Generalmotion@gmail.com 
917-309-3053
712a Peralta St. Oakland CA 94607

Professional CV Jonathan-Schipper-CV.pdf

I have been creating inspired objects for 25 years, ranging from large sculptures to exquisitely crafted hand-held electronic devices. I’m driven to design and bring complex projects to life.

EXPERIENCE

2009 - 2023  EXOvault  www.exovault.com 

Founder - Creative Director - Product Designer - Engineer - Production Manager

Driven to make a better object, I founded EXOvault in 2009 to bring art to everyday objects. I built the company into a globally recognized entity, synonymous with quality and an individual aesthetic. I worked primarily as the Creative Director, developing a cohesive vision and feel for the brand and the complex objects we produced. I also worked as the head designer and engineer, bringing exact and focused precision and beauty to all the products we offered. As Production Manager, I was responsible for designing and implementing in-house and overseas mass production. 

EXOvault grew from my interest in design and art into a thriving operation with around twenty employees. I was able to nurture talent using honesty and integrity to assess our strengths and weakness to work to collectively achieve our goals. We were primarily an online retailer moving millions of dollars worth of products through our online store. Cutting through the clouds of misconception through relentless discipline and focus I was able to find and maintain the aesthetic soul and heart of EXOvault that connected to thousands of customers who returned year after year to buy new versions of products.

1996 - 2023  Sculptor

I’m an internationally recognized sculptor. I have shown my work in museum shows alongside Roman Singer, Christian Marclay, Al Weiwei, Jean Tinguely, Anselm Kiefer, and Nam June Paik among many others. I worked with curators and museum directors over the course of years negotiating aesthetics, budgets, architecture, politics, physical realities, logistical constraints, and personalities, to bring to fruition many large complex pieces.

2001 - 2009  General Motion 

Founder - Fabricator - Engineer - Machinist

I founded General Motion in 2001 as an Engineering-Fabrication shop specializing in animatronic sculptures, high-end art, and architectural metal fabrication. Highlights include working with the Jim Henson Company producing over one hundred animatronic puppets and producing metal work for Philippe Starck, Robert Lazarrini, Vito Acconci, and hundreds of other clients.

EDUCATION

2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1996 - 1998 Rinehart School of Sculpture, Baltimore, MD, MFA, Sculpture
1992 - 1996 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, BFA, Sculpture

SKILLS

Creative Direction - 12yrs

Visionary

Team Management

Brand Building

Product Design - 17yrs

Expert CAD design in Solidworks

Hundreds of products brought to markets millions of dollars in sales

Photorealistic Rendering still and animated

Engineering - CAD - 19 yrs

Robotics

Custom robotic Sculptures

Profesional Robotic Integration

Programming and cell design

Electrical digital control systems

PC Control of robotic system up to 24 motor synchronized motion

CNC machine building

Embedded electronics

Arduino and other embedded control systems

Large-scale structural sculptures design fabrication and installation

Solidworks weldments

Manufacturing - Production - 14 - yrs

CNC Programming

Production Workcell Design 

CNC Fixture Design

Production Team Management

Offshore production Management

Fabrication - 27yrs

Metal Forming

Welding - Brazing - 27yrs

Welded part for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Spacecraft

Manual Machining

Milling and turning - 27yrs

Bending

High-end metal fabrication and finishing

Steel - Stainless Steel - Brass - Aluminium - Titanium

Plastics

Laser cutting - Forming - Joining - Engraving

Woodworking - 27 yrs

Moldmaking

Photography - Expert photographed all EXOvaults products and my sculpture for 27 yrs

Product - Lifestyle 

Videography - 5yrs

Production - Editing

Software

Solidworks - 15 yrs

Solidcam - 15 yrs

Lightroom - 7 yrs

Photoshop - 25 yrs

Premiere - 9 yrs

Illustrator -  5 yrs

Keyshot - 5 yrs

Blender - 1 yr

Asana - 3 yrs

Heliconfocus - 8 yrs

After Effects - 1 yrs

Visual Basic - 5 yrs

Shopify - 7 yrs

Windows Admin - 20 yrs

Google Workspace Admin - 5 yrs


ART CV

Jonathan Schipper is a sculptor that has combined many materials and techniques as far-ranging as pneumatics, leatherwork, robotics, and rock n roll. His work is often based on decay or destruction, work that becomes most alive just before it ends.  He embraces the transitory nature of existence and rejects the sacred. He feels art should be an experience, not a possession. Many of his ideas are derived from media, but the work is physical, live, and irreproducible. 

Jonathan holds a BFA and an MFA, but he feels his true early art education was at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2001). He now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has concentrated on large-scale engineered technology-based artworks that find their inspiration at the foundations of function and recognition. He has been shown worldwide in shows like the Guangzhou Triennial and "Under Destruction," Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, among many others. 

Jonathan is best known for his Slow Motion Car Crash, where two full-sized cars are brought together over the course of months to simulate a head-on collision. A moment that might take a fraction of a second in an actual collision is expanded into days or years. In this sculpture, the subject becomes the balance of creation and destruction, movement and time itself. 

Jonathan's work is both very conceptual and very approachable.  It deals with questions of perception, life, and destruction but is just as likely to entrance a five-year-old as the veteran art viewer. 

Email: generalmotion@gmail.com

Phone: 917-309-3053

BORN 1973. Chico, California    Lives and works in Oakland CA


EXHIBITIONS

2022 Elektra : 6th International Digital Art Biennial (Bian) Metamorphosis -2022” Montreal CA

2021 “DUEL” RSOAA, Brooklyn

2020 "At Any Given Moment” PIEROGI New York

2019 “Campsite” Wassaic Project New York

“Detritus” Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada

2016 “Cubicle,” Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX
“Slow Motion Car Crash,” The Armory Show, Pier 92, New York, NY
“Rage for Art (Once Again),” Pierogi, New York, NY

2015 “Explosion” Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, Texas

2014 “State of the Art,” Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

2013 “Detritus,” The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY  (One-person)

“The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle,” Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA

“Homeward Found,” The Wassaic Project, NY

2012 “Slow motion car crash” Locus+, 16 Saville Row, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

"Guangzhou Triennial 2012:  The Unseen. Theme and artists," Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China. Curated by Jiang Jiehong and Jonathan Watkins

"Nostalgia Machines," David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

2011 “The Art of Deceleration,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (Group Exhibition curated by Chris Sharp and Gianni Jetzer)

“Slow Room,” Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany  (One-person)

“Under Destruction,” travel to Swiss Institute, NY, NY (March 15–May 28, 2011)

“Autobody,” Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX

“Subjective / Objective,” Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (Group Exhibition)

2010 “Under Destruction,” Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (Group Exhibition curated by Chris Sharp and Gianni Jetzer)

“CyberArts 2010,” Festival Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

“Poesie der Bewegung,” Automobil Forum, Unter der Linden, Berlin, Germany

“Meta.Morf 2001: New.Brave.World Biennial for Art and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

“No Customs,” Abu Dhabi, UAE

2009 “Irreversibility,” The Boiler (Pierogi), Brooklyn, NY  (One-person)

“Chelsea Visits Havana,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Cuba (February 28–May 17

“Confict: Today’s Art,” The Hague, The Netherlands

“Heavy Metal,” Ramapo College, New Jersey

“Firebird,” Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2008 “Pieces of the Whole,” Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (Sept. 28, 2008–Jan. 25, 2009)

“The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle,” Stuks Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium

“Apocalyptic Summer,” Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (Group Exhibition)

2007 “Firebird,” PIEROGI Brooklyn, New York (One-person)

ARTEFACT, Stuks Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium

2006 “Factitious,” PIEROGI Brooklyn, New York (June–July) and Leipzig (Nov-Dec)

2005 Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY  (One-person)

2005 Momenta, Brooklyn, NY (Performance, Invisible Jet)

2003 “Cirque de Medecine,” Paperveins Museum of Art, New York NY

2001 “Invisible Jet,” GAVS, Brooklyn, NY

2000 “Parts,” Goliath, Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1996-98 MFA. Sculpture, Rinehart School of Sculpture, Baltimore, MD
1992-96 BFA. Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA