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

• Master Class: Inside the Last American Museum School with SAIC Painting Alumni, Secrist | Beach, Chicago, IL (April 19 - June 21) 

• 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

2025

• Pocaro, Alan.”Sink or Swim: A Review of Jonathan Worcester at 65Grand” NewCity Chicago, May 6, 2025

• Bova, Bianca. “Jonathan Worcester: Painting with Creative Precision” Chicago Gallery News, April 10th, 2025

• Segard, Michel. ‘“The Ryleans”: An Art Exhibition or a Course in Twentieth-Century Philosophy?” New Art Examiner, March 5th, 2025

2024

• Jenkins, Natalie. “Adrift in recombination: Work by three local artists at Old Friends points to the absurdity of the present.” Chicago Reader, October 9, 2024.

• Pocaro, Alan.”Pleasure in the Hunt: A Review of Ambulance Chase at Old Friends”NewCity Chicago, October 25, 2024.

• Bova, Bianca. “Quietly Combative: A Review of Jonathan Worcester at University Club of Chicago” NewCity Chicago, May 1, 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