Simone Jones is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist known for her kinetic artworks.
Works
Jones' early work focused on kinetic sculptures, graduating from the Ontario College of Art (now
OCAD University) with a focus on Experimental Art, and a MFA in Sculpture Installation from
York University. Her work expanded to include film, video, and performance. More recent work explores incorporating robotics, digital media and electronics in sculptural and kinetic works.
Exhibitions
In 2014, Jones was included in the
Biennale de Montreal.
In 2015, her work was included in the exhibition ''Lively Objects'' at the
Museum of Vancouver
The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) (formerly the Vancouver Museum and prior to that the Centennial Museum) is a civic history museum located in Vanier Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. The MOV is the largest civic museum in Canada and the oldest museum ...
.
In 2016, she collaborated with
Laura Millard
Laura Millard (born 1961) is a Canadian contemporary artist. She uses for her installations drawings and videos records of the marks left on the earth obtained from drones, such as traces of the tracks of skates and snowmobiles on ice in northe ...
on "Recursive Tracks" with performance work on the theme of ice in a silo interior as part of the ''In/Future'' festival with site-based
installations on the decommissioned west island of
Ontario Place.
Professional life
Between 2000 and 2003, Jones was a visiting professor at
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
in
Pittsburgh, PA.
Jones is a faculty member at the
OCAD University in 2003. She current teaches in the Integrated Media Program and the Digital Futures Program.
In 2020, Jones received OCAD's Distinguished Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award, and she started serving as Chair of the Senate for OCAD's governance body.
Personal life
Jones's life partner is writer
Hope Thompson.
References
External links
Official WebsiteArtist Vimeo Page
Canadian women artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian lesbian artists
21st-century Canadian LGBT people
Canadian installation artists
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