Jennie C. Jones

Jennie C. Jones 

b. 1968, Cincinnati
lives in Hudson, New York

Jennie C. Jones sculpts, paints, and composes on the themes of African American history and jazz, in its broadest definition, within the frameworks of minimalism and abstraction. Her works represent sharp critiques of current political, cultural, and social conditions, such as her commentary on the lack of African American presence in the tradition of modernism. Jones’s works reveal the exchange between the physical properties of black sonic practices and the musical properties of visual abstraction. She has earned numerous accolades and awards, including the Robert Rauschenberg Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Art (2016), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2013), and the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Joyce Alexander Wein Prize (2012). Jones’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC. Jones earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1991) and an MFA from Rutgers University, New Jersey (1996). Jones also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and 2020 faculty at Yale Norfolk School of Art, Connecticut.

Jennie C. Jones, Open Constellation (Oxide Red), 2020. Acrylic on canvas and acoustic panel, Three parts: 12 x 12 inches; 36 x 48 inches each (two parts). Courtesy of the artist and PATRON Gallery. Photo by: Pierre Le Hors