Alex A. Jones writes about art, ecology, and the occult. Jones is a 2022 recipient of the Andy Warhol Art Writers Grant, and the inaugural recipient in 2024 of the Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation Grant for Writing on Sculpture. She is part of the experimental film collective Studio VIROSA and a co-facilitator of the Queer Ecologies Research Collective.

Alex A. Jones

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Selected Essays

“A Multispecies Dreaming,” catalogue essay on Sahana Ramakrishnan, Fridman Gallery, January 2025.

[editor] The Queer Ecologies Research Collective, “A Glossary For Queer Ecologies,” Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, July 2024.

“Sahana Ramakrishnan: An Ocean of Time,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2023.

“Kathy Ruttenberg: Twilight in the Garden of Hope,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2023.

“The Aesthetics of Regeneration: Alex A. Jones on Harriet Feigenbaum,” 1 x 1 feature column, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2023.

“Aneta Bartos: Monotropa Terrain,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2023.

“Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2022.

“Austin Osman Spare: Psychopathia Sexualis,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2022.

“Rites, Rituals, Passages.” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2021.

“Institute of Queer Ecology: Metamorphosis.” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2020.

“ecofeminism(s).” The Brooklyn Rail, Summer Issue 2020.

“Double Helix.” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2020.

“Pen + Brush.” (Special Feature Column) The Brooklyn Rail, September 2019.

“Ella Kruglyanskaya: Fenix.” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2019.

“Wild Ass Beyond: Apocalypse RN” The Brooklyn Rail, December 2018.

“Ivy Haldeman: the Interesting Type.” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2018.

“Summer Wheat: Swamp Hunters.” The Brooklyn Rail, July 2018.

“Resting Position: Angela Heisch at 106 Green Gallery.” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2018.

“Ecstatic Landscape: Darren Waterston at DC Moore Gallery.” The Brooklyn Rail, May 2018.

“We Are Ghosts: Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley.”The Brooklyn Rail, May 2018.

“Cymbals of Sleep Uncurtain the Night: John McAllister.” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2018.

Books
Jones, Alex A. Thematic section texts and illustrated chronology. KUSAMA: 1945 to NOW, Edited by Mika Yoshitake and Doryun Chong. Hong Kong and London: M+ with Thames & Hudson, 2023.

Jones, Alex A. “Nature and Cosmos in the Life of Yayoi Kusama.” In KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, Edited by Mika Yoshitake. New York: New York Botanical Garden & Rizzoli, 2021.

Jones, Alex. “Annotated Bibliography.” In Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors, Edited by Mika Yoshitake. New York and Washington, DC: Delmonico Books and Smithsonian Books, 2017.

Conferences, Lectures

Guest Lecturer | NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, November 2024 (New York, NY)
“Queer Ecology: A Relational View of the Land/Body”

Guest Lecturer | School of Visual Arts MFA, October 2024 (New York, NY)
“Queer Ecology: A Relational View of the Land/Body”

Co-Organizer | The Queer Ecologies Research Collective II: CREATION/BECOMING/CHAOS, Mildred’s Lane, July 2024 (Narrowsburg, NY) More information

Symposium co-Organizer | In the Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomenon, Mildred’s Lane, July 2024 (Narrowsburg, NY & online)

Co-Organizer | The Queer Ecologies Research Collective: LAND/BODY/EROS, Mildred’s Lane, July 2023 (Narrowsburg, NY) More information

Panelist | Southeastern College Art Conference, October 2022 (Baltimore, MD) Paper: “Escape from Cthulhu: Cosmic Horror Beyond Lovecraft”

Panelist | Modern Language Association, Northeast Conference, March 2022 (Baltimore, MD) Paper: “The Cosmic Horror of Demon Seed (1977)” (Panel: Techno-Terrors: Representations of Death and Power in the Post-Internet)

Guest Lecturer | Environmental History Workshop, “What Is Missing?”, 2022 (Waterville, Maine / NYC) Colby College – in my capacity as project editor / research coordinator for the What is Missing? Foundation, I conducted an undergraduate workshop teaching students how to conduct environmental history research

Guest Artist Talk | Mildred’s Lane, June 2019 (Beach Lake, PA)
Artist talk: “Science Fiction as an Artistic Strategy”

Panelist | Southeastern College Art Conference, October 2017 (Columbus OH) Paper: “Desire to Become: Internet Art and the Death Drive” (Panel: ARS MORIENDI / Art of Death today)

Guest Speaker | Maryland Institute College of Art, Art & Ecology Program, 2017 (Baltimore, MD) Artist talk: “Post-planetary Ecologies: Science Fiction and Ecological Thought”

Exhibitions

VIROSA Presents: Degenerate Cinema, March–April 2023 | Solo Exhibition as VIROSA, The Mildred Complex(ity) (Narrowsburg, NY)
Press: Frieze, “The Best Exhibitions in New York this April,” 04 April 2023

Fossilized and Realized: Tar Pits Film Festival, July 2022 | Short film exhibition with VIROSA, The La Brea Tar Pits (Los Angeles, CA) Curated by Mark Dion as art of La Brea Tar Pits & Museum x PST: Mark Dion

THE FISHBOWL, February 2022 | Solo Exhibition as VIROSA, SPRING/BREAK Art Show (Los Angeles, CA)

Reuctio ad Satura, March 2022 | Group Exhibition as VIROSA, New Dealers Art Alliance (New York, NY)

The Post Humanities, July 2016 | Co-curator (as Lunar Insurrection), Little Berlin (Philadelphia, PA)
Press: Mutual Art

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