Jonny is an artist and curator whose work explores the interstitiality of, or ‘spaces between’ class, race and generation. A confrontational interrogator of culture, he describes his work is a “visual negotiation with a society perceived to be displaced of ‘good manners’, courtesy and kindness,” and a response to “the mercenary approaches currently prevailing in society and its visual outpourings”. His interventions into popular forms and discourses, through their appropriation and mutation include short stories, window vinyls, to car air fresheners, animations and video games.
A pencil and acrylic illustration depicting Jonny's mysterious mentor.
Cartoon images depicting Jonny and his assoicates applied to a high-end brand handbag and sold.
Calling to into question our irrational fears of the outsider looking in, these works show the insiders looking out.
A mysterious solo show by Tanna, featuring counter-cultural images, an image of his mysterious mentor and images of his collaborator, Peter Geronimo.
2018 AVD, APT Gallery, London
2016 White People are scary, Gazelli Art House, London
2018 New Materialities In The Digital Age, Harlesden High Street (Curator)
Gazelli Window Show 2012 – 2018, Gazelli Art House, London
IsThisIt? – Issue 4 A.I and Automation, Arebyte, London
Ruminations Of The Midnight Stroll, Harlesden High Street (Curator)
Midnight Club ’98, Q-Park Underground Car Park
Love Hotel 419, Seoul, Korea
Loser Collective, Perth Australia
Every time You Switch Off, I Die A Little, Foothold, Italy
2017 Midnight Cinema, Harlesden High Street, London (Curator)
The Wrong — New Digital Art Biennale, Croatia
White People Are Scary #2 – The West Is A Bootleg, Gazelli Art House, London
I Miss You Blockbuster, A217 Gallery, Group Show, London
Cd-Romantic, Muse Gallery, London
The Sacred 419, The Square Gallery, London (Curator)
2016 Jonny Tanna ft Ed Fornieles - Hotel 419, London 2016
Hotel 419, The Muse Gallery, London (Curator)
2015 Dustman per Week, mock installations and performances, ICA and various galleries, London
2014 Deep Trash Italia #2, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London
Eyebrow, Wardour Street, London
Underwater Love, American Apparel group show, London
2013 5 Days of Tanna, Portobello Film Festival, London
Vase Curate, Tate Modern, London
2012 Adult Swim, Turner Studios, USA
Her, American Apparel group show, American Apprarel, London
2011 Armchair Activists, Stitch Art Project, The Dairy, London
Responsive Eye Exhibition, Westminster University Gallery, London
2010 Performance with live music featuring Andre Morgan and Don Letts, Graffik Gallery, Portobello Road
2009 Cerise Gallery, Russell Square, London
2008 Shots & Strokes, 93 Feet East, London
A3 Photography Exhibition, Notting Hill Arts Club, London
Zero De Conduite, Elevator Gallery, London
2007 Mash Experience, Mash Club, London
2006 60 Second Of Surrealism, Hayward Gallery
Out of Hand Exhibition, Ada Street Gallery, London
2016-present Director and curator of Harlesden High Street gallery, London
2018 Yours Mine and Ours
2017 Grant for the arts, Arts Council Grant
