Education
2019 Master of Arts, Art History, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2017 Master of Fine Arts, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2027 Something to Hold, Helen E Copeland Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
Something to Hold, Gallery of Arts, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
Something to Hold, The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls, ID.
2025 Remnant: Works from the Glacier Drawing Project. Flathead County Library, Bigfork, MT.
2024 Something to Hold, The Glacier Drawing Project, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT.
Wilderness Walking, Missoula Public Library, Missoula, MT.
2023 Downwaste, San Francisco Airport Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (Curator: Kai Caemmerer.)
The Glacier Drawing Project, The Danforth Museum of Art, Livingston, MT.
2020 Downwaste, Frontier Space, Missoula, MT.
2018 A Geology of the Senses, Art + Environment Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2017 Earth Eaters, Fine Arts Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ (Curator: Dr. Grant Vetter)
A Geology of the Senses, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2016 Nunatak, Lionel Rombach Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Walking on Ice, Tombaugh Gallery, Las Cruces, NM.
Culling Glacier, The Richmond Collective, Spokane, WA.
Glacier Drawing Project, The Lands Council, Spokane, WA.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 International Wildlife Film Festival Exhibition, Roxy Theater, Missoula, MT.
A Homecoming Alumni Show, The Gallery of Arts, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
2025 Landmarks of Art, Borrego Arts Institute. Borrego Springs, CA.
Solid Gold, Missoula Art Museum Art Auction, Missoula, MT.
2024 We the People, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, MT (Curator: Leslie V.S. Millar)
2024 Geohaptics: Sensing Climate, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM (Curator: Daniela Naomi Molnar)
2023 By Degrees: Art and Our Changing Ecology, Huntington Beach Art Center, (Curators: Luciana Abait and Lawrence Gipe)
2022 Elemental Effects, The LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ. (Curator: Linda Weintraub)
2021 In the World: U of A Alumni Exhibition, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ. (Curator: Lawrence Gipe)
2020 Losing Ground, The Fine Art Gallery, Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO.
Memory & the Chromatroposphere, Moodroom, Phoenix, AZ, (Curator: Dr. Grant Vetter)
Picturing 2020: A Community Reflects, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.
The Current Condition: Visions of a Contemporary West, Art Mobile of Montana
2019 In Relation to the Land, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. (Juried by Dr. Rebecca Senf,
Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography)
Translating Place, Gallery of Visual Arts, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
Process: Open AIR Art Exhibit, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, MT.
Road Trip(ping), Fine Arts Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ (Curator: Dr. Grant Vetter)
Psychogeografik, RAE Space for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Light Sensitive, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ (Juror: Christopher James, Leslie University, Cambridge, MA.)
R&D, University of Arizona Graduate and Alumni Gallery, Tucson, AZ.
2018 Open Juried Exhibition, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT. (Juror: Shane Lavalette)
2017 By Now We Are Here, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ.
Water Lines: A Creative Exchange, Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO.
We Want Trouble, Visual Arts Graduate Research Lab, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Emerge 2017, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ. (Juror: Clare Benson)
2016 Graduate Open Studios, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Avant – AZ, Exploded View, Tucson, AZ.
Group de Brink: Bye, The Brink Gallery, Missoula, MT.
MAS Attack X – Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ. (Curators: Dr. Grant Vetter and ARTRA Curatorial)
Infuse Retrospective – Lionel Rombach Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2015 f i V e – The Loft Cinema, Tucson, AZ.
Collaborative Projects
2026 Something to Hold, a documentary about the “Glacier Drawing Project.”
2020 Shape-less, video art and dance collaboration w/ choreographer, Autumn Eckman,
The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.
2019 Drift, video art and dance collaboration w/ choreographer, Autumn Eckman, Stevie Eller Dance Theater,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2017 Water Lines, w/ photographer Tomiko Jones, various locations, CA.
Professional Experience
2025– Faculty, Fine Art Department, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA.
2021–2025 Adjunct Instructor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2022–2025 Adjunct Instructor, Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ.
2017–2025 Adjunct Instructor, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ.
2014 Kickstarter Campaign Developer, The Glacier Drawing Project, Missoula, MT.
2011–2014 Director and Co-founder, Voncommon Art Studios and Gallery, Missoula, MT.
Awards, Grants, Fellowships
2023 Matthew Hansen Wilderness Inspiration Fellow, The UM Wilderness Institute, Missoula, MT.
2020 Night Bloom Grant, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. Tucson, AZ.
CARES Grant, Tucson Arts Foundation, Tucson, AZ.
Bibliography
2026 “Something to Hold,” Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Missoula, MT. World-Premier, February 22, 2026.
“Something to Hold,” Wild Coast Film Festival. Astoria, OR. March 12, 2026.
“Something to Hold,” International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula, MT. April 18, 2026.
Tweedy, Aislin, “Clatsop County hosts Wild Coast Film Festival.” Seaside Signal, March 9, 2026.
Clatsop County hosts Wild Coast Film Festival, March 12 – 15 | Seaside Signal
“The Vanishing Act,” Grounding, hosted by Sarah Aronson, Montana Public Radio, Interview, Missoula, MT.
January 28, 2026. The Vanishing Act | Montana Public Radio
Larson, Keely, “Receding Glaciers: Jonathan Marquis Bears Witness.” Mountain Journal, February 6, 2026.
Series: Faces of Climate Archives - Mountain Journal
2025 Marquis, Jonathan, “The Glacier Drawing Project: Turning an artist’s eye to Montana’s fleeting wildlands.”
Orion Magazine, September 24, 2025. The Glacier Drawing Project - Orion Magazine
2024 Roberts, Kathaleen, “Activating the senses: ‘Geohaptics’ evokes major environmental issues through art.
Albuquerque Journal, February 20, 2024.
Activating the senses: 'Geohaptics' evokes major environmental issues through art | | abqjournal.com
Walsh, Cory. “Artist finishes 11-year mission to draw Montana's glaciers” Missoulian, September 6, 2024. https://missoulian.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/artist-completes-project-to-draw-all-montanas-named-glaciers/article_f869792c-6baa-11ef-8e06-4f69516e4500.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
Scott, Chadd, “Montana’s Remote Glaciers Through the Drawings of Jonathan Marquis.” October 09, 2024
https://www.medicinemangallery.com/blogs/essential-west/jonathan-marquis-october-2024
2023 Forbes, Richard, “Witness.” Mountain Outlaw, Winter 2023. https://www.mtoutlaw.com/environment-witness/
2022 Walsh, Cory. “Artist documents the splendor and the decline of glaciers.” Missoulian, October 2, 2022.
Artists document the splendor and the decline of glaciers
2020 Kasic, Kathy. “On the Memory of Ice: An Interview with Jonathan Marquis.” Media + Environment, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2020.
University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.13462.
Lee, DJ. “Earthworkers | Jonathan Marquis.” Witness∞ Wilderness, https://debbiejlee.com/features-jonathan-marquis/
2019 Marquis, Jonathan. “Among the Arboreal: Herman van Swanevelt, Trees, and the Early Modern Landscape.” M.A. thesis,
University of Arizona, 2019. https://www.proquest.com/openview/ 649860a0769932d6bf10f3830160ae97/1.pdf?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
Marquis, Jonathan. “Do Glaciers Draw?” In Voices of Yellowstone’s Capstone: A Narrative Atlas of the
Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, edited by Traute N. Parrie, Jesse A. Logan, 62-70, Red Lodge, MT: Absaroka Beartooth
Foundation, 2019.
Marquis, Jonathan, and Dr. Grant Vetter. Earth Eaters. Tempe, AZ.: Fine Arts Complex 1101, 2019
https://www.blurb.com/b/9441967-earth-eaters
Marquis, Jonathan. “Downwaste (Siyeh).” In Whitefish Review: Our Living Planet, Volume 12, Issue 1,
edited by Brian Schott, 82. Whitefish, MT: Whitefish Review, Inc. 2019.
Scott, Tristan, “Higher Art.” Flathead Beacon, October 8, 2019. https://flatheadbeacon.com/2019/10/08/higher-art/
Walsh, Cory. “Making art at high elevations: Marquis hikes, climbs to capture glaciers.” Missoulian, August 19, 2019.
Making art at high elevation: Marquis hikes, climbs to capture glaciers
2018 “Anthropocene.” Issues in Science and Technology 34, no. 3 (Spring 2018): 64-73, National Academies of Science,
Engineering, & Medicine.
“Open Juried Exhibition Catalogue,” Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT., 2018
2017 Regan, Margaret. “Brave New Masters.” Tucson Weekly, May 04, 2017.
https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/brave-new-masters/Content?oid=8773816
2016 “MAS Attack at Fine Arts Complex 1101.” The Arts Beacon
2015 Fredrickson, Erika “Glacier Solitaire.” Missoula Independent, June 4, 2015.
https://issuu.com/missoulanews/docs/missoulaindependenti23060415
Walsh, Cory. “Artist sets out for 2nd season drawing Montana’s disappearing glaciers.” Missoulian, May 27, 2015.
https://missoulian.com/lifestyles/recreation/artist-sets-out-for-nd-season-drawing-montana-s-disappearing/article_75026241-668b-5814-9999-8054ab73d52b.html
2014 Flory, Xavier, “Saving Montana's Glaciers, One Drawing at a Time.” Flathead Beacon, August 15, 2014.
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2014/08/15/saving-montanas-glaciers-one-drawing-time/
Stovall, Gina. “Drawing Montana’s glaciers at a glacial pace.” Glacierhub.org, August 27, 2014. https://glacierhub.org/?s=drawing+montana
Walsh, Cory. “Artist Launches Kickstarter to Sketch Montana's Glaciers.” Missoulian, May 17, 2014.
https://missoulian.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/artist-launches-kickstarter-to-sketch-montana-glaciers/article_e353fdca-dd1f-11e3-853c-0019bb2963f4.html
Lectures, Presentations, Workshops
2025 Artist Talk and film screening, Flathead County Library, Bigfork, MT.
Art and Environment Symposium and Artist Panel. Borrego Art Institute, Borrego Springs, CA.
2024 Artist Talk, Something to Hold, Missoula Art Museum + Missoula Public Library, Missoula, MT.
Drawing Glaciers Workshop, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT.
Guest Artist, Wilderness and Civilization, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
2023 Lecture/Presentation, ART 596A Graduate Professional Practice, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Undergraduate Critique, Montana State University, Virtual, November 8
2022 “Do Glaciers Draw?” Worldwide Teach-in for Climate and Justice, panelist, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ., March 2022
Workshop, Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, AZ. February 12
2021 Lecture/Presentation, ART 147 Alt-Process Photography. Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ.
Workshop, Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Association, Tucson, AZ.
Presentation/Screening w/ Autumn Eckman, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.
2019 Lecture/Presentation, Art History 596, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Lecture/Presentation, Open AIR artist-in-residence program, Missoula, MT.
“Do Glaciers Draw?” Art | Science | Activism, panelist, Association for the Study of Literature and
Environment. Davis, CA., May 2019
“Sensing Among the Arboreal,” Beyond Vision: The Sensorium in Art, RASC/a Art History Graduate Student
Conference, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX., February 2019
“Sensing Among the Arboreal,” Corpus: Aesthetics after Biopolitics, AHGSA Art History Graduate Student Conference,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, March 2019
2018 Lecture/Presentation, ART 590, Concepts and Issues, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
“Saussure and the Summit Position,” Jane W. William Art History Research Prize, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2017 “A Geology of the Senses,” Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
“A Geology of the Senses,” Trouble with Wilderness Symposium. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Lecture/Demonstration, ART 326 Collage and alternative processes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Lecture/Presentation, ART 380 Painting, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2016 Lecture/Presentation <T> Here. CEART Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.
Lecture/Presentation, The Water Project, Tucson High School, Tucson, AZ.
Lecture/Presentation, The Water Project, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
“Glacier Drawing Project,” Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation, REI Bozeman, MT.
“Drawing in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness,” Elk River Books, Livingston, MT.
Lecture/Presentation, ART 590 Concepts and Issues, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2015 “Crowdfunding your Project,” ART 490 Professional Practices, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Collections
Missoula Public Library, Missoula, MT.
Open AIR Montana, Missoula, MT.
Artist Residencies
2024 Whitby School. Greenwich, CT. (September 16 – 27)
2019 Open AIR Montana, Fish Lake Guard Station, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, ID. (July 12-26)
2015 Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation & U.S. Forest Service, Cooke City, MT. (July 19-26)
2009 Montana Artists Refuge. Basin, MT. (June 1-30)
Juried Exhibitions
2026 Convergence. MiraCosta Student Exhibition. MiraCosta Gallery, Oceanside, CA.
2022 UA Undergraduate Art Exhibition, Rombach Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Curated Exhibitions
2024 Impossible Piranesi, Print Viewing of etchings and engravings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi,
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.
Do Not Put Anything in the Sink, Seven-Legged Spider Gallery, Tucson, AZ.
2022 The Place of Painting, ART 380A Student Exhibition, Rombach Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2019 R&D, Graduate and Alumni Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2018 Renaissance Prints from the Permanent Collection, Co-curated with Dr. Pia Cuneo,
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.
2017 Glacier Print Viewing w/ glaciologist, Zack Guido, Center for Creative Photography. Tucson, AZ.
We Want Trouble, Graduate Visual Research Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
By Now We Are Here, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson Co-curated with David Taylor
Absent & Adjacent, University of Arizona Student Art Exhibit, Boat House Gallery, Tucson, AZ.
2016 Graduate Open Studios, Society for Photographic Education Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
2013 Love Me Love Me Not, Voncommon Artist Studios and Gallery, Missoula, MT.
2013 Art Blizzaard, Voncommon Artist Studios and Gallery, Missoula, MT.
2012 Super Show, Voncommon Artist Studios and Gallery, Missoula, MT.
2012 Art Blizzaard, Voncommon Artist Studios and Gallery, Missoula, MT.
2011 Missoula Now! Voncommon Artist Studios and Gallery, Missoula, MT.