Biography
1948 Born in Jersey City, NJ
1975 - 1977 Attended School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1977 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1981 First one-person show, Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
Lives and works in NY
Exhibitions
2004 ‘Coloured Scribbles’, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (in preparation)
2003 ‘Jonathan Lasker Retrospective’, Museo Nacional Centrade Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain: Travelling to Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2002 'Jonathan Lasker', Sperone Westwater at the A.D.A.A. Art Show, New York, USA
2002 'Jonathan Lasker', Galerie Kiezle und Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany
2002 'Jonathan Lasker', Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2002 'Jonathan Lasker', Galeri Wang, Oslo, Norway
2001 ‘Jonathan Lasker’, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 - 2000 Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity, Paintings from the 1990s, St. Louis, MO; Toronto, Canada; & Birmingham, AL
2000 ‘Jonathan Lasker: Oeuvres Récentes’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2000 'Jonathan Lasker (Complete Print Survey)', Jan Weiner, Kansas City, USA
2000 'Jonathan Lasker', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris France
1999 ‘Jonathan Lasker’, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
1997 - 1998 ‘Jonathan Lasker’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1998 Pop/Abstraction, Museum of American Art of Penn. Academy of F.A. Philadelphia, PA
1998 ‘Jonathan Lasker’, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
1998 ‘Jonathan Lasker’, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
1998 ART C. Association Art Contemporain Ville d'Issoire, France
1997-8 Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1977-1997, Germany, Holland, & Switzerland
1997 Abstraction/Abstractions--Géometries Provisoires, Musée d'Art Moderne: curators DeChassey & Morineau St. Étienne, France
1997 ‘Jonathan Lasker’, Velge et Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
1997 ‘Jonathan Lasker’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris France
1997 ‘Jonathan Lasker’, Galerie Kienzle und Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany
1997 ‘Jonathan Lasker’, Galleria Milleventi, Turin, Italy
1997 ‘Jonathan Lasker’, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis, USA
1996 ‘Jonathan Lasker: New Paintings’, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA (cat.)
1996 Playpen & Corpus Delirium, Kunsthalle Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
1995 Sarah Campell Blaffer Gallery (& other locations) U. of Houston, TX
1995 ‘Jonathan Lasker’,Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain (cat.)
1993 The Permanent Collection Revisted, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, DC
1993 , Witte de With, Center for Contemp. Art Rotterdam, Holland
1992 , Institute of Contemporary Art, U. Penn Philadelphia, PA
1989 Horn of Plenty, Stedelijk Museum, curator Gosse Oosterhof Amsterdam, Holland
Literature
Allgardh, Sophie, ‘Jonathan Lasker at Galleri Lars Bohman’, Svenska Dagbladet, September 29th
Johnson, Ken, ‘Boxy at Dee/Glasoe’, The New York Times, September 28th, p. E36
2001 Keiper, Elke; Jakob, Susanne & Merkel, Klaus, ‘Die Sammlung als Bild: Kugelkopf’, catalogue essays for group exhibition at Staedtische Galerie Waldkraiburg
2001 Milazzo, Richard, ‘The Disaters of Painting’, ‘Caravaggio on the Beach: Essays on Art in the 1990’s’, Editions d’Afrique du Nord
2001 Anonymous, ‘Working Proof; Jonathan Lasker’, Art On Paper, February, p. 79
2001 Gauthier, Michel, ‘Mona dans l’espace: Sur les Native Drawings de Pascal convert’, Les Cahiers de Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, No. 75, Spring, pp. 5-21
2001 Juncosa, Enrique, ‘the thrill of Seeing: Willem de kooning and Postmodern Painting’, catalogue essay for exhibition at IVAM, Valencia, Spain and Fundació, pp. 9-29
2001 Ryan, David, ‘Visible thoughts: An Interview with Jonathan Lasker’, Art Papers, September/October, pp. 28-33
2001 Smolik, Noemi, et al. ‘American Art from Goetz collection’, catalogue essays for group exhibition at Rudolfinum Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2001 Burkard, Lene; Steffensen, Erik; Cameron, Dan; et al., ‘Patters: Between Object and Arabesque’, catalogue essays for group exhibition at Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark