in conversation: Kelly Kristin Jones and Stephanie Koch

Facilitated by Stephanie Koch, Jones will discuss her approach to photography and sculpture as a tool to question monuments to whiteness that circulate in the public space, media, and domestic interior.

Kelly Kristin Jones creates photo-based work rooted in a feminist revisionist approach to history. Time-based, collaborative and still works operate by blocking prevailing “master” narratives. Each action embraces the efforts to remove, reinterpret, and restore landscape. Addressing the slipperiness of both medium and myth, her photographic interruptions highlight problematic relationships around space and story.

Jones earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and served as a Post-MFA Faculty Photography Fellow at the University of Georgia in 2013. She is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships including a 2022 City of Chicago DCASE Individual Artists Program Grant, 2021 Illinois Arts Council Agency Grant, a 2019 LATITUDE residency and a 2019 Luminarts Cultural Foundation Project Grant. She was a featured artist in the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial and will have her first book published next year with SKYLARK EDITIONS.