About me: I make static & moving pictures. Books, drawings, paintings & animation. My work employs my ongoing obsession with medical, mechanical, & carnivalesque (& then some...).

One man shows: 2006 Luzern Institute for Art & Design/Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern/Fumetto Festival 2003 La Luz de Jesus, LA. CA. 2000 Adam Baumgold Fine Art, NY, NY. 1999 Studio Camuffo, Venice, Italy 1984 Onyx Gallery, LA. CA. 1983 Onyx Gallery, LA. CA. 1982 Zomoid gallery, LA. CA. Selected group shows: 2007 Neo Integrity. Derek Eller Gallery, NY, NY. 2006 Menage-a-Trois with Jean-Jacques Tachdjian and Robert Williams. Overtones Gallery LA, CA. "A Piece Apart" Aidan Savoy Gallery NY, NY. 2003 The Ganzfeld Unbound, Ace Baumgold gallery, NY, NY. 2002 Raw Cooked & Boiled, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. & MICA Art Inst. Baltimore MD, 2004 2002 ANIMATIONS, PS1. Museum, LIC Queens, NY. 2001, & Kunstwerk, Berlin, 2002 The Panorama Project, The Front Room, Brooklyn, New York 2001 Exquisite Day, Plus Ultra Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. 1999 Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Dusk, end of the millennium exhibition, 1999 Monumental Drawings, Exit Art, 1998 Comics power, EXIT ART, NY. 1997 Imaginary creatures, EXIT ART, NY. 1997 Almost normal, Parsons inst. NY. Invitational, Ace Baumgold gallery, NY 1996 New Pop, Rome, Milan and Venice, Italy, 1991 with Henrik Drescher, Reactor gallery, Toronto. 1988 Poseidon; Steve Barry, Sculpture/film, Audio: Jonathon Rosen An exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC 1982 Out off control, Cal State LA. Clients of Commissioned Art include: ID Magazine,Popular Science, Details, Snake-Eyes, WFMU, Le Dernier cri, Sony, Outside Magazine, Oxford Review, New Scientist, Psychology Today, Discover Magazine, Newsweek Japan, Redhot Productions, The Progressive, Pink pages, RCA Records, Art & Architecture magazine, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Screwgun Records, Salon, Rolling Stone, Fortune, The Residents, Warner Bros. Records, MTV, Time Magazine, MSNBC online, The Ink Tank, Mother Jones, MS. Magazine. Film/ Animation/TV clients: -Mechanica agency -web animation - Le Dernier Cri: Animation segment for Savage religion - Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow: Ichabod Crane's Journal drawings and design. - The Residents bad day on the midway:animation sequence - Tales from the crypt (Inscape):animation sequence - MTV: Cut up faces sequence/& MTV awards book art - Strange Invaders (1983), special sound effects Solo Books: Intestinal Fortitude (1990 by Poote press, New York, 2006, by Le Dernier Cri, Marseille, France) A limited edition letter press book of drawings. The Birth of Machine Consciousness (2003, by Le Dernier Cri, Marseille, France) Selected Lectures: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2006, 2007 Kuvataideakatemia/Academy of fine arts, Helsinki, Finland, 2005 Fabrica, Italy 1999 Grafill, conference for the Norwegian Association of Graphic Designers and Illustrators, Oslo Norway, 1999 Tyler school of art Philadelphia, 2000, Rhode Island School of Design & Pratt; Nov, 2001 Press references: -World Art magazine 17:Jonathon Rosen's Medieval Mechanicals/ summer 98 cover & feature. -Print magazine: Creatures for the millennium may/June 96 feature article, page 36. -American Illustration, Volume 9 -14 Awards: 2006, Cultural Grant from US Embassy, Bern Switzerland. Gold /1995 by Society of Publication Designers, and Silver, 2003. 1999 Artist-in-residence award at Harvestworks, Sound and computer video production house) New York, NY. Art director's Club, NY, annual competition merit award, 2002, 2004

Performances; -Live video mixing by Steve Byram & Jonathon Rosen for Paraphrase UK tour,  Mar 2007; BIRMINGHAM / England-CBSO CENTER,  LONDON / England, Vortex jazz club, LEEDS / England, the wardrobe, EDINBURGH / Scotland jazz ctr@the LOT, POOLE -Lighthouse, BIRMINGHAM / England-CBSO CENTER -Live video mixing by Steve Byram & Jonathon Rosen for Paraphrase @ Barbès, Brooklyn. Dec. 05. -LA. MOCA / REDCAT Theater, LA. CA. Live video performance with composer Tom Recchion for The Visual Music Exhibition performance series / March, 2005. -Electric saw for Joshua White and Gary Panter who presented a supersized lightshow, July, 2004, at Anthology Film Archives, New York City. -Tonic, Manhattan & Perogie Gallery, Williamsberg. Electric Saw with Brian Dewan & others while Mark Newgarden projected his 16mm archival films. 2004.

Other work; Visiting lecturer at Kuvataideakatemia/Academy of fine arts, Helsinki, Finland. Currently MFA advisor & teacher of a history of anatomy & medical illustration course at The School of Visual Arts, NY. NY. 1978-1984 worked as a printmaker and print curator on limited edition prints in LA. CA., primarily etching and lithography. Worked on print projects with many artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Collections, The Metropolitan Art Museum, The Brooklyn Art Museum, Si Newhouse, Danny Devito, Smog Design, Zoom Design, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Archives and Special Collections Division of the Uni of Wisconsin Milwaukee Libraries.