Jonathan David Smyth

Jonathan David Smyth (b. 1987, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an artist working with photography, performance, moving image, sculpture, and installation. His work has been exhibited at various galleries, museums, venues, and festivals in the United States and abroad, including Free Range (London, UK), PH21 Gallery (Budapest, Hungary), Auckland Festival of Photography (New Zealand), Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival (Xiamen, China), LAST Projects (Los Angeles, CA), Photoville (Brooklyn, NY), Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle, WA), The Ulster Museum (Belfast, UK), Metro Pictures Gallery (New York City), and most recently in the FotoFest Biennial 2022 central exhibition, If I Had a Hammer (Houston, TX). Smyth’s work is held in private and public collections and has been featured in numerous print and online publications including, Aint-Bad magazine, Float Photo magazine, and Musée magazine. He has been a featured guest on The Arts Show on BBC Radio Ulster and appeared on many popular podcasts including MikeyPod with artist Michael Harren, and Good Morning, Sodomites! with comedian Zach Noe Towers.

Smyth received a BA with Honours in photography and film at Edinburgh Napier University in 2010, and an MFA in photography from Parsons School of Design in 2014. His debut monograph titled JUST ONE MORE was published by bd-studios.com (New York City) in October 2017. He has given various presentations and talks as a Visiting Artist and as an Instructor in New York City at The New School, The International Center of Photography, The School of Visual Arts, The New York Public Library, and at Belfast Metropolitan College in Northern Ireland, and Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA. His second monograph NOW THAT YOU’VE GONE AND COME BACK will be published in tandem with his Artist-in-Residency at Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles, June–September 2023. He lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City.