Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016 | Page 50
Tom
Jones
Associate Professor
UW–Madison Department of Art,
since 2006
Photography
34 Quadrennial 2016 | Faculty
2005 Master of Fine Arts, Columbia College Chicago
2005 Master of Arts in Museum Studies, Columbia College Chicago
1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts, UW–Madison
Recent achievements
2015 Arriving at Fresh Water: Contemporary Native Artists from Our Great
Lakes, group show, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
2015 Preservatif, group show, Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis, TN
2015 Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay,
group show, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL; Wright
Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, WI; The A.D. Gallery,
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
2014 Museum acquisition, Contemporary American Indian Art, Nerman
Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2014 Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3, group show, Eiteljorg
Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis;
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Chazen
Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2014 As We See It: Works by Ten Contemporary Native American Photographers, group show, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia; The Fifth Biennial of Contemporary Photography,
Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
2013 Refigured: Photography of Tom Jones, Ken Gonzales-Day, Zoe Crosher,
and Shen Wei, group show, Sheppard Contemporary Gallery,
University of Nevada, Reno
2013 Thicker Than Water, group show Museum of Contemporary
Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Tom Jones: I am an Indian First and an Artist Second, solo show,
Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
2014 Co-curator, For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace
Poolaw, National Museum of the American Indian, New York
Artist’s statement
Jones’ artwork is a commentary on American Indian identity, experience, and perception. He is examining how American Indian culture
is represented through popular culture, and he raises questions about
these depictions of identity by non-natives and Natives alike. He
continues to work on an ongoing photographic essay on the contemporary life of his tribe, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin.
Jones is a co-author of the book People of the BigVoice, Photographs of
Ho-Chunk Families by CharlesVan Schaick, 1879–1943. He is also the
co-curator for the exhibition For a Love of His People:The Photography
of Horace Poolaw at the National Museum of the American Indian. His
artwork is in numerous private and public collections, most notably
the National Museum of the American Indian, Polaroid Corporation,
Sprint Corporation, Chazen Museum of Art, Nerman Museum, and
the Microsoft Corporation.
Work in the show
Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk, b. 1964)
Joann Jones, 2015
Digital print with beadwork
25 x 20 in. (Illustrated, left)
Cyrus Ortiz, 2015
Digital print with beadwork
50 x 40 in. (Illustrated, right)