Intimately scaled and meticulously detailed Joseph Jone’s paintings sit between portraiture and still life, acting both as mirrors of self-reflection and windows onto the nature of contemporary representation in the digital age. Jones constructs his subjects – often cats and flowers – from composites drawn from his vast archive of found and shared photographs, interrupting the frantic circulation of images to instead prompt a slower reading. Using a layered technique of priming, painting and then sanding back to expose the linen weave, the artist posits a tension between surface and image, illusion and material. Through a colour palette at once subtle and saturated, Jones implies the dream-like quality of representation, and the unreal or surreal quality of photorealism. Working serially with domestic images, Jones’s vernacular explores the relationship between sentimentality and obsession, and how structures of belief and interspecies bonds might reveal our own longing.
Joseph Jones received his MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2010). Recent solo presentations include; Joseph Jones, Overduin & Co, (Los Angeles, 2026) Joseph Jones, Adams & Ollman, (Portland, 2026) Joseph Jones, Chapter NY, (New York 2026), Joseph Jones, Shophouse (Hong Kong, 2025) Natural Language, Ehrlich Steinberg (Los Angeles, US, 2025) Joseph Jones, The Artists Room (London, UK, 2024) and Index, Roland Ross (Margate, UK, 2024). Recent selected group exhibitions include The Eagle, South Parade (London, UK), Again & Again, Overduin & Co. (Los Angeles, US, 2025), Postales, Galeria Gato (Lima, PE, 2025), Ordinary Things, Workplace (London, UK, 2025), Display, Ehrlich Steinberg (Los Angeles, US, 2025).
Education
2008-10 MA (RCA) Fine Art Painting, The Royal College of Art, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 Joseph Jones, Overduin & Co, Los Angeles
2026 Joseph Jones, Coulousse, Stockholm, Sweden
2026 Joseph Jones, Adams & Ollman, Portland, Oregon
2026 Joseph Jones, Chapter NY, New York
2025 Joseph Jones, Shophouse & Parcel Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2025 Joseph Jones, Shophouse, Hong Kong
2025 Joseph Jones, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles
2025 Joseph Jones, Workplace, London
2025 Joseph Jones, Post Fair, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles
2025 Joseph Jones, Workplace, London
2024 Joseph Jones, Miami, Roland Ross
2024 Joseph Jones, The Artists Room, London
2024 Joseph Jones, Roland Ross, Margate
Recent Selected Group
2026 Babel, La Heen, South Korea
2025 The Eagle, South Parade, London, UK
2025 Postales, Galeria Gato, Lima, Peru
2025 Bloom States, Main Projects, Richmond, VA
2025 Again & Again, Overduin & Co, Los Angeles
2025 The Reason for Flowers, VOLT, Eastbourne
2025 Out of Frame, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York
2025 Ordinary Things, Workplace, London
2024 The 22, Daniel Malarkay, London
2024 Prelude of Gaze, SHOPHOUSE, Hong Kong
2024 Display, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles