Jonathan Anderson
Associate Professor
Art
Biola University
United States of America
Biography
Jonathan Anderson is an artist, art critic, and associate professor of art at Biola University. His artworks explore the capacities and limitations of representational painting and have been featured in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States. Anderson maintains a research and writing practice focused on modern and contemporary art criticism, with a particular interest in exploring its relations to religion and theology. Professor Anderson has given scholarly presentations at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University (Society for Christian Scholarship in Music) and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art), and he has received research fellowships from the Center for Christian Thought and the Nagel Institute.
Research Interest
Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Theory and Criticism, Religious and Theological Studies within the Art
Publications
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Jonathan A. Anderson, “Suspending Disbelief: Wim Botha’s Crucifix,†CIVA SEEN Journal vol. 14, no .1, pp. 22–23, 2014.
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Jonathan A. Anderson, “Contingency and Faithfulness: Francis Alÿs and the (Re)presentation of St. Fabiola,†Religion and the Arts vol. 18, no. 1–2, pp. 269–289, 2014.
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Jonathan A. Anderson, “Silence in an Age of Mass Media: John Cage and the Art of Living,†ARTS: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 29–37, 2017.
