Jonas Goldstein

Artist Bio

Jonas Goldstein is an American multidisciplinary artist whose creative journey spans fine art, video, and immersive design. Born in Boston, he lived in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, and the Hudson Valley before settling in Sebastopol, California, in 2012, where he and his wife, Sarah Rosenoff, have raised their three children.

Trained in the traditional arts at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Jonas later attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Early in his career, he worked as an artist assistant to John Henry Waddell, Mary Frank, Julian Schnabel, and Mags Harries. He has received both an Andy Warhol Grant and a Rockefeller Arts Grant as a video artist working with Rent choreographer Marlies Yearby and trombonist/composer Craig Harris on a multimedia Muhammad Ali tribute titled “Brown Butterfly.”

While based in New York City during the ’90s and early 2000s, Jonas served as Creative Director for Pseudo.com, AOL, and Heavy.com. In 2005 while at AOL, he led the creative team that received the first Interactive Emmy Award for the Live 8 Concert in collaboration with Bono and Bob Geldof.

In recent years, Jonas co-founded Bright Moments, a global network of digital art galleries, where he helped launch new locations in New York, Berlin, London, Tokyo, and Mexico City. In 2022, he collaborated with Robert Wilson and Philip Glass on a site-specific adaptation of Einstein on the Beach at Berlin’s Kraftwerk.

Now returning to drawing, painting, and sculpture, Jonas has been developing a new body of work at Laguna Lab in Sebastopol. Inspired by developments in technology and quantum theory, this series explores the “liquid self”—an ever-shifting sense of identity shaped by presence, memory, and illusion. The show, titled “The future cannot not change the past”, explores “retrocausality” and the pursuit of personal agency.

When Jonas is not making art or designing things he is building giant puppets, taking a hike, or doing some type of inversion.