Lindsey Frances Jones

b. Boston. Jan 13th 1987.

Currently working in Jersey City and New York City

Artistic Statement

Lindsey Frances Jones’s artistic practice meditates on and abstracts the shapes of the self, uncovering forms through craft based processes such as printmaking. She is interested in how shape and transparency can portray movement in ways that feel playful yet truthful.

Guided by Henri Matisse’s description of windows as “a passage between outside and inside,” Jones views each work as a window into herself or others.

Jones is drawn to socially engaged projects that invite participation and create space for individual and collective expression. She approaches printmaking as a form of discovery and exchange: a way of making the unseen visible.

Education
Columbia University, Teacher’s College, New York — MA  2023
Art and Art Education

New York University, New York — BA 2009
Individualized Study, American Studies 

Awards, Residencies, Fellowships
2024—2026, Art Students League, Public Art Fellowship, Works in Public, NY, NY
2024, Peter Valley School of Craft, Printmaking Residency, NJ
2024, Penland School of Craft, Spring Short Semester Scholarship, Letterpress, NC

Public Work
2026-2027 City in Shapes, City in Fish, Public Sculpture, Riverside Park, NY, NY

Solo
2022 Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College Art Commission Award, I Was Made in Shapes, New York, NY

Group
2026, The Art Generators, Delightfully Strange, Maplewood, NJ
2026, IMUR Gallery, In Prints, Jersey City, NJ
2026, Yellow Studio, I Love New York, Cross River, NY
2025, Princeton Art Council, Bon à Tirer, An Exhibition of Contemporary Printmaking, Princeton, NJ
2025, Cambridge Art Association, National Juried Show, Cambridge, MA
2025, Studio Montclair, Not Just Set in Stone, Montclair, NJ
2025, Wandering Lights Projects, Lightwork, Jersey City, NJ
2025, The Other Art Fair, Spring and Fall, Brooklyn, NY
2025, Third Story, Carve, Lancaster, PA
2024, DaVinci Artist Alliance, On Process, Philadelphia, PA
2024, Usagi, Change, Brooklyn, NY
2024, The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2024, Printmaking Juried Exhibition, Five Points Arts Center, Torrington, CT
2024, R.W. Norton Art Gallery, National Juried Show BLOOM!, Shreveport, LA
2023, 440 Gallery 2023 Small Works Show, Brooklyn, NY
2023, Art On the Corner #9, NY, NY
2023, ArtJam Homefront, Princeton, NJ
2023, Flag Project, Rockefeller Center, NY, NY
2022, "Off the Wall" Affordable Holiday Art Fair at Culture Lab LIC, Queens, NY
2022, Cambridge Art Association, National Juried Show, Cambridge, MA
2022, New Jersey Arts Juried Annual: Reemergence, Trenton, NJ
2022, LinkNYC, #Artonlink, New York, NY
2022, Brooklyn Utopias: Along the Canal, Brooklyn, NY
2021, The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2021, Smithsonian, Vaccinate and Liberate Poster, DC
2020, Flat File, Small Works, NY, NY
2020, Papergirl-Brooklyn, Public Walls, Brooklyn, NY

Teaching Artist Experience
Drawing Room. Print Lab
Lista Studios
Brooklyn Public Library Art Mobile
JC Print Room
Teachers College Community Printmaking Studio
Artistic Noise
ArtStart

Illustration
Made by Frances: Selling original watercolor and mixed media illustrations 2020—Present

Writing
2023, Letter to the Editor, A Social Media Upside, New York Times
2021, poem, “Fish In Flight,” Rockland Arts Festival

Press
The Semi-Charmed Art School Life of Lindsey Frances Jones, SVA Continuing Education