Jonas Ropponen
Jonas Ropponen
Jonas is a Melbourne-based artist and educator in printmaking mainly making works on paper. He has a Masters of Fine Art by Research at Monash University, looking at the grotesque and confessional mode in art.
Selected exhibitions: Burnie Print Prize (2025), Smoron the Stone Departer, Print Council of Australia (2024) We are Worms with Great Articulation, Artery Project Space (2021), Geelong Gallery Print Awards, Geelong Gallery (2019), Out of the Matrix 2.0, Hong Kong Open Print Workshop, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong (2019),This is my body this is my blood, MCA ARTBAR, Sydney (2018), Temple Doors, Artery Project Space, Northcote (2018) National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (2016), Pubism, Chapter House Lane Gallery, Melbourne (2015), The Snowy River from the Man, C3 Gallery, Abbotsford (2014), Pulp Fictions West Space Gallery, Melbourne (2013), Community and Context, MADA Gallery, Monash University (2013), Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award (2012) The Blank Pages, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney (2012), Personal Piñata Picassos, C3 Gallery stall at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne (2012), The Truth About the Art of Keeping Mum: A Studio Project on the Grotesque and Confessional Mode in Art, Monash University (2012), Secret Files from the Working Men’s College: RMIT Project Space (2010).
Collections: RMIT, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, RMIT University Art Collection, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Print Council of Australia, University of Ballarat, State Library of Victoria, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Burnie Regional Art Gallery.
Selected published writing: Ropponen, Jonas. ‘Department of Avant Garde Clichés’, Imprint, Vol 49, no 3, Spring, (2014).(on Filipino painter Manuel O’Campo).
Ropponen, Jonas. ‘Facts on Flax in Flux’, in Selvedge, Order, Rupture Sarah CrowEST catalogue essay, West Space, September, (2014).
Ropponen, Jonas. ‘Richard Harding: Gayness and Masculinity’, Imprint, Vol 48, no. 4, Summer, (2013).