Whitfill received a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Texas Tech University in 2006, following a Bachelor of Science with a focus in Biology and Chemistry from Wayland Baptist University in 2000. Whitfill exhibits his work primarily in his native Texas habitat, but has also exhibited nationally and internationally, spanning seventeen states, France and China. He is a founder of many artist-run collaborative organizations including the RJP Nomadic Gallery, Earthbound Moon, Culture Laboratory Collective, The Button Project, and the Free Range Creatives. Whitfill is a full time artist, fabricating public sculpture at CASP, making new work in his Slaton studio, and designing proposals for future projects. In the past he has been a bar tender, Chess Coach, tire repair man, EMT, College Interior Design Instructor, Fire Fighter, High School Physics and Astronomy instructor, Entomologist, simulated diamond salesman, and a Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer technician.
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Jonathan Whitfill
156 W. Garza ▪ Slaton, TX 79364
(806) 252.8846 ▪ jon@jonathanwhitfill.com
Education
2006 Master of Fine Arts, Texas Tech University Primary: Sculpture Secondary: Printmaking
2000 Bachelor of Science, Wayland Baptist University Major: Biology Minor: Chemistry
Awards – Collections
2024
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Concentricity. The Star Building, TIAA. Frisco, TX
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Texas Tech Univ. Law Library, Lubbock, TX
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Private Residence. Austin, TX
2023
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Oval-law/Olivaw. Liggett Law Group. Lubbock, TX
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Lighting Sculpture – Western Bank, Slide Rd. Branch. Lubbock, TX
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Healing Tree. Joe Arrington Cancer Research and Treatment
Center, Lubbock, TX - Temporary Sculptural Theater Props – Flatland Dance Theatre performances at LHUCA. Lubbock, TX
- Temporary Sculpture – District 83 Christmas Ornament Recipient, State Capitol Building, Austin, TX
2022
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Lighting Sculpture – Western Bank, 82nd St. Branch. Lubbock, TX
- Permanent Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Rock Paper Shears. Lubbock, TX
- Temporary Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Esfera, Yokna Sculpture Trail. Oxford, MS
- Temporary Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Stilted Sphere, Sculpture Walk Springfield. Springfield, MO
- Online Article, Texas Monthly – Art or Blasphemy? Whatever your take, Book Wheels get Bibliophiles
Talking. Written by Tommie Ethington - Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Private Residence. Table Rock Lake, MO
2021
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Rota Tribus, Philly Marriott Downtown Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Starburst, Texas Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital, Dallas, TX
- Temporary Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Alcedinidae, Sculpture Walk Springfield. Springfield, MO
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Arbor Ferro, Community National Bank. Midland, TX
2020
- Permanent Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Penumbra Umbrellas, Arts Council of Midland, Midland, TX
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Battle Mountain, McDougal Plaza Lobby, Lubbock, TX Permanent
- Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Private Residence. Lubbock, TX
2019
- Temporary Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Almagestum, 9th Biennial Mathews-Sanders Sculpture Garden
Competition, Delta State University. Cleveland, MS - Temporary Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Art al Fresco, City of Boerne, TX
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Heuristic Ecliptic, Midland Library, Midland,TX
- Permanent Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Private Residence. Slippery Rock, PA
2018
- Permanent Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Contemporary Art Museum – Plainview,TX
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Lighting Sculpture – Western Bank. Lubbock, TX
2017
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Covenant Hospital: Joe Arrington Cancer Research
Center, Lubbock, TX
2016
- Permanent Collection, Outdoor Sculpture – Syntaxis Mathematica, Texas Tech University. Public
Art Program. Lubbock, TX - Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Library – Graduate Medical Education Center:
Methodist Hospital, Dallas, TX
2015
- Curator’s Choice Award –WAH Center, Over the Edge– Paperworks Unbound, Brooklyn, NY
- Awarded the Newton Excellence in Education Award from the Beaumont Foundation
2014
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Comet, Ervin Elementary, LISD. Lubbock, TX
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Children’s Medical Center: Dallas, TX
2013
- Permanent Collection, Indoor Sculpture – Covenant Hospital: Covenant Children’s Hospital, Lubbock, TX
- Permanent Collection – International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction:
Pagosa Springs, CO
2012
- Permanent Collection – Fountainhead – Art Foundation Collaborative – Nasher Sculpture Center:
Dallas, TX - Artist Residency: ArtsFest – Visiting Artist: Wichita Falls, TX
- Permanent Collections : Rider, Hirschi, and Wichita Falls High School Libraries: Wichita Falls, TX
2011
- Artist Residency: The Button Project: Caritas Village: Memphis, TN
- Artist Residency: Outdoor Sculpture Commission: Earthbound Moon: Chicago, IL
- Published Finalist for Aesthetica Magazine Creative Works Competition
2010
- Visiting Artist Residency: Outdoor Sculpture, and Solo Exhibition – Northern State University:
Aberdeen, SD - Art work selected for SANOFI’s Library Conference and Exhibition: Montpellier, France
2009
- Review and Image – Sculpture Magazine: International Sculpture Center: Jan/Feb.
Highlighted Exhibitions
2019
- Open Space, National Juried Exhibition. ICOSA Art Collective: Austin, TX
2018
- Tapped 9, National Juried Exhibition. Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing
Center: Cincinnati, OH - Art of the South, Regional Juried Exhibition. Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
- 5th Juried Exhibition, Artspace 111: Fort Worth, TX
2017
- Celebrating 20 Years of Art, LHUCA: Lubbock, TX
2016
- Some Abstraction Required, Spartanburg Art Museum: Spartanburg, SC
2015
- Over the Edge – Paperworks Unbound, WAH Center: Brooklyn, NY
2014
- Seven State Biennial, Univ. of Science and Arts of Oklahoma: Chickasha, OK
2014
- Mirrored and Obscured: Contemporary Texas Self-Portraits, Art Museum of Southeast Texas:
Beaumont, TX - Utopia, Can it Stay a Dream? Ground Floor Gallery: Nashville, TN
RJP: CTRL+P Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Asheville, NC
2013
- Nexus 2013, National Juried Exhibition, Dogwood Arts Festival, U.T. Downton: Knoxville, TN
- In Another Life, National Juried Exhibition, College of Central Florida, Gallery – Ocala, FL
- Translatory Motion, Culture Laboratory, The Pottery Workshop C2 Gallery: Jingdezhen, China
2012
- Tapped 2, National Juried Exhibition. Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center:
Cincinnati, OH - RJP: Dark Matter, Blue Star, San Antonio, TX
Obsessive Worlds, Curated Group Exhibition. Art Museum of Southeast Texas: Beaumont, TX
also Exhibited at Louisiana State University: Alexandria, Louisiana
2011
- Third Coast National, National Juried Exhibition. K Space Contemporary: Corpus Christi,
- TX Intimate: Small Works, National Juried Exhibition. Brooklyn Artists Gym: Brooklyn, NY
- Land Portrait, Culture Laboratory, Select Group Exhibition. UTSA Satellite Space,
Blue Star Art Complex: San Antonio, TX also Exhibited at Downtown Gallery,
University of Tennessee: Knoxville, TN - Response 2, Culture Laboratory, Select Group Exhibition. Box 13 Art Space: Houston, TX
Collaboration with Noah Simblist – artist, writer, curator, and prof. at SMU, Dallas,TX
also Exhibited at Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University: Ithaca, NY - Unpacking Access, RJP Nomadic Gallery. Texas Biennial Invited Participating Organization:
Performance/Installation at Pump Project and Trailer Space Records: Austin, TX - Response, Culture Laboratory, Select Group Exhibition. Brazos Gallery, Richland College:
Dallas, TX – Collaboration with Ben Lewis of Art Safari, London also exhibited at Martha
Gault Gallery, Slippery Rock University: Slippery Rock, PA
2010
- Eye of the Beholder: The Art of the Found Object, National Juried Exhibition. Maryland
Federation of Art: Annapolis, MD - Persistent Breach, Select Group Exhibition. Shirley Pogue Art Gallery: East Central University:
Ada, OK
2009
- Le Livre est une Oeuvre D’Art, International Juried Exhibition. Art Vitam Galerie Europ’Art
Aigues Mortes, France - Third Coast National, National Juried Exhibition. K Space Contemporary: Corpus Christi, TX
- Alchemy: Object Transformed, National Juried Exhibition. Hollingsworth Gallery:
Palm Coast, FL - Projections: A Survey of Wall-based Sculpture, International Juried Exhibition.
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center: Cincinnati, OH
2009
- Translations – Art inspired by the written word, National Juried Exhibition: Fine Arts Gallery:
Victoria College, Victoria, TX - Mercurial Imagination, Select Group Exhibition: Ira M. Taylor Memorial Art Gallery:
Hardin Simmons University: Abilene, TX - So Say We All, Sort Of… Culture Laboratory, Group Exhibition, Texas State University: San Marcos, TX
2008
- Innovation by Limitation, Group Exhibition: Nau Haus Gallery: Houston, TX
- U – Turn, Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery:San Antonio Contemporary Art Month:San Antonio,TX
- The New Wave, Curated Group Exhibition in Conjunction with the Centennial Celebration of
Art in Lubbock, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX - Monochrome: The Study of Orange, Fain Fine Arts Center Midwestern State University:
Wichita Falls, TX
2007
- 16th Annual Juried Art Competition, National Juried Exhibition. Breckenridge Fine Arts
Center: Breckenridge, TX - Metal Arts 2007, National Juried Exhibition. Ellen Noel Art Museum. Odessa,TX
- Wheels, National Juried Exhibition. Gallery North: Bloomington, IN
- Texas National 2007, National Juried Exhibition. The Art Center-Nacogdoches, TX
- Drive-In Theatre, Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery: Houston, TX
Orange and Blue: Studies in Monochrome, Nancy Fyfe Cardozer Gallery :The University
of Texas of the Permian Basin: Odessa, TX - Maiden Voyage, Ryder Jon Piotrs Nomadic Gallery: Marfa, TX