• MFA Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024)

    BA Studio Art & Psychology, Sarah Lawrence College (2015)

  • Solo Exhibitions

    2025

    • Dead Reckoning, 65 Grand, Chicago, IL (April)

    2024

    •Tempers, Cleaner Gallery + Projects, Chicago, IL (January 13 - March 2nd)

    •University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL. (March 1 - May 22)

    •SAIC MFA Thesis, 33 E. Washington, Chicago, IL. ( February 26 - March 6)

    2023

    •Jonathan Worcester In The Hole, Weather Proof Gallery, Chicago, IL.. (April - May)

    2022

    •Distance Stations, Belong Gallery, Chicago IL. (February 4 - 26)

    Group Exhibitions

    2025

    • Masterclass, Secrist | Beach, Chicago, IL (April 3 - May 24) 

    • The Ryleans, Twelve Ten Gallery, Chicago, IL (February 15th - March 29th)

    • The Pamphlet Show II, Patient Info, Chicago, IL (January 31 - February 23)

    2024

    • Ambulance Chase: Peter Fagundo, Michelle Grabner, and  Jonathan Worcester, Curated by Bianca Bova, Old Friends, Chicago, IL (September 27th - November 16th)

    • 69 For 69: A Magnetic Fields Art Show, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL (November 1 - 30 )

    •Perennial Hug (2), Circle Contemporary North Shore, Glenview, IL (January - March)

    •Doomscapes and the Digital Beyond, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL (March 28 - April 25)

    •Weatherproof Benefit Auction, Weatherproof Gallery, Chicago, IL (April)

    2023

    •Paintings Will Never Hurt You, The Plan, Chicago, IL (October 6 - November 5)

    •Field of Vision, New Collectors Gallery, New York, NY (May 26 - June 25)

    •Luminarts Visual Arts Exhibition, John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, IL. (May)

    •Street Sweeper, Common Wealth Gallery (Sponsored by Cleaner Gallery + Projects). Madison, WI. (March)

    2022

    •Design & Art 14, Dock 6 Collective. Chicago, IL. (October 8)

    •101, School of the Art Institute: Basespace. (October)

    •Whatever Hour You Woke There Was a Door Shutting, School of the Art Institute; Washington Building LL3-01A (October)

    •Autumn Maximum, Mu Gallery, Chicago, IL (September 9 - October 29)

    •Dungeon Daze, Cleaner Gallery + Projects (July 29 - August 26)

    •Making Space, The Plan, Chicago, IL (June 10 - July 23) gallery

    •Summer Salon Series, Mu Gallery, Chicago, IL (June 10 - September 9 )

    2020

    •Artists Run Chicago 2.0: Cleaner Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

    2017

    •The Dojo Presents: The Sick Muse #7 Release Party, The Dojo, Chicago, IL.

    2016

    • Sickness Turns One, No Nation Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab, Chicago, IL.(December)

    • Knowhere Presents: ‘Insects’ an Art and Music Show, Knowhere, Chicago, IL. (November)

    2015

    • Thesis Show, Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Bronxville, NY. (May)

    • Everything Must Go, Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Bronxville, NY. (May)

    • Grown AF, A*Space, Bronxville, NY. (February)

    2014

    • The General Show, A*Space, Bronxville, NY. (November)

    • Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn. NY. (June)

    • Kaleidoscope Room, Black Squirrel, Bronxville, NY. (April)

    • Death Show, A*Space, Bronxville, NY. (March)

    • Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, A*Space, Bronxville, NY. (March)

    2013

    • Game Show, A*Space, Bronxville, NY. (November)

    • Haunted, A*Space, Bronxville, NY. (October)

    • Blossom of Goodness, Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Bronxville, NY. (October)

    • C.A.T.S. presents: Show One, A*Space, Bronxville, NY. (September)

  • 2024

    • Whitney B Halstead Scholarship

    2023

    • Luminarts Visual Artist Fellowship Award

    • Van Pappelendam/Castle Scholarship

    2022

    • Oxbow Merit Winter Scholarship

    • Maurice Friedlander Memorial Scholarship

    • Van Pappelendam/Castle Scholarship

    2021

    • Maurice Friedlander Memorial Scholarship

    2015

    • Awarded scholarship to aid in repairing a Buddhist monastery in Sri Lanka, Sarah Lawrence College

    2011

    • Awarded prize for work done in Advanced Painting Course, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

  • 2024

    • Midwest Issue #173, New American Paintings, 2024

    • “Qualia and Computation: A Review of Jonathan Worcester’s “Tempers” at Cleaner Gallery+Projects”, Curtis Anthony Bozif, New City Art (January 24, 2024)

    2017

    • The Sick Muse Issue #7, The Sick Muse, pg. 25 (April)

    2016

    • The Sick Muse Issue #4, The Sick Muse, pg. 25 (August)

    2014

    • Kaitlyn Laurie, “Studio Visit with Jonathan Worcester”, SLC Speaks, 2/24/14. link

    • “C.A.T.S. presents new, morbid art show in the A*Space” link

    • “Open Mic Night collaborates with C.A.T.S. in ‘The Kaleidoscope Room’” link

  • 2023

    Let Me Be No Nearer, The Plan Gallery, Chicago, IL. (April 14 - May 21) [Co-curated with Esther Espino]

  • 2024

    • Ox Bow Residency - Saugatuck, MI

    • The Poor Farm, Living Within The Play, - Manawa, WI

    2023

    • The Poor Farm, Living Within The Play, - Manawa, WI