Jon was born in California and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned his undergraduate degree in Fine Art from Arizona State University, where he graduated with honors in 2011. The following year he moved to New York City to study drawing and painting under Jacob Collins at the Grand Central Atelier. He graduated in 2016, and is currently a resident artist at GCA in Long Island City, New York. In 2017 Jon was awarded the Alma Schapiro Prize, a biannual affiliated fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. During his residency in Rome he studied the techniques of the great figurative artists of the classical tradition, as well as the lexicon of visual language which they used to translate an idea or narrative into a pictoral representation. Jon’s work is exhibited at Eleventh Street Arts in New York and is in private collections across the country.

Jon teaches drawing in GCA’s Core Program.

Teaching Part-Time Program(s):

Block-in Basics (Online Course) Rendering the Figure (Online Course)