Objects and Power
Oct 4 – Dec 13, 2024
Maine College of Art & Design
Abstraction of truth
Sep 21 – Nov 2, 2024
Vielmetter Los Angeles
Aspen Art Fair
Jul 29 – Aug 2, 2024
Hotel Jerome
A Place For Us
Jun 25 – Jul 25, 2024
Aspen Art Fair
Intimate Landscapes
May 21 – Jun 23, 2024
The Orange Advisory
Stop & Stare
Apr 5 – May 4, 2024
UTA Artist’s Space
Art Basel Miami Beach 2023
Dec 6–10, 2023
Miami Beach Convention Center
Dialogues
Nov 11, 2023 – Jan 27, 2024
Chicago Architecture Biennale: Making a Garden of Strange Fruit
Nov 4, 2023 – Feb 11, 2024
Chicago Cultural Center
Longing
Oct 13 – Nov 18, 2023
Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris
Conscious Intuition
May 11 – Jun 17, 2023
Galerie Lelong
Art Basel Miami Beach 2022
Nov 30 – Dec 3, 2022
Miami Beach Convention Center
ADAA 2022
Nov 3–6, 2022
Park Avenue Armory
Skin in the Game
Apr 7–24, 2022
Fulton Market
Felix Art Fair 2022
Feb 17–20, 2022
The Hollywood Roosevelt
Pano: 20 Hours in L.A., Plus Upcoming Picks in S.B.
Feb 17–20, 2022
Frieze
Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of the Paulson Fontaine Press
Jan 22 – Mar 13, 2022
Mills College Art Museum
Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
Dec 2–4, 2021
Miami Beach Convention Center
The Empire is Falling
Nov 5, 2021 – Jan 16, 2022
The Contemporary Dayton
No color in the pages
Jun 5 – Jul 11, 2021
NADA MIAMI 2019
Dec 5–8, 2019
Ice Palace Studios
Resilience: African American Artists As Agents of Change
Sep 14 – Dec 8, 2019
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Conversation: A Collecting Journey
Jul 17, 2019
Art Institute of Chicago
Left of Center
Mar 15 – Sep 2, 2019
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection
Jan 29 – May 19, 2019
The Smart Museum of Art
Nexus
Mar 24 – May 12, 2018
Summer
Jul 15 – Aug 12, 2017
Burning all illusion
Dec 8, 2016 – Jan 28, 2017
Galerie Lelong
NADA Miami Beach 2016
Dec 1–5, 2016
Deauville Beach Resort
High Anxiety: New Acquisitions
Nov 30, 2016 – Jan 31, 2017
Rubell Family Collection
48 Portraits (Underexposed) at EXPO CHICAGO
Sep 22–25, 2016
Navy Pier
Chicago Invites Chicago
Jun 30 – Jul 29, 2016
Galerie Lelong
NADA NY 2016
May 5–9, 2016
Basketball City New York
Samuel Levi Jones
Apr 13 – Jul 16, 2016
The Arts Club
Reciprocity
Mar 12 – May 1, 2016
Theory of Forms
Sep 18 – Dec 20, 2015
Samuel Levi Jones
Jun 16, 2023
Microcosm: A Review of “Dialogues” at Patron
Nov 29, 2023
Art Sense: Artist Samuel Levi Jones
Nov 28, 2023
At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Artists Run Free
Nov 28, 2023
Dress rehearsal: Chicago Architecture Biennial 2023
Nov 17, 2023
One artist’s solution to the racial inequities embedded in books: Rip them apart
Aug 5, 2019
Selected artists 2024 : Fountainhead Residency
Oct 19, 2023
Review: Theory of Forms at Patron Gallery
Dec 17, 2015
MoAD Opens Two New Exhibitions Featuring Renowned International Artists
Apr 14, 2024
Tearing Up Power One Book at a Time, Samuel Levi Jones at Patron Gallery
Apr 1, 2016
Review: Works of Defiant Beauty (Samuel Levi Jones)
Nov 26, 2014
Bookworm: Samuel Levi Jones
Apr 7, 2015
Chicago's Concept-Based Group Exhibitions Show Strength in Numbers
Oct 20, 2015
Blackness in Abstraction
Jan 5, 2015
Talk to Me: Samuel Levi Jones at ProArts
Sep 13, 2015
EXPO CHICAGO 2016 Announces Roster for Special Projects Sectors
Aug 23, 2016
Art Incubator
Sep 22, 2015
‘A Dark Matter’ Artists discuss work for ‘Artists-in-Dialogue’
Sep 29, 2016
Three to see: New York
Dec 20, 2016
9 Art Events to Attend in New York City this Week
Dec 20, 2016
20 New York Shows to See over the Holidays
Dec 20, 2016
Striking Deconstructed Book Paintings Challenge American History
Jan 2, 2017
An Artist Gives Us a Vision of the Future Through Books
Jan 10, 2017
Samuel Levi Jones Unbinds Fractured History of Justice
Jan 2, 2017
Kara Walker, Juliana Huxtable, and More Challenge False White Recordings of Black History
Apr 12, 2017
Pulped Fiction: An Artist Destroys History in Order to Rewrite It
May 23, 2017
Samuel Levi Jones On Raising Consciousness and Standing Rock
Nov 23, 2016
10 Things To Do in New York's Art World Before July 1
Jun 28, 2016
9 Art Events to Attend in New York City this Week
Jun 28, 2016
15 New York Group Shows You Need to See This July
Jun 28, 2016
New Works at Recology San Francisco
Sep 22, 2014
Unbinding the System
Apr 1, 2015
Ripped
Apr 18, 2016
Artist x Artist: Mark Bradford and Samuel Levi Jones
Jan 1, 2015
4 Questions: Samuel Levi Jones
Mar 26, 2015
Samuel Levi Jones at Patron Gallery, Chicago
Apr 12, 2018
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Dec 19, 2018
At the Smart, ‘Solidary & Solitary’ shows individuals progressing Black art
Feb 25, 2019
A Moment of Change and Reckoning at Newfields
Mar 19, 2019
New exhibit at Newfields makes lasting impression
Mar 21, 2019
Organization brings traveling art exhibit to schools to inspire students
Jan 16, 2020
Samuel Levi Jones addresses the authority and antiquated position that encyclopedic and institutional books and volumes have held as a source of information throughout history. Jones uses the material that once held the authorship on history as a manipulatable platform to re-examine history itself and draw attention to figures, events, and triumphs of those often overlooked in written accounts, individuals of color and women. Through a process of breaking apart the books, deleting its pages and text and re-structuring the material, Jones creates a clean slate for the insertion of a new and updated revision of history to the material. An anthropological approach is at the core of Jones’ practice.
CURRICULUM VITAE
b.1978 Marion, IN
Lives and works in Indianapolis, IN
EDUCATION
2012 MFA, Studio Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2009 BFA,Fine Art in Photography, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2002 BA, Communication Studies, Taylor University, Upland, IN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Samuel Levi Jones: abstraction of truth, Vielmetter, LA
Savage Elite, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
2023
Longing, Galerie Lelong, Paris, FR
Conscious Intuition, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2021
Rise Up, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, FR
The Empire is Falling, The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH
No color in the pages, PATRON Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020
Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, FR
2019
Mass Awakening, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY
No More Tokens, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles CA
Left of Center, The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN
Let Us Grow, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris FR
2018
Nexus, PATRON, Chicago IL
2017
One Blood, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles CA
Remedial Suffering, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, IN
2016
Reciprocity, PATRON, Chicago, IL
Samuel Levi Jones, The Arts Club, London
Samuel Levi Jones, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
48 Portraits (Underexposed), EXPO Projects, PATRON, Chicago, IL
Burning all illusions, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2015
After Fred Wilson, IMOCA, Indianapolis, IN
Talk To Me, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
Unbound, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2014
Black White Thread, PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Delete, Los Angeles, CA
48 Portraits (Underexposed), Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The 50th: An Anniversary Exhibition, SMART Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Objects and Power,The Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
Unruly Navigations, MoAD, San Francisco, CA
When you see me: Visibility in Contemporary Art History, Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX
Stop & Stare, UTA Artist Space, Atlanta, GA
2023
Between the Seams, PM/AM Gallery, London, UK
Chicago Architecture Biennale: Making a Garden of Strange Fruit, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Dialogues, PATRON, Chicago, IL
2022
Monochrome Multitudes, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI
Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Bonccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PN
Whatever Gets You Through the Night, The Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
Subversive Media: Materiality and Power, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2021
Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Bonccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
New Prints and Editions, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY
20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 2, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA
2020
I Yield My Time, Fuck You, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Paper Pavilions, Curated by Sean M. Starowitz, 411 Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL
Nexus: Contemporary Art from Leading Miami Collections, Lowe Art Museum, FL
Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of Black and Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art form the Collection of Dr. Robert B. Feldman, Virginia Museum of Art, Virginia Beach, VA
A SUMMER LIKE NO OTHER, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY
RED, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY
2019
Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, curated by Antwaun Sargent and Matt Wycoff , OSilas Gallery at Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
Resilience: African American Artists As Agents of Change, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/ Giuffrida Collection, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press, Gallery 360, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Traveled to: Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM; Meuseum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona, FL; Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA; Krasel Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
2018
The Edge of Visibility, International Print Center, New York, NY
Sedimentations, 8th Floor Gallery, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, NY
Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
2017
Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Excerpt, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2016
Hard Edged: Geometric Abstraction and Beyond, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
INDEX Roma, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, ES
Chicago Invites Chicago, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Trust Issues, curated by Ryan Steadman, Ronchini, London
A Dark Matter, curated by Rehema Barber, Tarble Gallery, Eastern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
2015
Trashed and Treasured, Napa Valley Museum, Napa Valley, CA
Theory of Forms, PATRON, Chicago,IL
I Like It Like This, S2 Sotheby’s Gallery, New York, NY
The Silence of Ordinary Things, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA
2014
The History of Technologies, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
OPEN, PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles, CA
2013
A Basic Measure, SEUI ULTCW, Los Angeles, CA
Transport, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
2012
X Libris, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Baila Con Duende, Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
The Last Show on Earth, MFA show, Mills College, Oakland, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Dana Flynn, “MoAD Opens Two New Exhibitions Featuring Renowned International Artists,” Secret San Francisco, April
2023
Ally Fouts, “Microcosm: A Review of “Dialogues” at Patron,” Newcity Art, November
“Art Sense: Artist Samuel Levi Jones,” Art Sense, November
Christopher Hawthorne, “At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Artists Run Free,” The New York Times, November
Kristina Rapacki, “Dress rehearsal: Chicago Architecture Biennial 2023,” The Architectural Review, November
Katy Donoghue, “Samuel Levi Jones Breaks Down and Reimagines Systems of Power,” Whitewall, October
Aruna D’Souza, “Samuel Levi Jones,” 4Columns, June
2022
Ricky Amadour, ”’Continuum” Exhibition Bridges a Gap by Bringing Black American Art Into SoFi Stadium,” LA Magazine, August
“Top Works under $25K on Frieze Viewing Room,” Frieze, February
2021 Leigh Raiford, “Burning All Illusion: Abstraction, Black Life, and the Unmaking of White Supremacy,” Art Journal 79, no. 4, Winter
Elizabeth Fazzare, “Cultured Collections with Suzanne McFayden,” Cultured Magazine, June
2020
Antwaun Sargent, “Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists,” D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers
Staff Reporters, “Organization brings traveling art exhibit to schools to inspire students,” WISHTV, January
2019
“Viewpoints, Episode 4: Samuel Levi Jones and Pamela Joyner,” Galerie LeLong Podcast, October
Leah Ollman, “One artist’s solution to the racial inequities embedded in books: Rip them apart,” Los Angeles Times, August
Annie Armstrong, “Dallas Art Museum Adds Eight Works to Collection with Dallas Art Fair Acquisition Fund,” ARTnews, April
Oseye Boyd, “New exhibit at Newfields maks lasting impression,” Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper
Dan Gorssman, “A Moment of Change and Reckoning at Newfields,” NUVO, March
Aaron Gettinger, “At the Smart, ‘Soliday & Solitary’ shows individuals progressing Black Art,” Hyde Park Herald, February
2018
“Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago,” E-Flux, December
Nadja Sayej, “Edge of visibility: celebrating artwork with hidden messages,” The Guardian, November
Leah Ollman, “Keep Looking: Samuel Levi Jones SPeaks with Leah Ollman,” Art in Print, September - October
Kenneth Weisbrode and Heather H. Yeung, “How We Lost the Sky,” The New York Times, July
Anna Louie Sussman, “What Sold at Art Basel,” Artsy, June
Paul Chi, “Blu Ivy Bid $10,000 at an Art Auction, and Won,” Vanity Fair, March
Seph Rodney, “The Political Truths that Ground our Athletic Heroes,” Hyperallergic, February
2017
Victoria L. Valentine, “Artist Samuel Levi Jones is Joining Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Culture Type, October
Martha Schwendener, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” The New York Times, January
Seph Rodney, “An Artist Gives Us a Vision of the Future Through Books,” Hyperallergic, January
Antwaun Sargent, “Striking Deconstructed Book Painting Challenge American History,” The Creators Project, January
Hilarie M. Sheets, “Samuel Levi Jones Unbinds Fractured History of Justice,” Introspective Magazine, January
2016
Laura Volkening, “Tearing Up Power One Book at a Time, Samuel Levi Jones at PATRON Gallery,” Newcity Art, April
Rhiannon Lowe, “Ripped,” CCQ Magazine, April
Ryan Steadman,” 10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before July 1,” Observer Culter, June
Casey Lesser, “15 New York Group Shows You Need to See This July,” Artsy, June
Nate Freeman, “EXPO Chicago 2016 Announces Roster for Special Projects Sectors,” ARTnews Magazine, August
Angelica Cataldo, “‘A Dark Matter’ Artists Discuss Wor for ‘Artists-in-Dialogue’,” The Daily Eastern News, September
Juliet Helmke, “Samuel Levi Jones on Raising Consciousness and Standing Rock,” Blouin Artinfo, November
Casey Lesser, “20 New York Shows to See Over the Holidays,” Artsy, December
Pac Pobric, “Three to see: New York,” The Art Newspaper, December
“9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week,” ARTnews, December
2015
Timothy Winkelman, “Review: Theory of Forms at Patron Gallery,” Hairy Rainbow, December
Stephanie Cristello, “Chicago’s Concept-Based Group Exhibitions Show Strength in Numbers,” Art Slant, October
Leah Ollman, “Unbinding The System: Samuel Levi Jones, who’s exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem is his first in New York, deconstructs old encyclopedias to set the record straight,” Art in America, April
Adrienne Edwards, “Blackness in Abstraction,” Art in America, January
Naima Keith and Dana Liss, “Artist x Artist: Mark Bradford and Samuel Levi Jones,” Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, January
Mostafa Heddaya, Bookworm: Samuel Levi Jones, Blouin Artinfo, April
Rhiannon Love,”Ripped,” CQQ, April
Maria Martraire, “Talk to Me: Samuel Levi Jones at ProArts,” Daily Serving, September
Courtney Willis Blair, “4 Questions: Samuel Levi Jones,” Forbes, March
“Artist x Artist: Mark Bradford and Samuel Levi Jones,” The Studio Museum Magazine, Winter-Spring
2014
Leah Ollman, Review: Works of Defiant Beauty (Samuel Levi Jones), Los Angeles Times, November
Sarah Dragovich, “New Works at Recology San Francisco,” Art Nerd San Francisco, September
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024
Artist in Residence, Fountainhead, Miami, Florida
2023
Lab Grant Resident, Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, New York
Engaged Artist in Residence, Gayle Karch Cook Center of Public Arts and Humanities at Indiana University
2020
DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award, Indianapolis, Indiana
2017
Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant
Artist in Residence, Paulson Fontaine Press Residency, Berkeley, California
2015
Artist in Residence, Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida, Sonoma, California
2014
Recology Residency, San Francisco, CA
Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012
Vivian and Margarita Stephenson Award, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2011-2012
Mills Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Oakland, CA
2010-2012
Evelyn V. Staton Fellowship in Fine Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2009
Mildred Darby Menz Award, Herron School of Art and Design Indianapolis, IN
2008
Junior Bratton Award, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C.
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN
JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Madison Art Collection, Harrisonburg, VA
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Pennsylvannia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, IL
SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY