Benjamin Jones

birth

September 27, 1954, Atlanta, Georgia

education

1977, State University of West Georgia

exhibitions

2021 - DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURE, 1994-2021, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA

2021 - BENJAMIN JONES, Thompson Hotel, Savannah, GA

2019 - SALT ISLAND, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2019 - BENJAMIN JONES SPEAKING, Retrospective, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA

2015 - OBSERVATIONS, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho

2008 - SINS + VIRTUES, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia DRAWING A DIVERSION, John Martin Gallery, London, England

2006 - BENJAMIN JONES @ ART LONDON, Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, England BENJAMIN JONES, Barbara Archer Savannah, Savannah, Georgia

2005 - THE ALEXANDER HOMAGE DRAWING SERIES, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2004 - BENJAMIN JONES DRAWING, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

DRAWING, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

ISOLATION, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

FIGURE, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas, Texas

2002 - WORKS ON PAPER, 1987-2002, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

1998 - A SHORT LIFE, Sandler Hudson, Atlanta, Georgia

1994 - DR. FRANKENSTEIN’S ANIMAL SHOW, Mattress Factory Building, Atlanta, Georgia 1993 - NATURE’S ODDITY, Billboard, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia

selected group exhibitions

2021 - BEFORE, BEHIND, BELOW, BENEATH, BESIDE, BETWEEN, BEYOND, BY, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, North T Gates, Atlanta, GA THE EXQUISITE CORPSE, The Art Section, Atlanta, GA ART AND HEALING IN THE TIME OF THE PANDEMIC, The Art Section, Atlanta, GA

2018 - THE ARTISTS EXHIBITION, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, Georgia

2017 - WORK ON PAPER, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho

2016 - LINE, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho ART ON PAPER, New York, New York

2015 - THE DRAWING EXPERIMENT, Chastain Arts Center Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2013 - DRAWING INSIDE THE PERIMETER, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

4 x 4, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2009 - BENJAMIN JONES @ ART LA, Stewart Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2008 - MASTER DRAWINGS LONDON, London, England

2006 - OBJECTS OF DESIRE, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

GRAPHIC EXPRESSIONS: AMERICAN WORKS ON PAPER FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

EVIDENCE: PAPER WORKS, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia 2005 - RECENT ACQUISITIONS, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

DRAWING CONCLUSIONS, Georgia State University Rialto Center for the Performing Arts, Atlanta, Georgia

2004 - CONTEMPORARY SOUTHERN DRAWINGS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

FREEDOM SALON, Deitch Projects, New York, New York

2003 - reading: material, Volume Gallery, New York, New York

2002 - GEORGIA TRIENNIAL, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia

1998 - NEW ORLEANS TRIENNIAL, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

1995 - NEW ORLEANS TRIENNIAL, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

1994 - NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS AND SOUTHERN ARTS FEDERATION REGIONAL FELLOWS, Southeast Center of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

1994 - CREATING IN CRISIS: MAKING ART IN THE MIDST OF AIDS, Spaces Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland Ohio

1988 - ARTISTS IN GEORGIA, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia

1985 - ARTISTS IN GEORGIA, Georgia Museum Of Art, Athens, Georgia

selected awards

2003 - The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Individual Artist Grant

1997 - Residency Fellowship, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia

1996 - Residency Fellowship and CGR Scholarship, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia

1994 - National Endowment for the Arts and Southern Arts Federation Regional Fellowship

1993 - Georgia Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant in Drawing

selected public and private collections

Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia

J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama

Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia

Mennello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, Florida

State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia

Phillip Aarons + PRINTED MATTER, New York, New York

Patch Adams, M.D. + Gesundheit Institute, Arlington, Virginia

The Judith Alexander Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia

Lucinda Bunnen, Atlanta, Georgia

James Brett, London, England

Edie Falco, New York, New York

King and Spalding, LLP., Atlanta, Georgia

Fabio Rossi, London and Hong Kong

affiliations

Drawing Center Viewing Program Artist Registry, New York, New York

Henry Boxer Gallery, London, England

Laney Contemporary, Savannah, Georgia

Whitespace, Atlanta, Georgia

selected bibliography

Laura Nwogu, BENJAMIN JONES ON CREATING UNIQUE ART AND FINDING PEACE ON TYBEE ISLAND, Savannah Now,10/10/21

Chad Scott, BENJAMIN JONES DRAWING AND SCULPTURE AT LANEY CONTEMPORARY IN SAVANNAH, See Great Art, 10/10/21

Melissa Stern, AN OUTSIDER ARTIST CHANNELS HIS DEMONS INTO UNIQUELY FUNNY AND DARK COMPOSITIONS, Hyperallergic, 01/31/20

Lois Reitzes, City Lights Interview, WABE/NPR, 01/16/20

Ryan McFadin, Georgia Artist Benjamin Jones Embraces The Weirdness of Life With Art, WABE/NPR, O1/16/20

Felicia Feaster, GEORGIA ARTIST RAGES AGAINST THE MACHINE, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 01/10/20

Benjamin Jones Retrospective: SPEAKING, Exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, 12/7/19 - 2/15/20

Shelley Danzy, Q&A: ARTIST BENJAMIN JONES ON THE WORLD’S MADNESS AND THE ART OF BREATHING AGAIN, ArtsATL, 12/16/19

Felicia Feaster, A PEEK INTO ARTISTIC PROCESS, CHOICES IN ‘THE DRAWING EXPERIMENT,’ Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 07/27/15

Jerry Siegel, FACING SOUTH: PORTRAITS OF SOUTHERN ARTISTS, The University of Alabama Press, 2012, pp. 55-56

Melissa Stern, THE HAUNTING AND LOVELY WORLD OF BENJAMIN JONES, The Weeklings, 07/15/12

Jerry Cullum, Catherine Fox, Cinque Hicks, NOPLACENESS: ART IN A POST-URBAN LANDSCAPE, Possible Futures, 2011, pp. 86-89

Catherine Fox, AN UNTRADITIONAL VIEW OF VIRTUES, SINS, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11/21/08, p. D15 Oxford American, Winter 2006, Issue 52, p.19

Catherine Fox, A MATTER OF STYLE, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/18/05, p. L10

Charles Dee Mitchell, BENJAMIN JONES AT GRAY MATTERS, Art in America, November 2004

Rebecca Dimling Cochran, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Art Papers, November/December 2004

Roberta Smith, CAUTION: ANGRY ARTISTS AT WORK, New York Times, 08/27/04, p. B1, B23

Catherine Fox, MUSEUM SCORES BIG WITH DONATION, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 08/19/04, p. B1

2003 TIFFANY AWARDS, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Catalog, 2004

NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS, The Open Studios Press, Catalog, No. 52, Vol. 9, 2004

Catherine Fox, A PEOPLED SOLITUDE: HAMPTON ARTIST DRAWS ON ISOLATION, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 05/23/04

Jerry Cullum, SOUTHERN DRAW, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 05/06/04, Access Atlanta, p. 40

Catherine Fox, HOMEGROWN GEMS SPARKLE IN HIGH LIMELIGHT, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 05/02/04

Catherine Fox, DELIGHTFULLY DRAWN, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11/01/02

Catherine Fox, GEORGIANS IN THE SPOTLIGHT, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 04/26/02

NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS, The Open Studios Press, Catalog, No. 40, Vol. 17, 2002

Catherine Fox, THE ART OF AFTERWARD, IN THE WAKE OF SEPTEMBER 11, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/30/01

Catherine Fox, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORD, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 08/31/01

NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS, The Open Studios Press, Catalog, No. 22, Vol. 4, 1999

Catherine Fox, BEGINNING AT THE END, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 04/14/98

Donald Locke, BASIC INSTINCT- BENJAMIN JONES AT SANDLER-HUDSON, Creative Loafing, 04/25/98

ARTIST’S PAGES, Art Papers, July/August 1996, Issue 4

Dan Cameron, CRITICAL EDGE/ SOUTHERN EXPOSURES, Art & Auction, 01/95