Jonathan Monk

Born in 1969 in Leicester (England), he lives in Glasgow (England) and Los Angeles (USA).

Jonathan Monk's works revisit the great moments of history and art history, by summoning certain mythical figures of our contemporaneity. This evocation always contains a certain ironic casualness, as in the series Waiting for famous people where the artist waits in the airport lobby, holding in his hand a panel on which is written the name of a famous personality (politician, film hero or deceased artist...).