
Young Collectors Contemporary Art Fair and Conference, Memphis, TN
Positive/Negative 34 National Juried Art Exhibition Juror Ann Meisinger, Slocumb galleries, Johnson City, TN
2018 Just Honey, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
Se Vende Columbia , Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
All that Glitters, Juror Keith Lewis and Tariqa Waters, Gallery One Gallery one Visual art center,
Ellensburg, Washington
Along the Horizon: Contemporary Drawing in Tennessee, The Reece Museum & Slocumb Galleries,
Johnson City, TN
2017 The Fl3tch3r Exhibit Juror Anita Kunz, The Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
Black Appalachia: African American Art in Northeast, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2016 Student Honor Show Juror Carolyn Grosch, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
6x6x2016 , Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
Body Matters, SUBmarine Gallery, Johnson City, TN
Digital Dialect, Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
2015 Unsound Minds, Submarine Gallery, Johnson City, TN
Transitional Zeitgeist, Kingsport at the Renaissance Arts Center Renaissance Center, Kingsport, TN
Unrestricted, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN
Southern Oracles, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Residencies, Awards
2021 The Drawing Center Viewing Program 20/21
2020 The Chautauqua School of Art residency Tuition Scholarship
John I. Bettenbender Memorial Performance Award
Dedalus MFA Fellowship Nomination
2019 Honorable Mention Positive/Negative 34 National Juried Art Exhibition Juror Ann Meisinger
2018 Art Letters and Numbers residency
2018-2020 MFA Full Tuition Fellowship, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
2009-16 “Bobby Griffin Family Scholarship”
Related Experience
2021 Virtual Art Reach Instructor, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
2018- 2020. Part-Time Lecturer, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
2018- Curr. Art Instructor, The Westerhoff School of Music & Art
2018-2020. GSA Graduate student class representative
09/2016 - 12/2016 "Gooder Labs" Layout Production, illustrator and design artist
2015-2016, Vice-President of the Student
Painting Drawing Association (SPDA)
Kubert Correspondence course Penciling certification
2013-Curr., Freelance Graphic Designer
2015-Curr., Freelance Artist
Skills
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom
Clip Studio
HTML
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Affinity Designer
Press
Locate Arts The Focus, Interview: Jonathan Adams
House Party for Art: Art, music and virtual experiences Wiregrass Museum of Art
A View from the Easel During Times of Quarantine, Hyperallergic
Number presents Art of the south 2019
Locate Arts, "ALONG THE HORIZON: CONTEMPORARY DRAWING IN TENNESSEE"
All that Glitters Catalog
The Fl3tch3r Exhibit catalog
Engage Kingsport, “Transitional Zeitgeist: A Group Exhibit by the Student Painting and Drawing Association at ETSU" William Kai Stephanos
Art Interviews with Bill Jordan: Candid Interview with Jonathan Adams
A! Magazine for The Arts, "Highlighting Northeast Tennessee's Black Artists at Tipton Gallery during Little Chicago Festival"