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Jennie C. Jones, Red Tone Burst #2, 2021. Architectural felt panel and acrylic Installation view, Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, .
on canvas, 77.5 × 76.2 × 6.3 cm. © Jennie C. Jones, courtesy Alexander Gray Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2022.
Associates, New York, and PATRON Gallery, Chicago
Jennie C. Jones, Split Bar, End Note, 2021. Acoustic panel and acrylic on canvas,
diptych, 121.9 × 91.4 × 8.9 cm each. © Jennie C. Jones, courtesy the artist;
Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Paron Gallery, Chicago.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jennie C. Jones lives and works in Hudson, New York. Williamstown, MA (2020); Riffs and Relations: African
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1968, the artist received a American Artists and the European Modernist
BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Tradition, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1991, an MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross (2020); The Shape of Shape, The Museum of Modern
School of the Arts in 1996 and attended Skowhegan Art, New York (2019); Magnetic Fields: Expanding
School of Painting and Sculpture in 1996. Jones has American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, Kemper
had solo exhibitions at The Arts Club of Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (2017);
(2020); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2016); and The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and
The Kitchen, New York (2013); Hirshhorn Museum Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art,
and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Chicago (2015). Jones is the recipient of several
Washington, DC (2013); and Atlanta Contemporary residencies, grants, and fellowships, including the
Art Center (2009), among others. Her work has Rose Art Museum’s Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter
been shown in recent group exhibitions, including Artist-in-Residence Award (2017); The Foundation for
Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, New Orleans Contemporary Arts’s Rauschenberg Award (2016);
(2021); Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2013); The Studio
America, New Museum, New York (2021); Ground/ Museum in Harlem’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist
work, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Prize (2012); and William H. Johnson Prize (2008).

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