In his publication I go on loving you like water but... Negron presents a series of sparse, intimate portraits which, despite their strict economy of line, convey a message of heightened strength, love, tenderness and self-worth.

Jonny Negron (b. 1985, Carolinas, Puerto Rico) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Recent solo exhibitions include Spirits, Château Shatto, Los Angeles and BLUE DREAM, Mao Space, Shanghai and Qindao Art Museum, Qingdao; Art Centre, London. Recent group exhibitions include Heroic Bodies, Tegners Museum, Dronningmolle; Straight Ahead & Pose to Pose, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Los Angeles; Midnight Fruits, Lily Robert, Paris; documento, Embajada, Puerto Rico; A Cloth Over a Birdcage, Château Shatto, Los Angeles; Paper View, The Hole, New York; You Are Who You Think I Think You Are, American Medium, New York; Pond Society, Shanghai; Dangxia foundation, Beijing.

Negron's work has been featured in Artforum, Hyperallergic, Cultured, Autre Magazine, Cura Magazine, Office Magazine, Wallpaper, Editorial Magazine, Garagae Magazine, Artillery, KALEIDOSCOPE, Interview Magazine and Los Angeles Times. The artists' work is in the permanent collection of Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and Dangxia Founda-tion, Beijing.