Jonah James Romm is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and independent curator based in Ridgewood, Queens. Their practice explores intimacy, embodiment, and the sacred, examining forms of perception and sensorial experience that resist articulation through language. Working across drawing, painting, and material-based practices, Romm investigates the transcendent possibilities of corporeal experience and the relationships between bodies, sensation, and metaphysics.

Romm’s work spans works on paper incorporating charcoal, graphite, ink, and gouache, as well as oil paintings on canvas and wood panel. Through the incorporation of textural materials such as spackle and string, and the sculptural transformation of reclaimed wood into foundations for works on paper, Romm explores the dimensional and symbolic possibilities of the picture plane. Recent works draw on the visual language of altarpieces, positioning material and form in dialogue with questions of the sacred. Deeply informed by art history, critical theory, and textual sources, Romm’s practice is particularly influenced by the cosmology of Georges Bataille and his examinations of excess, eroticism, death, and the sacred. Across these varied approaches, Romm considers intimacy as a site of co-creation, psychic exchange, and love, proposing a metaphysics grounded in the body and the relational possibilities of embodied experience.

Born and raised in New York’s Hudson Valley, Jonah James Romm began studying at Bard College at sixteen as a recipient of the Roosevelt Scholarship, graduating from its Studio Arts program in 2024. Alongside their studio practice, Romm pursued philosophy, literature, and art history, culminating in a thesis exhibition of large-scale paintings titled Every Angel Is Terrifying. Following graduation, Romm joined the communal art space Kaleidoscope Studios in Bushwick, where they returned to drawing and developed The Nausea, a body of large-scale works on paper exhibited in July 2025. Romm has also pursued an independent curatorial practice, including organizing the exhibition A Lover’s Discourse, and is a frequent contributor to IMPULSE Magazine, alongside other arts publications. Following a devastating fire at Kaleidoscope, Romm helped establish Future Space, a new studio in Ridgewood. Their work as an artist, writer, and curator is grounded in an ongoing commitment to communal artistic projects and spaces for gathering and exchange.