Robert Jones

Robert Michael Jones makes sculpture, video, and drawings centered around our relationship with technology. He focuses through an evolutionary lens at the hyper-novelty of the factory made, designed, and increasingly virtual modern environment. He interacts with the history of tools directly by working with high industrial processes like stamping, die casting, machining, and computer-controlled robotics as well as fundamental processes like hand formed clay, stone or wood carving.

Robert was born and raised in the rural town of Salisbury VT. He studied art at the University of New Hampshire where he graduated with his BFA in 2009. From there he moved to San Diego where he operated a studio and exhibited regionally. During that time, he completed a public commission In Washington DC, taught local high school students how to apply practical building skills towards community improvement, and helped curate and hang exhibitions at the non-profit Space 4 Art. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University with his MFA in 2021.

MFA 2021 Eastern Michigan University
BFA 2009 University of New Hampshire

Solo and Small Group Exhibitions
2021 Babel: Graduate Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI
2017 Medium, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA
2016 (Re) Formation, Joshua Tree Art Gallery, Joshua Tree, CA
2016 Deep Mind, Monarch Arredon Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2015 Triptych, Public Exhibition at NTC Liberty Station, San Diego, CA
Group Exhibitions
2020 Studio Concepts/Historic Perspectives, Ford Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI
2020 Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, MI
2020 Art & Technology 4.0, TEJAS gallery, Dayton, OH
2019 Odds and Ends, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2018 Interstitial, Private property at 445 Rhode Island st, Buffalo, NY
2018 Prolegomenon, Project Space, Buffalo, NY
2016 New Contemporaries, City Gallery, San Diego, CA
2016 Five Year Anniversary, Sergott Contemporary, Rancho Sante Fe, CA
2016 MAS Attack, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2015 Debris and Detritus, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2015 Techno-Mythology, Whitebox Contemporary, San Diego, CA