Curriculum Vitae

From 1971 – 1973 Jonathan Hynd studied at the Thames Polytechnic School in London before joining the Architectural Association. In his fourth year he worked for Dr. Bakhtiar and Associates in Isfahan, Iran, while studying and brick-vaulting techniques and writing his technical thesis. Hynd returned to complete his degree at the AA from 1975 – 1977 and was tutored by Keith Critchlow and Zaha Hadid.

In 1978 Jonathan Hynd made the decision to become a painter and enrolled in a foundation course for painting at the St. Martin’s School of Art.

Jonathan Hynd then graduated from Goldsmith’s College in 1983, where he emerged with a Master’s Degree in Fine Art and quickly left for Italy on sojourn.

From 1987 onwards, Jonathan Hynd has been living and working in Rome as an independent abstract artist with the key exhibitions which have shaped his career: Essential Matters (1993); Works from Rome (1996); Prima Materia (1997).

Since 2010, the artist has hosted lectures as an adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design in North America and Temple University’s Overseas Program in Rome, as a part of the Tyler School of Fine Art in Philadelphia.

In 2015, Jonathan Hynd became the first British artist to receive an Honoris Causa at the University Roma Tre. In 2021, he won 1st Place at the VII edition of the Franco Cuomo International Prize for the Arts in Palazzo Giustiniano at the Senate House in Rome.

Selected Shows

Solo Shows

2017 - The Stuff of Dreams

Solo Show, curated by Giuseppe Ussani d'Escobar, sponsored by Università Roma Tre and British Council, Hyunnart, Rome.

2016 - Roma TRE University Permanente Collection of Contemporary Art

curated by Otello Lottini, Rome

2009 - Paintings by Jonathan Hynd

with the Pianist Jon Kamitsuka, curated by Peter Lussenheide, Rullerhaus, Osnabrück, Germany.

1997 - Prima Materia

Prati Gallery, curated by Franca Prati, Palermo.

1996 - Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery

Works from Rome, 57th Street, New York.

1993 - Essential Matters

curated by Barbara Tosi, De'Serpenti Gallery, Rome.

Group Shows

2016 - University Roma Tre Contemporary Art Collection

curated by O. Lottini, Rome

2012 - Casa con Vista

15 Houses in Trastevere, curated by Daniela Cotimbo, Rome

2012 - Oraziana

curated by Otello Lottini, Licenza, Rome

2012 - La tentazione di esistere

Studiaperti, Complesso Monumentale del San Michele, Rome.

2011 - Europ-Africa

curated by Vittorio Pavoncello, Spazio Ottagoni Gallery, Rome

2008 - Segni del sacro

Museo Nazionale Etrusco, curated by Otello Lottini, Villa Giulia, Rome.

2008 - Roman Legends

Le Monnier Gallery, Florence, Italy.

2007 - Satura

curated by Luca Arnaudo, Museum Ostiense, Rome.

2007 - A tutto tondo

LI.a r t. Gallery, Rome

2007 - Psyche Says

Kommunale Gallerie Schlangenbad, (Wiesbaden), Germany.

2007 - One Picture show

3 solo shows curated by Peter Lussenheide, Scudit, Quasar, Stadtgallerie Osnerbruck, Germany.

2006 - AllupaAllupa

a selection of artists from Studiaperti curated by P. Balmas, Rome.

2006 - Euroexpress 7

curated by Lucilla Caporilli Ferro, Laboratorio Incontri d’Arte, Rome.

2005 - Pygmalion

curated by Linda Kilmurry, Pygmalion Studios, London.

2003 - Painting/Sculpture, Hynd-Simms

curated by S. Wasserman, Temple Gallery, Rome.

2002 - Segni di Pace

curated by Otello Lottini, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Palestrina.

1998 - Virgiliana

Arte in Fortezza, curated by Otello Lottini, Fort Sangallo, Nettuno.

1998 - Oraziana

Arte a Palazzo, curated by Otello Lottini, Palazzo Orsini, Licenza.

1990 - Forme di Linguaggio

Associazione Culturale Trond/Quazz, Ex Cartiera Marziale, Tivoli.

1988 - Due artisti a confronto

curated by Enrica Torelli Landini, Di Sarro Gallery, Rome.

1988 - Mura Aurelie 19

curated by Mariangela Schroth, Via Mura Aurelia, Rome.

1985 - The Last Wapping Show

curated by Edward Lucie Smith, Wapping Studios, London.

1983 - MA Fine Art Shows

Goldsmiths' M.A Show, London

1981 - The Waterloo Show, exhibition of Colmans Art Trust

Waterloo Gallery, London.

Other Shows

Solo Shows

2016 - Casbah

Micro, spazio Porta Mazzini

2015 - The Road to Recovery

St Pauls Within the Walls, Rome

2010 - Gallery Artists

Gallery Moser, Osnabruck, Germany.

2007 - One PictureShow

curated by Peter Lussenheide, ScudIt, Rome; Quasar, Rome; Stadtgalerie, Osnabruck (Germany).

1999 - Romanways

The Place Gallery, London.

Group Shows

2023 - Tre piu Due

RAW, Via Filippo Casini,6, Rome

2022 - Justice

curated by Prof.ssa Rita Ferri, Sala Spazio Europa, European Commission in Rome

2020 - Claudio Manzo’s Home for the Children of Bambino Gesù

curated by Otello Lottini.

2019 - Fra Artisti

with Steven Meek, Tibaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome

2019 - The New Space

AEV Architetti, Temple University, Rome

2018 - Carte Certe

curated by Paolo di Capua, Hyunnart Studio, Rome.

2017 - For Aspera and Astra

patronage of Ministry of Culture, Palazzo Odescalchi, Rome.

2015 - Artists in the gallery

curated by Irmela Heimbacher, Monty & Company, Rome.

2015 - Side by Side

with Werther Germondori, curated by Serafino Amato, M&Co, Rome.

2015 - SOSE

curated by Marco della Porta & Simona Sarti, Stazione Ottavia, Rome.

2013 - One after Another

curated by Simona Sarti, Montegiordano Gallery, Rome.

2011 - 50th Anniversary of the March for Peace

curated by Simona Sarti, Perugia-Assisi.

2011 - Otto amice a Corviale

curated by Monica Meloni, Rome.

2011 - Carte Blanche

Cultural Centre for Art & Architecture, Via Monte Giordano, Rome.

2010 - Gallery Artists

Gallery Moser, Osnabrùck, Germany.

2009 - …sull’identità

curated by Cosetta Mastragostino, Museo della Via Ostiense, Rome.

2009 - Quattro bis

fra le quattro pareti domestiche, curated by Serafino Amato, Rome.

2008 - Pulling Down, La memoria degli altri

so as not to forget the Holocaust, curated by V.Pavoncello, Music Auditorium, Rome.

2008 - Arte Contemporanea 14

Liceo Scientifico Statale, Rome.

2008 - One Picture show

3 solo shows curated by Peter Lussenheide, Scudit, Quasar, Stadtgallerie Osnerbruck, Germany.

2005 - Preferenze & Differenze

ARS ROMA SEDICI, Cascina Farsetti, Rome.

2004 - Venite Adoremus

curated by Stefania Severi, Santa Maria Montesanto Basilica, Rome.

2004 - Il Contemporaneo in Citta

L.I.a.r.t. Liceo Artistico Statale M. Mafai, Rome.

2004 - dall’opera d’arte al manufatto d’arte

scuola- Arti Ornamentali, Comune di Roma.

2004 - Creando in Villa

ARS, Cascina Farsetti, sponsored by Municipio 16 Rome.

2002 - 30x30=50

curated by Ivano d'Agostino and Loredana Rea, Studio Arte Fuori Centro, Rome.

2002 - Regalalalarte

D.M.Studio,Rome.

2001 - Trastevere

curated by L. Reghini di Pontremoli, Il Labirinto Gallery, Rome.

2000 - Sette artisti stranieri in Casentino

Castello di Poppi (Arezzo).

2000 - Locomozioni

curated by L. Reghini di Pontremoli, Zagarolo, (Rome).

2000 - Artisti per l’Epicentro

Museo delle Matonelle, curated by Nino Abbate, Messina.

1999 - Studio Aperti at the Pantheon

Rome.

1995 - PB 50

organised by Prof.Tom Kelly, Hall-Haskell House Gallery, Ipswich, Massachusetts.

1993 - Presenze

Foreign Artists today in Italy, organised by the Prov. of Perugia and Regione Umbria, curated by G.Bonomi, E. De Albentiis, E. Mascelloni, Rocca Paolina, Perugia.

1993 - Passacaglia con le ombre

curated by Anna Maria Corbi, Officina di Giorgia Gallery, Rome.

1993 - Ipotesi per scenografie Rossianiane

for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Rossini, Comune di Pesaro, curated by De'Serpenti Gallery, Rome.

1992 - Rossini Arte e Musica

Ospedale Vecchio), Comune di Albano Laziale.

1992 - I colori dell'immaginazione

curated by A. di Tivoli, Palazzo Valentini, Rome.

1992 - An Artist in Malta

Art Biennale.

1992 - Borderline

curated by Andrea del Guercio, Convento di Monteciccardo, Pesaro.

1992 - Borderline

curated by Andrea del Guercio, Convento del Bosco ai Frati, Firenze.

1992 - Borderline

curated by Andrea del Guercio, Stagione espositiva 88-89, Reggio Emilia.

1992 - Miniature

N. Piccinni, Altrimmagine, Gallery, Bari.

1987 - Project Against Apartheid

Canovaccio Studio of the Canova Gallery, Rome.

1987 - Tenebre e Splendori

Nuova Galleria Internazionale, Rome.

1982 - 15 artists at work

Goldsmiths College, Woodlands Art Gallery, London.

Curriculum Vitae

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Artist’s Statement

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Reviews

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Biography

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