Alice Z Jones is a British-Jamaican artist from London, studying at the University of Arts Berlin as part of the Lensbased Class. Jones draws from both a European tradition and the traditions of Black and Caribbean Diasporas - negotiating lost histories, imposed histories, institutional invisibility, identities and mis/representation. Jones works with a diverse variety of media including printmaking, painting, textiles, sculpture and sound; focusing on the exploration, creation and recreation of languages of resistance and transformation.
BA Russian and German, Queen Mary University of London, 2016
BA Fine Art, University of Arts Berlin
BA Fine Art, Fall Semester 2021-22, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
SHOWS
Berlin, 2024: listening session (live), The Shadows that Linger, 3HD / Creamcake, HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Berlin, 2024: listening session (live), Makayabundo Social Club, aequa
Berlin, 2024: listening session (live), Einhundert and Refuge Worldwide, HVW8 Berlin
Paris, 2024: screening of short film Alicia NY, Ẅ XOOL Festival
Online, 2024: streaming of film CAST-OFF, part of curation Walking with Mountains by Ali Yass, aashra
Berlin, 2024: listening session (live), collaboration with Sarah Zeryab, Lyrical Femme, Refuge Worldwide
Berlin, 2024: Mass (all that you touched), part of the exhibition Hold me grieving, Gorki KIOSK, curated by Sunny Pfalzer and Anna Ehrenstein
Online, 2024: Dream A11 (tide), audio composition for sonic petition RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY by PTP
Online, 2023: Until the Morning (letters of grief), mix for OROKO radio
Stuttgart, 2023: composer/sound designer for The trouble with disorderly detail (audio), Commissioned by Ella den Elzen for The trouble with disorderly detail, Wunderkammer Artificialia Naturalia
Berlin, 2023: Mass (all that you touched), part of ENDLESS HEART by EIA001, MaHalla OPEN: The Unleashing of the Unlimited for Berlin Art Week, MaHalla
Berlin, 2023: video for Curating through Conflict with Care, nGbKZürich, 2023: CAST-OFF, part of screening: E.N.C coordinated by fromheretillnow, PARA/SITE O.SINENSIS curated by Lhaga Khoondhor, Gessnerallee
Berlin, 2022: composition of three audio works for collaboration with Cashmere Radio and Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Sound as Social Sculpture
Berlin, 2022: Schulz-Stübner Prize for Painting exhibition with Ali Yass and Laura Suryani Thedja, UdK
Berlin, 2022: poetry reading for TABLOID press, KWIA
Kassel, 2022: sound work, contribution to exhibition Lensbased Variety Show and Tell at Temporary Home, documenta 15
Kassel, 2022: sound work, contribution to Mad Time Warp, a part of Party Office’s project Queer Time: Kinships & Architectures, documenta 15, also shown in -, Lithuania: 48hr radio live at Nida and in Berlin as a part of let it go: Acts of Queer Anarchism curated by Party Office for "Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths", ZK/U, 2023
Leipzig, 2022: installation, works on fabric, part of exhibition y is everything so exhausting_ it's gonna hurt, SLUG___ Gallery
Berlin, 2022: sound installation READING CIRCLE (INTERMISSION), UdK
L.A., 2022: video installation, part of exhibition Einhundert verschwendete Jahre / One hundred wasted years, HVW8 L.A.
Online, 2022: radio mix Mind Meditations w/ Alice Z Jones, for Aamina Simone, N00DS RADIO
Berlin, 2022: sound installation a lullaby- tears we cry for the sleeping, dead, y is everything so exhausting, ACUD Gallery
New York, 2021: installation monuments, works on fabric, paper and steel, part of exhibition i like it, ur trash, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Berlin, 2021: sound installation, holes, a story of potential / loss, part of exhibition Out Now, curated by Isabelle Parkes, Uferhallen
Berlin, 2021: CAST-OFF, collaborative audio video work with Dis Fig [Felicia Chen], commissioned by Creamcake / 3HDTV, showing at Kunstpunkt as part of Berlin Art Week
Online, 2021: composition for compilation album Intentions, Dream A6, from record label NIA
Berlin, 2021: collaborative audio-video installation with Ashley Mclean and Eight Fang, A.B.C., part of exhibition I love the things I kill the most, DZIALDOV project space
Online, 2021: sound work and video, DRIFT
Online, 2021: sound work for Lensbased group project, Passage Exhibition, Cashmere Radio
Berlin, 2020: mammo-cartography, publication for the Schulz-Stübner Prize / UdK
Berlin, 2020: winner of the Schulz-Stübner Prize for painting 2020
Online 2020: sound work for SBVRSV mix series #18 w/ Collo, Internet Public Radio
Online, 2020: essay and sound compositions: That Silent Language, for Sounds and Words in the Lake District, commissioned by The Quietus and The Willow Herb Review, for In The Fields, Aerial Festival
Berlin, 2020: three sound compositions produced and exhibited with UNI.K – Studio for Electronic Composition, Sound art and Sound research, UdK
Berlin, 2020: mixed-media/painting, installation and sound work for Creamcake, 3HD Festival, Unhumanity: Echo Chamber, Großer Wasserspeicher
Berlin, 2020: mixed-media/painting and installation for Weitertragen- A Subjective Experience, HVW8 Gallery
Berlin, 2019: sound installation: Stonehouse, Underwood (the Promise), Steinhaus, UdK
Berlin, 2019: soundscape Acid for Andre Harris's theatre piece Acid Wedding, M.I/mi1glisse
Berlin, 2018: silk-screen costume for ROM*.COM: A 90s Trauma Workshop, Bob's Pogo Bar, Kunstwerke - KWBerlin, 2017: group production of documentary film on colonial history / reparations for Kiez-Monatsschau - Sonderausgabe: Republik Repair Festival, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
London, 2017: mono-print works and text for exhibition Creative Debuts x Meet the Artists, The Black & White Building
London, 2017: mono-print work for exhibition 56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row
ART/WORK
Online, 2023: creation of banner for the website Weaving Liberation, DFF and EDRi
Online, 2023: creation of visual ID for Decolonising Digital Rights, Weaving Liberation, DFF and EDRi
Online, 2023: illustration for Digital Freedom Fund's articles: A season of Digital Rights for All: the case for community-centred strategic litigation, by Laurence Meyer and The fight for our digital rights to health must be community-led by Dr. Mwenza Blell
Online, 2022-23: artwork and graphic design for the Digital Freedom Fund's Speaker series: Another Tech is Possible?
London, 2020: illustration and poetry, Black Fly (Sexual Health and Wellness Collective)
Berlin, 2020-21: artwork for Tiny’s Pizza x Piccolo Giardino
Berlin, 2020: illustration, Sofa MagazineLondon, 2019: artwork for EP Love me with me, Sara Guhre
Online, 2019: illustration on body positivity, BBC
Berlin, 2019: album artwork, press photography and design for silkscreen shirt for Unleash, Dis Fig
Berlin, 2018: illustration for poster and flyers, Bla Kollektiv
Berlin, 2018, 2019: illustration and graphic design for flyer and poster, InAct, No Lanta Djanto
Berlin, 2018: artwork for event and poster, Junges Forum: Rasse und Recht, Humbolt University Berlin
Berlin, 2018: artwork and graphic design for concert series FORT-DA at Radial System, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
London 2018: graphic design, Bodyshop x Babyface
London, 2018: graphic design, Levis x Babyface
London, 2018: illustration and poem, Sweet Thang Zine
London, 2018: illustration for Sugarcane poster, Obongjahar and Yussef Dayes
Online, 2018: illustration and poetry for Venus Instagram takeover, Zeit Magazin
London, 2017-2020: artwork and illustration, gal-dem magazine (print and online)
WORKSHOP
Berlin, 2024: teacher, resistance dying, for Colour of Surveillance 2024, organised by IWS, Equinox and Weaving Liberation, Berlin Global Village
Berlin, 2023: teacher, batik workshop, Callie's
Berlin, 2023: organisational team, Critical Whiteness Workshop by Rafia Shahnaz, UdK, Interflugs
Essaouira, 2022: teacher, Wax Resistance, protest t-shirt workshop for DFF and EDRi
Berlin, 2022: organisational team, The Lab-oratory of Desires by Lux Venerea, Hopscotch, Interflugs
Berlin, 2021: organisational team, Colourism Workshop with AnouchK Ibacka Valiente, Black Art Action BerlinBerlin, 2021: organisational team, Colourism Workshop with Emilene Wopana Mudimu, Black Art Action Berlin
Berlin, 2021: organisational team, Black Reels Workshop with Black Art Action BerlinBerlin, 2018: teacher, mono-print workshop for children, Bla Kollektiv
London, 2018: teacher, mono-print workshop for adults, Shoreditch House x gal-dem
VIDEO
Online, 2024: creation of short documentary on the Platform Workers Strategic Workshop, DFF
Online, 2023: creation of two short documentary films for the blueprint of the decolonizing process in the digital rights field for Weaving Liberation, DFF and EDRiOnline, 2022: creation of three short documentary films on the decolonizing process in the digital rights field for DFF and EDRi
Berlin, 2023: video for Curating through Conflict with Care, nGbK
Berlin, 2022: cinematography for Desire Lines, at HKW
Berlin, 2021: CAST-OFF, collaborative audio video work with Dis Fig [Felicia Chen], commissioned by Creamcake / 3HDTV, showing at Kunstpunkt as part of Berlin Art Week
Berlin, 2019: music video Unleash, Dis Fig [Felicia Chen]