Biography

JOANNA JONES
 

2000
Scholarship at Schloss Balmoral, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany

1973
Founded K’un Films with Carlyle Reedy

1972-74
Co-Founded The Works (co-operative work situation for 30 artists), Fulham Cross, London, UK

1969
British Institute Award Richard Jack Prize First Prize “London 1969”, GLC Painting Competition

1967-70
Royal Academy Schools, London, UK  (Postgraduate Degree Course, Tutor William Scott)

1967
Ernest Jackson Scholarship

1966
Goldsmiths College, London, UK (NDD National Diploma of Design in Painting)
Co-Founder Zeez Arts (co-operative gallery) with Peter Kennard, London, UK

1964-67
Byam Shaw School, London, UK (Degree Course, Tutor Maurice de Sausmarez)

1963-64
Northwich College of Art, UK (Foundation Year)

 

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2005
New Paintings, Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus

2003
Seven Paintings, Pharos Trust, Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

2001
YOTA Project, Samphire Hoe, UK  “Year of the Artist” award from The Arts Council and South East Arts

2000
Baggage with Laura Padgett The Gallery, Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall, UK Wrexham Arts Centre, North Wales, UK

1998/99
Galerie Kyra Maralt, Berlin, Germany

1997
The Texture and the Text  – Clothing the body Joanna Jones & Alice Mansell
The City Gallery, Leicester in conjunction with The Leicester City Museum, UK (Catalogue)

1996
Joanna Jones in the Charité Institute of Pathology, Charité, Berlin, Germany (Catalogue)
Web: www.inx.de/jones-charite

1995
Foldings, Kutschstall, Potsdam, Germany
Malerei vor Ort, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany

1993
It Tickled Her Pink, Karmelterkloster, Frankfurt a/M, Germany (Catalogue)
Curated by Dr Klaus Klemp
Galerie Wild, Frankfurt a/M, Germany (Catalogue) Curated by  Manfred de la Motte

1991
Sequenz 4, Frankfurt a/M, Germany Curated by Charly Steiger

1990
Eisen, Galerie Klaus Werth, Frankfurt a/M, Germany

1988
TYMC, Galerie Klaus Werth, Frankfurt a/M, Germany

1987
Joanna Jones / Axel Dielmann, Galerie Klaus Werth, Frankfurt a/M, Germany

1985
Through the Body, Schauplatz, Berlin, Germany (Catalogue)

1983
Body Maze, Oederweg, Frankfurt a/M, Germany

1981
Body Maps, Theater am Turm, Frankfurt a/M, Germany

 

Group exhibitions (selection)

2005
Plant/Transplant, Substation Project Space, Margate and St Peters Church, Sandwich, UK

2004
London Biennale, Institute of Physics, London, UK

2002
Harvey’s Bodies, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, UK

2000
Good Start Bad Ems, Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, GermanyStadtmuseum, Bad Ems, Germany

1997
Essentielle Nebenprodunkte, Kunstraum Klaus Hinrichs, Trier, GermanyForces of Nature, Taipei Gallery, New York City, USA (Catalogue) Co-curated by Ronny Cohen and Marlene YuEssentielle Nebenprodukte, Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin, Germany

1996
Bilder der Nacht, Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin, Germany

1994
Andere Koerper, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria (Catalogue)Curated by Sigrid Schade Kunst in Frankfurt: Malerei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a/M, Germany (Catalogue)
Curated by Peter Weirmeir

1993
Back to Back, in collaboration with Barbara Heinsch Frauenkulturhaus, Frankfurt a/M, Germany

1992
Galerie Wild, Frankfurt a/M, Germany (Catalogue)
ART AID, Frankfurt a/M, Germany (Catalogue)

1991
7 Raeume 7 Wirklichkeiten, Wiesbaden, Germany Hessisches Ministerium fuer Frauen, Arbeit und Sozialordnung 

1990
Zur Kunst in Frankfurt a/M 90, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt a/M, Germany (Catalogue)
Curated by Gundel-Marie Busse

1987
Kunst in Frankfurt: Malerei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Franktfurt a/M, Germany (Catalogue)
Curated by Ingrid Moessinger Kunstbahn, Hamburg in collaboration with Axel Dielmann and the Hochbahn Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany 

1986
Moderne Kunst, Leipziger Strasse, Frankfurt a/M, Germany (Catalogue)
Curated by Walter Baumann

1972
Art in Subways, collaboration with Peter Kennard, GLAA, London, UK

1970
Young Generation, Arts Council, UK

1969
British Board of Trade Exhibition in USA  LONDON 1969, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

1968
Three Schools Show, (RAS, RCA, SLADE), London, UK

1965
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

 

Film / Video / Internet

2002
Observation rather than assumption, 60-second video by Lily Markiewicz

2001
The Painter, documentary by Andy Heathcote on Joanna Jones’ YOTA project
at Samphire Hoe for Meridian Television

1998
What could she paint, 12-minute video for the Leicester City Museum

1995-96
International Symposium of Electronic Art, ISEA 95 Montreal, Canada

1995-96
Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz Austria, National Gallery of Canada
Gesellschaft fuer Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany

1985
Infermental IV, Redaction Frigo, France

1984
Body Maze, in collaboration with Johann Rossouw and The Muelheim Museum, GermanySnow in June, in collaboration with Walther Gramming and Johann Rossouw, sponsored by the British Council

1973
Velasquez and Rembrandt Portraits, K’un Films productions Paris Women’s Film Festival, Paris, France Film Co-op, London, UK

 

Performance and theatre

1973-1976
Monkey Theatre, Carlyle Reedy’s Performance Art Company, London, UK

1980-1984
Fragile Theatre Company, Artist in Residence, Frankfurt a/M, Germany

 

Publications

2005
Joanna Jones, Pharos Publications, Nicosia, Cyprus, ISBN 9963-9199-1-X

2002
The Body and Representation, Leske+Budrich, ISBN 3-8100-3254-9

2002
Koerper und Repraesentation, Leske+Budrich, ISBN 3-8100-3318-9

2000
Joanna Jones, Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Germany 

1999
Joanna Jones, Galerie Kyra Maralt, Berlin

1998
Joanna Jones & Alice Mansell, The Texture and the Text – Clothing the Body
Leicester City Gallery

1997
Forces of Nature, Taipei Gallery, McGraw-Hill Building,  1121 Ave of the Americas, NY NY 10020 Emphathic Interconnections, Joanna Jones in the Charite
by Joanne Evans, MAKE No. 74, Feb–March 1997, ISSN 1365-8190

 1996
Joanna Jones in the Charite, Galerie Marina Dinkler, Niebuhrstrasse 77, 10629 Berlin, Germany  Web: www.inx.de/jones-charite
Philosophiques: Revue de la Societe de Philosophie du Quebec
Vol xxiii, No 1 Spring 1996, Reproduction of work
Cover Image used for Imaginary Bodies, Moira Gatens, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-08210-2

1995
SEQUENZ, ISBN 3-926 932-15-5
Hans Zitko, Der malende Körper, Der Kunsthandel, 87. Jg., 2/1995 

1994
Andere Koerper/Different Bodies, Passagen Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 3-851 65-122-7
Kunst in Frankfurt, 1994, Malerei, Frankfurter Kunstverein

1993
Joanna Jones, I live in a land where the sun is feminineArnoldsche Verlag, ISBN 3-925369-21-X  Galerie Wild, Kirchnerstrasse 2, 60311 Frankfurt a/M, Germany

1991
Axel Dielmann, Sehfelder, Joanna Jones Künstlerinportrait, AZ Zeitschrift

1990
Achim Wollscheid, What lasts longer among the ripples of the random must last longer than those ripples that last not so long Zur Kunst in Frankfurt 90, Stadt Frankfurt am Main Miriam Hanson, Dismembering (female) representation:
the body painting of Joanna Jones

1989
Andreas Honneth, Die Intelligenz des Koerpers,
Anmerkung zur Koerpermalerei der Joanna Jones

1987
Edition Handarbeit  in collaboration with Axel Dielmann and Falk AG, Germany
Kunst in Frankfurt, 1987, Malerei, Frankfurter Kunstverein

1985
Joanna Jones, Joanna Jones catalogue


Links:

www.joannajones.co.uk