Jon Goldman

Jon Goldman is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, and animator whose has exhibited throughout the US and Asia. The primary focus of his early work was large-scale inflatable sculpture that would perform. Since earning his masters from MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Goldman has produced both large-scale spectacles with installations and documentary and animated short-form video including an Emmy-nominated short form animation for broadcasters such as Al Jazeera International, WGBH LAB BOSTON, and the Discovery Channel. He trained with Ricky Leacock at MIT FILM/VIDEO, with Aldo Tambellini, father of video art as well as CAVS Director Otto Piene.

His current work focuses on understanding, depicting and building community with THE VILLAGE PORTRAIT PROJECT (an ambitious project to digitally paint 781 people of his village) and APHORISTIC EXTINCTIONS a series of large-scale ink on paper paintings about species and extinctions. GoldmanArts, a collaborative art and Design group he and his wife,Nicole Goldman ran specialised in inflatable sculpture that was interactive. Goldman’s work has been profiled on NPR on The POINT’S LIVING LAB and CREATIVE LIFE. Goldman is a musician, and lives with his wife, Nicole an architectur...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
M.S. Visual Studies 1985 Center for Advanced Visual Studies Thesis: Towards Large-scale Environmental Performance Advisors: Lowry Burgess, Otto Piene

Connecticut College, New London, CT, BA THEATRE 1980

Middlesex Polytechnic School for Performing Arts (Middlesex University) London, England1978-79

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1981-1982 Studied portraiture, sculpture

Frudakis Academy of Art Philadelphia, PA 1981-1982 Studied Formal approaches to figurative sculpture; studied anatomical approaches (using cadavers) to figurative and portrait sculpture as well as mould-making and casting techniques for bronze casting

CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART, At the Crossroads: Six Narratives at the Intersection of Identity and Community Dennis, Massachusetts, 2016
GALLERY EPHEMERON, Aphoristic Extinctions and The Village Portrait Project, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016
THOUGHT BALLOON STUDIO, THE VILLAGE PORTRAIT PROJECT Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 2014
CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART, Twelve Artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Dennis, Massachusetts, 2013
COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM (SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION) THE URCHIN LAMP New York, NY , 2000
LAURIE ANDERSON, MOBY DICK, NERVE BIBLE TOUR (inflatable chair, inflatable projection surfaces) Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY 1995-1998


PAST EXHIBITIONS
ELMIRA COLLEGE, Elmira, NY 1999 CYBERFLORA and other digital images
UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT, CT BRIDGEPORT, CT 1998 "Digital Smart" Digital Paintings
BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL, FULLER MUSEUM OF ART, Brockton MA 1997
Digital Paintings
ROCKEFELLER CENTER/TISHMAN/SPEYER PROPERTIES New York, NY40ft window inflatable window washer on Rockefeller Center 1995
PORT DISCOVERY CENTER, AIRWEAR: THE INFLATABLE ARTWORK OF JON GOLDMAN , Baltimore, MD 1996
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, MA Suspended Inflatable “Urc...