Jonathan Monaghan

Jonathan Monaghan (born September 14, 1986 in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York) is a contemporary visual artist who creates Post-Internet video art.

Biography
Monaghan received his B.F.A. in computer graphics from the New York Institute of Technology in 2008. Monaghan then went on to receive a M.F.A. from the University of Maryland.

Work
Monaghan's animations have been exhibited at the Sundance Film Festival and the Palais de Tokyo. Monaghan's work sits in numerous public and private collections such as The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

As he stated, "My first artistic interests were [...] video game designers and science fiction movies". His work Sacrifice of the Mushroom Kings is an eight-minute video of cryptic reproductions of video games characters from Street Fighter, G.I. Joe and Super Mario Bros. Many of his creations picture buttocks as gateways that connect his dystopian stories.

Monaghan is represented by bitforms gallery in New York.

Solo

 * 2014: Alien Fanfare (alien invasion), Studio 1469, Washington D.C.
 * "After Fabergé" The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
 * 2016: Gotham (photographic dream cities), Galerie 22,48m², Paris
 * 2017: Disco Beast (symbol of unicorns), bitforms gallery, New York
 * "Escape Pod" bitforms gallery, New York
 * "Robot Ninja" Market Gallery, Glasgow
 * 2021: Den of Wolves (aesthetics of power), bitforms gallery, New York
 * 2022: Move the Way you Want (technology over ecology), The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

Select screenings

 * LOOP Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
 * Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston MA
 * Hirshhorn Museum - "Experimental Media Series" Washington D.C.
 * International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam Netherlands