Born in Jersey City in 1948, Jonathan Lasker attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Today he lives and works in New York. His works often contain biomorphic forms, geometric patterns and gestural movements. Sam says that his images come from his subconscious, which he then edits and transfers to the canvas.
He exhibited at Sperone Westwater (N.Y.) and Cheim and Read (N.Y.) galleries, Michael Werner (Cologne), Lars Bohman (Stockholm), Thomas Schulte (Berlin), L.A. Louver (L.A.), Thaddeaus Ropac (Paris), and Timothy Taylor (London), among others. He has had retrospectives at Kunsthalle Bielefield, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Kunstmuseum (St. Gallen), The Power Plant (Toronto) and Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama), Reina Sofia (Madrid) and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf).
Sources of photographs: Galerie Thomas Schulte, Wikipedia, Ropac
1948
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
1975
After moving to New York, he began attending night classes at the School of Visual Arts, where he focused on painting and collage.
1977
Transferred to the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.
1980
The Landmark Gallery in Soho offered him his first solo exhibition, which then opened the following January.
1981
First exhibition in Europe at Galerie Gunnar Kaldewey in Düsseldorf, Germany, where his work was noticed by art dealer David Nolan, who was then working with Galerie Michael Werner in Cologne. Over the next few years, Lasker showed his paintings at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in midtown Manhattan.
1998
Lasker wrote many essays on art, artists and other topics. In 1998 he collected his writings, many short and epigrammatic, in Complete Essays 1984-1998, published in 1998 by Edgewise.
2000
Honorary Visiting Professor at The London Institute.
2003
A major retrospective exhibition of Lasker's works at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf.
