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He received a BA in Philosophy from Michigan State University and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. In 2013, Rajewski co-founded the Hamtramck Free School, a rhizomatic educational network that facilitates creative writing and visual art workshops in Michigan prisons, working closely with juveniles who were sentenced to mandatory life without parole, a sentence that is now unconstitutional. In 2022, he established Entry Points, a re- entry artist residency for returning citizens to live and work as artists and writers while they transition to life outside. He is a 2015 Kresge Fellow in Visual Art, a 2021 Critical Practice Research Grantee from the Yale School of Art, a 2024 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Resident and a recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital Award. He has exhibited at Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, Fl; Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY; Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY; Reyes Finn, Detroit, MI; Tripoli, Southampton, NY; Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Mousse Magazine, The Exhibitionist (MIT Press), and Three Fold Press, among others. 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The books are constructed from a range of fabrics—from canvas to theatrical costume—and their consistent size and structure allow for a variety of interactive arrangements and aesthetic combinations. They invite a tactile engagement that (re)composes the work with each encounter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eJonathan Rajewski\u003cbr\u003eArtist Books 2024\u003cbr\u003eMixed Media\u003cbr\u003e17 x 16 in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eJonathan Rajewski\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eJonathan Rajewski (b. 1986, Bismarck, ND) is an artist and writer. He received a BA in Philosophy from Michigan State University and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. In 2013, Rajewski co-founded the Hamtramck Free School, a rhizomatic educational network that facilitates creative writing and visual art workshops in Michigan prisons, working closely with juveniles who were sentenced to mandatory life without parole, a sentence that is now unconstitutional. In 2022, he established Entry Points, a re- entry artist residency for returning citizens to live and work as artists and writers while they transition to life outside. He is a 2015 Kresge Fellow in Visual Art, a 2021 Critical Practice Research Grantee from the Yale School of Art, a 2024 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Resident and a recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital Award. He has exhibited at Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, Fl; Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY; Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY; Reyes Finn, Detroit, MI; Tripoli, Southampton, NY; Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. 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