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RESUME Biography John Jonas received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996, he also studied at the Arts Students League of New York. His work has been exhibited widely, including the de Young Museum, Sanchez Art Center, Rene di Rosa Off the Preserve, Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), the Hendon Gallery (Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio), Pro Arts, the San Francisco Main Library and Galleria G8, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy. He has maintained a studio in Benicia since 1994. Web www.johnjonasweb.com Email jjmjart@aol.com Studio 940 Tyler Street, Studio 6 Benicia, CA 94510 707-853-0031 Education BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
BS, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California China National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China Exhibitions 2010 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, National 2010 Juried Exhibition The Warehouse Gallery, Oakland, CA, Signiture Stretcher Bars Client Show UC Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, CA, Portrait Exhibition Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA, The Art of a Community 2009 Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, The National Drawing and Sculpture Exhibit Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, Beasts on Broadway Animals Galore Visual Aid, San Francisco, CA, Big Blue Deal 2008 Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA, Soupcon: A Small Works Show Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield , CA, 45th Regional Juried Art Show 2007 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, 2007 Elder Arts Celebrations
Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA, The Art of a Community Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA, 44th Regional Juried Art Show Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, 2007 BAC Members' Showcase The Main ARTery Gallery, Benicia, CA, Where the Wild Things Are 2006 Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA, The Art of a Community Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, Showcase 2006 2005 The de Young Museum, San Francisco, 2005 Elder Arts Celebrations Galleria G8. Montecastello di Vibio, Italy, Mostra Di Pittura E Scultura
San Francisco Art Institute, Diego Rivera Gallery, Elder Arts Celebrations Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA, 43rd Regional Juried Art Show 600 Townsend, San Francisco, CA, Elder Arts Celebrations Special Exhibition Galarie Shokat, Oakland, CA, Duality Marin Art and Garden Center, Ross, CA, Open Craft & Sculpture Exhibition Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA, Art of the Community Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, Showcase 2005 2004 Rene di Rosa Off The Preserve, CA, 2004 Elder Arts Celebration Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA, 42nd Regional Juried Art Show Galleria G8, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy, Mostra di Pittura Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA. BACA Showcase 2004 2003 San Francisco Main Library, Jewett Gallery, 2003 Elder Arts Celebrations Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA, 41st Regional Juried Art Show 2002 Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA, Art of the Commumity 2001 Jeannie Brewer Gallery, San Francisco, UC Berkeley Extension Art Exhibition Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA, The Art of a Community 2000 Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, A Painting Exhibition 1999 Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, New Visions: Introductions ’99, an exhibition for emerging California artists The Benicia Public Library, Benicia, CA, Beveled Edge Press, An Exhibition of Etchings, Linocuts, Monotype and Woodcuts 1998 Fairfield Community Center, Fairfield, CA, 36th Annual Regional Juried Art Show 1997 Fairfield Community Center, Fairfield, CA, 35th Annual Regional Juried Art Show Prudential California Gallery, Benicia, CA, An Exhibition of Benicia Artists 1996 Bay Front Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Art Institute Senior Show 1995 China National Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China, An Exhibition of Art Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA, Mixed Blessings/ Aging and Wisdom
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, Student Exhibition 1994 Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA, Meet the Makers Fairfield Community Center, Fairfield, CA, 32nd Annual Regional Juried Art Show 1993 Solano Community College, Suisun, CA Bibliography Fairfield Visual Arts Association, Jurors Comment: Artist John Jonas, Fairfield, CA, 2004 Faught, Judith, Skip the Computer Screen, View the Real Thing, Daily Republic, Fairfield, CA, November 13, 1998 Hansen, Accountant Turns Artist in Solano County, Editorial Page, Solano Times, Concord, CA, February 1, 1996 Jacobson, Catherine D., Art Enters Man's Life Once More, Solano Times, Concord, CA, February 1, 1996 Paisley, Michelle, The Arts: Novice to Noted Will Exhibit Artwork in 2nd
Annual 'Art of a Community', Benicia Herald, Benicia, CA, November
25th, 1995 Schlossberg, Brandi, Open Studios All Across the Town, Benicia Herald, Benicia, CA, May 4, 2001 Steele, Nancy, Art of a Community, Arts Benicia Artifact, February 1996 Awards and Honors 2010 Merit Award, Natational 2010 Juried Exhibition, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, juror: Maria Medua, Director of Artists Gallery SFMOMA 2009 Honorable Mentioned, Beasts on Broadway, Animals Galore, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, Juror: George Rivera, Executive Director of the Triton Museum of Art 2008 Third Place Drawing, 45th Annual Regional Juried Art Show, Fairfield Center for
Creative Arts,Fairfield, CA 2005 The de Young Museum, 2005 Elder Arts Celebration, juror's selection as one of twenty artists to particiate at an exhibition honoring Wayne Thiebaud at the opening of the new de Young Museum, October 2005 2004 Honorable Mentioned, Berkeley Art Center 2004 Showcase, Berkeley Art Center,Berkeley, CA Second Place Painting Oil and Acrylics, 42nd Annual Regional Juried Art Show, Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA 1999 Juror's Seclection to Pro Arts 1999 Introductions for Emerging California Artists,
Oakland, CA, juror: Rupert Garcia
1998 Honorable Mentioned, 36th Regional Juried Art Show, Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA Residencies 2005 International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Montecastello di
Vibio, Umbria, Italy 2004 International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Montecastello di Vibio, Unbria, Italy
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