Contributor
Jonathan Griffin

Jonathan Griffin is a writer based in Los Angeles, USA, and a contributing editor of frieze.

A new film sees the director pursing the Huawei controversy and the potential ‘threat’ of 5G technology

BY Jonathan Griffin AND Meredith Lackey |

A survey at The Broad, Los Angeles, balances the artist’s claims of universality with an acknowledgement of his freewheeling appropriation

BY Jonathan Griffin |

The artist, who has long shared the authorship of his work, reaffirms his role as a catalyst and instigator

BY Jonathan Griffin |

Based in Santa Monica for six decades, the artist has spent a lifetime capturing likeness through line, from David Hockney to his life partner Christopher Isherwood

BY Jonathan Griffin |

The artist discusses his recent exhibitions at Pace and David Kordansky in Los Angeles dedicated to and inspired by the late modernist sculptor

BY Jonathan Griffin |

In his first solo show in Los Angeles since 1984, at Parrasch Heijnen, the artist shows paper and canvas works that draw from global influences

BY Jonathan Griffin |

The artist’s first posthumous exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, defies easy assumptions about her work and life

BY Jonathan Griffin |

Across two new exhibitions in Los Angeles, the polymath showcases work from the 1980s to the present that reveals a talismanic power

BY Jonathan Griffin |

The 2022 edition of High Desert Test Sites, curated by Iwona Blazwick, sees the likes of Dineo Seshee Bopape and Jack Pierson scattered across the Californian desert

BY Jonathan Griffin |

From Samara Golden’s mirrored installation at Night Gallery to Ulysses Jenkins long-overdue survey at the Hammer, these are must-see shows in LA

BY Jonathan Griffin |

On the occasion of Liz Larner’s survey at Sculpture Center in New York, Jonathan Griffin looks closely at black iris (2021)

BY Jonathan Griffin |

At Morán Morán’s new space in Los Angeles, the artist presents an array of makeshift objects that reveal the mutability of identity

BY Jonathan Griffin |

Jonathan Griffin remembers the life and career of the Southern Californian artist whose multimedia work dealt with themes of trauma, selfhood, family and home

BY Jonathan Griffin |

Touching on themes of gender politics, music, literature, figuration and appropriationist irony, Jonathan Griffin traces the life and work of the 2021 Aspen Award for Art Honoree

BY Jonathan Griffin |

At Overduin & Co, a new cycle of paintings inspired by myth, Mondrian and loss is at once impressive and somehow lacking

BY Jonathan Griffin |

Artists and writers reflect on domestic exhibition spaces in Los Angeles, from 1940 to the present

‘Made in L.A. 2020: a version’, slated to open in 2021, exposes the horrors of American life pre-pandemic

BY Jonathan Griffin |

How Gianfranco Gorgoni’s photographs documented a radical art movement

BY Jonathan Griffin |

Contributing editor Jonathan Griffin on ageing and fallibility

BY Jonathan Griffin |

‘New Images of Man’, curated by Alison Gingeras at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, is ‘part homage, part radical revision’ of the eponymous exhibition

BY Jonathan Griffin |