EDUCATION
MFA, 2004, Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 
BA, 1997, Literature and Photography, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Jonathan Gitelson: In the Landscape, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA (2023)
Free! Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA (2020)
Free! Gravity Gallery, North Adams, MA (2019)
Are You Here? Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center, Brattleboro, VT (2016)
Are You Here? Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA (2016)
In The World, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT (2015)
Halfway Between Somewhere and Nowhere, UVM, Burlington VT (2013)
Everyday Indexes, Galerie f56, Munich, Germany (2012)
Jonathan Gitelson: Artist’s Books Nelson Hancock Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2008)
Social Studies, Dominican University, River Forest, IL (2007)
Urbanism, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI (2006)
Dream Job, Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (2006) 
The Car Project, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL (2006) 
Social Studies, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL (2004)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Transient Beauty, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT (2021)
Exposed 2021, The Current, Stowe, VT (2021)
S L O W, Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (2019)
Water, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA (2019)
Resident X, Artspace, New Haven, CT (2017-2018)
Trees II, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA (2018)
Collective Thinking, For Freedoms, Aperture Foundation, NY, NY (2017)
Literary Spirits, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA (2017)
Project: Arrival, Gravity Gallery, North Adams, MA (2017)
Ready, Fire!, Aim. Burlington City Arts in conjunction with the Hall Art Foundation, Burlington, VT (2017)
Bibliothecaphilia, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2015 & 2016)
The People’s Museum of Revisionist Natural Itstory SPACES, Cleveland, OH (2015)
Landscape As Fetish, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA (2015)
The Festival Reimagined, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT (2015)
Flash Forward 10, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA (2015)
Seeing the Sky, The Wassaic Project Festival, Wassaic, NY (2014)
Performing for Cyclops, Pitch Projects, Milwaukee, WI (2014)
Constellation, Galerie f5.6, Munich, Germany (2014)
Edition Art Fair, Pitch Projects Booth, Filter Art Fair, Chicago, IL (2014)
Paraprosdokians and Rubber Chickens, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR (2014)
Expanding The Frame, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL (2013)
Format 13: International Photography Festival, Derby, UK (2013)
Three Ways To Draw the Landscape, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR (2013)
Indie Photo Book Library Exhibition, Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA (2012)
2012 Biennial, deCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA (2012)
artists tell stories (mostly about themselves), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (2011)
Indie Photobook Library Exhibition, ACP Book Fair, Atlanta, GA (2011)
Progress? Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT (2011)
Flash Forward Festival Boston, Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston, MA (2011)
Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, Canada (2010)
Art Forum Berlin, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, Germany (2010)
The Program, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX (2010)
Computer Pictures, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA (2010)
Hamburg Fotobuchtage, Kehrer Verlag, Hamburg, Germany (2010)
Chicago Alderman Project, Johalla Projects, Chicago IL (2010)
London Art Fair, Mauger Modern Art, London, UK (2010)
Scope Art Fair, Mauger Modern Art, Miami, FL (2009)
Lodz Photo Festival, Lodz, Poland (2009)
Photography Collection Highlights, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2009)
Harvest, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL (2009)
False Proof, Kirkland Arts Center, Seattle, WA (2009)
Photo LA, DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2009)
Made In Chicago: Photographs from the LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2008)
Hijacked, Literaturhaus, Copenhagen, Denmark (2008)
Working DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2008)
Backlight 2008, 8th International Photographic Triennial, Tampere, Finland (2008)
The Mirror Stage, Lantis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus (2008)
A Survey of New Guarde Photography, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL (2008)
Hijacked, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia (2008)
Hijacked, Neunplus, Berlin, Germany (2008)
NY Photo Festival, Museum of Contemporary Photography Exhibit, Brooklyn, NY (2008)
Foto Freo Photographic Festival, Fremantle, Australia (2008)
Focus Midwest Midwest Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN (2008)
Photo Miami, Galerie f5,6 [Munich], Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL (2007)
Food for Your Eyes, Curated by Nathalie Belayche, Kinokho Studio, Paris, FR (2007)
Hey Hot Shot, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY (2007)
Chicagraphy, Galerie f5.6, Munich, Germany (2007)
Innmotion Festival, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain (2007)
Houston Center of Photography Membership Exhibition, Houston, TX (2007)
The Submissions Show, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2007)
Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN (2007)
People, Buildings and Cars, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT (2007)
Influenc-za, Allrise Gallery, Chicago, IL (2007)
Something to Do With Failure, University of Saint Francis, Joliet, IL (2006)
Car Culture, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2006)
18th Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, IL (2006)
Unlimited ID, Dazibao Centre de Photographies Actuelles, Montreal, Quebec (2006)
Unlimited ID, Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan (2006)
Wish, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (2005)
Nova Young Arts Fair, Chicago, IL(2005)
Persona, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL (2005)
Works on Paper, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI (2004)
Scholarship Exhibition, Union League Civic & Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL (2004)
17th Annual Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL (2004)
FACT/FICTION, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT (2004)
47th Annual International Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA (2004)
MFA thesis exhibition, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL (2004)

PUBLIC ART / COMMISSIONS
Exposed 2021, public billboard commissioned by The Current, Stowe, VT (2021)
For Freedoms Billboard Commission, two billboards, Manchester, NH (2020)
Platform 18, site-specific sculptural commission, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2016-2017)
Hiding, Burlington City Arts in conjunction with the Hall Art Foundation, Burlington, VT (2017)
Map Of Artistic Influence, Commission by the Society of Photographic Education for their 50th Anniversary Conference, Chicago (2013)
East To Midwest, Galerie Inkijk, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2010)
City of Chicago Arts In Transit Public Art Commission, permanent installation, Armitage Brown Line Station, Chicago, IL (2006 – 2008)
Chicago Area Billboard Project, public exhibition of 60 billboards, Chicago, IL (2003)

GRANTS / AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES
Good Hart Artist Residency (2024)
Creation Grant, Vermont Arts Council & the National Endowment for the Arts (2022)
Brattleboro Town Arts Fund Grant, Arts Council of Windham County (2022)
Vermont Arts Council Artist Development Grant (2021)
Keene State College Faculty Development Grant (2021)
Vermont Arts Council Artist Development Grant (2020)
Keene State College Faculty Development Grant (2019)
Keene State College Faculty Development Grant (2018)
Vermont Arts Council Artist Development Grant (2018)
Keene State College Early Career Summer Research Seed Funding Grant (2015)
Keene State College Faculty Development Grant (2015)
Keene State College Indirect Costs Reinvestment Grant (2014)
Vermont Arts Council Artist Development Grant (2014)
Keene State College Faculty Development Grant (2013)
Keene State College Indirect Costs Reinvestment Grant (2013)
Vermont Arts Council Artist Development Grant (2012)
White Columns Curated Online Registry (2011)
City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program (2005)
International Digital Art Award, Melbourne, Australia (2004)
Chicago Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Grant (2004)
Jurors Award, San Diego Art Institute 47th Annual International Exhibition (2004)
Puffin Foundation Grant (2004)
College Art Association Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship (2004)
Albert P. Weisman Memorial Fellowship, Columbia College Chicago (2004)

PUBLICATIONS
Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age (4th Edition), Edited by Robert Hirsch, Elsevier’s Focal Press (2021)
Elevated: Art and Architecture of the Chicago Transit Authority, pgs 384-391, CTA Publishing, Chicago, IL  (2018)
Resident X Exhibition Catalogue, Artspace, New Haven, CT (2017)
Ready, Fire! Aim, Exhibition Catalogue, Burlington City Arts and the Hall Art Foundation (2017)
The Shifting Meaning of Pictures, Art New England (Winter 2016)
Chicago Transit Authority Public Art Catalogue, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2016)
Bibliothecaphilia Exhibition Catalogue, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2015)
Magenta Foundation 10th Anniversary Publication, Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Canada (2014)
Aspect Magazine Volume 21: A Good Place To Stop (2013)
2012 deCordova Museum Biennial Catalogue, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (2012)
The Photography Issue, Art New England Magazine (2011)
Flash Forward Catalogue, Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Canada (2011)
Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels, Fifth Edition, Edited by Robert Hirsch, Elsevier’s Focal Press (2011)
The Program Exhibition Catalogue, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX (2010)
Computer Pictures Exhibition Catalogue, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA (2010)
Exit Magazine #34, Madrid, Spain (2009)
Neon Magazine, Hamburg, Germany (2008)
Hijacked Foto Book, by Mark McPherson, T&G Publishing, Sydney Australia (2008)
Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Edited by Robert Hirsch, Elsevier’s Focal Press (2007)
Camera Austria, essay by Karen Irvine, Graz, Austria (2007)
Intersection Magazine, London, UK (2007)
A Field Guide to the North American Family, by Garth Risk Hallberg, Mark Batty Publisher (2007)
Unlimited ID Exhibition Catalogue, Dazibou Center for Photography, Montreal, Canada (2006)
Bridge Magazine, issue 14, Chicago, IL (2005)
Triangulate Magazine (2004)
Ten by Ten Magazine (2004)
Work Magazine (2004)
Buffalo Magazine (2004)
Social Studies, self-published anthology of 5 artist books, edition of 500 (2004)

BIBLIOGRAPHY / ARTICLES / REVIEWS
United Under a Sky of Sound: ‘Sonic Blanket’ a collaboration of Poetry, Voices, and Sounds, Broadcast Nightly, Brattleboro Reformer, 12/29/21
Within a 10-mile radius, a Trio of Artists Looks for Creative Connection, The Commons, 12/15/21
Sonic Blanket,' a Yearlong Multimedia Installation in Brattleboro Combines Sound, Poetry, Art, and Community, The Current, Seven Days, 12/15/21
Art Review, ‘Exposed 2021,’ The Current, Seven Days, 10/6/21
The Current Brings the Art Back Out, The Stowe Reporter, 7/29/21
On The Road, Art New England, 5/19
Under Our Knows-es, Yale Daily News, 1/26/18
Resident X Takes The Art Out Of The Studio,New Haven Independent, 1/18/18
Art Review: 'Ready. Fire! Aim.,' BCA Center, Seven Days, 5/10/17
Sign of the Times Makes a Statement, Vermont Digger, 6/8/16
Spaces Parodies Natural History Museums in Edgy Spoof Built for Laughs, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 12/8/15
Advertising Existentialism, Greenfield Recorder, 9/3/15
Jonathan Gitelson: The States Project, Lenscratch 2015
Painter Locke Focuses On Tension Between Natural World & Culture, Boston Globe, 8/18/15
Landscape As Fetish, Lenscratch, 8/4/15
MASS MoCA: From Surreal to Sexual, Greenfield Recorder, 6/3/2015
The Library, Illuminated Anew, in Bold Mass MoCA Show, Boston Globe, 1/27/15
Bibliothecaphilia Reveals Love of Libraries at MASS MoCA, Berkshire Eagle, 1/21/15
How Erotic Can Art Get Before It Becomes Pornographic?, Artnet, 1/13/15
At MASS MoCA, a Celebration of Libraries, Wall Street Journal, 12/19/14
Video Art and the Cyclopean Eye, Milwaukee Express, 7/29/14
Photography Review: Land’s End, Oregon Arts Watch, 2/27/13
At The deCordova Biennial, Dreams of Disneyland, Art In America, 2/12
Biennial Features True Good Works Amis False Steps, Boston Globe, 1/27/12
The 2012 deCordova Biennial, Boston Arts Diary, January 2012
deCordova’s Boston Biennial, Yankee Magazine, January 2012
SMOCA’S Latest Exhibit Gives Glimpse Into The Lives Of Its Artists, Phoenix New Times, December 2011
Hello Beautiful, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, 6/20/08
To El and Back, New City, 6/17/08 
Stuck On You, Intersection Magazine, Winter 2007 
Breakout Artists: 2006, New City, 4/27/06 
Keepin’ It Random, Chicago Reader, 4/14/06 
The Car Project, UR Chicago, 4/13/06 
Artist Turns Pet Peeve into Clever Act of Defiance, Chicago Tribune, 3/31/06
Eye Exam, New City, 3/21/06
Fight Flyers with Fire, Gapers Block, 8/29/05 
The Litter Sweater, The Chicago Reader, 8/26/05 
Survey Art, Ten By Ten Magazine, January 2005 
Tip of the Week, New City, 9/16/04
Umbrella Magazine, August 2004, p. 67 
The Vicinity of Creativity, Evanston Review, 6/10/04
Enigmatic Imagery, New Haven Register, 6/10/04 
The Buzz: Art, Chicago Social, June 2004 
College Art Association News, September 2003 
Art People: Billboards Against Buying, Chicago Reader, 5/9/03

COLLECTIONS
Allen Library, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Bank of America Corporate Collection, Chicago, IL
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany 
Columbia College Chicago Special Collections, Chicago, IL 
Fidelity Investment Corporate Collection, Boston, MA 
Indie Photobook Library, Washington, DC 
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL 
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art Special Collections Library, Chicago, IL 
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Special Collections Library, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art Special Collections Library, New York, NY
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Rhode Island School of Design Library, Providence, RI
UCLA Arts Library Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
University of Alberta Special Collections, Alberta, Canada
Victoria & Albert Museum Special Collections Library, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art Special Collections Library, New York, NY
Yale University Special Collections Library, New Haven, CT 

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2023 Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
2019 Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference, Providence, RI
2019 Insight Photography Project, Brattleboro, VT
2018 Boston College, Boston, MA
2018 Clark University, Worcester, MA
2017 Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT
2016 Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference, NY, NY
2016 Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
2015 Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA
2015 Clark University, Worcester, MA
2014 Milwaukee Comma, Milwaukee, WI
2013 Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
2013 University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
2013 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2012 SPE Regional Conference, Rochester, NY
2012 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2012 Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
2012 deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2010 University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
2007 Lasalle Bank, Chicago, IL 2007 
2006 Dominican University, River Forest, IL 
2006 Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
2006 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2006 SPE National Conference, Chicago, IL 
2004 College Art Association National Conference, Seattle, WA

CURATORIAL
F装い—Yosooi: Fashion and Vernacular Photography in 20th Century Japan (co-curated with Lucile Druet, Ayaka Iida, Rodney Obien),
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH (2023)
Angus McCullough: Coincidence Control, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT (2019)
Caleb Charland: Scientific, Carroll House Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH (2014)
Undergraduate Photography Now (Part 2), curated with Greer Muldowney, Flash Forward Festival, Boston, MA (2014) 
Timothy Briner: Blasted Trees & Hollering Monsters, Carroll House Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH (2013)
Matthew Gamber: Preservation Management, Carroll House Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH (2012)
Cara Phillips / Women In Photography, Carroll House Gallery, Keene, Keene State College, NH [2012] 
Versionfest Invitational, curated with Brian Ulrich, Zhou Brothers, Chicago IL (2007)
Word, Hokin Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago IL [2006]