Jonah Fried

My generation will be the first to observe the pixelated reflection of our entire existence online; digital addicts participating in virtual truths. An existence removed from the tactile experiences of my childhood in an isolated Scottish countryside. My practice explores this hinterland by deconstructing my relationship to my rural past, metropolis present and digital double.


Although not directly referenced, my work sources influences from sci-fi film, social media, pop culture and artists such as: Warhol, Grosse, Guyton, LeWitt and Riley. I utilise visceral and tactile textures, intense fluorescence and acidic synthetics to explore the atypical and extraordinary in our lived context. I juxtapose paint with my use of printed media such as fabrics, tiles, rugs and most recently industrial metal prints. My approach to painting challenges perennial ideas of ego, authorship and originality. I take ownership over mass production by marking them with my own hand. The titles of my works such as ‘Unit 92449’ play on the bleak consumerism of barcodes and the seemingly infinite nature of production and consumption.


My works can be found in private collections internationally in Monaco, Scotland, Czech Republic, Australia, Unite...

2017 - 2020 BFA, Chelsea University of the Arts London, England (1st Class)

2016 - 2017 Foundation, Willem De Kooning Academie Rotterdam, Netherlands (Distinction)

Solo Exhibitions

2017, 'Isolated'', Cairns Gallery, Edinburgh (sold out)

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Online Solo Exhibitions

2020, 'I VS WE', Exhibbit.com

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Group Exhibitions

2020, 'Young Blood', Century Club Soho, London

2020, '2020 Visionaries', MYO/Landsec office, London

2020, 'Class Of 2020', The Hari Hotel, London

2020, 'Mankind is a God in Ruin', Candid Arts Trust Gallery, London

2020, 'Chelsea Interim Show', Wall Mural Chelsea, London

2019, 'Translations', Triangle Gallery, London

2019, 'Secret Garden Exhibition', Kensington Private Garden, London

2019, 'Artificial Identity', Fitzrovia Gallery, London

2019, 'I opened myself up to the gentle indifference of the world', Fitzrovia Gallery, London (sold out)

2018, ‘Jelly’, BG02 Storage, London

2018, 'Blurred Boundaries', Bones and Pearl Gallery, London

2018, 'CCW Spotlight Exhibition', Cookhouse Gallery, London

2018, A201 Show Space, London

2017, Chelsea Show, London

2017, 'Contemporary Landscape', Garage Gallery, Rotterdam​

2017, 'Horizon' WDKA, Rotterdam

2017, 'Shadows Of Shadows', WDKA, Rotterdam

2016, 'Navigation', Den Hagg Beach, Rotterdam

2016, 'Play' WDKA, Rotterdam

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Online Group Exhibition

2020, 'Artfinder's 20...