Kali Jones

Kali Jones was born in Canada in 1970. Her artistic formation began in France, under the painter Paul Courtin who taught her ways of observing the palpitation of life in the material world and the art of giving form to her intuitions.

The artist works with photography, drawing, collage, video and sound installation and performance art. Her interest in various cultures has taken her across the world from China to Europe to the Middle East. Her projects increasingly involve multiple partners and points of view such as the The Certainty of Shadow, a video installation with the Syrian poet Adonis and the artist Maurizio Ruggiano which investigates the nature of perception, inspired by Plato's metaphor of the Cave and sufi concepts of transformation.

In How Deep is the Ocean?, she created an installation based on the rapport between form and memory, paper sculptures which materialize memories of violence in the body. 

Green Languages/Linguaggi Verdi, co-curated with the botanist Manlio Speciale involved site specific installations and performances in the Botanical Gardens of Palermo. Interazioni Sonore - an interactive sound installation of magnified sounds recorded in the gardens met with voices of the public, creati...

Apprenticeship with the painter Paul Courtin
BA in Oriental Studies. UBC
Apprenticeship with the photographer Aldo Palazzolo

Solo

2019 We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On, Video Performance, collaboration with Department of Sociology, La Sapienza University, MACRO, Rome

2018 N-Ice Cello, installation of drawings and photographs inspired by Giovanni Sollima's N-Ice Cello the vibrations of the ice cello and the biological - geological nature of water

2012 Alone Together, Palazzo Sant'Elia, Provincia di Palermo, Palermo

2011 The Certainty of Shadow : video installation (collaboration with Adonis and Maurizio Ruggiano), Palermo, Italy Collaborators: Centro d'Arte Piana dei Colli, Palermo, Canadian culturel centre, Paris, Fondazione Orestiade, Gibellina, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Caltagirone, Institut français de Palerme

2008 Studio D, Vancouver, Canada

2005 Taches de Vie, Le Grenoble, l’Institut français de Naples

2004 Museo Civico d'Arte Contemporanea di Caltagirone

2003 Dell’Invisibile, Siracusa, Italy

2001 Rêves Marocains, Le Centre culturel francophone de Vancouver

Collective

2019 Isole, an installation of photographs and drawings dealing with the themes of migration, border control and ecology, Dintorni art project, Borderline, Pale...