Following his exhibition in late 2020 at Galerie Veyssière, JonOne returned to Touraine upon special invitation by the Departmental Council. From Thursday 12 May to Sunday 28 August 2022, the painter took up residency at Hôtel Goüin to complete a major installation...
“We all owe something to Africa. This is why “Heritage” came naturally. It is my connection with Africa and my Caribbean roots too. There is a long history of slavery there. I am here in Senegal, not far from the island of Gorée. This makes sense to me. We are all...
“Going to the Forbidden City has been a big dream of mine since I was very young. It’s incredible!” For the 55th anniversary of the establishment of Sino-French diplomatic relations, a major project was organized to honor the cultural exchanges of artists from both...
In Rabat in 2018, the National Museum Foundation hosted an exhibition by JonOne entitled Illuminating the Future at the prestigious Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. With the support of the Montresso Foundation and upon special invitation from the...
As part of MP2018 (Marseille, European Capital of Culture), a three-day live painting was organized at the Palais de la Bourse, resulting in a 5 x 15m fresco. The exhibition, put together by JonOne and Marseille gallery owner David Pluskwa, was entitled ‘Abstracted...
A major patron of contemporary art in Morocco, the Montresso Foundation invited JonOne to create a highly expressive series of works. The artist found a wealth of inspiration in Morocco, pushing the possibilities of media to their limit. The paint often flees the...
“It is not what is written that is important in my work: the writing, the letters, it is a pretext to be able to move on to another stage, the light, the color, the energy, the movement of the body. Behind my name we find my past, my present and my future.” JonOne has...
Inaugurated in April 2017, the Montresso Foundation art space hosted the exhibition XXL#1 in partnership with the David Pluskwa Gallery. Through a series of large-format canvases, a sculpture and two installations, Cédrix Crespel, Fenx, Tilt and Jonone confront the...
“I knew Montpellier and Carré Saint-Anne. I loved the volume and energy of this place. I didn’t hesitate for a second.” The City of Montpellier, a bustling hub of street art, displayed JonOne’s work for the first time in a public exhibition space. The exhibition,...
Spurred on by his love of street art and seduced by JonOne’s customization of Eric Cantona’s Rolls Royce, Bernard Magrez initially invited the artist to repaint a Jaguar from his personal collection. From this commission was born a shared desire to host an exhibition...
In January 2015, in the Salon des Mariannes room of Palais-Bourbon, the President of the National Assembly inaugurated JonOne’s work Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”). A tribute to the founding values of the French Republic and to...
In 2014, JonOne painted a mural for the historic Bichat public hospital in Paris. The fresco was installed at the entrance to the hospital, where it can be viewed by patients, staff and visitors. The integration of art into this public space reinforces the hospital’s...
Born in the Streets highlights the extraordinary vitality of the graffiti art movement, which emerged from the streets of New York in the early 1970s to become a worldwide phenomenon. The exhibition traces the contours of a vast and complex artistic landscape,...