In early 2013 he and his fiancée opened the SoPac Studio space in Southtown San Antonio. Later that year, Jonathan moved to Brooklyn, where he joined the Wayfarers Brooklyn Studio Collective in Bedford-Stuyvesant. In 2015, he was selected as a Media Arts Fellow by BRIC Arts in downtown Brooklyn. Sims, who first exhibited with Luminaria in 2013 in the galleries of the Instituto Cultural de Mexico, returns to San Antonio with his sculptural and projected interpretations on ancient symbols of spirituality.