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
London, 2017: mono-print work for exhibition 56 Artillery Lane, Raven Row
London, 2017: mono-print works and text for exhibition Creative Debuts x Meet the Artists, The Black & White Building
Berlin, 2017: group production of documentary film on colonial history / reparations for Kiez-Monatsschau - Sonderausgabe: Republik Repair Festival, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
Berlin, 2018: sound work Holes, Featured by Dis Fig for Energy Exchange, 3hd Festival, Säule
Berlin, 2018: silk-screen costume for ROM*.COM: A 90s Trauma Workshop, Bob's Pogo Bar, Kunstwerke
Berlin, 2019: soundscape Acid for Andre Harris's theatre piece Acid Wedding, M.I/mi1glisse
Berlin, 2019: sound installation: Stonehouse, Underwood (the Promise), Steinhaus, UdK
Berlin, 2020: mixed-media/painting and installation for Weitertragen- A Subjective Experience, HVW8 Gallery
Berlin, 2020: mixed-media/painting, installation and sound work for Creamcake, 3HD Festival, Unhumanity: Echo Chamber, Großer Wasserspeicher
Berlin, 2020: three sound compositions produced and exhibited with UNI.K – Studio for Electronic Composition, Sound art and Sound research, UdK
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
Online 2020: sound work for SBVRSV mix series #18 w/ Collo, Internet Public Radio
Berlin, 2020: winner of the Schulz-Stübner Prize for painting 2020
Berlin, 2020: mammo-cartography, publication for the Schulz-Stübner Prize / UdK
Online, 2021: sound work for Lensbased group project, Passage Exhibition, Cashmere Radio
Online, 2021: sound work and video, DRIFT
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: composition for compilation album Intentions, Dream A6, from record label NIA
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, 2021: sound installation, holes, a story of potential / loss, part of exhibition Out Now, curated by Isabelle Parkes, Uferhallen
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, 2022: sound installation a lullaby- tears we cry for the sleeping, dead, y is everything so exhausting, ACUD Gallery
Online, 2022: radio mix Mind Meditations w/ Alice Z Jones, for Aamina Simone, N00DS RADIO
L.A., 2022: video installation, part of exhibition Einhundert verschwendete Jahre / One hundred wasted years, HVW8 L.A.
Berlin, 2022: sound installation READING CIRCLE (INTERMISSION), UdK
Leipzig, 2022: installation, works on fabric, part of exhibition y is everything so exhausting_ it's gonna hurt, SLUG___ Gallery
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
Kassel, 2022: sound work, contribution to exhibition Lensbased Variety Show and Tell at Temporary Home, documenta 15
Berlin, 2022: poetry reading for TABLOID press, KWIA
Berlin, 2022: Schulz-Stübner Prize for Painting exhibition with Ali Yass and Laura Suryani Thedja, UdK
Berlin, 2022: composition of three audio works for collaboration with Cashmere Radio and Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Sound as Social Sculpture
Zürich, 2023: CAST-OFF, part of screening: E.N.C coordinated by fromheretillnow, PARA/SITE O.SINENSIS curated by Lhaga Khoondhor, Gessnerallee
Berlin, 2023: video for Curating through Conflict with Care, nGbK
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
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
Online, 2023: Until the Morning (letters of grief), mix for OROKO radio
Online, 2024: Dream A11 (tide), audio composition for sonic petition RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY by PTP
ART/WORK
London, 2017-2020: artwork and illustration, gal-dem magazine (print and online)
Online, 2018: illustration and poetry for Venus Instagram takeover, Zeit Magazin
London, 2018: illustration for Sugarcane poster, Obongjahar and Yussef Dayes
London, 2018: illustration and poem, Sweet Thang Zine
London, 2018: graphic design, Levis x Babyface
London 2018: graphic design, Bodyshop x Babyface
Berlin, 2018: artwork and graphic design for concert series FORT-DA at Radial System, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
Berlin, 2018: artwork for event and poster, Junges Forum: Rasse und Recht, Humbolt University Berlin
Berlin, 2018, 2019: illustration and graphic design for flyer and poster, InAct, No Lanta Djanto
Berlin, 2018: illustration for poster and flyers, Bla Kollektiv
Berlin, 2019: album artwork, press photography and design for silkscreen shirt for Unleash, Dis Fig
Online, 2019: illustration on body positivity, BBC
London, 2019: artwork for EP Love me with me, Sara Guhre
London, 2019: cover image (photography) on Zero Waste Periods, The Earth Issue
Berlin, 2020: illustration, Sofa Magazine
Berlin, 2020-21: artwork for Tiny’s Pizza x Piccolo Giardino
London, 2020: illustration and poetry, Black Fly (Sexual Health and Wellness Collective)
Online, 2022-23: artwork and graphic design for the Digital Freedom Fund's Speaker series: Another Tech is Possible?
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, 2023: creation of visual ID for Decolonising Digital Rights, Weaving Liberation, DFF and EDRi
Online, 2023: creation of banner for the website Weaving Liberation, DFF and EDRi
WORKSHOP
London, 2018: teacher, mono-print workshop for adults, Shoreditch House x gal-dem
Berlin, 2018: teacher, mono-print workshop for children, Bla Kollektiv
Berlin, 2021: organisational team, Black Reels Workshop with Black Art Action Berlin
Berlin, 2021: organisational team, Colourism Workshop with AnouchK Ibacka Valiente, Black Art Action Berlin
Berlin, 2021: organisational team, Colourism Workshop with Emilene Wopana Mudimu, Black Art Action Berlin
Berlin, 2022: organisational team, The Lab-oratory of Desires by Lux Venerea, Hopscotch, Interflugs
Essaouira, 2022: teacher, Wax Resistance, protest t-shirt workshop for DFF and EDRi
Berlin, 2023: organisational team, Critical Whiteness Workshop by Rafia Shahnaz, UdK, Interflugs
Berlin, 2023: teacher, batik workshop, Callie's
VIDEO
Berlin, 2019: music video Unleash, Dis Fig [Felicia Chen]
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, 2022: cinematography for Desire Lines, at HKW
Berlin, 2023: video for Curating through Conflict with Care, nGbK
Online, 2022: creation of three short documentary films on the decolonizing process in the digital rights field for DFF and EDRi
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 EDRi
Online, 2024: creation of short documentary on the Platform Workers Strategic Workshop, DFF