05/30/2026
Last day alert! Jonathan Muecke has evolved a practice that resists standard divisions among design, art, and architecture, instead focusing on refined forms that investigate notions of positive and negative space, positional relationships, and the innate desire to read notions of functionality into objects that relate to human scale. He studied architecture at Iowa State and with the architectural office of Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, before studying design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2014 he was awarded the architectural pavilion commission from Design Miami and in 2015 he was awarded a USA Knight Fellowship. His first collection with Knoll debuted in 2025. Muecke’s works are in the collections of several museums including The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques in Paris, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Montreal, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. Recent museum exhibitions include Jonathan Muecke: Objects in Sculpture at The Art Institute of Chicago and Constellations & Affinities: Selections from the Cranbrook Collection at The Cranbrook Art Museum.
Pictured:
Bench, 2026
Canvas, steel, wool, and foam
21.5h x 72w x 24d inches
