Bill Jones is a

photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographe ...

installation artist Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

, performer and writer living in

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, CA. His work is concerned with light as both a physical phenomenon and metaphorical figure. Jones was part of the Vancouver School of conceptual photography, along with such artists as

Rodney Graham William Rodney Graham (January 16, 1949 – October 22, 2022) was a Canadian visual artist and musician. He was closely associated with the Vancouver School. Early life Graham was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on January 16, 1949. ...

, Ian Wallace and

Jeff Wall Jeffrey Wall, Order of Canada, OC, Royal Society of Canada, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Van ...

. Jones has three daughters; his youngest daughter (with New York-based, Canadian-born video artist

Ardele Lister Ardele Lister is an artist working in time-based media. From 1991 to the present, Lister has taught media production and critical studies at Rutgers University, where she is currently Graduate Director of Visual Arts. She has also taught at Mont ...

) is actress and screenwriter Zoe Lister-Jones. He is married to visual artist and writer

Joy Garnett Joy Garnett (born 1960) is an artist and writer from New York, United States. Trained as a painter, her work explores contemporary practices around cultural preservation, alternative histories and archives. Her interdisciplinary work combines cr ...

Biography

Bill Jones' work has been shown in the

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and elsewhere, including a mid-career retrospective, "Bill Jones: 10 Years of Multiple-Image Narratives," at the International Center of Photography, NY;

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution located in Court Square in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, the ...

, LIC, NY; Exit Art, NY;

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; Vancouver Art Gallery; Jewish Museum, NY; Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Sandra Gering Gallery, NY; Lombard-Freid, NY; Amy Lipton Gallery, NY;

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, NY; Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto, ONT;

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;

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, Atlanta; Milwaukee Art Museum; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK. Jones' 2003 exhibition "Nite Nite" at Sandra Gering Gallery with musician collaborator

Ben Neill Ben Neill (b. November 14, 1957) is an American composer, trumpeter, producer, and educator. He is the inventor of the "Mutantrumpet", a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. Early life, family and education Neill was born in Winston-Salem, North ...

started a new development of

MIDI MIDI (; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and re ...

-controlled video, whereby performed elements of sampled video are "played" by both VJ and musician. Their collaborations include ''Palladio'', an interactive, playable movie based on the novel by

Jonathan Dee Jonathan Dee (born May 19, 1962) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. His fifth novel, ''The Privileges'', was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Early life Dee was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale Univer ...

that premiered in Glasgow's New Territories Festival and in New York City at

Symphony Space Symphony Space, founded by Isaiah Sheffer and Allan Miller, is a multi-disciplinary performing arts organization at 2537 Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Performances take place in the 760-seat Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (also called Pe ...

(Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater) in February and March respectively, 2005. Jones' work was also featured in ''Playvision'' at the World Financial Center in the Spring of 2006. Jones' table installation, "Elevations Levitations and the Twist," which was shown at Toronto's A Space in 1974 and is now in the permanent collection of The Art Gallery of Ontario, was presented in the reopening exhibitions of the new

Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, , FAIA (; ; born ) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered ...

-designed AGO in November 2008. Jones created "Night Science," a set of interactive video for music composed by long-time collaborator

. The primarily black and white imagery evokes a noirish urban vibe inspired by sci-fi noir films such as

Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Fran� ...

's Alphaville. Jones and Neill performed this work live at the Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY in September 2009 for the Night Science record release party. Jones' 1971 photo-conceptual piece, "Landscape #1" was included in the traveling exhibition "Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada c. 1965 to 1980" (2010-2012), the first major account of the development of Conceptual Art in Canada from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, curated by Grant Arnold, Catherine Crowston, Barbara Fischer, Michèle Thériault with Vincent Bonin, and Jayne Wark. Traffic was organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery ( Hart House) and the Vancouver Art Gallery, in partnership with the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University), Halifax, INK with the support of the University of Toronto Art Centre, Blackwood Gallery, and Doris McCarthy Gallery. Previously the managing editor of ''Arts Magazine'', Jones conceived and founded ''Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture'' in 1998, which he edited for its first two years. He has collaborated with electro-chemist and cancer researcher Merrill Garnett since the publication ''First Pulse: A Personal Journey in Cancer Research.'' Jones is a convert to Judaism.

References

External links

Bill Jones
official site *
"Suzy Lake As Patty Hearst"
Bill Jones & Suzy Lake, a collaboration from the 70s at Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto, Nov-December 2008
Bill Jones on Artfacts.netReview of ''XIX'' at Bard's SummerFest 2006PalladioFirstPulseProjects.net
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