Bio

Brookhart Jonquil was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1984, and grew up in Portland, Oregon and Tucson, Arizona. He lives and works in Miami.

Jonquil’s projects have been commissioned by the Bass Museum of Art, the De la Cruz Collection, MoCA Tucson, Vizcaya Museum, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Art, and the Cornell Art Museum. Additionally, he has created multiple public works for the City of Miami Beach and Miami-Dade County.

Jonquil received his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, where he was awarded a graduate fellowship. He earned both a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from the University of Arizona.

Brookhart Jonquil works with precise optical materials, paint, and living systems to create perceptual worlds in which the visible dances with the invisible, the spontaneous with the engineered, and where physicality describes the felt experience of the empty and intangible. In Jonquil’s work, space is the encounter with open potential, from dreams of Utopia, to the terror of losing one’s bearings in a radically changing world. Grounded in both contemplative study and ecological thinking, his work points to perceptual shift as the root of personal and societal change.