Faculty

Profile

J Jan Groeneboer is a transgender conceptual interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. In his visual practice, he works in abstraction to address the politics of representation. He developed this strategy to examine the expectation that transgendered people be readily available for visual scrutiny. Groeneboer’s work has shown at David Zwirner Gallery (2018), Boston University Galleries (2017), MoMA (2016), Art in General (2016), the Queens Museum (2016), CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art (2016), MoMA PS1 (2015), Contemporary Art Museum Houston (2015), Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts in Winnipeg (2015), Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY (2013), Shoshawna Wayne Gallery, CA (2010), and Exile, Berlin (2010) among others. Essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Art 21.com, Mute Magazine, Artforum.com, Temporary Art Review, Art Journal, and in Pink Labour on Golden Streets “Appearing Differently: Abstraction’s Transgender and Queer Capacities.” David Getsy’s 2016 essay “Seeing Commitments: Jonah Groeneboer’s Ethics of Discernment” was in included in the “Opacities” section of Getsy and Che Gosset’s “A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History” (Art Journal, Winter 2021). Residencies include Ox-Bow School of Art, the Fire Island Artist Residency, and Recess. He has received travel (2018) and project grants (2019, 2021, 2022) from Canada Council for the Arts. As a writer, Groeneboer has participated in numerous panels and symposiums and is a contributing critic for Artforum.com. Most recently his essays on transgender representation were published in Texte Zur Kunst (2023) and in the Journal of Gender and Sexuality (2023). Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at The Kitchen NYC (2024).

Degrees Held

Jonah holds an BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) and a MFA in Studio Art from New York University (NYU).

Awards And Honors