Jon Rollins (b. 1991) received his BFA at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2013. His work has been exhibited in New York, Madrid, Basel, Miami Beach, and throughout North Carolina. His work was featured in New American Paintings 154 in 2021. Since 2020, nine solo exhibitions of his work have been presented in North Carolina. Jon’s work is represented by Blue Spiral 1 (Asheville, NC), COHAB (High Point, NC), and Oneoneone (Chapel Hill, NC).
Jon’s process-based abstract paintings are created using materials preserved from his studio practice and daily life. Melding identifiable objects of personal memory and cryptic scraps from old sketchbooks and abandoned paintings, his layered surfaces are built up and torn down through cycles of painting, drawing, collage, cutting, sanding, and scraping.
Jon lives and works in High Point, NC.
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Jon Rollins
b. 1991
Education
2013 BFA, Studio Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Upcoming Exhibitions
2026
Solo exhibition, COHAB, High Point, NC
Mark Marking, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Select Exhibitions
2025
Fall 2025, COHAB, High Point, NC (Solo exhibition)
Open Studio, COHAB, High Point, NC (Solo exhibition)
Go Big, COHAB, High Point, NC
Jon Rollins and Justin Turcotte, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC (Duo exhibition)
The Contemporaries Part Two - Oneoneone - Chapel Hill, NC
2024
What Makes This Time Different, COHAB, High Point, NC (Solo exhibition)
Dawn, Oneoneone, Chapel Hill, NC
Lay It On, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
2023
Fall 2023, COHAB, High Point, NC
Stacked, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Spring 2023, COHAB, High Point, NC
2022
How Does It End, Oneoneone, Chapel Hill, NC (Solo exhibition)
Mere Reflection, Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY
Forget Everything I Said Before, COHAB, High Point, NC (Solo exhibition)
2021
Winter Show, GreenHill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
Opening, Oneoneone, Chapel Hill, NC
Nothing Bad Happened (Or If It Did I Don’t Remember It And That’s The Same Thing), COHAB, High Point, NC (Solo exhibition)
HPMKT Summer 2021, COHAB, High Point, NC (Solo exhibition)
Now, Where Were We?, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC (Solo exhibition)
2020
A Living Room, COHAB, High Point, NC
u̶n̶d̶o̶, COHAB, High Point, NC (Solo exhibition)
If You Like This, You’ ll Love That, Collar Works, Troy, NY
Like a Bud, Oneoneone, Chapel Hill, NC
2019
Truth Lies Beyond, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
100 x 100, Center for Visual Artists, Greensboro, NC
Volta Basel, JanKossen Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland
Hybrid Art Fair, Ars COCO, Madrid, Spain
Bigger and Better Things, JanKossen Contemporary, New York, NY (Solo exhibition)
2018
Aqua Art Miami, Alessandro Berni Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
SCOPE Basel, Arte Ponte, Basel, Switzerland
Hide-and-Seek, Espacio Contemplación, Madrid, Spain
Art Cabinets, White Lab, Madrid, Spain
Select Publications
Lunn, Oliver. “Jon Rollins Makes Contemplative Paintings Out of Studio Scraps.” Palette Talk, 27 June 2024, https://palettetalk.substack.com/p/jon-rollins-makes-contemplative-paintings.
Zevitas, Steven, ed. New American Paintings, Juried Exhibitions-in-Print, Vol. 154 , Juror Molly Boarati , June 2021, https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/issues/154.
Owens, Alice. “Meet an Artist: Jon Rollins, mixed-media artist.” Greensboro News & Record , July 1, 2020. Ingram, Cinde. “High Point artist debuts in NYC.” High Point Enterprise , February 17, 2019.
Awards
2017 David Marshall Scholarship - Penland School of Craft - Penland, NC
2013 Jonathan E. Sharpe Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Talks
2025 Artist Talk, COHAB, High Point, NC
2023 Fireside: Chaos & Harmony, Artist Panel, North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem
2018 Artist Talk, Espacio Contemplación, Madrid, Spain
Collections
The Hanes House at The North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC