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Kim Jones at The Box, Los Angeles

WALKING HOME

The Box, Los Angeles, The United States of America
September - October, 2023

ZENO X GALLERY - Kim Jones at The Box, Los Angeles

Kim Jones: new acquisition

The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently acquired the work "Mudman Structure (large)" (1974 - 2008)" by Kim Jones.

ZENO X GALLERY - Kim Jones: new acquisition

Kim Jones: new video

Kim Jones talking about his practice and his alter ego 'Mudman'.

Kim Jones at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

ARTISTS RESPOND: AMERICAN ART AND THE VIETNAM WAR, 1965 - 1975

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., United States of America
March 15 - August 18, 2019

ZENO X GALLERY - Kim Jones at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Kim Jones: new acquisition

The Whitney Museum of American Art recently acquired the work "Untitled" (1972-2004)" by Kim Jones.

ZENO X GALLERY - Kim Jones: new acquisition

Kim Jones at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield

WHITE CROW

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, United States of America
May 1 - February 5, 2017

ZENO X GALLERY - Kim Jones at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield

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Kim Jones talking about his practice and his alter ego 'Mudman'.

Kim Jones
Biography

Kim Jones, b. 1944 in San Bernardino, California (US), lives and works in New York (US).

For more than five decades Kim Jones has been working on a consistent oeuvre composed of drawings, sculptures, installations and performances. Two moments in Jones’s life profoundly inform the content of his work. At a young age he was diagnosed with a polio-like illness which confined him to a wheelchair. To combat the boredom he began to draw intensively. The drawings he made were inspired by the war games he played as a child and represented battlefields in which Xs and dots attacked each other. These drawings would later take on an entirely different layer of meaning when Jones served in the Vietnam War, a second event that would have an immense impact on his work.

In the mid 1970s, Jones developed his alter ego, Mudman. The artist covered himself in mud and appeared in the city streets wearing a construction on his back made out of sticks, pieces of cloth and foam rubber. Jones turned his body into a living sculpture and by doing so brought art into the public space. At that time, Los Angeles was the place where artists such as Paul McCarthy, Chris Burden and Barbara T. Smith were coming together to organize exhibitions and live performances. The body, civil-rights activism, sexual liberation and opposition to the war were prominent themes.

Given the ephemeral character of the medium, the photos of his performances proved to be highly important documents. For Jones, however, the photos are more than just documentation. He continues to draw and paint on the prints and as such creates autonomous works. Photographic pieces are often combined with fantastic figures and connected by association. The drawings often have different dates because Jones continues to work on them over the years. Erasing, changing and transmuting forms and figures are typical of his drawing practice as is the horror vacui.

The work of Kim Jones is included in the prominent public collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), MoMA (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), LACMA (Los Angeles), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), SFMOMA (San Francisco) and Whitney Museum of American Art (New York).

Kim Jones participated in the Venice Biennale in 2007 and the Biennale of Sydney in 2010. His work has featured in group shows at Guggenheim Museum (New York), MCA San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.), MoMA (New York), LACMA (Los Angeles) and The Drawing Center (New York).

Kim Jones joined the gallery in 2002.

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Kim Jones, Jenny Scobel, Mircea Suciu
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 22.02 - 22.04 2023
Kim Jones, Jenny Scobel, Mircea Suciu
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 22.02 - 22.04 2023
Kim Jones, Jenny Scobel, Mircea Suciu
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 22.02 - 22.04 2023
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
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Kim Jones: RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR
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Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, United States of America | 12.11 2020 - 09.01 2021
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Kim Jones: RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR
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Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, United States of America | 12.11 2020 - 09.01 2021
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Kim Jones: RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR
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Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, United States of America | 12.11 2020 - 09.01 2021
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Kim Jones: RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR
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Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, United States of America | 12.11 2020 - 09.01 2021
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The Last Shape of Things
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Zeno X Gallery | 23.05 - 30.06 2018
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The Last Shape of Things
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Zeno X Gallery | 23.05 - 30.06 2018
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The Last Shape of Things
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Zeno X Gallery | 23.05 - 30.06 2018
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Zeno X Gallery | 23.05 - 30.06 2018
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● The Last Shape of Things

 

Kim Jones was born in 1944 in San Bernardino, California but has lived and worked in New York since 1982. For the past five decades Jones has been building up a consistent body of work that includes drawings, sculptures, performances and installations. The Last Shape of Things is his fifth solo exhibition since he joined Zeno X Gallery in 2003.

A number of biographic elements help to understand certain motifs better. At the age of seven, for instance, Kim Jones was diagnosed with Perthes’ disease, a disorder of the hip joint, and was forced to spend three years in a wheelchair. To combat the boredom he began to draw intensively. The drawings he made were inspired by the war games that he played as a child and represented battlefields in which crosses and points attacked each other. These drawings would later lead to his famous ‘war drawings’, which took on an entirely new layer of meaning once he had taken part in the Vietnam War between 1966 and 1969.

In the early 1970s Kim Jones returned to Los Angeles where he developed his alter ego, ‘Mudman’. At the time LA was the place where artists such as Paul McCarthy, Chris Burden, Barbara T. Smith, Allan Kaprow and John Baldessari were coming together to organize exhibitions, live actions and performances. The body, civil-rights activism, sexual liberation and opposition to the war were prominent themes. As Mudman, Kim Jones wandered the streets of Los Angeles, taking in the beach, the subway and the art galleries. He was barely dressed but was smeared with mud, and on his back he carried a construction made out of branches, pieces of cloth and foam rubber. Jones turned his body into a living sculpture and in doing so brought art into the public space.

Given the ephemeral character of the medium, the photos that were made during his performances proved to be highly important documents. For Jones, however, the photos are a lot more than just documentation; he continues to draw and paint on the prints and as such creates autonomous works. Photographic pieces are often combined with fantastic figures and elements from his dreams and connected by association. The drawings often have different dates because Jones continues to work on them over the years. Erasing, changing and transmuting forms and figures are typical of his drawing practice as is the horror vacui. Jones regularly seeks to connect with his works by ‘updating’ them.

During his residency at PS1 in New York in 1983-1984, he created a sculpture that he could carry on his back when he performed as his alter ego, Mudman. This ‘Mudman Structure (small)’ is presented in the exhibition as a historic artefact and as a remnant of his performative practice. The same structure was also used in performances that he carried out in the New York subway and in the New Museum in New York in 1986.

During his residency at PS1, Jones also started painting and working on the clothes that he wore. He transformed his T-shirts, jackets and shoes into Mudman-like sculptures, covered in war drawings.

The work of Kim Jones is included in the prominent public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MoMA, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; LACMA, Los Angeles; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, amongst others.

The work of Kim Jones has featured in group exhibitions such as the Sydney Biennale; Venice Biennale; Guggenheim Museum, New York; MCA, San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MoMA, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; The Drawing Center, New York. His work will soon be on show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington. 

Dirk Braeckman, Marlene Dumas, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Philip Metten, Pietro Roccasalva, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 07.03 - 28.04 2018
Dirk Braeckman, Marlene Dumas, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Philip Metten, Pietro Roccasalva, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jack Whitten
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Dirk Braeckman, Marlene Dumas, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Philip Metten, Pietro Roccasalva, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jack Whitten
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Dirk Braeckman, Marlene Dumas, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Philip Metten, Pietro Roccasalva, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jack Whitten
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Dirk Braeckman, Marlene Dumas, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Philip Metten, Pietro Roccasalva, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jack Whitten
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Kim Jones: White Crow
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The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United States of America | 01.05 2016 - 05.02 2017
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The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United States of America | 01.05 2016 - 05.02 2017
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The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United States of America | 01.05 2016 - 05.02 2017
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The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United States of America | 01.05 2016 - 05.02 2017
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Catalogus Kim Jones 2016

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Walgrove
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Zeno X Gallery | 11.11 - 19.12 2015
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Zeno X Gallery | 11.11 - 19.12 2015
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We are pleased to introduce you a new solo show by Kim Jones, who joined the gallery more than ten years ago. ‘Walgrove’ includes drawings and sculptures that have been revised or created the past three years. Kim Jones’s work encompasses performance, sculpture, painting, drawing and video. Born in San Bernardino, California in 1944, Jones has lived and worked in New York City since 1982.

The title ‘Walgrove’ refers to all three schools Jones attended – Walgrove Elementary, Mark Twain Junior High and Venice High – are linked by Walgrove Avenue.  Even his Sunday school was at the Baptist church on Walgrove. More or less on the border between Mar Vista and Venice, California, much of his sense of the world began on Walgrove.

The work by Kim Jones is very intense, physical, expressive, disturbing and uncanny. It brings a language one connects with the night, fear and struggle but also with beauty and a sense of humor. His autobiography and the context where he grew up are of great meaning. About his childhood and youth he writes the following:

“As a child, open garage doors frightened me. My father, stern and aloof, frightened me as a child, a teen and even as a young adult. He never beat me but his idea of a joke was blowing pipe-smoke in my face.

We used to visit his father, a World War I veteran who sustained such massive nerve damage that, despite numerous operations, he had lost most of both his arms and legs. Throughout my childhood, he always seemed in a good mood. Only later did I realize he was probably on morphine.

We had no art books and went only once to the Los Angeles County Museum.  But comic books and cartoons, especially Walt Disney, specifically Mickey Mouse, were huge influences. I wanted to be a cartoonist.

When I was about 6, I stayed with some cousins. From their house we could look into the house next door, which had a television.  When we got a television a few years later, the whole family watched together: Howdy DoodyYou Bet Your Life and, eventually, the Mickey Mouse Club.

But none of that left as much of mark on me as the years from seven to 10 when I had Perthes, a childhood hip disorder.  I spent three months in the hospital, drawing much of the time, including a game of my own invention, the battles between x and dot men that became the War Drawings.

At around 16, my high school art teacher sent me to Saturday life drawing classes at Art Center School. They had a drawing formula. I lost the natural joy I had in drawing. It felt more like work. During the break I listened to Lorser Feitelson lecture on art history.

In 1966, I knew I was going to be drafted and chose instead to join the U.S. Marines. I did it mostly to please my father. After four years in college and art school, I had slightly bushy hair and didn’t look like his idea of a real man. I was in the Marines from 1966-69 and did a tour of duty in Vietnam.”

The core of Jones’s oeuvre finds its roots beginning of the seventies in Los Angeles, a time when this city wasn’t yet so glamorous. It was a place where artists such as Paul McCarthy, Barbara T. Smith, Allan Kaprow, John Baldessari and Chris Burden crossed each other and organized exhibitions, live actions and performances. The body and activism for civil rights, sexual liberation and an anti-war belief was a shared common at that time. Everyone knew Kim Jones as Mudman, his alterego. His naked body was covered with mud, his face hidden behind silk stockings and on his back he wore a large structure of wooden sticks, foam rubber, tire and mud. Wearing army boots, he walked through the streets of Los Angeles. 

On January 28 in 1976 he walked from sunrise till sunset, a cycle of 12 hours from the east till the west of LA, a work known as ‘Wilshire Boulevard Walk’. This was his first real performance. The same year ‘Rat Piece’ took place at the Union Gallery on the campus of California State University, LA. In this controversy performance he set three rats on fire, joined the screams and once they were dead he covered the cage and left the room. Rats often reappear in his iconography. Those animals are often a tool for medical experiments, they were everywhere during his time in Vietnam and represent the underground and disease in Western society. It is cruel but so is war where thousands, millions of humans are being killed. His reaction was: “We all kill in some way. I was interested in how it feels, the implications of killing something.” The rat becomes a personal icon for him. In other cultures, especially the eastern one, animals get often another meaning and value. For Jones, rats are survivors.

Drawing had always been of great meaning for Jones. He draws surrealistic figures that are half human, half beast and often adds erotic elements. Eros and Thanatos seem to challenge each other more than once. He draws and paints on advertisements, photographs he makes or collects or on pictures people made of his performances. Besides this he realized an extraordinary selection of war drawings. These refer to a game he played as a child but is nevertheless an association to war. There are all dots and X’s on the move. He draws, erases and updates. Ghost images appear.

In May a solo show is planned at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield where his work has been exposed before.

Besides numerous performances and exhibitions in the seventies at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Lace) and Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Kim Jones was invited at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York in 1982, 1983 and 1984 to show his installations and performances. In 1985 he participated at the Biennial of Paris. One year later he was part of ‘Choices’ at the New Museum in New York. In 1987 he was invited for a performance at the Kunstverein Hamburg. In 1993 he was part of a traveling show ‘The Return of the Cadavre Exquis’ which started at the Drawing Center in New York. MoMA New York invited him in 1994 for the exhibition ‘Mapping’ and a year later they included his work in a drawing show about the collection. In 1995 his work is again on view at The New Museum in New York that keep on exposing his works in the following years, just as MoMA New York. Centre Pompidou in Paris included his work in a group show in 1997. In 1998-99 his work travels in a group show that attended the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. In 2004 Jones participated at the SITE Santa Fe Fifth International Biennial in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two years later his work is on view at the Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville. The same year a retrospective traveled from UB Art Gallery at the State University of New York to the Luckman Gallery at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at the California State University at LA and the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington. In 2007 he was invited for the Venice Biennial and in 2010 for the Sydney Biennial. In 2013 he travelled to Seoul for a group show at the National Museum of Contemporary Art where he realized an impressive wall war drawing. Many other group shows included his work.

His work can be found in the collection of Centre Pompidou in Paris, Hammer Museum in LA, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA MOCA, MoMA in New York, Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, SFMOMA, Santa Barbara Museum, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Morgan Library in New York.

Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Opening New Space
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Opening New Space
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Opening New Space
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Dirk Braeckman, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.02 - 09.03 2013
Dirk Braeckman, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.02 - 09.03 2013
Dirk Braeckman, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.02 - 09.03 2013
Dirk Braeckman, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Dirk Braeckman, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.02 - 09.03 2013
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Kim Jones
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Semper Fi
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Zeno X Gallery | 08.09 - 08.10 2011
Kim Jones
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Semper Fi
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Zeno X Gallery | 08.09 - 08.10 2011
Kim Jones
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Semper Fi
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Zeno X Gallery | 08.09 - 08.10 2011
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Semper Fi
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Kim Jones
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Semper Fi
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Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Art is a fight to the finish between black and white
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.01 - 08.03 2008
Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Art is a fight to the finish between black and white
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.01 - 08.03 2008
Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Art is a fight to the finish between black and white
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.01 - 08.03 2008
Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.01 - 08.03 2008
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.01 - 17.02 2007
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 18.10 - 02.12 2006
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 26.01 - 03.03 2006
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Zeno X Gallery | 11.12 2003 - 07.02 2004
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Zeno X Gallery exhibitions

2018
2015
2011
2006
2003

Selected solo exhibitions

2023
Walking Home, The Box, Los Angeles, United States
2020
2016
2007
Kim Jones: A Retrospective, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, United States of America
2003
Flatland Wars, Art Pace, San Antonio, United States of America
1991
Furkart 1991, Furkapasshöhe, Switzerland
1983
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina (installation), PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States of America
Here’s Icarus (installation and performance), PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States of America
1980
Hollywood Boulevard Walk (performance), LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, United States of America
Plant Wars (installation and performance), LAICA, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States of America
1979
San Francisco Walk, Sunrise to Sunset (performance), 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, United States of America
1978
David and the Giant (performance), LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, United States of America
Venice Canals Adventures with Dead Dog and Lonely Horse (performance), Los Angeles, United States of America
Illegal Alien (performance), Tijuana, Mexico
1976
Rat Piece (performance), California State Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, United States of America
Wilshire Boulevard Walk (sunrise to sunset, January 28: sunset to sunrise, February 4), CARP, Los Angeles, United States of America
1974
Foam Rubber Room (Installation), Los Angeles, United States of America
1973
Foam Rubber House (performance), Los Angeles, United States of America

Selected group exhibitions

2023
Barbara T. Smith and friends: Treasures, The Box, Los Angeles, United States of America
2022
2021
Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, United States of America
2019
Walking Dream, Ruby City, San Antonio, United States of America
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965 to 1975, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, United States of America
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965 to 1975, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, United States of America
2018
2017
A three-day walk from the Acropolis to SNFCC (performance), Athens, Greece
Walk the Distance and Slow Down: Selections from the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, BMoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, United States of America
2016
Prospect 2016, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, United States of America
2015
Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States of America
Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, United States of America
2014
Artists for Artists, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, United States of America
Donkere kamers, Over melancholie en depressie, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
Left Coast: Recent Aquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, United States of America
2013
Connecting_Unfolding, MMCA, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
2012
Graphite, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, United States of America
The Spirit Level, Gladstone Gallery, New York, United States of America
Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States of America
LA RAW: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-1980, from Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art, Pasadena, United States of America
2011
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States of America
Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, United States of America
2010
17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States of America
2008
Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York, United States of America
2007
Venice Biennale: Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind, Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Hammer Contemporary Collection - Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America
2006
2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, BIACS, Seville, Spain
2004
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe’s Fifth International Biennial, Santa Fe, United States of America
1999
Drawn from Artists’ Collections, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America
Drawn from Artists’ Collections, The Drawing Center, New York, United States of America
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949- 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949- 1979, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949- 1979, MAK, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949- 1979, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States of America
1997
A Decade of Collecting, MoMA, New York, United States of America
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
Artists’ Performances, New Museum, New York, United States of America
1996
Face à l’Histoire, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Sweat, Exit Art/The First World, New York, United States of America
1995
Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection, MoMA, New York, United States of America
Temporarily Possessed, New Museum, New York, United States of America
1994
Mapping, MoMA, New York, United States of America
Children in Crisis, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
1990
Out of Site, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States of America
1986
Choices, New Museum, New York, United States of America
1985
Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
1984
Salvaged, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States of America
The Year of the Rat, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States of America
1982
Beast, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States of America

Public collections

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, United States of America
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States of America
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, United States of America
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, United States of America
MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States of America
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States of America
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, United States of America
Museum Boijmans Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, United States of America
Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, United States of America
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, United States of America
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., United States of America
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America

Press

“4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now: Kim Jones’s gritty assemblage-sculptures”
The New York Times, article by Martha Schwenderer (online)
December 2020

“Rats on Main Street? Don’t Scream, They’re Art”
The New York Times, article by Michelle Falkenstein (online)
July 2016

“Kim Jones in Conversation with Susan Swenson”
Pierogi, New York (USA), text by Kim Levin (p.38-44)
August 2012

“Kim Jones; Picture Perfect”
Fantom, photographic quarterly, issue 06, p.61-65
Winter 2011

“Year of the Rat – Kim Jones’s war-torn, fluently hybrid art is more germane than ever, as proved by his latest exhibition at Pierogi”
The New York Times, article by Roberta Smith
February 2008

“Things He Carried; Kim Jones”
Art in America, no. 10, article by Stephen Maine (p.184-189)
November 2007

“The summer of art – Kim Jones, walking wounded”
ArtReview, no.11, article by Geoff Nicholson (p.85-91)
May 2007

Kim Jones
Books
Mudman - The Odyssey of Kim Jones

The MIT Press
Cambridge, United States, 2007
160 pages, ISBN 9780262562249

The MIT Press<br />Cambridge, United States, 2007<br />160 pages, ISBN 9780262562249
War Paint - Conversation with Kim Jones and Susan Swenson

Pierogi
New York, United States, 2005
39 pages

Pierogi<br />New York, United States, 2005<br />39 pages
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