Jonathan Lyndon Chase sitting in front of their paintings
Alumni

BFA '13

Painting (BFA in Fine Arts)

The critically lauded Jonathan Lyndon Chase BFA ’13 (Painting) earned their MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (2016) and their BFA from University of the Arts. Chase’s paintings and drawings focus on queer Black bodies in everyday spaces and emotional states of being that range from intimate, poetic and visceral. These spaces are interior and exterior collage, blending lines of pain, pleasure, tenderness and despair. The bodies in Chase’s paintings talk about complexity found at the intersection of gender, sexuality and race. Their influences range from art history to ’90s culture and personal experience.

Chase’s career has been on an upward trajectory since they graduated from UArts. Their solo shows include

  • Sadie Coles, London, England (forthcoming in 2023); 

  • FOG, Company Gallery, New York, New York (2022);

  • Statements, Art Basel Fair, Basel, Switzerland (2021);

  • Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (2020);  

  • Wind Rider, Company Gallery, New York, New Yor (2020);

  • Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Pond Society, Shanghai, China (2019) 

  • Sheets, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (2018);

  • Quiet Storm, Company Gallery, New York, New York (2018);

  • Sweet and Hard, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, New York (2016);

  • Rosebud, Lord Ludd, Philadelphia (2016)  

  • Arenas, Tenderness and Gloom, Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2015); and   

  • Double Identity, University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2013). 

Chase has been included in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (forthcoming); Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan; Rudolph Tegner Museum, Dronningmølle, Denmark; ICA Miami, Florida; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; RISD Museum of Art, Providence; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; and numerous other spaces. 

Awards & Honors 

Chase’s bold work has been recognized with numerous awards. 

2019

  • Pew Fellowship in the Arts, The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia

2016

  • The Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

  • The Woodmere Art Museum Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

  • Fine Arts Venture Fund Recipient, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

2015  

  • The Fourth Wall, Finalist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

  • Dokey Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

2014  

  • PAFA Graduate Grant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

  • PAFA Alumni Grant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

2013 

  • Steve Jaffe Award in Drawing, University of the Arts, Philadelphia

2012  

  • Michael Leone Prize for Outstanding Progress, University of the Arts, Philadelphia 
     

Visit Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s website.