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Jonathan Griffin

Jonathan Griffin is a writer based in Los Angeles, USA, and a contributing editor of frieze.

The artist discusses his recent exhibitions at Pace and David Kordansky in Los Angeles dedicated to and inspired by the late modernist sculptor

BY Jonathan Griffin | 08 FEB 23

In his first solo show in Los Angeles since 1984, at Parrasch Heijnen, the artist shows paper and canvas works that draw from global influences

BY Jonathan Griffin | 08 DEC 22

The artist’s first posthumous exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, defies easy assumptions about her work and life

BY Jonathan Griffin | 13 SEP 22

Across two new exhibitions in Los Angeles, the polymath showcases work from the 1980s to the present that reveals a talismanic power

BY Jonathan Griffin | 01 JUN 22

The 2022 edition of High Desert Test Sites, curated by Iwona Blazwick, sees the likes of Dineo Seshee Bopape and Jack Pierson scattered across the Californian desert

BY Jonathan Griffin | 05 MAY 22

From Samara Golden’s mirrored installation at Night Gallery to Ulysses Jenkins long-overdue survey at the Hammer, these are must-see shows in LA

BY Jonathan Griffin | 17 FEB 22

On the occasion of Liz Larner’s survey at Sculpture Center in New York, Jonathan Griffin looks closely at black iris (2021)

BY Jonathan Griffin | 30 DEC 21

At Morán Morán’s new space in Los Angeles, the artist presents an array of makeshift objects that reveal the mutability of identity

BY Jonathan Griffin | 08 SEP 21

Jonathan Griffin remembers the life and career of the Southern Californian artist whose multimedia work dealt with themes of trauma, selfhood, family and home

BY Jonathan Griffin | 20 AUG 21

Touching on themes of gender politics, music, literature, figuration and appropriationist irony, Jonathan Griffin traces the life and work of the 2021 Aspen Award for Art Honoree

BY Jonathan Griffin | 05 JUL 21

At Overduin & Co, a new cycle of paintings inspired by myth, Mondrian and loss is at once impressive and somehow lacking

BY Jonathan Griffin | 31 MAR 21

Artists and writers reflect on domestic exhibition spaces in Los Angeles, from 1940 to the present

‘Made in L.A. 2020: a version’, slated to open in 2021, exposes the horrors of American life pre-pandemic

BY Jonathan Griffin | 15 DEC 20

How Gianfranco Gorgoni’s photographs documented a radical art movement

BY Jonathan Griffin | 17 SEP 20

Contributing editor Jonathan Griffin on ageing and fallibility

BY Jonathan Griffin | 14 APR 20

‘New Images of Man’, curated by Alison Gingeras at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, is ‘part homage, part radical revision’ of the eponymous exhibition

BY Jonathan Griffin | 12 MAR 20

In collaborations with her community and family, Halsey leans towards the funky, the funny and the queer

BY Jonathan Griffin | 30 DEC 19

A guide to the city’s autumn exhibitions

BY Jonathan Griffin | 09 OCT 19

The works on paper at Parker Gallery, in Los Angeles, ‘encounter memories, fantasies and dream images along the way’

BY Jonathan Griffin | 23 JUL 19

The artist’s tent city at Hauser & Wirth, in rapidly gentrifying downtown LA, is a ‘parody of pious politically activist art’ 

BY Jonathan Griffin | 12 JUL 19