Ben Jones

Untitled III, 2018, acrylic gouache on canvas, 36 x 48 in., 91.5 x 122 cm.

Untitled VIII, 2018, acrylic gouache on canvas, 36 x 48 in., 91.5 x 122 cm.

Ben Jones Comics Panel #32 (New), 2016, oil stick on canvas, 36 x 36 in., 91 x 91 cm.

Ben Jones Comics Panel #29 (Lady Bird), 2016, oil stick on canvas, 36 x 36 in., 91 x 91 cm.

Road Trip II, 2012, The Hole, New York, NY

Road Trip II, 2012, The Hole, New York, NY

Ladder Series, 2015, acrylic gouache on MDF, 94 x 47 x 1 in., 239 x 119.5 x 2.5 cm.

Ladder, 2015, Acrylic gouache on MDF, 44 x 92 x 1 in., 112 x 234 x 2.5 cm.

Post Analog Studio, 2019, The Hole, New York, NY

Comics, 2016, The Hole, New York, NY

Comics, 2016, The Hole, New York, NY

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Ben Jones holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA. Jones has exhibited works in a variety of solo and group exhibitions internationally at MOCA Los Angeles, Loyal Gallery in Sweden, MACRO Museum in Rome, the Bergen Kunsthall in Norway, Max Wigram Gallery and the TATE in London, Peres Projects in Berlin and Deitch Projects, Foxy Production, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Hole in New York, NY, among others. His most recent solo exhibition was at ACE Gallery in Los Angeles, his most recent museum solo at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas. His work has been discussed in Art in America, The New York Times, i-D, Tokion, and ArtReview.

Jones is the Creative Director at Bento Box Entertainment and has also produced work for the Simpsons, WU TANG COMICS, created television shows for Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, FOX and FXX along with occasional music video production and furniture making. Jones’ work is a mash-up of all of his passions in life, with equally balanced influences from music, graphic design, technology, entertainment and art. His works seem to envision a minimalistic version of the future, pulsing with sharp color and an ambiguous narrative regarding where technology seems to be driving our culture.

ben jones

b. 1977, Pittsburgh, PA

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

education

BFA Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

select solo exhibitions

Road Trip II, The Hole, New York, NY

2018

Ben Jones Comics, The Hole, New York, NY

2016

Ben Jones, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2014

Ben Jones: The Video, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2012-2013

Concept Unification, Gallerie Loyal, Malmö, Sweden

2010

Focus, The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX

2010

Beehaven, Paul Johnson Trading Co. at Design Basel, Miami, FL

2009

New Dark Age, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2009

Celebrate the New Dark Age, Andreas Melas Presents, Athens, Greece

2008

D.I.Why?, Foxy Production, New York, NY

2005
select group exhibitions and screenings

Carry On, The Hole, Basel, CH

2019

Post Analog Studio, The Hole, New York, NY

2019

ALAC, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

2018

Post-Analog Painting II, The Hole, New York, NY

2017

Transmission LA: AV Club, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

2012

New York Minute, The Garage, Moscow, Russia

2011

New York Minute, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy

2009

eARTS BEYOND, Shanghai International Media Gallery, Shanghai, China

2009

It Aint Fair, West Of Wynwood, Miami, FL

2008

Materialized, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

2008

Mail Order Monsters, Max Wigrum, London, UK

2008

Heavy Light, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2008

Mail Order Monsters, Andreas Melas Presents, Athens, Greece

2008

Bitten!, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007

Mail Order Monsters, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2007

Macronauts, Andreas Melas Presents, Athens, Greece

2007

New Mutants, CANADA, New York, NY

2007

Dr. Doo, MoMA, New York, NY

2007

Mail Order Monsters, Perez Projects, Berlin, Germany

2007

4 Large Works, Community Outreach, London, Ontario, Canada

2007
select paper rad exhibitions and screenings

Tha Click: Beige and Paper Rad, Event Gallery, London, UK

2007

Playback, Musee d’ Art Moderne del la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France

2007

Maximum Approach, Artscape, Baltimore, MD

2007

Plug Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007

Ocularis, The Museum of Modern Art Film Exhibitions, New York, NY

2007

Mixed Signals, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY

2007

The Game, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2006

Armory Show, EAI presents Paper Rad, New York, NY

2006

Panic Room, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

2006

72 More Artists to Be Announced, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Take it to the Net, Vilma Gold, London, UK

2006

Cosmic Wonder, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2006

Welcome To The Real World (screening), BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan

2006

Chippendale.Hong.Lyon.Paper Rad, Gallery Agniel, Providence, RI

2006

SuperMarioMovie BEIGE/Paper Rad, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2005

Mixed Doubles, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2005

Shit, Printed Matter, New York, NY

2005

Mixtape Clubhouse, Paper Rad, Space1026 solo show, Philadelphia, PA

2005

The Seed Market, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005

Breaking and Entering, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY

2005

WITH US AGAINST REALITY, OR AGAINST US!, Willy Wonka, Inc. Oslo, and Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway

2005

Rhizome ArtBase 101 “extreme animalz: the movie: part 1” with Matt Barton, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2005

Op…Ish, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

2005

Tedious Limbs, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2005

The Art Review, 25 emerging artists, Phillips de Pury, New York, NY

2005

Armory Show, EAI presents Paper Rad, New York, NY

2005

Reverse Engineers, Carnegie Arts Center, North Tonowanda, NY

2005

3D, Foxy Production, New York, NY

2004

Collage Party, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY (curated by Scenic in conjunction with Paul Butler)

2004

Daydream, Nation Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2004

The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK

2004

Face Off, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY

2004

public.exe, Exit Art, New York, NY

2004

tuxdog.org (online project and live performance), Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY

2004

Let’s Get Tested, Curated by Astria Suparak for The 50th anniversary of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany

2004

Beaver College, SSNova, Cincinnati, OH

2004

Shazam: Contemporary Artists and the Influence of Comics Creative Alliance Baltimore, Maryland Institute College of Art, MD

2004

(K-RAA-K)3 Festival, KC Belgie, Hasselt, Belgium

2004

New Counter-Media-Culture Collectives, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

2003

Blinky 2: The Screening, Tate Britain, London, UK (curated by Foxy Production)

2003

Radical Entertainment Institute of Contemporary Art (screening), London, UK (curated by Lauren Cornell and Lina Dzuverovic-Russell)

2003

Another Bad Creation (screenings and live performance), Deitch Projects New York, NY (curated by Paper Rad/BEIGE)

2003

Psyche-Out 2k3 New York Underground Film Festival 2003 (video screening and performance by Paper Rad’s Extreme Animals), Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

2003

The Platinum Tapes Ocularis Cinema (screening), Brooklyn NY (curated by Lauren Cornell)

2003

Blinky, Foxy Production, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Burn In, (screening), University of Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, WI

2003

What Forcefield Was (screening of collaborative animation with Forcefield), School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

2003
select performances

A Technicolor Happening, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2015

Problems Solvers, Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI

2008

Education for Dead Adults, New Museum, New York, NY

2008

Problem Solvers, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT

2008

Dr.Doo, The Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece

2007

Pop Rally, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2007

They Heart the Internet, The Kitchen, New York, NY

2006

Extreme Animals Doo Man Group, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2005

Tedious Limbs Doo Man Group, Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY

2005

Transmodern Age Doo Man Group, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

2005

Movies With Live Soundtracks Tour Filmmakers (traveling screening), Pittsburgh, PA

2004

Year of the Troll Tour (traveling exhibition), Foxy Production, New York, NY

2004

Summer of HTML Tour, Team Gallery, New York, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA and various venues (incl. collaborative performances with BEIGE Programming Ensemble)

2003

New Tech Lo-Fi: an EAI presentation (performance and video screening), Ocularis Cinema, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Music Video Live Showcase Dr. Doo, North Six, Brooklyn, NY (presented by New York Underground Film Festival)

2003

TGIDIY Foxy Production, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Another Bad Creation (screenings and live performance), Deitch Projects, New York, NY (curated by Paper Rad/BEIGE)

2003

The Totem Tour Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL and BrewHouse, Pittsburgh, PA (live music and video performances with Forcefield, Dear Raindrop, Barkley’s Barnyard Critters)

2002

HTML-HELL, with Cory Arcangel/BEIGE, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

2002

Paper Rad vs. Beige Records Rave Battle Computer Language and Coding Symposium, Big Orbit Sound Lab, Buffalo, NY

2002
select publications

“New Painting and Drawing,” Ben Jones, PictureBox, New York, NY

2008

“Mail Order Monsters,” Kathy Grayson, ed. Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2008

“Wu-Tang Comics,” Ben Jones, PictureBox, New York, NY

2008

“The Best American Comics: 2007,” edited by Chris Ware, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA

2007

“Panic Room,” Kathy Grayson, ed. Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2007

“Pig Tails/Cartoon Workshop,” Ben Jones and Jessica Ciocci. PictureBox, New York, NY

2006

“Trash Talking DVD,” Paper Rad. Load Records, Providence, RI

2006

“Bad Cartridge,” “Girl” animations for Beck Hanson’s 8-Bit Remix DVD, Interscope Records

2005

“Paper Rad, BJ and Da Dogs,” Ben Jones and Paper Rad, PictureBox, New York, NY

2005

“Live Through This,” Jeffrey Deitch and Kathy Grayson, eds. Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2005

“Kramer’s Ergot 5,” Sammy Harkham, ed. Avodah Books, Beverly Hills, CA

2004

“Black, White, and Read All Over,” Paper Rad. Exit Art, New York, NY

2004
select press

Dan Nadel, “Punk and Hippie,” Art in America, May 1

2016

Steven Zultanski, “Technically Funny: Ben Jones on Television,” Art in America, May 19

2016

Nicole Rudick, “Lines of Thought: An Interview with Ben Jones,” Hyperallergic, November 5

2016

Janelle Zara, “Collide-o-Scope,” W Magazine, July 15

2015

Natology, “An Introduction to Video Painting: Ben Jones,” culturedesigners, January 1

2013

Kathy Grayson, “Ben Jones,” i-D Magazine, February

2010

Vivian Host, “Hyper Hyper,” Xlr8r Magazine, Jan/Feb

2007

Caitlin Jones, “On & Off: the Expanding Domain of Internet Art,” NYFA Interactive

2006

Miller, Ken, “Paper Rad,” Tokion, Oct/Nov

2006

Annette Monnier, “Paper Rad!!!!!!!!,” Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, August 10

2006

Abraham Orden, “San Francisco Days,” Artnet, October 10

2006

Roberta Smith, “Art in Review: Looking for Graphic Lightning From Fort Thunder,” The New York Times, December 16

2006

Sarah Boxer, “Web Works That Insist On Your Full Attention,” The New York Times, June 28

2005

Lauren Cornell, “Noise,” Nylon GUYS, September

2005

Leslie Hoffman, “Free Rad-icals,” Whirl, October

2005

Daniel Kunitz and Joao Ribas, “The ArtReview 25: Emerging US Artists,” ArtReview, Volume V3N3

2005

Jennifer Papararo, “Paper Rad: The Rainbow Graffiti Will Fade,” C Magazine, Issue #85, Spring

2005

Roberta Smith, “Art in Review: Cory Arcangel and Paper Rad,” The New York Times, February 4

2005

Ben Tarnoff, “Interview With Paper Rad,” The Harvard Advocate, June

2005

Christina Vassallo, “Infinite Exhibition,” Digital & Video Art Fair: A Tribute to Bruce Nauman, New York, NY

2005

“Feel The Heat: What’s Hot Now?” Paper Magazine, August 2004

2004

Rachel Green, “Internet Art (World of Art Series),” Thames and Hudson, London, UK

2004

Roberta Smith, “”The Infinite Fill Group Show,” The New York Times, June 6

2004

Holland Cotter, “Doing Their Own Thing, Making Art Together,” The New York Times, January 19

2003

Jerry McPheerson, “Crazy Cartoons: Paper Rad scare the shit out of cute,” Vice Magazine, Vol. 9, No.9

2003

Ian White, “Hacker’s Delight,” ArtReview, September

2003

Ian White, “Romancing the Black Box,” Mute Magazine, Autumn

2003

Holland Cotter, “THE CRITICS/10 MOMENTS,” The New York Times, December 29

2002

Untitled III, 2018, acrylic gouache on canvas, 36 x 48 in., 91.5 x 122 cm.

Untitled VIII, 2018, acrylic gouache on canvas, 36 x 48 in., 91.5 x 122 cm.

Ben Jones Comics Panel #32 (New), 2016, oil stick on canvas, 36 x 36 in., 91 x 91 cm.

Ben Jones Comics Panel #29 (Lady Bird), 2016, oil stick on canvas, 36 x 36 in., 91 x 91 cm.

Road Trip II, 2012, The Hole, New York, NY

Road Trip II, 2012, The Hole, New York, NY

Ladder Series, 2015, acrylic gouache on MDF, 94 x 47 x 1 in., 239 x 119.5 x 2.5 cm.

Ladder, 2015, Acrylic gouache on MDF, 44 x 92 x 1 in., 112 x 234 x 2.5 cm.

Post Analog Studio, 2019, The Hole, New York, NY

Comics, 2016, The Hole, New York, NY

Comics, 2016, The Hole, New York, NY

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