Jon Horvath Artist's Statement and CV Wide Eyed departs from a reactionary response to my surroundings, grounded in a sense of wonder and awe. It is approached with the spirit of the wanderer and emphasizes democracy within the project structure. Wide Eyed persists as the undercurrent of my entire photographic process, bridging the gaps between more pointed investigations. As a result, this project avoids specificity in content and conceptual motivations. Rather, it functions more analogously to an archive, a database, a repository for meditations, glimpses and passing thoughts about my relationship to anything I may encounter. Wide Eyed is intended to be a breathing body of images; a space to bounce and veer and double back while maintaining the sensation of being in a place of familiarity without specificity.
Website: jonhorvath.net
Education
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MFA: Photography, 2008
MA: Photography, 2007
Marquette University
BA: English Literature, emphasis in Fiction Writing, 2001
BA: History of Philosophy, 2001Selected Exhibitions
2016
Street Scene: Hans Gindlesberger and Jon Horvath, SRO Photography Gallery,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Greater Milwaukee Foundation Mary L. Nohl Exhibition, Haggerty Museum of
Art, Milwaukee, WI
Grass/Roots: Featuring William Sutton and Jon Horvath, Colorado Photographic
Art Center, Denver, Colorado
Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50, FotoFestiwal Lodz, Poland (Curator: Alison
Nordstrom)
2015
SPE Southeast Regional Juried Photographic Exhibition, Lee Gallery, Clemson
University, Clemson, SC (Juror: Byron Wolfe)
Pacific Midwest 2.0, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI (Co-curated with
Tara Bogart and Chris Bennett)
DARKROOM: Auction and Benefit for the Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Chicago, IL (Invitational)
On the Road: Hans Gindlesberger and Jon Horvath, Longwood Center for the
Visual Arts, Farmville, VA
2014
Open 2014, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (Juror:
Shane Lavalette)
Pressed and Bound: The Print Center Annual Auction, The Print Center,
Philadelphia, PA (Invitational)
FILE Media Art, FILE 2014: Electronic Language International Festival, FIESP
Cultural Centre, Sao Paolo, Brazil (Juror: Ruth Cardoso)
Independent Phrases and Subordinate Clauses, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee,
WI (Curated by John Sobzcak)
Summer Home, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL (Curated by Nicole White and
Tyler Blackwell)
Everyday Mysteries, Northwestern Mutual Gallery, Cardinal Stritch University
(Curated by Shana McCaw)
Time Together, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
(Curated by Nate Larson and Simone Paterson)
The Enigmatic Object, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL (Jurors: Kyohei Abe and
Caroline Picard)
2013
Well Hung: Print Center's Annual Auction, The Print Center, Philadelphia,
PA
Digital Billboard Artist Month, Various Milwaukee Area Locations, Milwaukee,
WI
Current Tendencies III, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Sum Total 2013, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Pacific Midwest, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR (Curatorial
Credit)
Indiana Green, Frank Juarez Gallery, Sheboygan, WI
Archetype Drift, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL (Juror: Jason Lazarus)
MARN Mentor/Mentee Group Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI
2012
Prints Charming: The Print Center Annual Auction, The Print Center,
Philadelphia, PA
Stamina, Work:Detroit, University of Michigan, Detroit, MI
Wisconsin Photography, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI (Juror: Dean Otto)
Continuum, INOVA Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI
3rd Annual Photography Competition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
(Jurors: Natasha Egan and Kathy Ryan)
Present Music: Around 30, Turner Hall, Milwaukee, WI
Forward 2012: A Survey of Wisconsin Art Now, Charles Allis Museum,
Milwaukee, WI
2011
Do Your Bidding: The Print Center Annual Auction, The Print Center,
Philadelphia, PA
1st Annual Juried Exhibition, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography,
Detroit, MI (Juror: Nancy Barr)
Photocentric, Garrison Arts Center, Garrison, NY (Juror: Larry Fink and
Stephen Perloff)
Ritual/Active, EFFJAY Projekts, Sheboygan, WI
Game Show NYC, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Suburbia, IHC Platform Gallery, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara, CA
2010
Eye Candy: The Print Center Annual Auction, The Print Center, Philadelphia,
PA
Carousel: 4th Annual Milwaukee Invitational Slideshow, Woodland Pattern
Bookstore, Milwaukee, WI
2010 PhotoMidwest, Porter Butts and the Class of 1925 Galleries, The
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (Juror: Russell Joslin)
84th Annual International Competition: Photography, The Print Center,
Philadelphia, PA (Catalog)
Philadelphia Museum of Art Purchase Award (Juror: Ingrid Schaffner)
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, New Jersey
2009
Water Source (in collaboration with Mary Osmundsen and Maria Bolivar),
INSITE Park East Corridor Project, Knapp Street Bridge House,
Milwaukee, WI
Stalking Michael Stipe: Another Prop to Occupy My Time, Gallerie M,
Intercontinental Hotel, Milwaukee, WIAwards/Fellowships
2016 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Contemporary Photography Competition
Finalist (Juror: Sarah Stolfa and Shane Lavelette)
2015 Greater Milwaukee Foundation Mary L. Nohl Established Artist Fellowship
(Jurors: Jamillah James/Hammer Museum, Eric May/Roots & Culture
Contemporary Arts Center, and Jodi Throckmorton/Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts)
2015 Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50
2015 Lucie Foundation Emerging Artist Award (Shortlisted)
2015 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Professional Development Award
2015 UWM All Campus Academic Staff Development Award
2015 Mary L. Nohl Suitcase Fund Fellowship Recipient
2014 UWM Academic Staff Fine Arts Development Award
2012 Review Santa Fe 100 (Selection Committee: Lesley Meyer, Aline Smithson,
Lisa Sutcliffe)
2011 Magenta Flash Forward US Winner (Jurors: Andy Adams, Larissa Leclair,
Shane Lavalette, George Slade)
2010 Julie Jensen Bryan and Robert Bryan Philadelphia Museum of Art Purchase
Award
2010 Emerging Artist Finalist, The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl
Fund Fellowship, Milwaukee, WI
2009 Emerging Artist Finalist, The Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl
Fund Fellowship, Milwaukee, WI
2007-2008 Chancellor's Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2006 Best in Show, Consumerism and Contemporary Culture
2006-2007 Chancellor's Award, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeePublic Collections
Midwest Photographers Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Haggerty Museum of Art
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Special Collections
Indie Photo Book LibraryProfessional
Interim Associate Professor, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design 2015-Present
Full-Time Lecturer in Photography, Peck School of the Arts, UW-Milwaukee 2012-
2015
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design 2011-2015
Postcards from America: Milwaukee (Coordinator of student assistants; Assistant
to Alec Soth, Martin Parr, and Jim Goldberg)Affiliations
Milwaukee Art Museum Photography Council (Board Member 2014-2015)
Society for Photographic Education (Member)
Culture Hall: A Curated Online Resource for Contemporary Art
Lens Culture (Invitational Photographers Database)
Art Photo Index (Invitational Art Photographers Database)
Milwaukee Artist Resource Network (Mentor)Bibliography (Interviews)
Jon Horvath Looks at the American West Myth from the Small Town of Bliss,
Fotographia MagazineInterview with Graziano Ferri, June 2016
Jon Horvath: Demarcations / Dramatic Ones : Comedian Arts, Lenscratch,
Interview with Grant Gill, December 2013
"GPS Drawings Inspired by Jack Kerouac's On the Road,"
Feature Shoot, Interview with Kevin Miyazaki, May 2012Bibliography (Print)
Coyote, Self-published Chapbook, June 2016
Mary L. Nohl Fellowship Catalog, June 2016 (Essay by Ariel Shanberg)
Incandescent Zine Issue 8, August 2015
Aint-Bad Magazine, From Here On, May 2013
Wide Eyed, Wisconsin People and Ideas, Fall 2014
Darwin Magazine, Volume 3
Wisconsin People & Ideas, Winter 2011
Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers, Magenta, 2011
Photocentric 2011, Exhibition Catalogue
The Cream City Review, Winter 2011Bibliography (Online)
Altered Landscapes, Landscape Stories, October 2016
This Is Bliss, Art Narratives, July 2016
Lenscratch States Project: Wisconsin January 2016
Jon Horvath's "Wide Eyed", Resource Magazine, June 2015
Lens Culture Photographer Spotlight, February 2, 2014
Fraction Magazine Issue 50
Griffin Museum of Photography Critic's Pic, Stalking Michael Stipe: Another
Prop to Occupy My Time, December 2013
Flakphoto.com, October 18, 2012
Unless You Will: Issue 22, August 2012
Jon Horvath, Lenscratch.com, January 2012
Jon Horvath, iGNANT.com, January 2012
Flakphoto.com, January 13, 2011Press
A Photographer Turns His Lens on Small Town of Bliss, High Country News
Artist Jon Horvath Brings a Touch of Bliss to Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel
Recommended: Summer Home/Schneider Gallery, New Art City
First Impressions of Current Tendencies III Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
2013 Year in Review: Art and Architecture in Milwaukee Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel
Present Music's Around 30: The Dark Side of Turning 30, Express Milwaukee
Hello, Customer Service?, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Nut Factory Opens to Show Artwork, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Portrait Society: Three Shows Change Your Outlook, Third Coast Digest
The 84th Annual International Competition: Photography at The Print
Center, The Art Blog