Joseph Jones

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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 Art Collaboration Kyoto, Shophouse and Parcel Tokyo (Kyoto 2025), Joseph Jones, Shophouse (Hong Kong, 2025) Natural Language, Ehrlich Steinberg (Los Angeles, US, 2025), Joseph Jones, Workplace (London, 2025)  Post-Fair, Ehrlich Steinberg and 4649 Tokyo (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) and Prelude of Gaze, Shophouse (Hong Kong, HK, 2024).


Education

2008-10 MA (RCA) Fine Art Painting, The Royal College of Art, London
2006-07 BA Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam 
2005-08 BA Painting, Wimbledon College of Art, London  

Selected Solo Exhibitions 

2026 Joseph Jones, Chapter NY, New York (Forthcoming)
2025 Joseph Jones, Shophouse & Parcel Gallery, Kyoto, Japan 
2025 Joseph Jones, Shophouse, Hong Kong
2025 Natural Language, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles
2025 Joseph Jones, Post Fair, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles
2025 Joseph Jones, Workplace, London 
2024 Joseph Jones Nada Miami, Roland Ross, Miami 
2024 Joseph Jones, The Artists Room, London
2024 Index, Roland Ross, Margate  
2014 Joseph Jones, ROWING, London
2013 Joseph Jones, Plaza-Plaza, London
2010 Joseph Jones, Cite Des Artes, Paris
2009 Joseph Jones, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam

Selected Group Exhibitions 

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
2014 OFF SITE, Rod Barton, London
2011 The Secret life of Plants, PELES EMPIRE, London
2011 Joseph Jones, MOT International, London
2010 Attached to Plants, Glasgow School of Art
2009 Fast Fertag, The Oubellete, London
2008 New Contemporaries, Rochelle, London
2008 New Contemporaries, A Foundation, Liverpool
2007 PA///KT, PlatformKunst, Amsterdam
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