Jon Pylypchuk was born in 1972 in Winnipeg, Canada. He studied at the University of Manitoba School of Art, where he co-founded the collective the Royal Art Lodge in 1996 with fellow artists Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois and Adrian Williams. In 1998 he moved to Los Angeles to study at UCLA, where he is currently based. Jon works in painting, sculpture, installation and video. He has exhibited in New York, Düsseldorf, Münster, London, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Paris, San Francisco, Miami, Tokyo, Montreal, Seoul, Guadalajar and St. Petersburg. His works are in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Saatchi Collection, London; The Museum of Old and New Art, and the Whitney Museum, New York.

Petzel Gallery is where his show opens tonight (if you’re listening to this on the day it releases January 9th) the show is called Waiting for the Next Nirvana and runs until February 29th at their 18th street space in Chelsea.

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