Jilaine Jones is a sculptor, primarily working with steel, clay, concrete, and plaster; drawing, collage, and bas-relief, are also a part of her practice. Her work contains ideas based on the phenomena and parallels of landscape, architecture, and the body, as well as being generated directly by the ideas in structure.

In 2025, Jones was a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

Jilaine Jones (b. 1959 in London, UK) lives and works in New Haven, CT, USA.

Education

She took a conceptual foundation program at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, and studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1979 until 1983.

Teaching

Since 2001, Jones has been teaching at the New York Studio School, New York.

Exhibitions

Selected solo and duo exhibitions include Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (2027 upcoming with Amy Sillman); Super Super Markt, Berlin (2026); 15 Orient, New York (2025); KINOSAITO, Verplanck (2022 with Fran O’Neill); NYSS Dumbo Sculpture Space, Brooklyn (2018); Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven (2015 with Zachary Keeting); New York Studio School, New York (2008); Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York (2001); and Paul Mellon Arts Center, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford (1999).

Jones’ work has been included in group exhibitions at KINOSAITO, Verplank; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield (both 2026 upcoming); Pangée, Montreal (2026); Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven; Five Points Gallery, Torrington (both 2016); New York Studio School, New York (2015); DeCordova Museum Biennial, Lincoln (2013); Chesterwood, Stockbridge (2011); Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; New York Studio School, New York (both 2005); Rebecca Cooper Gallery, New York; John Slade Ely House, New Haven (both 1993); Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (1987); and Clayworks Gallery, New York (1983).

2026

Aldrich to Open Show on 40 Contemporary Connecticut Artists
CT Examiner, Clare Byrne, 2026

In the studio: Jilaine Jones
Super Super Markt, 2026

2025

Jilaine Jones
Artforum, Barry Schwabsky, 2025

Jilaine Jones: A Walk With D. Ann
The Brooklyn Rail, interview by Andrew Woolbright, 2025

Digging Deep with Jilaine Jones
The New Yorker, Hilton Als, 2025

Jilaine Jones at 15 Orient
Sharon Butler Notebooks, Sharon Butler, 2025

Jilaine Jones’s unfolding curiosity
Two Coats of Paint, David Whelan, 2025