Samuel Levi Jones

Samuel Levi Jones is an American artist, he is known for his paintings and assemblage art. Many of his works are abstract, and centered on African-American history, and identity; often using historically sourced materials.

Biography

Samuel Levi Jones was born in 1978 in Marion, Indiana, into an African-American family. Jones is related to Abraham S. Smith, one of the two men publicly lynched in 1930 in Marion, Indiana.
He attended Taylor University ; Herron School of Art and Design ; and Mills College.

Art Career

Levi Jones' first solo exhibition, Samuel Levi Jones: Left of Center, took place at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. He has also had a solo exhibition at The Dayton Contemporary in Ohio titled The Empire is Falling, and Unbound at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
Jones work is included in public museum collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Rubell Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.