Jon Horvath is an interdisciplinary artist and writer that routinely utilizes systems-based strategies within multimedia narrative projects. Horvath entered the visual arts principally through the photographic medium and was influenced by his varied early formal education in creative fiction writing, philosophy, and composing music. His practice has expanded into the mixed use of photography, video, performance, sculptural objects, and other mediums, placed into a combined space to shape bodies of work reflecting his interest in open-ended, poetic narratives rooted in the exploration of how we build personal and cultural mythologies as a way to better understand the world around us.
Horvath’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows at venues including: The Print Center (Philadelphia), The Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA) FIESP Cultural Centre (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Gyeonggi Art Center (Suwon, South Korea), OFF Piotrkowska (Lodz, Poland), Newspace Center for Photography (Portland), the Haggerty Museum of Art (Milwaukee), INOVA (Milwaukee), Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati), Johalla Projects (Chicago), and The Alice Wilds (Milwaukee). His work is currently held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Haggerty Museum of Art, and is included in the Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Horvath currently teaches in the Fine Arts + New Studio Practice program at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.