Les Joynes (US)
Exploring Visual Cultures through Artistic Research and Studio Practice
Les Joynes
Contemporary artist and visual cultures explorer, Les Joynes creates works of art inspired by traditions of assemblage art, collecting and neo-dada that explore our relationships to locations and cultural identities.
Founder of FormLAB in 1997 Joynes was resident artist at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado São Paulo, Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture Korea, Nordic Artists Center Norway and the Nagasawa Woodblock Printmaking Fellowship Awaji, Japan. He was Fellow at the University of the Arts London Research Center on Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) and is a contributing editor to Projectanywhere, a journal at University of Melbourne and Parsons School of Design.
He has exhibited at the Barbican in London, Art Gallery of New South Wales Australia, Norimatsu Museum Japan, Museu de Arte Brasileiro São Paulo, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture São Paulo, Fenberger Museum Japan, Welsh Museum of Modern Art Wales, Åmotgård Museum Norway, CBGB, Art Fair Tokyo, Mizuma Gallery Tokyo, Maejima Art Center, Okinawa, Japan and prepares new work for the Fulbright Award for India.
Les is visiting artist and research scholar on contemporary visual cultures at Columbia University and is recipient of Fulbright US Public Diplomacy awards for his exhibitions at Zanabazar Museum of Art Mongolia and the Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing and is recipient of the 2020 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award.
A native of Southern California, Joynes received his BA (Hons) Fine Art at St. Martins College of Art, and MA Fine Art from Goldsmiths, London, Masters in Fine Art from Musashino Art University, Tokyo, PhD from the Faculty of Art Environment and Technology, Leeds Metropolitan University UK and Post-Doctorate from the School of Art and Communications at University of São Paulo Brazil.
He lives and works in New York and is represented by Thomas Jaeckel Gallery New York. (Images: FormLAB at Brazilian Museum of Art, Sao Paulo. Les left as resident artist at Nordic Artists Center (ResArtis), Norway.)