Les Joynes (US)
Les Joynes: Exploring Visual Cultures through Artistic Research
Contemporary artist and visual cultures explorer, Dr. Les Joynes is a research scholar on International and Transcultural Studies at Columbia University and recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award for research at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Visva Bharati University in Santiniriken in West Bengal.
Founder of FormLAB in 1997 Joynes conduct Public Diplomacy projects that explore indigenous cultures, languages, art traditions, and music and recently creates projects in Mongolia, Singapore, South Korea, China, Brazil and upcoming India. 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, Beijing Inside-Out Art museum, Art Fair Tokyo, Mizuma Gallery Tokyo, Maejima Art Center, Okinawa, Japan and is represented by Thomas Jaeckel Gallery in New York.
Les 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 (cum laude) from Boston University 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, M.Sc. from Boston University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences; 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.)