Les Joynes
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Born: Santa Barbara, California 1963
Lives: New York
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education
1999-2001 Master of Art in Sculpture, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
1996-1997 Master of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1992-1996 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Central Saint Martins College of Art, London
other programs
2003 Guggenheim Museum, New York: painting seminar with James Rosenquist
1997-1999 Postgraduate Research Program in Fine Art, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
1995 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris Erasmus Scholarship
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selected solo exhibitions
2008 Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York Feb 15 - Mar 15
1998 Casa Gallery, Tokyo "Contemporary Ranting" Oct-Nov
1997 Espace 21/ Norimatsu Museum Japan "All Mod Cons" Jan-Feb
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selected group exhibitions
2007
Peer Gallery, New York "Locations of Elsewhere", New York, May-June
Sandra Bürgel Gallery, Berlin "Unsere Affekte fliegen aus dem Bereich der menschlichen Wirklichkeit heraus"curated by Klaus Winichner, April-May
2006
South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, July-August
Romo Gallery, Atlanta, July
CBGB Gallery, New York, Feb-March
2005
CTS Gallery, Photo NY, New York, October; Two Trees Gallery, Brooklyn “Dark Nature”. Sept 7-Oct14; Art Fair Tokyo “Natural Displacement” at Mizuma Gallery; Romo Gallery, Atlanta “Working Artists in Brooklyn” July-August; Spike Gallery, New York “New '05” June-July; Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo “Since 1994” Feb -March
2004
Triangle/Space, London “Reality Asylum”, August-Sept
2003
Bergstübl Projekte Mitte, Berlin “Bang-Bang Berlin” Nov 27-Dec 19; Gallery Pugh Pugh, Berlin “Pugh Pugh Anniversary Exhibition” December 3-Dec 17; “Albert Schweitzer spielt Johann Sebastian Bach”, Berlin Curated by Klaus Winichner; Mars Gallery, Tokyo “Mars Gallery Artists”; L'Oreal, Tokyo “L'Oreal Art and Science of Color ”
2002
A.I.T. Tokyo “The Moving Exhibition” January-February; A.I.T. Maejima Art Center, Okinawa; Scope-Art Fair/ Mizuma Gallery, New York “Nebraska”
2001
Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo “Table Manners” December 2-January 4; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney “Highchair” (videoworks); Gallery 4a, Sydney
The Art Center, Art & Culture Foundation, Seoul “Bible of Networking-Seoul” Jan-Feb.
2000
Nylon Gallery, London “The Raft,” January-February; Asahi Gallery, Tokyo “Asahi Contemporary Art 2000”. June 2-20; YongDu International Art Festival, Pusan, Korea “Strange Flowers”
1999
Japan Foundation, Bangkok “Bangkok Experimental Film and Video” Dec-Jan; Tatsumi Orimoto Space Kawasaki “Tatami Exhibition”
P-House Gallery, Tokyo “Networking/ British Council UK '98, Tokyo” Nov-Dec
1997
Milch Gallery, London “The Toolroom Salon” February
1995
Barbican Concourse Gallery, London
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selected bibliography
2005 Felicia Feaster “Something Weird Grows in Brooklyn” Creative Loafing July 2005
Laurence Asseraf, “Appropriated Urban Viewpoints, Recycled city scenes” New York Arts Magazine, April; “Urban Decay - Artistic Response to an Urban Environment” Absolute Arts, Mar
2004 “Les Joynes” Commons & Sense, Tokyo, October
2002 Kujima, Yayoi “Arts Paradise,” Ryoko Tsushin Magazine, January; Savannah, Gail “Scope Art” Sculpture Magazine, December
2001 Tokyo Walker, Dec 2001; McGee, John “Table Manners”, Metropolis, Tokyo Dec 21, 2001“Table Manners” Japan Design 2001; PlayGraph “Les Joynes” Tokyo, (J)
2000 Charlesworth, J.J. “The Raft”, Art Monthly, London
1999 Bangkok Television (1999) “Bangkok Experimental Film Festival”
1998 Mainichi Shimbun, Tokyo “Iru/kiru”
1997 NHK Television - 1997, Japan “New Contemporary Art”; Matsuyama Magazine, “New Body: Les Joynes”; Ehime Shimbun “Les Joynes: All Mod Cons”
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awards and honors
2000 Asahi Competition, Tokyo
1997 Monbusho Scholarship: 4 year Japanese Scholarship in Tokyo 1997-2001.
1996 Honours in Fine Art, St. Martins College of Art, London
1993 Commendation, Central St. Martins College of Art, London
1995 King Sturge Prize, London
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Lectures, Publications and Curated Projects
2000 Flash Art, Milan Japanese contemporary art: Yuichi Higashionna; Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles “Contemporary Art in Japan” Guest Lecture
1999 Guest Panelist, Japan Foundation, Bangkok (1999) “Bangkok Film and Video Biennial” with the Japan Foundation and Alliance Francaise
1998 British Council and P-House Gallery, Tokyo; “Networking” curated exhibition of 200 artists and their drawings.
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