Jon Lewis Fiona (b. 2000 Philadelphia) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist making and using objects that address the entanglements of class, consumption, humor and the erotic. He studied Sculpture at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2018–2023) and is a recipient of the Ellen Battell-Stoeckel Fellowship for study at Yale University's Norfolk Summer School of Art (2022).





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Education


Bachelors of Fine Art, Visual Art, Sculpture 
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art
Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Exhibition History

(forthcoming) Placeholder, Copenger, Boston, MA 

Sticky and Lightheaded,  Besty Gallery, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI.

Excellent Form / White Pill, with Brandon Bandy, Connor McNicholas, Nicole Ji Soo Kim, Talula RM, Weatherproof Gallery, Chicago, IL.
 
Extended Release (solo), Civic Square Project Space, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY. 

Porches (public installation), Norfolk, CT.

Slow Disco (thesis), Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ. 

Fractals and Units, New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, New Brunswick, NJ. 

Anti-Matters, online exhibition

Awards/Residencies

Ellen Battell-Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University 

Distinguished Scholar Award, Rutgers University

Ellen Battell-Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University 

Governer’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, State of New Jersey

Additional Experience

Visiting Critic, Advanced Sculpture, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Campus Office Manager, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’s Residency, Saugatuck, MI.

Seasonal Assistant, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME.

Sculpture Co-Adjunct, Livingston Arts Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.