A closeup of Jonathan Gonzalez looking away from the camera contemplatively and wearing a black shirt and sitting in front of greenery
Faculty

Jonathan González teaches UArts Critical Studies courses and within the School of Dance. His pedagogy and practice are situated at the intersections of performance, with interest in topics of insurgent aesthetics, political economy, metaphysics and performance studies. He produces time-based media and pop-up study collectives as a solo artist, as well as in the collaborative entity studio:cero. 

Biography

Jonathan González received his BA from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, as a Posse and Bessie Schonberg Scholar. His pedagogy and practice are situated at the intersections of performance, with interest in topics of insurgent aesthetics, political economy, metaphysics and performance studies. His teaching culls from a multidisciplinary training in performing arts, Africana studies, queer studies and education. 

González produces time-based media and study collective as a solo artist, as well as in the collaborative entity studio:cero. His writings can be found in publications EAR | WAVE | EVENT, Dance/NYC, Regiones:CENTRAL, Movement Research Journal, Contemporary and, The Creative Independent, Contact Quarterly, Cultured Magazine, deem journal and Angela’s Pulse. 

Experience

  • MFA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York

  • OYP, Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance, London

  • BA, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Visit Jonathan González’s website.

Awards & Accolades

  • Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellow, 2022 

  • Brooklyn Academy of Music, artist in residence, 2022

  • WaveFarm Media, 2021 

  • Center for Afro-futurist Studies, artist in residence, 2022 

  • Trinidad Performance Institute, fellow, 2022

  • Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant Artists, 2022

  • Art Matters Foundation, 2019

  • NY Dance & Performance, Bessie Awards, Breakout Choreographer, 2019

  • Diebold Family Award in Choreography and Performance

A tent featuring projections of the forest and abstracted structures on a dark stage
“Lucifer Landing I,” 2019
A dancer lifts another dancer by the arms on a dimly lit stage
“ZERO,” photographed by Liz Charky