Samuel Levi Jones | |
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Born | 1978 (age 45–46) Marion, Indiana, U.S. |
Alma mater | Taylor University, Herron School of Art and Design, Mills College |
Website | samuellevijones |
Samuel Levi Jones (born 1978) is an American artist, he is known for his paintings and assemblage art.[1][2] Many of his works are abstract, and centered on African-American history, and identity; often using historically sourced materials.[3][4]
Samuel Levi Jones was born in 1978 in Marion, Indiana,[5] into an African-American family.[6][7] Jones is related (great nephew, through marriage) to Abraham S. Smith, one of the two men publicly lynched in 1930 in Marion, Indiana.[7]
He attended Taylor University (B.A. degree in communications studies); Herron School of Art and Design (B.F.A. degree 2009 in photography); and Mills College (M.F.A. degree 2012 in studio art).[5][7]
Levi Jones' first solo exhibition, Samuel Levi Jones: Left of Center (2019), took place at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.[8] He has also had a solo exhibition at The Dayton Contemporary in Ohio titled The Empire is Falling, and Unbound at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.[9][10]
Jones work is included in public museum collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[5] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[11] Rubell Museum,[12] the Studio Museum in Harlem,[5] the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,[13] and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).[5]