THE Queer Artist, Jon Key

Jon Key is a craftsman, fashioner, and author initially from Seale, Alabama. Subsequent to getting his BFA from RISD, Jon started his plan vocation at Gray Advertising in NYC prior to proceeding onward to work with such customers and foundations as HBO, Nickelodeon, The Public Theater, and the Whitney Museum. As a teacher, Jon has been instructed at MICA, Parsons, CCA, and presently teaches at Cooper Union. Jon is likewise a Co-Founder and Design Director at Codify Art, a multidisciplinary aggregate committed to making, delivering, supporting, and exhibiting work by craftsmen of shading, especially ladies, strange, and trans specialists of shading.

Jon’s artistic creations pull references from numerous components, including painterly goliaths like Picasso and Kerry James Marshall, verifiable photographic references of Frederick Douglass Portraits and Louis Agassiz’s subjugated African daguerreotypes, in addition to Sachplakat banners from the mid 1900s or Aaron Doulas’ delineations from Fire!! magazine in 1926. There’s likewise a significant second after the Orlando Pulse dance club slaughter in 2016, where Jon started inspecting the spaces and edges wherein strange and trans ethnic minorities occupy as protected spots.

His work has been displayed as of late in Spring/Break Art Fair, Biennial of Graphic Arts Slovenia and Jeffrey Deitch NY. He lives and works in Bushwick, NY.Jon was chosen for Forbes 30 under 30 Art and Style list for 2020 and was the Frank Staton Chair in Graphic Design at Cooper Union 2018-2019. His work has been included in Jeffrey Deitch Gallery NYC, the Armory Show, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic.