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

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

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

2022 Wreck After Wreck: 5 Years of Critical Practice at Yale School of Art, 2016–2020, Yale School of Art Press, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. ISBN: 978-1-948891-11-0 » Visit Link
2021 The Yale Review, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
2021 How to Start a Writing Workshop, Free School Press, Hamtramck, Michigan. ISBN: 978-0-9981122-4-4. » Visit Link
2021 In Praise of Shadows, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
2018 99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Karma, New York, New York. » Visit Link
2015 Parallax, Issue Three, Singing Saw Press, collaboration with Matvei Yankelevich » Visit Link
2015 DET TO LAX, LAX TO DET, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. » Visit Link

Selected Writing

2022, Flattening, Wreck After Wreck: 5 Years of Critical Practice at Yale School of Art, 2016–2020, Yale School of Art Press, Yale University, October 2022.

Making a Making: Jonathan Rajewski in Conversation with Bill Dilworth
Three Fold Press, November 2020, » Visit Link

On James Dean Fuson
"Essay'd," Wayne State University Press, April 2019, » Visit Link

On Chris Riddell
"Essay'd," Wayne State University Press, July 2018, » Visit Link

On Yusef Qualls-El
"Essay'd," Wayne State University Press, April 2018, » Visit Link

Prison, Poetry, and the Internet, The Exhibitionist (MIT Press), 2014.

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

2021 MFA, Painting & Printmaking, Yale University, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut.
2017 Elaine de Kooning House Residency
2015 Kresge Fellow in Visual Art, Kresge Foundation

ART < WORK, Museum of the Fucking Future, co-authored with michael phillip brown, Mousse Magazine, 2013.

Contact rajewski.jonathan@gmail.com