Les Joynes (US)
Site Specific Fieldwork and Residencies
Les Joynes
Lives and works in New York. BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art, London; MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London; MFA, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Faculty of Art, Environment and Technology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
About: Les Joynes (US) is an artist based in New York. Founder of FormLAB - a site-specific geographically-dispersed art series he will be coming to India in September 2021 as Fulbright scholar to create experimental performances and documentary. His contributions have featured in Art in America, Art Monthly, Flash Art, Commons and Sense, NHK Japan, Journal for Artistic Research and recent books Artist Centric Practice, New Institutional Models: China’s Cultural Landscape by Mid-Century (2019) Long Museum, Shanghai; Going Beyond: Art as Adventure (2018), Cambridge Scholars; Art and Research at the Outermost Limits of Site Specificity, Newcastle, Australia and the Journal for Visual Culture, University of California. He is represented by Gallery Thomas Jäckel in New York.
As both a contemporary artist and curator he has exhibited in museums and galleries in the UK France, Japan, Germany, China, Mongolia, Korea and Australia. He was member of the curatorial team for the Taipei Biennial “Sites of Desire” exhibition in 1998. He is recipient of the 2021-2022 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award for India.
China
As resident Artist at the Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum I created an inside-out laboratory including performances in Beijing markets, back streets and improvising a new form of Basketball on the Great Wall of China. Recipient of the Fulbright US Public Diplomacy Award.
Mongolia
As CEC ArtsLink grantee led overland expedition to Mongolian Border with Siberia to research Shamanic rituals and created multi-media installation at Zanabazar Museum of Fine Art, Ulaanbaatar. Recipient of the Fulbright US Public Diplomacy Award.
Brazil
Sponsored by the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and local sponsors turned a wing of the museum into a laboratory. Over four weeks created live artmaking sessions open to the public. Constructed multi-media assemblage sculptures, Laboratory habitats inside and outside the museu, video performances and worked with local Candomble group to perform rituals at hte museum.
Concept
FormLAB is the studio turned inside-out. it is a space for me to learn about local visual cultures. In each residency I create a space where I and others can observe the processes of art-making and build cross-cultural dialogue.
France
Working with an international crew from the US, UK, France, Taiwan, Mexico and Germany FormLAB created a multimedia solo exhibition at Treignac Projets, a residency and museum space in Central France creating an art-making assembly-line (2010).
Korea
Awarded the Seoul Foundation for Art Grant was part of four month residency in Seoul (2012) to create artworks with local Korean artists. Collaborated with recycling company to “up-cycle” toys.
Russia
Awarded a 30 day grant and CEC ArtsLink Russia residency in Saint Petersburg (2017) I created a series of local interventions that explored the sites of former Soviet Monuments. Conducted researching fieldwork in and around St. Petersburg on the relationships of monuments to site and memory.
Selected Exhibitions
Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York (upcoming) solo
Douba Art Festival Sichuan (2019)
Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing. US Fulbright-Hays Award (2017) solo
Museu de Arte Brasileiro Sao Paolo (2015)
Zanabazar Museum of Fine Art, Ulaanbaatar US Fulbright-Hays Award (2014) solo
976 Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Venice Biennale Launch Exhibition (2014)
Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil (2013) solo
Escola de Comunicações e Artes, University of São Paulo, Brazil (2013)
The Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil (2012) solo
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea (2012)
Fenberger Museum, Nagano, Japan (2012)
Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York (2011) solo
Treignac Projet, Correze, France (2010) solo
University of Minnesota, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2010)
Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil (2010)
FormLAB Tokyo (public performance), Tokyo, Japan (2010) solo
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)
Bauhaus Foundation, Queenstown, Singapore (2009) solo
Åmotgård Museum, Bygstad, Norway (2008) solo
Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY (2008) solo
The Guy Debord Show, Cur. Dan Levenson, 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)
Space Gallery, London, UK (2005) solo
Art Fair Tokyo, Japan (2005)
Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2005)
Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2005)
Bergstübl Mitte, Berlin, Germany (2004)
Albert Schweitzer spielt Johann Sebastian Bach, Klaus Winichner, Berlin (2003)
Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2003)
Tactical Museum/ AIT, Cur. Roger McDonald, Tokyo, Japan (2002)
Maejima Art Center, Cur. Roger McDonald, Okinawa, Japan (2002)
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, Korea (2001)
Nylon Gallery, London, UK (2000)
Asahi Contemporary Art 2000, Tokyo, Japan (2000)
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand (1999)
Project 304 [gallery], Bangkok, Thailand (1999)
Tatsumi Orimoto Space, Kawasaki, Japan (1999)
Casa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (1998) solo
Norimatsu Museum, Matsuyama, Japan (1997) solo
Milch Gallery, London, UK (1996)
Barbican Gallery, London, UK (1995)
Selected Residencies
Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing (2018)
CEC-Arts Link, St. Petersburg, Russia (2017)
Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil (ResArtis, 2013)
Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, Korea (ResArtis, 2012)
FormLAB, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (2012)
Treignac Projet, France (2010)
Toosneger Foundation-Dordrecht Printmaking and Painting Residency, Holland (2008)
Abbey Fellowship in Public Art, National Academy Museum, New York (2009)
Nordic Artists Center (NKD), Dalsasen, Norway (ResArtis, 2008)
Nagasawa Woodblock Printmaking Fellowship, Awaji, Japan (2006)
Poznan Summer Academy Residency, Poznan, Poland (1993 and 1994)
