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Jonathan Lasker is an American
United States
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 artist
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.

Lasker was born in Jersey City
Jersey City, New Jersey
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, New Jersey
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, and attended the School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts
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 in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.
Lasker lives and works in New York City
New York City
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, New York.

Lasker has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
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 Fellowship Grant in 1987 and again in 1989. In 1989 he was also awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant.

His work has been covered in Artforum
Artforum
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, Artscribe
Artscribe
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, Arts Magazine, Art Today, Flash Art, New Art Examiner, New York Magazine, The New York Times
The New York Times
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, Tema Celeste, Village Voice, and The Washington Post
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 among many others. Richard Milazzo
Richard Milazzo
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 has written the book Jonathan Lasker:Expressions Become Things in 2005.

Quotes

The painting repeated the composition of the study, but not precisely, as it is a freehand rendition of the study only. The gap between the image which one is recreating and the image which one arrives at is an interesting study in perception and intuition. Surprisingly one is very much “in the moment” of creation when attempting to replicate an image, an attempt which is almost designed to fail in order to arrive at a picture, which in spite of its precedents, is unique. -Jonathan Lasker

Collections

Lasker's work is included in numerous private and public collections around the world.

Museums who have Lasker's work in their collections include:

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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, Buffalo, New York

Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham Museum of Art
Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast US, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American,...

, Birmingham, Alabama

The British Library, London, England

Casino Luxembourg
Casino Luxembourg
The Casino Luxembourg is currently a forum for contemporary art which was adapted and renovated in 1995 to fit its new role of housing temporary exhibitions of Luxembourg art...

, Forum for Contemporary Art, Luxembourg

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural institution in Washington, DC. The museum's main focus is American art. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo...

, Washington D.C.

De Peter Stuyvesant stichting, Amsterdam

Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, California

Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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, Los Angeles, California

La Fondacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid

High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C.

MIT-List Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet
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, Stockholm, Sweden

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain

Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from PopArt, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It also features many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein....

, Cologne, Germany

New York Public Library
New York Public Library
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, New York, New York

Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...

, New York, New York

Wichita Art Museum
Wichita Art Museum
The Wichita Art Museum is an art museum located in Wichita, Kansas. It was established in 1915, when Louise Murdock’s Will created a trust to start a collection of art works by “American painters, potters, sculptors, and textile weavers.” The collection includes works by Mary Cassatt, Arthur G...

, Wichita, Kansas

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