(Los Angeles, CA b. USA)

Vonn Cummings Sumner grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended the University of California, Davis, where he studied closely with the celebrated painter and teacher, Wayne Thiebaud, among others. Vonn has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1998, and his work has been featured or reviewed in many publications, including: New American Paintings, Elle Décor, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, L.A. Weekly, Art Ltd., Riviera magazine, Hi Fructose, Juxtapoz, Cartwheel Art, The Painter's Table, Boom magazine, and Quick Fiction. Vonn’s work has been the subject of two solo museum shows: The Other Side of Here, at the Riverside Art Museum in 2008, and Stages, in 2011 at the Phillips Museum of Art in Pennsylvania. In 2021, his work was featured in the first museum survey tracing the influence of Wayne Thiebaud on contemporary art at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis.

Vonn currently lives and works in Santa Ana, CA, and is a Professor of Painting at Fullerton College.

He has been represented by Morton Fine Art since 2010.

VONN SUMNER

Los Angeles, b. Palo Alto, CA, USA, 1976

EDUCATION

2000 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Davis

1998 Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude with highest honors, University of California, Davis

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Krazy Times, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC

2019 Only Painted Fire, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC

2017 Bread and Circuses (and Walls), 2017, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC

2016 To Be Seen, KP Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2015 New Ancient Pictures, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC

Vonn Sumner, Cypress College Fine Art Gallery, Cypress, CA

2014 Gravity and Other Lies, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2013 Somewhere Else, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 This Makes Sense, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Late Empire Style, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC

Stages, Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, PA

2010 Recent Paintings, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008 The Other Side of Here, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA