{{Short description|American artist}} {{Infobox person | name = Samuel Levi Jones | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1978}} | birth_place = Marion, Indiana, U.S. | alma_mater = Taylor University,<br> Herron School of Art and Design,<br> Mills College | website = {{url|https://samuellevijones.com/}} }} '''Samuel Levi Jones''' (born 1978) is an American artist, he is known for his paintings and assemblage art.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Michael Wilson on Samuel Levi Jones|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201910/samuel-levi-jones-81445|access-date=2021-11-28|website=Artforum.com|language=en-US|date=December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Loos|first=Ted|date=2016-10-16|title=Righting Wrongs and Generating Attention for Art of the African Diaspora|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/arts/design/righting-wrongs-and-generating-attention-for-art-of-the-african-diaspora.html|access-date=2021-11-28|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Many of his works are abstract, and centered on African-American history, and identity; often using historically sourced materials.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Roberta|last2=Cotter|first2=Holland|last3=Schwendener|first3=Martha|date=2017-01-12|title=What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/arts/design/what-to-see-in-new-york-art-galleries-this-week.html|access-date=2021-11-28|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ollman|first=Leah|date=2019-08-05|title=One artist's solution to the racial inequities embedded in books: Rip them apart|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-08-04/samuel-levi-jones-susanne-vielmetter|url-access=limited|access-date=2021-11-28|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Biography == Samuel Levi Jones was born in 1978 in Marion, Indiana,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Samuel Levi Jones|url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/samuel_jones/|access-date=2021-11-28|website=Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State|language=en-US}}</ref> into an African-American family.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Raiford|first=Leigh|date=2021-01-14|title=Burning All Illusion: Abstraction, Black Life, and the Unmaking of White Supremacy|url=http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=15113|access-date=2021-11-28|website=Art Journal Open|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2020-03-22|title=Living Left of Center|url=https://www.blackartinamerica.com/index.php/2020/03/22/living-left-of-center/|access-date=2021-11-28|website=Black Art in America|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128093541/https://www.blackartinamerica.com/index.php/2020/03/22/living-left-of-center/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jones is related (great nephew, through marriage) to Abraham S. Smith, one of the two men publicly lynched in 1930 in Marion, Indiana.<ref name=":1" />
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).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
== Art Career == Levi Jones' first solo exhibition, ''Samuel Levi Jones: Left of Center'' (2019), took place at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bonogiovanni|first=Domenica|date=May 26, 2021|title=Newfields Starts To Deliver On Diversity|page=A5|work=The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana)|publisher=USA Today Network|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/737992526/|url-access=subscription|via=Newspaper.com}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Samuel Levi Jones - Artists - Galerie Lelong & Co. |url=https://www.galerielelong.com/artists/samuel-levi-jones |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=www.galerielelong.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Samuel Levi Jones |url=https://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibitions/samuel-levi-jones |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=Studio Museum in Harlem |language=en}}</ref>
Jones work is included in public museum collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,<ref name=":0" /> the Whitney Museum of American Art,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Samuel Levi Jones|url=https://whitney.org/artists/18388|access-date=2021-11-28|website=Whitney Museum of American Art|language=en}}</ref> Rubell Museum,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Samuel Levi Jones|url=https://rubellmuseum.org/ha-samuel-levi-jones|access-date=2021-11-28|website=rubellmuseum.org}}</ref> the Studio Museum in Harlem,<ref name=":0" /> the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-09-21|title=Samuel Levi Jones|url=https://art.famsf.org/samuel-levi-jones|access-date=2021-11-28|website=FAMSF|language=en}}</ref> and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).<ref name=":0" />
== See also ==
* List of African-American visual artists *Paulson Fontaine Press
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Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:African-American painters Category:People from Marion, Indiana Category:Taylor University alumni Category:Herron School of Art and Design alumni Category:Mills College alumni Category:Assemblage artists Category:21st-century African-American artists