Jonathan Renino
Jonathan Renino was born in Stamford, Connecticut on March 26, 1997. At the age of five his family moved to Fishkill, New York in the Hudson Valley where he has spent the majority of his life. In 2015 Jonathan enrolled in SUNY New Paltz in the School of Fine & Performing Arts where he is currently pursuing a BFA in Photography. He graduated in May 2019.
Jonathan works primarily with film and other analog processes utilizing in-camera effects when applicable. Inspired heavily by surrealism, his images evoke a sense of transcendence and dreams. The artist is deeply interested in psychoanalysis, the subconscious, and mental health and seeks to make art encompassing all that that entails. He also has interests in DIY and local music and has been photographing members of the punk band, Alliteration, for several years.
The artist has been included in several shows presented in the Sojourner Truth Library on the SUNY New Paltz campus, most recently “Momento Mori” curated by John Murphy. He has also been exhibited in American Identities at GAMU in Prague, Czech Republic as well as at the ARTBAR Gallery in Kingston, New York as part of the show “The Places That Make Us, The Things That Shape Us” curated by Kaitlyn Antoniadis. His work has also been a part of the collaborative exhibition “Common Ground” that featured artists from all of the fine arts programs available at SUNY New Paltz. In May if 2019 he presented his thesis project on Bipolar Disorder during the BFA II Thesis Exhibition in the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY. His work has most recently been displayed in Space Place Gallery, Nizhny Tagil, Russia in the An Existing Condition Exhibition.
Photo by Hailey Pierce