Jolyon Sylvester Jones
b. Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Lives and works in Berlin
EDUCATION
2024 – Musashino Art University – Tokyo
Sculpture department / Masters (semester exchange program)
2019/2026 – Universität der Künste – Berlin
Bildende Kunst. Prof. Monica Bonvicini
2014/2018 – Macquarie University – Sydney
Bachelor of Arts – Major in Anthropology
EXHIBITION
Solo
2025 cold cuts, art space tetra, Fukuoka, Japan
Group
2025 Rundgang, UdK, Berlin
2024 linguistic gymnastic, MAU, Tokyo
2024 Behind the Scene, UdK, Berlin
2024 Hazama, Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum, Berlin
2024 Ornament und Verbrechen, Lage Egal, Berlin
2024 Open Studio, Solms 52, Berlin
2023 Oscillating on site, UdK, Berlin
2023 ddiiissssAPPEAARRiinnnggg, Feldfünf, Berlin
2022 why do you return? UdK, Berlin
2021 Rundgang, UdK, Berlin
2021 Drinnen Rosa, Draußen Pink, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
2017 Annual Interlude Auction, Interlude Gallery, Sydney
2017 Jesus is my boyfriend, Tempetation Presents, Sydney
PERFORMANCE
2020 pishposh, Pilotenküche, Short-term artist exchange, Leipzig
2020 pishposh (Zoom), UdK Berlin
2017 Language disorder, Tempetation, Sydney, Australia
STUDIO
2024 Musashino Art University Tokyo
2019/2026 Universität der Künste Berlin
2020 Pilotenkueche, Collaborative exchange with Tomas Nuñez, Leipzig
2016–2017 308 Studios, Sydney
PUBLICATION
2021 “DRINNEN ROSA DRAUSEN PINK”
Class Bonvicini: Publication III. 2021 (DE). Print
NOMINATED
2025 – DAAD scholarship UdK Berlin
SELECTED
2022 – Support for DESASTRES by Marco Fusinato, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2022, nominated and funded by Australia Council for the Arts. Two month placement
2017 – Ethnographic field trip Fiji. In collaboration with and supported by Macquarie University Sydney, Australia & University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji