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Jonathan Horowitz

New York-based Jonathan Horowitz works in video, sculpture, sound installation, painting and photography and is known for making work that critically examines some of the most controversial social and political issues of the day, including race, sexuality, celebrity, religion and consumerism. Born into the last generation to truly straddle both the analogue and digital eras, Horowitz regularly works with found footage and images, juxtaposing elements from film, television, advertising and the media to reveal connections and breakdowns between pre- and post-digital society and the overlapping modes of communication common to both. Often combining the imagery and insouciance of Pop Art with the critical rigour of Conceptualism, Horowitz’s work is frequently provocative and subversive, but rarely lacks poignancy and humour. Horowitz, who originally studied philosophy and filmmaking, is highly regarded for his acerbic and radical questioning of the value systems inherent within advertising, politics and the media to reveal larger, more uncomfortable truths about contemporary society.

Jonathan Horowitz (b. 1966, New York, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include: We Fight to Build a Free World, the Jewish Museum, New York (2020); 1612 DOTS, Oculus World Trade Center, New York (2017); Occupy Greenwich, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich (2016); and Your Land/My Land: Election ’12, staged concurrently at seven museums across the US, from the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles to the New Museum, New York, (2012). His exhibition The Future Will Follow the Past is currently on view at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia through the end of 2024.

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Selected Images

  • Leftover Paint Abstraction #14 (75” x 55”), 2019

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  • We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz
    The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA, 2020

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  • Occupy Greenwich
    The Brant Foundation Art and Study Center, Greenwich, CT, USA, 2016

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  • Leftover Paint Abstraction #1 (90" × 75"), 2018

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  • Leftover Paint Abstraction #4 (75" x 55"), 2017

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  • Leftover Glitter Abstraction (Rainbow American Flag for Jasper in the Style of the Artist's Boyfriend), 2018

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  • Recycling Sculpture (Eileen Gray Table), 2018

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  • Group Self-portrait in "Mirror #3 (Six Panels)" (Vin, Tom, Mikhail, Katie, Fumi, Austin), 2015

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  • Rainbow American Flag on Orange Field II for Jasper in the Style of the Artist's Boyfriend, 2015

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  • 100 Dots, 2015

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  • 7’ Checkerboard with Approx. 4” Squares, 2015

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  • Self-portrait in "Mirror#2"(Jessica), 2014

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  • Self-portrait in "Mirror#2"(Zorawar), 2014

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  • Pepsi Challenge (Baby), 2014

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  • Pepsi Challenge (Christmas), 2014

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  • Philodendron (Red Blue Red), 2014

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  • Philodendron (Green), 2014

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  • Tennyson, Jasper and Bob, 2014

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  • Zero to Max (12 Cans), 2014

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  • Coke/Pepsi (646 Cans), 2014

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  • Self-portrait in "Mirror#1"(Bjorn), 2012

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  • Crucifix for Two, 2010

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  • Elvis ’56/’77, 2005

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