Jonathan Aumen
December 2, 2011 by LF
Filed under Residence Program, Visual Artists
American artist Jonathan Aumen moved to Beijing with his family when he was 8 years old, from 1988 to 1998. He was invited as residence artist by TCG Nordica. He will live and work in Kunming from July 2011 to 2012. He is now working on his upcoming exhibition at TCG Nordica on February 25′th 2012. His inspiration for the show was an article about the cell and how its complexity is very similar to a city. His show will have many paintings of kunming that are painted through the lense of this scientific truth.
Jonathan Aumen（加里森）
Contact: jonathanaumen@yahoo.com
Education
Privately Tutored, 1993-1999
Central Academy of Fine Arts , Beijing, China
• Professor Yang Zhenwu(杨振武教授)
skills
• Mandarin Chinese- Native level speaking ability with
extensive knowledge of Chinese culture
artist experience
Exhibitions
2002 Anderson County Annual 26th Juried Show, Anderson, NC
2002 Center of the Arts Annual Art Exhibition, Belton, NC
2007 Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth VA
2008 Wall Fine Art, Norfolk, VA
Awards
South Carolina State Fair-Printmaking 1st Place 2002
South Carolina State Fair-Mixed Media 2nd Place 2002
Commissions
Drug Enforcement Administration-Guatemala City County Office 2009
Designed badge for special operations unit
Over 100 individual commissions
s.p. reid on Sat, 17th Dec 2011 1:13 am
Great photo with the birds. Must be nice to have native level Chinese speaking ability. I am struggling along trying to learn it on my own after 2 semesters of Mandarin at college in California. Good luck in Kunming with the show and I like the concept of thinking about how a cell and a city are similar. There are many things in this Holographic existence we have like that. Since you’re in China have you heard of Peter Wayne Lewis who it an American artist who has a studio in Beijing? He has been doing something with ‘string theory’. I met him here recently in Sacramento as I am a friend of his brother. Anyway I feel like I want to be back in Kunming not Sacramento. good luck.
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