Born in Los Angeles, Jonathan Burstein received a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been shown nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, the Year ’06 art fair in London, and Scope Miami.
Burstein is the recipient of a recent San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant, and has been artist-in-residence at the Djerassi Foundation in Woodside, CA, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and the Hambidge Center in Georgia. His work has appeared in New American Paintings, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and KQED's Gallery Crawl. He has taught painting and mixed media classes at the San Francisco Art Institute, the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, and Drew Preparatory School.
Burstein lives and works in San Francisco, and is represented by the Patricia Sweetow Gallery. |