Les Joynes
American, born Southern California 1963. Lives and works in New York and New Delhi. Represented by Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
EDUCATION
Post-Doctorate in Fine Art, School of Art and Communications, University of São Paulo, Brazil (2017)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Faculty of Art, Environment and Technology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK (2012)
Masters in Fine Art, Musashino Art University, Japan Monbusho Award, Tokyo, Japan (2001)
Master of Arts, Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK (1997)
Master of Science, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Boston University and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium (1888)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, UK (1996)
Bachelor of Arts (cum laude), Boston University (1986)
OTHER EDUCATION
Columbia University Visiting Scholar and Scientist Program, Visual Art, Critical Theory, Columbia University, New York, USA
Art History Research, Columbia University Department of Art History and Archeology (2018-2020)
Advanced university curriculum design research, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (2016-2018)
Studio Masterclass, James Rosenquist, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Taiwan Ministry of Education Huayu Scholar National Cheng Kung University, Tainan
AWARDS AND RESEARCH
2022 Fulbright-SCA-RTP Regional Grant, Sri Lanka
2022 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award for India
2020 US Department of State, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs Grant
2019 US Department of State, American Arts Incubator ZERO1: Art and Technology Artist
2017 Fulbright Hays US Public Diplomacy Mission China Award
2017 CEC ArtsLink Foundation Grant, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017 Renmin University of China Merit Award, Beijing, China
2016 Taiwan Ministry of Education (MOE) Language Scholar National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
2016 Wheatley Foundation Fellow, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
2016 US Department of State Field Research Fellow, American Center for Mongolian Studies
2015 Fellow, University of the Arts London Research Center on Transnational Art, Identity and Nation
2014 Fulbright Hays US Public Diplomacy Award for Mongolia
2014 CEC ArtsLink Foundation Grant for Mongolia
2010 Harlem Arts Alliance Grant, New York
2009 Queenstown Council, Singapore Citation Award, Singapore
2009 Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship, National Design Museum, New York
2009 Bauhaus Foundation Fellow, Dessau, Germany
2006 Nagasawa Printmaking Residency, Awaji, Japan
2001 Musashino Art University Selection Award
2001 Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture Scholar (Monbusho) (1998-2001)
1998 Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture Japanese Language Scholar (1997-1998)
1996 Academic Honours, Central Saint Martins College of Art, London
1995 Erasmus Scholarship, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris
1995 King Sturge Award for Sculpture, London
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Lalithkala Akademi Museum, Kerala, India (2024)
Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing (2017)
Zanabazar Museum of Fine Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2014)
Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil (2013)
Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil (2012)
Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York (2011)
Treignac Projet, Correze, France (2010)
FormLAB Tokyo (performance), Tokyo, Japan (2010)
Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Berlin and Queenstown, Singapore (2009)
Åmotgård Museum, Bygstad, Norway (2008)
Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY (2008)
Space Gallery, London, UK (2005)
Casa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (1998)
Norimatsu Museum, Matsuyama, Japan (1997)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Douba Film Festival, Sichuan, China (2019)
National Zanabazar Museum of Fine Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2014)
Museum of Brazilian Arts (MAB-FAAP), Sao Paulo, Brazil (2015)
976 Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Launch for Venice Biennale (2014)
University of São Paulo, Brazil (2013)
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea (2012)
Fenberger Museum, Nagano, Japan (2012)
University of Minnesota, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2010)
Welsh Museum of Modern Art, Wales, UK (2010)
Exit 11, curated by Luc Fierens and Benoit Piret, Grand-Leez, Belgium (2010)
San Diego State University, curated by Bibiana Padilla Maltos, San Diego, CA (2010)
Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil (2010)
Bauhaus Foundation, Singapore (2009)
New General Catalog, New York (2007)
Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY (2007)
Sandra Bürgel Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2007)
South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2006)
Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2006)
CBGB, New York, New York, NY (2006)
Art Fair Tokyo, Japan (2005)
Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2005)
Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2005)
Bergstübl Mitte, Berlin, Germany (2004)
Klaus Winichner, Berlin (2003)
Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2003)
Tactical Museum/ AIT, Tokyo, Japan (2002)
Maejima Art Center, Curated by Roger McDonald, Okinawa, Japan (2002)
Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2001)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2001)
Gallery 4a, Sydney (2001)
Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Korea (2001)
Nylon Gallery, London, UK (2000)
Asahi Contemporary Art 2000, Tokyo, Japan (2000)
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand (1999)
Tatsumi Orimoto Space, Kawasaki, Japan (1999)
Milch Gallery, London, UK (1996)
Barbican, London, UK (1995)
CURATING
2024 Chief Curator and Founder, Inclusive Biennial (www.inclusivebiennial.com), New Delhi, India (Upcoming)
2022 Curator, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India
2018 Curator, FormLAB at Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014 Curator, FormLAB at Zanabazar National Museum of Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2012 Curator, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2010 Curator, FormLAB at Treignac Projet,, Treignac, France
1999 Curator, Networking - 100 artists in collaboration with Japan-UK Cultural Year. P House, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Curatorial Assistant, Taipei Biennial, Sites of Desire Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
1997 Curatorial Assistant, Nanjo and Associates, Tokyo, Japan
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Beijing Inside Out Art Museum, China (Fulbright Hays Mission China Award)
CEC-Arts Link, St. Petersburg, Russia (CEC Grant)
Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil (ResArtis)
Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea (ResArtis)
FormLAB, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulom Brazil
Treignac Projet, France (HAA Grant)
Toosneger Foundation-Dordrecht Residency, Holland
Abbey Fellowship, National Academy Museum, New York
Nagasawa Woodblock Printmaking Fellowship, Awaji, Japan
Poznan Summer Academy Residency, Poznan, Poland
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Өнөөдөр (Unuduur), Mongolian national newspaper - Interview with Les Joynes (2014).
China Central Television (CCTV), Beijing (2014).
Kim, Hee-young, Seoul Foundation for Art & Culture, Korea, An Archaeology of Time: Les Joynes (2012).
Epoca São Paulo (magazine), Exposição transforma Museu Brasileiro da Escultura em laboratório criativo (2012).
Cultura e Arte (magazine), São Paulo, FormLAB ganha primeira versão no Brasil (2012).
Colhera da Culture (magazine), São Paulo, (2012)
Form Laboratory: O mar de objetos descartados como lixo nas cidades se transforma em arte nas mãos do artista Les Joynes (2012).
TVO-São Paulo, Les Joynes (Televised Interview), São Paulo, Brazil (2012).
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 (2008).
Gossart, Séverine, Columbia University Oral History Archives, New York (2007).
Kobe Shimbun (newspaper), Japan (2006)
Commons & Sense (magazine), Tokyo, Japan (2002).
Savannah, Gae, Sculpture Magazine, Washington DC (2002).
Japan Design (magazine), Tokyo, Japan (2001).
Charlesworth, J.J. The Raft, Art Monthly, London (2000)
WORKS IN COLLECTION
Museu de Arte Brasileira (MAB), São Paulo, Brazil.
Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil.
The City of Awaji, Japan.
Norimatsu Museum, Japan.
Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture/ The City of Seoul, Korea.
Private collections in the UK, Japan, Belgium, France and the US.
SELECTED WRITING AND PUBLISHED PAPERS
Reclaiming Artists Research (review), Journal for Artistic Research, London (2020)
FormLAB: Interfacing Technology with Site, ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Art, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea (2019)
Artist Centric Practices in the Museum of Tomorrow, [book] Museum2050 and Long Art Museum, Shanghai (2019)
Emerging dialogues in teaching, evaluation and curriculum development, Critical Practices, New York, (2018)
Intercultural Collaboration in the Arts: Shamanism, Ritual in Brazil, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (2018)
Higher Education at the Crossroads: Central Asia American Center for Mongolian Studies (2018)
Going Beyond: Art as Adventure (Cambridge Scholars, Nottingham, UK, 2018)
Anywhere v.1. Parsons The New School for Design; Project Anywhere; and School of Creative Industries, ISBN 978-0-692-32297-0, (2016)
Selected Artists from China and the US at Beijing’s Inside Out Art Museum (catalogue), LeRoy Neiman Foundation, New York (2014)
The Invisible and the Transvisible in Contemporary Art, Singapore, Journal for
Visual Culture, University of California, Irvine (Joynes and Basu, 2011
Yuichi Higashionna at NADIF Tokyo, Flash Art, Milan (Oct 2000)
Yoshitomo Nara at Ginza Art Space, Art in America (1999)
British art in the 1990s: David Thorpe and Brian Griffith
Springer, Vienna (1998).
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS, TEACHING AND RESEARCH
2009-present
Columbia University Visiting Scholars and Scientist Program, Columbia University, New York. Research Scholar on Transcultural Practices (2020-2022); Visual Cultures (2018-2020), Contemporary Art Education (2016-2018); Art and Philosophy (2010-2012); Experimental Practices (2008-2010)
2022-2022
Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar on Art, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India.
Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar. Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Award 2022.
2022-2022
Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India.
2022-2022
Visiting Professor of Art and Research Scholar, Royal University of Bhutan, Takse, Kingdom of Bhutan.
2013-present
Professor of Record for Modern and Contemporary Art and Experimental Practices. Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. (2013-present)
2018-present
Visiting Professor, Cultural Entrepreneurship. Post-Doctoral Liaison, Peking University, Beijing, China.
2015-2015
TrAIN Research Fellow in Visual Art, University of the Arts London Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN).
UAL doctoral masterclass on arts practice and research. (2015).
2015-2015
Visiting teaching on MA Programmes, University of Lincoln and University of Coventry, UK
1998-2001
BA Fine Art Tutor and Instructor, Department of Sculpture, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan.
WORKSHOPS AND RESEARCH
2022 Fulbright-Nehru Workshop, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Managment (GITAM), Visakh, A.P., India. June, 2022 workshop on curriculum design and artistic research in academia.
2022 Thought Leadership Institute, Lexington, KY, - “Towards the Future of Education” (Panel discussion with education experts), June 2022.
2014-2015 American Center of Mongolian Studies (ACMS), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Arts in Education in Mongolia (funded US Department of State in collaboration with Mongolian State University for Art & Culture, Ulaanbaatar.
2015 University of the Arts London, London, UK (2015). Transnational art systems and nomadic practices (including that of FormLAB).
2013 University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2014-2015) Intercultural and interdisciplinary art practice. Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jose Batista Dal Farra, Director, Departmento des Artes Cenicas (CAC).
2019-present US Department of State and Fulbright, Washington DC. Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award at School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2021-2022); US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (CDAC), Colombia (2019-2021); Public Diplomacy Award China (2017); Fulbright-Hays US Public Diplomacy Award Mongolia (2014)
2012 Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK. Doctoral Research on emergence of new geographically dispersed art-making practice. (2012)
National Academy Museum, New York. Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship (2009)
Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau Germany. Fellow, Bauhaus Foundation Kolleg Program, Dessau, Germany (2008-2009)
Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dalsåsen, Norway Research on Nordic mythology, and site-specific art installations. (2008)
Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan. MEXT/Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture Research Scholar on East Asian Visual Cultures (1998-2001)
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK. MA Dissertation on American popular culture, art and film. (1996-1997)
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris,Erasmus Scholar in Fine Art (1995)
SELECTED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2022 The future of art education, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Managment (GITAM), Visakh, A.P., India. Workshop on curriculum design and artistic research.
2019 The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. “Contemporary arts and collaboration in Mongolia”
2018 Long Art Museum, Shanghai (2018), Lecture on the museum of the future and artist-centric installation in China
2017 Bard Abroad Smolny College Program, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2017) “Contemporary curating and international cooperation”.
2017 Pro Arte Foundation, Saint Petersburg, Russia“Contemporary art and collaboration between the US, China, Mongolia, Brazil, & Singapore”
2016 Mongolian State University of Art and Culture, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2015, 2016) Visiting Lecturer on American Modern and Contemporary Art Lecture Series.
2015 Cambridge University, UK (2015) Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.Presenter on Intercultural art collaboration
2001 Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (1998-2001)
(2000-2012) University of Lincoln (May, 2014), University of Coventry (Feb 2014); Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea; Lasalle College of Art, Singapore; Nanyang Academy of Art, National University of Singapore (2009); University of California, Santa Barbara (2006); Otis School of Art, Los Angeles (2000).
ARTIST SELECTION JURIES AND BOARDS
CEC ArtsLink Jury Reviewer for Artists, New York (2021)
CEC ArtsLink Jury Reviewer for Art Managers, Curators, New York (2021)
Editorial Board Member for ProjectAnywhere [journal] University of Melbourne, Australia and Parsons School of Art, New York (2015-present)
Art and Anthropology Committee, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, London (2020-present)
Anthropology and Environment Committee, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, London (2015-present)
Nordic Artist Center, Selection Committee, Norway (2008)
Harlem Arts Alliance Grant Selection Jury, New York (2010)
SELECTED CONFERENCES
Future of Education, Thought Leadership Institute, Lexington, KY (2022)
25th International Symposium on Electronic Art Interfacing Technology with Site, Gwangju, South Korea (2019)
Museum 2050, Long Art Museum, Shanghai (2018)
Young Researcher Conference, Mongolia. Co-Chair (2016)
International Committee, College Art Association conference (2015-present).
Japan Startup NYC, Microsoft, New York (2016)
Presidents Forum on Higher Educaiton, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (2016)
Keynote Speaker, Young Researcher Conference Mongolia, National University of Education and the American Center for Mongolian Studies (2015).
Royal Geographical Society Conference, London (2013)
Editorial Committee, ProjectAnywhere Conference, Parsons/ New School, New York (2015).
College Art Association conference, Chicago Panelist, Artists’ Workspaces: Portability, Contingency, Virtuality (2014)
European League of Institutes in the Arts (ELIA) conferences, Seoul (2012) and Vienna (2013).
LANGUAGES
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Mongolian.
CONTACT
Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, 532 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001