about

Jon MacGregor is a New York City-based artist born and raised in Georgia.

His paintings investigate the linkage between the sublime and the melancholy born out of the Southern Gothic legacies. The paintings align themselves with Art Historical references and self aware parables of life. MacGregor borrows from traditional painting techniques and fuses them with his love of contemporary imagery. Each brush stroke is a step towards actualizing the stories he has longed to tell from his life and those around him. Paintings yearning for a brighter day, somewhere, beyond this life.

Solo Exhibitions:

2023 | 'The Subtle Thief of Youth', Sea Grandon Atelier, Warsaw, Indiana

Group Exhibitions:

2024

Spring/Break, 532 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2024 Group Exhibition, Moosey Gallery, Hoxton, London
January Collection, Collect Bean, Digital Gallery

2023

Voices and Visions | 532 Gallery, New York City, New York
'The Beautiful, Brief Existence', New York Academy of Art, New York City, New York

2022

Peach Belt Conference Art Exhibition, First place, Georgia
'Beyond Go Figure', The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, Georgia
'Metro Montage XXI', Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Georgia

2021

'Summer Undergraduate Residency Program', New York City, New York
Senior Thesis, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia

2020

Light Up Midtown, Columbus, Georgia
December Show Goes National, Ithica, New York
Metro Montage XX | Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Georgia

Collections:

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Columbus Public Library, Columbus, Georgia
Mildred Terry Public Library | Georgia

Awards, Grants, and Scholarship:

Robert & Suzanne Cochran Scholarship | 2023-2024
MFA Academy Scholar Award | 2022-2023
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Copyist Program | 2023 and 2024
MFA Academy Scholar Award | 2022-2023
Academy Scholar Award Summer | 2021
Accepted into the National Portrait Gallery Copyist Program - 2021 - Present
Awarded an SRACE Grant for research - 2021
The Columbus State University (CSU) Friends of Art Scholarship Award - 2020-2021
Awarded an SRACE Grant for research for the National Portrait Gallery Copyist Program 2020
The Gerry Bosch Art Scholarship Endowment - 2019-2020
The Edward Shorter Art Scholarship Endowment - 2018-2019
Jordan Sokol Masterclass Tuition Scholarship - 2019
The Portrait Society of America Full Tuition Scholarship - 2019
The CSU Friends of Art Scholarship Award to study abroad in Italy - 2019
Summer Residency at Mildred Library, Columbus, Georgia - 2019

Press:

2024

The Guardian, The Observer

2023

The New York Times, Fashion and Art