Alun Rhys Jones

Alun Rhys Jones is an Australian-based artist, whose practice focuses on themes related to identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. Recent work has investigated the use of the body, gender, celebrity, form, language and colour in a post internet, late capitalist, consumer society.

His work questions the human condition and its relationship to visual media in the extreme present, allowing us to analyse the processes by which we see and are seen and to question our sense of reality within a mass media world.

Alun Rhys Jones is an Australian-based artist who graduated with Honours from the National Art School in 2011. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally. Since graduating he has participated in nine solo exhibitions and more than 30 group shows. Notable exhibitions include Dysmorphia Playground at Kensington Contemporary, Sydney: #Celebrity at Gallerysmith Project Space, Melbourne; The Colour Code at Carton Project Space, Sydney; The Last Days of Dionysus The Last Days of Dionysus (Part 1) at Brenda May Annex, Sydney; The Last Days of Dionysus (Part 2) at Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane; Untitled ® at MOP Gallery, Sydney; Colour Union™ at Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney; Solo Show a...

EDUCATION
2007-2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) National Art School, Sydney.
1991-1994 Bachelor of Design (Honours) College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney.
1986-1988 Havant Sixth Form College, Havant.
1978 -1986 Portsmouth Grammar School, Portsmouth.


1991-1994 Bachelor of Design (Honours) College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Icon, Kensington Contemporary, Sydney. (Upcoming).
2016
Dysmorphia Playground, Kensington Contemporary, Sydney.
The Other Art Fair London, 11th Edition, Bloomsbury, London.
2015
#Celebrity, Gallerysmith Project Space, Melbourne.
The Other Art Fair Sydney, 1st Edition, Chippendale, Sydney.
The Colour Code, Carlton Project Space, Sydney.
2014
The Last Days of Dionysus (Part 2), Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
2013
The Last Days of Dionysus (Part 1), Brenda May Annex, Sydney.
Our Hopes and Dreams in Colour, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
2012
Untitled ®, MOP Gallery, Sydney.
2011
Colour Union™ Exhibition, Iain Dawson Gallery, Sydney.
Solo Exhibition, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Uncoiling, Annandale Galleries, Sydney.
Twenty by Twenty, Gallery Klei, Sydney.

2015
The Internet is a Cultural Object Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne.
POP LIVING, Schwartz Gallery, London.
We Wear Future Exhibition, Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne.
2014
Lethbridge Gallery Artist Showcase, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
Seven – 2014 Retrospective, Gallery Red, Leichardt, Sydney.
Small Images – Gr...