Samuel Levi Jones
Samuel Levi Jones
“Dominion,” 2019
Samuel Levi Jones
“Dominion,” 2019
Art book covers on canvas
60 x 96" [HxW] (152.4 x 243.84 cm)
Inventory #JON137
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
“Dominion,” 2019
Art book covers on canvas
60 x 96" [HxW] (152.4 x 243.84 cm)
Inventory #JON137
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Samuel Levi Jones
“Subjective Value,” 2019
Samuel Levi Jones
“Subjective Value,” 2019
Art book covers on canvas
40 x 40" [HxW] (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
Inventory #JON125
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
“Subjective Value,” 2019
Art book covers on canvas
40 x 40" [HxW] (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
Inventory #JON125
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Samuel Levi Jones
“Black Glitter,” 2019
Samuel Levi Jones
“Black Glitter,” 2019
Art book covers on canvas
65 x 60" [HxW] (165.1 x 152.4 cm)
Inventory #JON135
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
“Black Glitter,” 2019
Art book covers on canvas
65 x 60" [HxW] (165.1 x 152.4 cm)
Inventory #JON135
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Samuel Levi Jones
“Theft,” 2019
Samuel Levi Jones
“Theft,” 2019
Art book covers on canvas
60 x 55" [HxW] (152.4 x 139.7 cm)
Inventory #JON134
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
“Theft,” 2019
Art book covers on canvas
60 x 55" [HxW] (152.4 x 139.7 cm)
Inventory #JON134
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Samuel Levi Jones
Twenty Seven, 2017
Samuel Levi Jones
Twenty Seven, 2017
Medical Books on Canvas
55 x 60" [HxW]
Twenty Seven, 2017
Medical Books on Canvas
55 x 60" [HxW]
Samuel Levi Jones
Macrotherapy, 2017
Samuel Levi Jones
Macrotherapy, 2017
Medical Books on Canvas
70 x 65" [HxW]
Macrotherapy, 2017
Medical Books on Canvas
70 x 65" [HxW]
Samuel Levi Jones
Oppressor Man, 2018
Samuel Levi Jones
Oppressor Man, 2018
Law Books on Canvas
65 x 60" [HxW] (165.1 x 152.4 cm)
Oppressor Man, 2018
Law Books on Canvas
65 x 60" [HxW] (165.1 x 152.4 cm)
1978
Born in Marion, IN
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
2012
MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2009
BFA, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2023
"Conscious Intuition," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2021
"No color in the pages," Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019
"Mass Awakening," Galerie LeLong, New York, NY
"No More Tokens," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Samuel Levi Jones – Left of Center," Newfields, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
"Let Us Grow," Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2018
"Nexus," Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
"One Blood," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2016
"Burning all illusion," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
"Reciprocity," PATRON, Chicago, IL
"Samuel Levi Jones," The Arts Club, London, UK
"Samuel Levi Jones," Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
"48 Portraits (Underexposed)," EXPO Projects, PATRON, Chicago, IL
2015
"After Fred Wilson," IMOCA, Indianapolis, IN
"Unbound," Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2014
"Black White Thread," PAPILLON, Los Angeles, CA
2013
DELETE, Los Angeles, CA
"48 Portraits (Underexposed)," Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN
2022
"Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
"Continuum," SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA in partnership with Residency Art Gallery and The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
"Skin in the Game," Curated by Zoe Lukov & Produced by Abby Pucker, Pop Up Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2021
"New Prints and Editions," Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"A Summer Like No Other," Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY
2019
"On Soft Ground," Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
"Solitary & Solidarity: The Joyner/Guiffrida 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; Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona, FL
2018
"Sedimentations," 8th Floor Gallery, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY
"Edge of Visibility," International Print Center New York, New York, NY
"Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art," Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
"Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press," Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
"Sidelined," curated by Samuel Levi Jones, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY
2017
"Excerpt," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2016
"Chicago Invites Chicago," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
"Trust Issues," Ronchini, London, UK
"A Dark Matter," Tarble Gallery, Eastern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
2015
"Theory of Forms," PATRON Gallery, Chicago
"Talk To Me," 2x2 Solos, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
"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 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Open," PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles, CA
2013
"A Basic Measure," SEUI ULTCW, Los Angeles, CA
"TRANSPORT," ProArts, Oakland, CA
2012
"X Libris," Root Division, San Francisco, CA
"BAILA con Duende," Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
"MFA Show," The Last Show on Earth, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2022
Amadour, Ricky. "‘Continuum" Exhibition Bridges a Gap by Bringing Black American Art Into SoFi Stadium," LA Magazine, August 17
Frieze Los Angeles News. "Top Works under $25K on Frieze Viewing Room," Frieze, February 15
2021
Fazzare, Elizabeth. "Cultured Collections with Suzanne McFayden," Culture Magazine, June 11
2020
Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists," D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 2020.
2019
Wilson, Michael. "Review: Samuel Levi Jones, Galerie LeLong," Artforum, December
"Viewpoints, Episode 4: Samuel Levi Jones and Pamela Joyner," Galerie LeLong Podcast, October 3
Boyd, Oseye. "New exhibit at Newfields makes lasting impression," Indianapolis Recorder, March 21
2018
Sayej, Nadja. "Edge of visibility: celebrating artwork with hidden messages," The Guardian, November 19
Ollman, Leah. "Keep Looking: Samuel Levi Jones Speaks with Leah Ollman," Art In Print, September 6
Weisbrode, Kenneth and Heather H. Yeung, "How We Lost the Sky," The New York Times, July 23
Sussman, Anna Louie, "What Sold at Art Basel," Artsy (web), June 17
Chi, Paul, "Blu Ivy Bid $10,000 at an Art Auction, and Won," Vanity Fair (web), March 18
Rodney, Seph, "The Political Truths that Ground our Athletic Heroes," Hyperallergic (web), February 9
2017
Valentine, Victoria L., "Artist Samuel Levi Jones is Joining Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Culture Type (web), October 12
Sargent, Antwaun, "Kara Walker, Juliana Huxtable, and More Challenge False White Recordings of Black History," Creators, Vice (web), April 12
Rodney, Seph, "An Artist Gives Us a Vision of the Future Through Books," Hyperallergic (web), January 10
Sargent, Antwaun, "Striking Deconstructed Book Paintings Challenge American History," The Creators Project (web), January 2
Sheets, Hilarie M., "Samuel Levi Jones Unbinds Fractured History of Justice," Introspective Magazine, January 2
2016
Volkening, Laura, "Tearing Up Power One Book at a Time, Samuel Levi Jones at PATRON Gallery," Newcity Art (web), April 1
Lowe, Rhiannon, "Ripped," CCQ Magazine, April 18
Steadman, Ryan," 10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before July 1," Observer Culter (web), June 28
Lesser, Casey, "15 New York Group Shows You Need to See This July," Artsy (web), June 28
Freeman, Nate, "EXPO Chicago 2016 Announces Roster for Special Projects Sectors," ARTnews Magazine, August 23
Cataldo, Angelica, "‘A Dark Matter’ Artists Discuss Wor for ‘Artists-in-Dialogue’," The Daily Eastern News, September 29
Helmke, Juliet, "Samuel Levi Jones on Raising Consciousness and Standing Rock," Blouin Artinfo (web), November 23
Lesser, Casey, "20 New York Shows to See Over the Holidays," Artsy (web), December 20
Pobric, Pac, "Three to see: New York," The Art Newspaper, December 20
"9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week," ARTnews (web), December 20
2015
Keith, Naima and Dana Liss, "Artist x Artist: Mark Bradford and Samuel Levi Jones," Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, January 1
Edwards, Adrienne, "Blackness in Abstraction," Art in America, January 5
Ollman, Leah, "Unbinding the System," Art in America, April 1
Heddaya, Mostafa, "Bookworm: Samuel Levi Jones," Blouin Artinfo, April 7
Willis Blair, Courtney, "4 Questions: Samuel Levi Jones," Forbes, March 26
Martraire, Marie, "Talk to Me: Samuel Levi Jones at ProArts," Daily Serving (web), September 13
Cristello, Stephanie, "Chicago’s Concept-Based Group Exhibitions Show Strength in Numbers," Art Slant (web), October 20
Winkelman, Timothy, "Review: Theory of Forms at Patron Gallery," Hairy Rainbow (web), December 17
2014
Dragovich, Sarah, "New Works at Recology San Francisco," Art Nerd San Francisco, September 22
Ollman, Leah, "Review: Works of Defiant Beauty (Samuel Levi Jones)," Los Angeles Times, November 26
2018
Sustainable Arts Award, Sustainable Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA
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
Mills Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Oakland, CA
2010
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
2021
Cunningham, Nijah. "Samuel Levi Jones," Galerie Lelong & Co., New York & Paris, 2021
2020
Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, D.A.P. Publishing, New York, NY, 2020
2021
"The Sum of Unity," Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MO
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Madison Art Collection, Harrisonburg, VA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Pennsylvannia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA
Weisman Art Museum Collection, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum, New York, NY