Jonathan Lyndon Chase

About

Jonathan Lyndon Chase is an interdisciplinary artist who works in painting, video, sound, sculpture, and installation to depict queer Black love and community. 

Often rendered through layers of bright, visceral paint, ink, make-up, and glitter, Chase's figures are suspended in various forms of articulation amidst the backdrop of urban and domestic spaces.  These dynamic compositions blend emotional and physical, internal and external states of being to challenge and subvert canonical misrepresentations and exclusion of the Black body.

Jonathan Lyndon Chase's recently featured institutional exhibitions include his beard is soft, my hands are empty, Artists Space, New York (2023); Big Wash, the Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia (2020-2021); Jonathan Lyndon Chase, the Pond Society, Shanghai (2019); and Semblance: The Public/Private/Shared Self, LSU Museum of Art in New Orleans (2019).

Their work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Walker Art Center, ICA Miami, High Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, Rubell Museum, Buxton Contemporary Art Museum, The Wedge Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and Leslie Lohman Museum. 

Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s wild wild Wild West & Haunting of the Seahorse, was published by Capricious Foundation in 2020.

Chase was born in 1989 in Philadelphia, PA.