William E Jones’ practice is a three-decade-long investigation of socio-political issues through the lens of formal experimentation. The artist creates films, videos, photographs and books on topics ranging from the representation of gay men in sources like Eastern European pornography and police surveillance footage, to the psychedelia of Cold War military footage, to the decline of America’s industrial Midwest, to the formation and counterfeit of currency. Often working with found footage and archives but also conducting interviews and filming documentaries, Jones collages reality and makes poetic connections between seemingly distant societal codes. The artist’s works often address that which has slipped through the cracks of cultural memory, whether accidentally or not. Heavily contextualised in research, Jones presents the subject matters on screen or paper, created through experimentation with film and photography as artistic mediums. In that way, his practice attests to the role of the Artist as a social and critical commentator whose works are as real as the subject they tackle.

Los Angeles

Front International

Cleveland

Istanbul Biennial

Istanbul

Venice Biennial

Venice

Whitney Biennial

New York City

London

Photo London

Basel

Art Basel

Art New York

Kristina Kite

Shanghai

Gallery Vacancy

Zürich

Galerie Gregor Staiger

The Hole

O-Town House

Night Gallery

Detroit

Red Bull Arts

David Kordansky Gallery

Zilberman Gallery

Blum & Poe

White Cube

Düsseldorf

Galerie Max Mayer

P.P.O.W

San Francisco

Sf Camerawork

São Paulo

Vermelho

Casey Kaplan

Derek Eller

Company Gallery

Milan

Raffaella Cortese

Köln

Museum Ludwig

Columbus

Columbus Museum of Art

Århus

Aros Aarhus Art Museum

Vancouver

Rennie Museum

Copenhagen

Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Whitechapel Gallery

Stuttgart

Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart

Minneapolis

Walker Art Center

Gasworks

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Lace)

MoMA

Riverside

Riverside Art Museum

Bern

Kunsthalle Bern

Hong Kong

Para Site

Moca

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Palm Springs

Palm Springs Art Museum

Hammer Museum

Paris

Palais De Tokyo

Miami

Rubell Museum

Laxart

Bristol

Arnolfini

Cca Wattis Institute For Contemporary Arts

Genève

Centre d'Art Contemporain

Pittsburgh

Carnegie Museum

Tate Modern

Nottingham

Nottingham Contemporary

Vienna

Kunsthalle Wien

Chisenhale

Whitney Museum of American Art

Musée Du Louvre

Art In General

Rotterdam

Witte De With Center For Contemporary Art

The Andy Warhol Museum

Kadist

Yerba Buena Center For The Arts

Amsterdam

Stedelijk Museum

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Lamag

Bremen

Galerie Fur Gegenwartskunst

Gasteiz / Vitoria

Centro Cultural Montehermoso

St. Louis

Saint Louis Art Museum

William E Jones

Yale

Yale University

The Wexner Center For The Arts

Pratt Institute

University Of São Paulo

Chicago

University Of Chicago

New York University (Nyu)

University Of California, La

Valencia

California Institute Of The Arts

Film Montages (for Peter Roehr)