About

photo credit: Kim Keever, 1981
photo credit: Carrie Welch, 1982
photo credit: John Von Bergen, 1997
photo credit: Carrie Welch, 1992
photo credit: Ben Bunch, 2005
photo credit: Barbara Probst, 2010

JONATHAN LASKER (born 1948) is an American artist.

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

He has exhibited with such galleries as Sperone Westwater (N.Y.) and Cheim and Read (N.Y.), Michael Werner (Cologne), Lars Bohman (Stockholm), Thomas Schulte (Berlin), L.A. Louver (L.A.), Thaddeaus Ropac (Paris), and Timothy Taylor (London), among others. He has had retrospectives at Kunsthalle Bielefield, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Kunstmuseum (St. Gallen), The Power Plant (Toronto), and the Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama), the Reina Sofia (Madrid), and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf).

Among public collections, his work is in the Mudam, Luxembourg, the Hirshhorn (Washington, D.C.), L.A. County Museum, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (N.Y.).