Jonathan Higgins was born in Oakland, CA in 1962. He earned a BA in Art from Humboldt State University in 1987, and an MA in Art from New York University in 1992. Higgins’ work has focused primarily in printmaking, and more recently in metalpoint drawing. Higgins’ work has been exhibited on three continents, and he has been awarded several prestigious artist residencies, including The Frans Masereeel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium; Artica, Bilbao, Spain; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; and the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Mayo, Ireland. Higgins has had recent solo exhibitions at Chestnut Health Systems, Bloomington, IL and Gallery Jatad, Houston, TX . Recent group exhibitions include I’ll Be Your Mirror: Recent Work by Sarah Smelser and Jonathan Higgins, Knox College, Galesburg, IL; Point/Line/Shape/Form, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington IL; Lineal: Jonathan Higgins & Jaqueline Dee Parker, Gallery Jatad, Houston, TX; and the Cedarhurst Biennial, the Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL. Higgins’ work is included in Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing: A Complete Guide to the Medium, published by Routledge in 2019.
Higgins’ work is included in numerous public and private collections, including:
Amity Art Foundation, CT
Ballinglen Contemporary Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Mayo, Ireland
K. Caraccio Etching Studio Archive, New York, NY
The Carlyle Hotel, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
New Jersey State Council for the Arts, Trenton, NJ
Neiman Marcus, Dallas, TX
Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. Corporate Art Collection, Pleasantville, NY
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
University of Mississippi, Southern Graphics Council Archive
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Viceroy Anguilla Hotel, Anguilla, British West Indies
Vinalhaven Press, Vinalhaven, ME/New York, NY
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Jonathan Higgins is the Director and Master Printer of Manneken Press, a fine art press located in Bloomington, IL. He has collaborated with many artists and worked at printmaking studios in the U.S. and Europe, including Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; The Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY; Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ; Vinalhaven Press, Vinalhaven, ME. Higgins co-founded Galamander Press, New York, NY in 1995, which he ran with several partners before starting Manneken Press in 2000.
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