JM
The basics
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Intro
British artist
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Male
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Birth:
1 January 1969(Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, East Midlands)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Jonathan Monk (born in 1969, in Leicester, UK) is an artist living and working in Berlin.
Life and career
Art practice
Monk questions the meaning of art using conceptualism in a way that Ken Johnson in The New York Times called "sweet, wry and poetic".
In an interview with David Shrigley, Monk says: "Is it or is it not or can it or can it not be? This is something that has been dealt with within the art world for some time and I guess the unanswerable question keeps us all going..."
Art works
2010
"Diecimila" - Facsimile produced and published by mfc-michèle didier, Brussels
2007
"Deadman", selected for the Renaissance Society's 2007 group show, "Meanwhile, In Baghdad..."