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. Jones grew up in Gwinnett County, Georgia and now lives in Kings County, New York.
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Selected Essays
“Love Looks Not With the Eyes: On Ash Eliza Williams, The Dreams of Small Animals,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2025
“Why Look at Roadkill? On Shay Salehi’s Hard Shoulder,” exhibition text (Baba Yaga Gallery, Hudson NY), July 2025.
“A Multispecies Dreaming,” catalogue essay on Sahana Ramakrishnan, commissioned by Fridman Gallery, January 2025.
“The Institute of Queer Ecology: Metamorphosis,” catalogue essay for The Earth Does Not Need Us: The Institute of Queer Ecology in Dialogue with Joseph Beuys, edited by Judith Waldmann. Museum Schloss Moyland, 2024.
[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.
“ecofeminism(s).” The Brooklyn Rail, Summer Issue 2020.
“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.
“Cymbals of Sleep Uncurtain the Night: John McAllister.” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2018.
Select Lectures & Symposia
Guest Speaker | University of Virginia, Wise, October 2025 (forthcoming)“The Ecology of Folklore: Unearthing Land Based Spirituality”
Queerness & the Occult | 5-part lecture series in partnership with Laetitia Cartomancy, April 2025 (Brooklyn, New York)
Guest Speaker | NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, November 2024 (New York, NY)
“Queer Ecology: A Relational View of the Land/Body”
Guest Speaker | School of Visual Arts MFA, October 2024 (New York, NY)
“Queer Ecology: A Relational View of the Land/Body”
Symposium Co-Organizer | In the Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomenon, Mildred’s Lane, July 2024 (Narrowsburg, NY & online) 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
A Queer Ecologies Screening Night | Curator, May 2025 | New Ear Inc. (New York, NY) with films by Maurício Chades, The Institute of Queer Ecology, Suzy Slykin, Cy X, Darian Razdar, nyla coleman, and the Queer Ecologies Research Collective
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 as 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
statement freelance notebook
Selected Essays
“Love Looks Not With the Eyes: On Ash Eliza Williams, The Dreams of Small Animals,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2025
“Why Look at Roadkill? On Shay Salehi’s Hard Shoulder,” exhibition text (Baba Yaga Gallery, Hudson NY), July 2025.
“A Multispecies Dreaming,” catalogue essay on Sahana Ramakrishnan, commissioned by Fridman Gallery, January 2025.
“The Institute of Queer Ecology: Metamorphosis,” catalogue essay for The Earth Does Not Need Us: The Institute of Queer Ecology in Dialogue with Joseph Beuys, edited by Judith Waldmann. Museum Schloss Moyland, 2024.
[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.
“ecofeminism(s).” The Brooklyn Rail, Summer Issue 2020.
“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.
“Cymbals of Sleep Uncurtain the Night: John McAllister.” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2018.
Select Lectures & Symposia
Guest Speaker | University of Virginia, Wise, October 2025 (forthcoming)“The Ecology of Folklore: Unearthing Land Based Spirituality”
Queerness & the Occult | 5-part lecture series in partnership with Laetitia Cartomancy, April 2025 (Brooklyn, New York)
Guest Speaker | NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, November 2024 (New York, NY)
“Queer Ecology: A Relational View of the Land/Body”
Guest Speaker | School of Visual Arts MFA, October 2024 (New York, NY)
“Queer Ecology: A Relational View of the Land/Body”
Symposium Co-Organizer | In the Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomenon, Mildred’s Lane, July 2024 (Narrowsburg, NY & online) 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
A Queer Ecologies Screening Night | Curator, May 2025 | New Ear Inc. (New York, NY) with films by Maurício Chades, The Institute of Queer Ecology, Suzy Slykin, Cy X, Darian Razdar, nyla coleman, and the Queer Ecologies Research Collective
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 as 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