b. 1976, Hutchinson, MN

• Group Exhibitions

  • 2012

    • Megacool 4.0, Youth and Art, Künstlerhaus k/haus, Vienna, Austria
    • About Change, Minneapolis College of Art + Design, Minneapolis, MN
    • Division of Labor, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD
    • Astral Projection Abduction Fantasy, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
    • Dark Drives. Uneasy Energies in Technological Times, transmediale 12, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

  • 2011

    • Remains In The End Times, The Popular Workshop, San Francisco, CA
    • Graphic Design: Now in Production, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN & Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY (through 2012)
    • Friends, Fach & Asendorf Gallery
    • Half Empty, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2010

    • Wir Manager, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
    • SPEED SHOW vol.4: Super Niche, New York, NY
    • SPEED SHOW vol.2: who the fuck do you think you are talking to?, Vienna, Switzerland
    • Modern Drawings: Tracing 100 Years, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD

  • 2009

    • Capturing Motion, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
    • MANIFEST HOPE:DC, in partnership with Irvine Contemporary, Washington, D.C.
    • Dimension and Typography: A Survey of Letterforms in Space and Time, I space Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • 2008

    • Video Self Portraits, Australian Centre for Photography, Paddington, Australia
    • Got a Light?, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
    • Time Portraits, Photography Centre of Thessaloniki, Greece
    • Penned, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA; Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC (travel through 2008)

  • 2007

    • Past (Present) Future, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
    • Cranbrook Graduate Exhibition, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
    • New InSight, Art Chicago at Merchandise Mart, Chiacgo, IL

  • 2006

    • Xchange, Community Arts Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
    • Technology & Imagination, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
    • All About Me, Open End Gallery, Chicago, IL

  • 2005

    • Alphabet, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC; Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL; M-80, Milwaukee, WI; Workhorse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA; Minneapolis College of Art + Design, Minneapolis, MN; AIGA Orlando, Orlando, FL; Cooper Union, New York, NY; Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH; Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL (travel through 2008)
    • Media Tonic II, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Sprout Public Art Design Exhibition, Artists 1mage Resource, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 2004

    • STATE OF THE ART: Maps, Stories, Games and Algorithms from Minnesota, curated by Steve Dietz, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northield, MN
    • Notebook, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

• Bibliography

  • 2012

    • Cara Ober, “Labor of Love”, Urbanite, Apr. 10
    • Chloe Helton-Gallagher, “Division of Labor”, City Paper, Mar. 28

  • 2011

    • Kyle Chayka, “Friendship in the Expanded Field? New Online Art Show Explores Sociability in the Facebook Era”, Artinfo, Oct. 14

  • 2010

    • “Weekend Sunrise”, Seven Network [Australia]
    • “Ready for my 4,000th close-up”, The Sun [UK]
    • “Artist creates a real life face book, photographing his appearance daily in a project he will continue until he dies”, The Daily Mail [UK]

  • 2009

    • Ester Requena, “Los cuatro mil rostros de Jonathan”, Diario SUR
    • John Carlos Cantú, “Gallery Project’s ‘Capturing Motion’ is a fun, dynamic experience”, AnnArbor.com
    • Art for Obama, Abrams Image
    • Lettering & Type, Princeton Architectural Press

  • 2008

    • TYPE OR GRAPH, Sandu Cultural Media
    • “Un K à part”, étapes, August
    • Promo-Art, RotoVision
    • “JK Keller”, idpure, Feb/March

  • 2007

    • Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts, monsa
    • Type Addicted, viction:ary
    • Gold & Bronze Awards, :output 10, Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz
    • “A fast-forward trip through time's passage”, The Los Angeles Times
    • “Chasing Life”, Cable News Network
    • “Look at Me, World! Self-Portraits Morph Into Internet Movies”, The New York Times
    • “Daily Routines”, Star Tribune

  • 2006

    • “Experiments @ Gallery Project”, thedetroiter.com
    • “The Daily Show”, STEP inside design
    • “Technology & Imagination”, thedetroiter.com
    • :output 09, Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz
    • “5 Minute Guide... Jonathan Keller”, Esquire [Russia]

  • 2005

    • “BoxBots”, Swindle Quarterly

  • 2004

    • “Kyoino 10 Byo: Count 10”, Tokyo Broadcasting System

  • 2003

    • “A Day in the Life of...”, The Washington Times

  • 2002

    • “Online Diary”, The New York Times

• Education

  • 2005–2007 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  • 1996–1999 BFA, Minneapolis College of Art + Design, Minneapolis, MN
  • 1994–1995 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

• Lectures / Workshops

  • Feb. 2012 Maryland Institute College of Art, Lecture & Workshop
  • Oct. 2011 Maryland Institute College of Art, Lecture & Workshop
  • Aug. 2011 Parsons The New School for Design, Lecture (with Keetra Dean Dixon)
  • Feb. 2011 Virginia Commonwealth University, Lecture & Workshop