CURRICULUM VITAE
Jon Read
216-407-8097, jonathanrread@gmail.com
jonreadsart.squarespace.com
Education
M.F.A. University of Houston, 2018
Artist Residency:
Fieldwork Marfa, May 2016
Awards and Fellowships:
Teaching Fellowship 2016-2018
B.F.A. (Painting) Kent State University, Kent, OH, August 2000
Artist Workshops:
Kent/Blossom Art (Painting), Kent State University, Kent, OH. June, 2000.
Resident Faculty: Craig Lucas Visiting Artist: Nancy Hynes, David Humphry
Kent/Blossom Art (Painting), Kent State University, Kent, OH, June, 1999.
Resident Faculty: Martin Ball Visiting Artist: Elliot Green, Laura Owens
Selected Group Exhibitions
Futurescapes Reeves Art + Design, Houston TX, 2023
Crossroads Big Medium Gallery, Austin TX, 2023
The Politics of Sex G gallery, Houston TX, 2023
RE CONTEMPT TEMPT The Orange Show Center For visionary Arts, 2022
New Texas Talent XXVIII Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX 2021
Red Door reopening, Red Door Gallery, Copenhagen, Demark, 2021
Sculpture Month Houston 2019: Outta Space The Meanyur Mono Gore, Site Gallery, Houston TX, 2019
40th Master of Fine Arts Thesis Show, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston TX 2018
Rising Eyes of Texas, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport TX 2018
marfa sightings Beaux Arts de Nantes, Nantes France, 2017
Civic TV collective: Artist Cookbook Civic TV, Houston TX, 2016
Fieldworks Marfa: Marfa Sightings Big Bend Coffee Roasters Gallery, Marfa TX, 2016
Sequence: Graphic Storytelling presented by the Mitchell Center at MATCH, Houston TX, 2016
Tex Kerschan’s Please Yourself, Self Actualization, Houston TX, 2014
Eating Ice Cream Out of a Skull Third Space,Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013
In With The Outcrowd Studio Sereno, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
All Dread Set, Cardoza Fine Art, Houston TX, 2012
S.U.Z.Y collective. The Foundry, Houston TX 2010
The Mash up Show: Art Will Eat Itself. Curated by Marcella Faustini. NOMA Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2009.
Darkness Will Find You. Curated by Michael Dee. The Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 2008.
Vernon Equinox. Texas FireHouse, Long Island City, NY. 2007.
Insider Outsider. All Rise Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2006.
Stop Trashing Houston. curated by Donna Huanca, Version Art Fair, Chicago, IL. 2006.
Temporary Contemporary. The Orange Show, Houston TX. 2004.
Trailer Park. Curated by Danny Kerschen. Deer Park, TX. 2003.
Ajita. Station Museum, Houston, TX. 2002
The Relay Show. Tri-C East Gallery, Cleveland, OH. 2001
The First Cleveland Biennial Juried Exhibition. Curated by Janet Bishop. C.S.U. Gallery Cleveland, OH. 2001
Solo Exhibitions
“Than Somewhere They Must Be Believing in Me” Ruth Street Projects, 2022
Portals and Expectations Flatland Gallery, Houston TX, 2019
New Toyz 4th Floor Project Space, U of H school of Art, 2018
What’s Your Superpowers and How Did You Get Them? Bills Junk, Houston TX, 2017
Shrine to the Myth of Man, G Gallery, Houston TX, 2013
Notes From The Dark Ride Domy Books, Houston, TX, 2012
Lo-Fi No-Brow Folk Show. Artstorm, Houston, TX. 2008.
Holy Rumble, The Lawndale Center for Contemporary Arts, Houston, TX. 2006.
Significant Work Experience
Fashion Time Machine, Art Director
Lonestar community college, montgomery campus, adjunct professor,Art Appreciation and Fundamentals of Drawing, August 2018 to present
University of Houston, Houston TX, 2019, Adjunct professor, Fundamentals of Painting and drawing.
University of Houston, Houston TX, Aug. 2016- May 2018, Fellowship professor, Fundamentals of Drawing
Foreign Correspondents(Treadsack), Houston, TX. Interior Decoration and art director.
City Artworks, Houston, TX. August 2014-15. Art Teacher
Tiny Travelers Apps, Los Angeles CA 2013-2014, Art director for children’s app
Diverseworks Houston, TX. Operation Manager, Assistant Program Director. May 2003 to March 2013.
Bays and Thomas Productions (FOX, CBS). Los Angeles, CA. Concept Artist, animator, writer. 2005 to 2014.
Mazzolini ArtCraft, Cleveland, OH. Artist, Art restoration, Production Management. October 2000 to March 2003.
Spaces, Cleveland, OH. Internship and Gallery Attendant. October 2000 to January 2001.
Published Works
Manual for a Future Desert, photo of Meanyur-mono Gore Edited by Ida Soulard, Abinadi Meza & Bassam El Baroni, Mousse publishing, 2021
Red Door Magazine, interview and works, Aug. 2021
Album cover art for Plum Island by Bwak Dwagon, Aug. 2016
Magazine Cover, RIP Pam, Free Press Houston, Nov. 2014
Magazine Cover, Season of The Witch Free Press Houston, Oct. 2014
Painting, Take The Robots Bowling, featured on the CBS’s How I Met Your Mother episode “The Mother”, aired Jan. 2014
Paintings, Inside Funlake,Mutant Lovers,Shaker Hts., and Mutant Attack featured in Heavy Feather Review, volume 3, issue 1, Baby Eat Books Press, Nov. 2013
Paintings, Elephant, Cat Fight, and Judgement featured on CBS’s How I Met Your Mother episode “The Ashtray”, aired Feb. 2013
Book cover, Year of the Rooster, by Noah Eli Gordon, Ahsahta Press, May 2013
Album Cover/design of Spark by Chop Chop, Alchemy records, April 2011
Book cover of "The Micro-Politics of Capital" by Jason Read, State University of New York Press. September 2003.
Published Recordings by The Wiggins(solo music project)
The Greatest Apes EP, 2005, Girl Gang Records
Feed The Ghost 7”, 2008, Dull Knife Records
Walk 7” , 2010, Needless Records
Myth of Man 12”, 2012, Team Science
Greater Minds cassette, 2016, Miss Champagne
Waterworld cassette, 2018, Miss Champagne
Lazy Summers, 2020, S/R digital