Jonathan Lasker

Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1948, and currently lives and works in New York City.

In the late 1970s, after studying at the School of Visual Arts, in New York, he attended the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Lasker has had recent exhibitions in France, Norway, Sweden, and the UK, and has shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Documenta IX in Kassel, and the Reina Sofia in Madrid. He has lectured extensively in the United States and Europe, and received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1987 and 1989. Lasker’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica; Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, among others. Lasker is represented by Cheim & Read, New York.