b. 1986, Bismarck, North Dakota.
Lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.

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2021 MFA, Painting & Printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
2009 BA, Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

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Solo Exhibitions

2024 Together Apart, Nina Johnson, Miami, Florida
2023 Recreational College, Nina Johnson, Miami, Florida
2020 Ordinary Spheres, Nina Johnson, Miami, Florida
2016 Red Yellow Blue, Popp's Packing, Hamtramck, Michigan
2013 There is No Heaven for Concepts, N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan

Group Exhibitions

2023 In August, Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Strauss Bourque-LaFrance
2023 Get Together, Reyes Finn, Detroit, Michigan
2021 In Praise of Shadows, Lyles & King, New York, New York. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes
2021 In Praise of Shadows, Yale University, Green Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes
2021 Staycation, 13 E. 7th Street, New York, New York. Curated by Curtis Welteroth and Cindy Conrad.
2019 We don't really know each other, Yale University, Green Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Curated by A.L. Steiner
2018 BURNT, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, New York. Curated by Leo Fitzpatrick
2017 Something Green, Reyes Finn, Birmingham, Michigan
2017 Summer Trip, Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, New York. Curated by Katherine Bernhardt
2017 Vermut, Jonathan Rajewski & Michael Swaney, Aloïse, Barcelona, Spain
2017 99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan
2017 Undercover Boss, Reyes Finn, Birmingham, Michigan
2016 How High, Left Field Projects, San Luis Obispo, California. Curated by Travis Fish
2016 De Facto Detroit, College for Creative Studies, Center Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2015 DET TO LAX, LAX TO DET, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen
2014 Mary Ann Aitken, John Maggie, Jonathan Rajewski, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, New York
2014 Big Painting Show, 333 Midland, Highland Park, Michigan. Curated by Robert Sestok
2012 Prolonged Exposure, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Mall of America, Toll-free audio exhibition. Curated by Elizabeth Lamb

Publications

2024 Poem Staple Collage for Jonathan Rajewski & Other Poem, Hannah Brooks-Motl, The Year Press.
2024 Help Is On The Way: Paintings by Jim Chatelain, Rotland Press » Visit Link
2022 "Flattening," Wreck After Wreck: 5 Years of Critical Practice at Yale School of Art, 2016–2020, Yale School of Art Press, Yale University.
2020 "Making a Making: Jonathan Rajewski in Conversation with Bill Dilworth," Three Fold Press. » Visit Link
2019 "On James Dean Fuson," Essay'd, Wayne State University Press. » Visit Link
2018 99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Karma Books » Visit Link 2018 "On Chris Riddell," Essay'd, Wayne State University Press. » Visit Link
2018 "On Yusef Qualls-El, Essay'd, Wayne State University Press. » Visit Link
2014 "Prison, Poetry, and the Internet," The Exhibitionist, MIT Press.

Selected Writing

2024 Face Painter, Help Is On The Way, Paintings by Jim Chatelain, Rotland Press.
2023 Flesh and Marble, Three Fold Press » Visit Link
2022 Flattening, Wreck After Wreck: 5 Years of Critical Practice at Yale School of Art, 2016–2020, Yale School of Art Press, Yale University.
2020 Making a Making: Jonathan Rajewski in Conversation with Bill Dilworth
Three Fold Press. » Visit Link
2019 On James Dean Fuson
"Essay'd," Wayne State University Press. » Visit Link
2018 On Chris Riddell
"Essay'd," Wayne State University Press. » Visit Link
2018 On Yusef Qualls-El
"Essay'd," Wayne State University Press. » Visit Link
2014 Prison, Poetry, and the Internet, The Exhibitionist (MIT Press)
2013 "Art>Work," co-authored with Michael Phillip Brown, Mousse Magazine

Performances

2018 Chris Riddell & Associates, Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead, Museum of Contepmorary Art Detroit, Michigan
2015 Writer's Block at the Rivera Court, Detroit Institute of Arts, Rivera Court, Detroit, Michigan
2014 Interpretive Steganography, Underword 3, 1480 Gratiot, Detroit, Michigan
2013 Interpretive Stenography, Underword 2, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan

Awards

2024 Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Residency, New York, NY
2024 Creative Capital Award
2020 Critical Practice Research Grant, Yale School of Art, Yale University.
2017 Elaine de Kooning House, Resident, Easthampton, NY
2015 Kresge Fellow in Visual Art, Kresge Foundation
2015 Knight Arts Foundation Grant for Hamtramck Free School
2015 Knight Arts People’s Choice Award for Hamtramck Free School

Contact rajewski.jonathan@gmail.com