Jules Buck Jones
Austin artist Jules Buck Jones draws, with an acute confidence, graphic fantastical images of hybridized animal forms. Influenced by ecological and biological concerns, Jones creates imagery of bizarre, fantastic happenings in nature, using the past, present and future as backdrops, mythology, fact, and fiction as fodder, and the animal kingdom as the vehicle.
Jules Buck Jones earned his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA in 2005 and an MFA in Painting at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX in 2008. He is a founding member of the non-profit collective MASS Gallery and the art / science collective Animal Facts Club, both based in Austin TX. Jones has been accepted and invited to art residencies in Maine, New York, Tennessee, Vermont, the Florida Everglades and Barcelona. Jones currently teaches painting and drawing at Texas State University in San Marcos. He received the Makers Muse Award from New Mexico’s Kindle Project and in 2018 completed a large commission for the Line Hotel in downtown Austin. Recent exhibitions include: Future Fossils, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (2019); Humid Futures, Conduit Gallery (2018); Silent Song, A Dark Dirty Place, Kyle, TX (2018); Gardens and Graveyards, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX (2017); Hand Me My Head, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX (2017). His work is in the permanent collections of: The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Everglades National Park, FL: Dell’s Children Hospital, Balcones Canyonland Preserve, Reicher Ranch, Austin, TX; Art Museum of South East Texas, Beaumont, TX; Fidelity Investments, Dallas, TX.
Conduit Gallery Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
2018 Conduit Gallery, Dallas , TX
2018 A Dark Dirty Place, TBD, Kyle, TX
2017 Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
2017 David Shelton Gallery, Houston TX
2015 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 Payne Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2014 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2014 Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center, Austin, TX
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2017 The Wool Factory, Barcelona, Spain
2016 Seacoast Science Center, Rye, NH
2016 Pentaculum, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN
2013 Hotbox, Austin, TX
2011 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2011 The Light House Works, Fishers Island, NY
2011 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2011 Bouy, Kittery, ME
2009 AIRIE, Everglades National Park, FL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
2018 MASS Gallery, MASS +1, Austin, TX
2018 Austin Nature and Science Center, Austin, TX
2018 Camacho Activity Center, Austin, TX
2018 Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
2016 Waller Creek Conservancy, Austin TX
2016 Temple College, Temple TX
2016 Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX
2015 The Contemporary Austin, Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
2015 Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
2015 University of Dallas, Dallas, TX
2015 Pump Project, Austin, TX
2014 The Front Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 Flatbed Press, Austin, TX
2013 Flatbed Press, Austin,TX
2013 Texas Biennial, Austin, TX
2013 Houston Arts Alliance, Houston TX
EDUCATION
2005 – 2008
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Art and Art History Department
Master of Fine Arts, May 2008
Major: Studio Arts / Painting
2000 – 2005
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Painting and Printmaking Department
Bachelor of Fine Art
Major: Painting and PrintmakinG
COMMISSIONS
2017 The Line Hotel, Austin, TX
2016 Austin City Limits Music Festival Poster, Austin TX
2016 The Contemporary Austin’s Camp Contemporary design, Austin, TX
2016 Waller Creek Creek Conservancy Creek Show, Austin TX
2016 Wild Basin Creative Research Center, Austin, TX
2013 Gensler Architecture Firm, Houston, TX
2013 Dell’s Children Hospital, Austin, TX
2011 TX Biennial, Austin, TX
2009 City Of Austin, Balcones Canyonland Preserve, Austin, TX
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Everglades National Park, FL
Dell’s Children Hospital, Austin, TX
Balcones Canyonland Preserve, Reicher Ranch, City of Austin, Austin, TX
Art Museum of South East Texas, Beaumont, TX
Art Museum of South East Texas
Fidelity Investments, Dallas, TX
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2017 The Kindle Project, Makers Muse Award
2017 City of Austin CORE Funding Grant
2016 City of Austin CORE Funding Grant
2015 City of Austin CORE Funding Grant