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

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024

Solo, The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN (forthcoming)

"abstraction of truth," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

"Savage Elite," Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA

2023

"Samuel Levi Jones: Longing," Galerie Lelong Paris, Paris, France

"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 (Link)

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

"Objects and Power," ICA Maine, Portland, ME

"Unruly Navigations," Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA

"When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

"Stop & Stare," UTA Artist Space Curated by Genevieve Gaignard, Los Angeles, CA

"Making a Garden of Strange Fruit," Presented at "CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal," Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL

2023-2024

"Dialogues," Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL

2023

"Between the Seams," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK

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 (Link)

"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 (Link)

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

Bibliography

2024

Bolden, Jason. "Samuel Levi Jones Dissects the Divine Accidents That Have Made Him an Artist to Watch" Cultured, November 1 (Link)

Silverman, Erica. "Best LA Shows: Alice Neel, Tahnee Lonsdale, Lita Albuquerque, and More," Whitewall, September 16 (Link)

Valentine, Victoria L. "On View: "When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History' At Dallas Museum of Art Showcases Recent Acquisitions by Artists of Color, Women, and Queer Artists," Culture Type, August 13

2023

Donoghue, Katy. "Samuel Levi Jones Breaks Down and Reimagines Systems of Power," Whitewall, October 6 (Link)

D'Souza, Aruna. "Samuel Levi Jones," 4Columns, June 16 (Link)

Golden, Dan. "Samuel Levi Jones," Curator Guide, May (Link)

2022

Amadour, Ricky. "‘Continuum” Exhibition Bridges a Gap by Bringing Black American Art Into SoFi Stadium," LA Magazine, August 17 (Link)

Frieze Los Angeles News. "Top Works under $25K on Frieze Viewing Room," Frieze, February 15 (Link)

2021

Fazzare, Elizabeth. "Cultured Collections with Suzanne McFayden," Culture Magazine, June 11 (Link)

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 (Link)

"Viewpoints, Episode 4: Samuel Levi Jones and Pamela Joyner," Galerie LeLong Podcast, October 3 (Link)

Boyd, Oseye. "New exhibit at Newfields makes lasting impression," Indianapolis Recorder, March 21 (Link)

2018

Sayej, Nadja. "Edge of visibility: celebrating artwork with hidden messages," The Guardian, November 19 (Link)

Ollman, Leah. "Keep Looking: Samuel Levi Jones Speaks with Leah Ollman," Art In Print, September 6 (Link)

Weisbrode, Kenneth and Heather H. Yeung, "How We Lost the Sky," The New York Times, July 23 (Link)

Sussman, Anna Louie, “What Sold at Art Basel,” Artsy (web), June 17 (Link)

Chi, Paul, “Blu Ivy Bid $10,000 at an Art Auction, and Won,” Vanity Fair (web), March 18 (Link)

Rodney, Seph, "The Political Truths that Ground our Athletic Heroes," Hyperallergic (web), February 9 (Link)

2017

Valentine, Victoria L., “Artist Samuel Levi Jones is Joining Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Culture Type (web), October 12 (Link)

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 (Link)

Sargent, Antwaun, “Striking Deconstructed Book Paintings Challenge American History,” The Creators Project (web), January 2 (Link)

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

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

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

Catalogues and Publications

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

Curatorial Projects

2021

"The Sum of Unity," Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN

Public Collections

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 Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

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