Les Joynes
Les Joynes is an American artist living and working in New York. He is a graduate of Central Saint Martins, London (B.A. Hons Fine Art, 1996); Goldsmiths, University of London (M.A. Fine Art, 1997); Musashino Art University (Masters in Fine Art, 2001); and Leeds Metropolitan University, UK (PhD, 2012). He was Japan Ministry of Education and Culture Scholar in Tokyo; Visiting Scholar in Art and Philosophy at Columbia University; CEC ArtsLink Grantee and Fulbright-Hays awardee. He serves on the College Arts Association International Committee and the Editorial Committee for ProjectAnywhere, University of Newcastle, Australia, a peer-reviewed arts research project exploring the outer limits of art and site specificity. He recently presented his work at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University and convened a PhD Fine Art master-class at Chelsea College of Art, London. He is Fellow at the University of the Arts London Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN).
American, Born Southern California 1963. Lives and works in New York.
EDUCATION
2017 Post Doctorate University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012 PhD Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
2001 Masters in Fine Art Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1997 M.A. Fine Art Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
1996 B.A. (Hons) Fine Art Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
1986 B.A. (Cum Laude)in History Boston University, USA
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 US Department of State Zero1: Art and Technology Artist
2017 CEC ArtsLink Foundation New York grant for St. Petersburg, Russia
2017 Fulbright Hays US Public Diplomacy Mission China Award, Beijing
2017 Renmin University Merit Award (School of Art), Beijing, China
2016 US Department of State sponsored Fellowship, Mongolia
2015 Visiting Fellow, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), University of the Arts London (UAL), UK
2014 Fulbright Hays US Public Diplomacy Award for Mongolia
2014 CEC ArtsLink Foundation Grant for Mongolia
2009 Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship, National Academy Museum, New York
2008 The Nordic Artists Center, Norway
2009 Queenstown Council, Singapore Citation Award, Singapore
2009 Bauhaus Foundation Artist Fellowship, Dessau, Germany
2001 Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture, Scholarship (1997-2001)
1995 Erasmus Scholarship, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris
1995 King Sturge Award for Sculpture, London
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing (FormLAB)
2014 Zanabazar Museum of Fine Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (FormLAB)
2013 Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 The Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2010 Treignac Projet, Correze, France
2008 Åmotgård Museum, Bygstad, Norway
2008 Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY
2005 Space Gallery, London, UK
1998 Casa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Norimatsu Museum, Matsuyama, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 976 Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Launch exhibition for Mongolia at Venice Biennale
2013 University of São Paulo, Brazil
2012 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, South Korea
2012 Fenberger Museum, Nagano, Japan
2010 University of Minnesota, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil
2010 Welsh Museum of Modern Art, Wales, UK
2010 Exit 11, Grand-Leez, Belgium
2010 San Diego State University, cur. Bibiana Padilla Maltos, San Diego, CA
2007 The Guy Debord Show, Cur. Dan Levenson, New General Catalog, New York
2007 Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Sandra Bürgel Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008 South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 CBGB, New York, New York, NY
2005 Art Fair Tokyo, Japan
2005 Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Bergstübl Mitte, Berlin, Germany
2003 Albert Schweitzer spielt Johann Sebastian Bach, with Klaus Winichner, Berlin
2003 Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Tactical Museum/ AIT, Cur. by Roger McDonald, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Maejima Art Center, Cur. by Roger McDonald, Okinawa, Japan
2001 Mizuma Gallery, Cur. Roger McDonald, Tokyo, Japan
2001 The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Cur. Emil Goh, Sydney, Australia
2001 Gallery 4a, Sydney. Cur. Emil Goh, Sydney, Australia
2001 Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, South Korea
2000 Nylon Gallery, London, UK
2000 Asahi Contemporary Art 2000, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Bangkok Experimental Film Festival. Curator, Project 304, Bangkok
1999 Tatsumi Orimoto Space, Kawasaki, Japan
1996 Milch Gallery, London, UK
1995 Barbican, London, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 Columbia University Global Center Beijing
2014 US Department of State, Ulaanbaatar and Washington, D.C
2014 Өнөөдөр (Unuduur), Mongolian newspaper – Interview with Les Joynes
2014 China Central Television (CCTV), Beijing
2012 Kim, Hee-young, Seoul Foundation for Art & Culture, An Archaeology of Time: Les Joynes
2012 Epoca São Paulo (magazine), Sao Paulo
2012 Cultura e Arte (magazine), São Paulo, FormLAB primeira versão no Brasil
2012 Colhera da Culture (magazine), São Paulo, FormLAB
2012 TVO-São Paulo, Les Joynes (Televised Interview), São Paulo, Brazil
2008 Sele, Katrine, Interview: Parallel Universes, Amotgaard, Bygstad, Firde (newspaper), Norway
2008 Ewald, Gritta, Dagbeeld (magazine), Rotterdam, Netherlands
2008 Fujimori, Manami, In the City on the Move: Featured artists: New York, Boon (magazine), Japan
2006 Gossart, Séverine, Columbia University Oral History Archives, New York
2006 Kobe Shimbun (newspaper), Japan
2002 Commons & Sense (magazine), Tokyo, Japan
2002 Savannah, Gae, Sculpture Magazine, Washington DC
2001 Japan Design (magazine), Tokyo, Japan
2000 Charlesworth, J.J. The Raft, Art Monthly, London
COLLECTIONS
Museu de Arte Brasileira (MAB), São Paulo, Brazil
Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil
The City of Awaji, Japan
Norimatsu Museum, Matsuyama, Japan
Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture/ The City of Seoul, South Korea
Private collections in the UK, Japan, Belgium, France, China and the US
RESIDENCIES
2018 Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
2017 CEC-ArtsLink, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, South Korea
2012 Toosneger Printmaking and Painting Residency, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2010 Treignac Projet, France
2009 Abbey Fellowship in Public Art, National Academy Museum, New York
2008 Nordic Artists Center (NKD), Dalsasen, Norway
2006 Nagasawa Mokuhanga Woodblock Printmaking Fellowship, Awaji, Japan
1994 Poznan Summer Academy Residency, Poland (1993 and 1994)
LECTURES
2018 Creative Industries Program, Peking University, Beijing, China
2017 Curatorial Program, Smolny/ Bard College, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017 Pro-Arte, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017 Renmin University, Beijing, China (2013-present)
2017 Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
2017 Columbia University Global Center Beijing, China
2016 Pulse/ Play, Pulse Art Fair and The Cultivist, New York, NY
2016 College Arts Association Conference, New York, NY
2015 Cambridge University, UK
2015 Mongolian National University of Education, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2015 Mongolian National University for Art and Culture, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2015 PhD Master-class on Interdisciplinary art, University of the Arts London
2015 National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2014 College Arts Association Conference, Chicago, IL
2014 American Center for Mongolian Studies/ US Embassy, Mongolia
2012 Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Columbia University Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, New York
2006 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2009 LaSalle College of Art, Singapore and National University of Singapore, Singapore
1999 Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (1999-2001)