Jesse Jones

Jesse Jones is a Dublin-based artist. She represented Ireland at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 with the work Tremble Tremble, which toured to ICA LASALLE College of Arts, Singapore (2017); Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2018); Talbot Rice allery, University of Edinburgh (2018-19); Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (2019- 2020) and SAMSTAG Museum of Art and the Adelaide Art Festival (2021). Recent solo exhibitions include The Tower, at Rua Red, Tallaght (2022) and Syllabus, a five- year project commissioned by Kunsthal Gent, Belgium (2020-2025). Other solo exhibitions include NO MORE FUN AND GAMES, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin (2016); The Other North, Art Sonje Centre, Seoul (2013); CCA Londonderry (2013); Sleepwalkers, Hugh Lane Municipal Art Gallery, Dublin (2012); The Struggle Against Ourselves, Spike Island, Bristol; REDCAT Los Angeles (2011); The National Sculpture Factory, Cork (2011); Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto (2009); The Spectre and the Sphere, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2008).

Group exhibitions include Bones in the Attic, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2022); COME ALIVE, Het Nieuwe Muntgebouw, Utrecht (2022); The Other Side – Borderlands in Contemporary Irish Art, Dortmunder U, Dortmund (2019-20); Gaia Has 1000 Names, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul (2019); At The Gates, La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes (2019); Still I Rise, Nottingham Contemporary and De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2019); Mademoiselle, Centre régional d’art contemporain (CRAC) de Sète (2018); Against the Romance of Community, Swiss Institute, New York (2016), Radical Actions, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (2016); The Eclipse of an Innocent Eye, National Gallery, Prague (2015); Primal Architecture, IMMA, Dublin (2015); Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, Seoul Media City Biennial, Seoul Museum of Art (2014); Invisible Violence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade and ARTIUM, Basque country; The Talking Cure, Oakville Galleries Toronto and IMA Brisbane (2014). Jones also produced the major public art project In the Shadow of the State with Sarah Browne, commissioned by Artangel.

Her work is in collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin City Gallery, Hugh Lane Gallery and University of Edinburgh Art Collection. She is the 250th member of Aosdána, founded in 1981 to honour artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the creative arts in Ireland. She lectures in Fine Art at Technological University Dublin. Jones has a forthcoming solo exhibition at IKON