Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green was born in 1955 in the closely-knit rural southern community of Gardens Corner, South Carolina. Green is often placed in context with other important artists of the African-American experience such as Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett and John Biggers. His art celebrates the work, daily life, community and dignity of people of the rural south.

Green graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1982 and holds an honorary doctoral degree from the University of South Carolina. His work has been the subject of five national traveling exhibitions throughout the United States and 51 solo exhibitions. The art of Jonathan Green has also inspired a nationally-touring ballet, Off the Wall & Onto the Stage: Dancing the Art of Jonathan Green.

Today Green lives and works in his private studio in Naples, Florida.