ABOUT

Jonathan Viner (b. June 1976) is an American painter based in Rhode Island.  He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998 and immediately moved to NYC where he scraped by as a freelance illustrator for various publications including The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and Playboy. After a few years he was invited to participate in a group show in the LES where he found an enthusiastic audience for his work. Twenty years and many gallery shows later, Viner relocated to Rhode Island where he designed and built a new home and studio for his growing family and art practice.

Working primarily in oils, Viner fuses a deep respect for the tradition and craft of painting with an appreciation for the dynamic pluralism of current art practice.  His conceptually ambiguous, precisely articulated hybrids of portraiture and narrative assert the right of the artist to exceed prevailing institutional conventions in pursuit of highly individualized artistic vision.  

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