Sarah Jones (artist)

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Sarah Jones (born 1959) is a visual artist who works with photography. She gained international recognition in the mid 1990’s coinciding with the completion of an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College in London in 1996. Her photographic technique highlights the relationship between her life-size subjects – domestic spaces and people, often adolescent girls – and the spectator.

[edit] Career

Jones's work has been included in numerous exhibitions, nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include: Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid; Le Consortium, Dijon; Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; Maureen Paley, London and Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Group exhibitions include; Tate Britain; Tate Liverpool; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden; Orange County Museum, Los Angeles, and Norton Museum of Art, Florida. Her work is represented in both public and private collections nationally and internationally.

Jones is currently a research fellow at the University of Derby and a tutor at the Royal College of Art in London. Sarah Jones is represented by Maureen Paley, London and Anton Kern Gallery, New York.

[edit] Awards

Jones has received a number of awards, including ACE and a recent residency at Yaddo Artists Colony, Saratoga NY.

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