Brookhart Jonquil uses concrete materiality to engage aspects of the world that lie beyond our ability to directly perceive. Often reflecting or doubling, his compositions of common construction materials and fluorescent lights occupy a perceptual world beyond the physical. By emphasizing the movement of light, gravity, and lines of force in dynamic equilibrium, these sculptures make tangible the natural laws and immaterial interactions that shape the subtle foundation of our experience. Through wide ranging research that includes physics, ecology, architecture, and mathematics, his work reveals the underlying principles that create harmony and stability in a dynamic system, whether it be a society, an ecosystem, or an individual mind. These scientific modes of thinking take on poetic life as they turn toward the impossible task of Utopian perfection, and the questions of lived experience, agency, and interdependency.Â
Brookhart Jonquil’s projects have been commissioned by the Bass Museum of Art, the De la Cruz Collection, MoCA Tucson, Vizcaya Museum, and the Cornell Art Museum.
Brookhart Jonquil was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1984 and lives and works in Miami, Florida. Jonquil received a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, as well as a Bachelor in Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Arizona in 2007.
Born 1984, Santa Cruz, California
SELECT SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020Â Balance Never Hurt Anybody, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach
2019Â Saturn Rings the Sunrise Bells, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FLÂ
2018 Endless Light In An Endless Night, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
Atlantis, Art Center Sarasota, SarasotaÂ
2016 PULSE New York, Emerson Dorsch, New York, NY
2015 Art Wynwood, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
2013 YYYYYY, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FLÂ
      In a Perfect World, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FLÂ
2012 Inverted Night, De la Cruz Collection Project Room, Miami, FLÂ
     Volume, 323 Projects, Los Angeles, CAÂ
2011Â PULSE Miami, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
      Never Odd or Even, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FLÂ
      Physical Spectrum, Los Caminos, St. Louis, MO
2009 Still Breathing, Gallery X, Chicago, IL
2006 space.ing, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ
SELECT GROUP & THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Multiplication Portal, Aspen Ideas, Miami Beach Botanical Gardens, Miami Â
Beach, FL
2021 No Vacancy, City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs, Miami Beach, FL
Pleasure Town, Good to Know.fyi, Miami Beach, FL
2020 A Subtropical Affair, Good to Know.fyi, Miami, FL
20/20, Hunt Gallery at Webster University, St. Louis, MO
2019Â Â Deering Estate Spring Contemporary, Deering Estate, Miami, FLÂ
We Buy Gold, Good to know,fyi, Miami, FL
Untitled Art Fair, AIRE Nest Gallery, Miami, FL
Behind the Seen, NARS Foundation, New York
Fragile, AIRE Nest Gallery Everglades National Park, FL
Tension and Suspension, Deering Estate, Miami, FL
RCS 51-75, The Annex, Miami, FL
  2018 Utopian Visions, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Bodega Y Mas, Good to Know.fyi and Real Estate Fina Art (Brooklyn), Miami, FL
Join the Dots/Unire le distanze, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste
Aesthetics and Values, Frost Museum, Miami, FLÂ
2017 Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FLÂ
      Artissima, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Turin, ItalyÂ
      EAB Fair, Bleu Acier, New York
      Looking Glass, Cornell Art Museum, Boca Raton
     Wunderoom, Floodlight Foundation, Art India, New Delhi
 2016 Three Kinds of Light, E3 Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
      Lost Spaces and Stories, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FLÂ
      Aesthetics and Values, Frost Museum, Miami, FLÂ
2015 Illuminations, Miami Biennale, Miami
100º in the Shade, Swampspace, Miami
ArtSlant Special Project, Aqua Art Miami
Artissima, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Turin
The Frontier, Sometimes Art Space, Havana
Love and Choice, Rosazzo Abbey, Manzano
Art Verona, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Verona
Map of the New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
New Art, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
7th Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood Florida
Spaces of the Soul, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Uruguay
Ideal Perfection, LVL3, Chicago
Coworker, Swampspace, Miami
John Riepenhoff Experience, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, Arkansas
Locally Grown, American University Museum, Washington DC
Alternative Contemporaneity: TAZ, MoCA North Miami
Vienna for Art’s Sake, Winterpalais of the Belvedere, Vienna
2014Â Â Vizcaya-fy or Bust, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami
More Than One and Less Than Two, Gordilloscudder, Brooklyn
The New Romantics, Eyebeam, New York
The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
All Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton
Miami Performance International Festival, Edge Zones, Miami
2013 Better Than Universe, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea
It’s About Time, Miami International Airport Gallery, Miami
Back of Beyond, Deering Estate, Miami
DWNTWN Art Days, Miami, FL
Back by Popular Demand, The Collabo Show, Miami
Turn On, Kunsthalle Beacon, Beacon NY
Sharper Image, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York
Sharper Image II, artSTRAND, Provincetown MA
Tibetans Have a Word for That, Jaqueline Falcone, Miami
2012Â PULSE Miami, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FLÂ
The Silent Treatment, Art Live Fair, Miami, FL
Size Scale Repetition, General Practice, Miami, FL
Collage Pottage, Swampspace, Miami, FL
Young Curators, New Ideas IV, Meulensteen, New York
The Air Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
Let’s Begin with a Line, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
Arte No Es Fácil, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
SoBay, Deering Estate, Miami, FLÂ
2011 Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds, Cannonball, Miami, FL
ROY G BIV, Waterhouse and Dodd, New York, NY
Displacement, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2010 Bubble Raft, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
7.06052010, MVSEVM, Chicago, IL
Alphabetization, Noble and Superior Projects, Chicago, IL
Transformations and Reflections, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Gallery,
Chicago, IL
Usefulness, Boomerang Project Space, Chicago
Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
2009Â LiveBox Lab, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL
Sugar, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL
Third Arm, SUGS at Art Chicago, IL
2008 ECHO, Chicago
Dollar Store, Kunsthalle Chicago, Chicago, FLÂ
2007 The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, ApexArts, New York
Salon de Refusés, Dinnerware Contemporary Arts, Tucson
PerformIt, Plugged Video Collective, Tucson, AZÂ
Web Biennial 2007, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul
Human Presence, Gallery Centella, Tucson, AZ
Athens Video Art Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2006Â BFA Exhibition, Union Gallery, Tucson,AZ
Sculpture, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Heart Rock, Solar Culture Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Marin Varbanov International Art Festival, Oriahovo City Gallery of Art, Bulgaria
Facts and Figures, ShaneHouse Gallery, Tucson, AZ
SET DESIGN AND COLLABORATIONS
  2019 New Women’s Space Program – with performance artist Tusia Dabrowska,
Celestial Futures at Soft Surplus, Brooklyn, NY Â Â
2017 La Medea – with Director Yara Travieso
2016Â Premier – COIL Festival, BRIC, Brooklyn
     Performance Space 122, RAMP Residency, Manhattan
2015Â BRIC, BRICLab Residency, Brooklyn
      Knots – in Collaboration with Liz Ferrer
2014Â Index, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2013Â Extra, Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City, MX
      Orpheus and Eurydice – with Director Yara Travieso and architect Chat Travieso.
2012Â Presented by YoungArts and Emerson Dorsch Gallery at Art Live, Miami, FLÂ
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
  Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
Floodlight Foundation, New Delhi, IndiaÂ
Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Uruguay
Fountainhead Collection, Miami, FLÂ
University of Arizona Museum of Art
Miami Dade College
Oriahovo City Gallery of Art, Bulgaria
AWARDS
  2015 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship
      Tigertail Artist Access Grant
2013 1st place Artist Project Award – Bass Museum of Art / Locust Projects
2010 James Nelson Raymond Fellowship (Art Institute of Chicago Graduate
Fellowship)
2007-10 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Grant
2007 Tucson Pima Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
2006Â University of Arizona School of Art Creative Achievement Award
      Dean’s Fund for Excellence Grant
2007 Samuel Kingan Scholarship for Art
2002-06 Dorrance Merit Scholarship
      UA Achievement Scholarship
     UA Spirit of Discovery Scholarship
2006-07 UA University Grant
RESIDENCIES
  2019 NARS, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Floodlight Foundation, Delhi, India
2016 Artists in Residence in the Everglades, Everglades National Park, FL
     RAMP, Performance Space 122, Manhattan (La Medea collaboration), NY
2014Â BRIClab, Brooklyn (La Medea collaboration), NY
     ACRE, Steuben, WI / Chicago, IL
2012Â Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
2011 Cannonball, Miami, FL
2006 Marin Varbanov International Art Festival, Oriahovo, Bulgaria
EDUCATION
2010Â MFA- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007Â BFA- University of Arizona
     BA in Art History- University of Arizona
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