British-born artist Jonathan Monk often appropriates ideas, works, and strategies from Conceptualist and Minimalist artists of the `60s and `70s. With photographs, sculpture, film, installation, and performance, his works recontextualize and rework these quotations, often infusing them with Monk`s personal history and working-class family background. These aspects add a humanizing and down-to-earth sensibility to the original works` utopian ideals and notions of artistic genius.

Monk`s extensions and reinterpretations of seminal works by John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Sol LeWitt, among others, challenge authenticity, authorship, and value in art with quirky humor and wit. Monk's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the world.

Solo shows:
CAC Malagá
W139 in Amsterdam
Artpace in San Antonio
Palais de Tokyo in Paris
Tramway in Glasgow
Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow
Centre d`Art Contemporain in Neuchatel
Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf
Institute of Contemporary Art in London
Kunstverein Hannover

Group exhibitions are numerous and include:
Taipei Biennial
Berlin Biennale
Venice Biennale
Whitney Biennial
Prague Biennale
Panama Biennial

In 2012, Monk was honored with the Prix du Quartier des Bains in Geneva.