Phillip March Jones is an artist, writer, and curator based in New York City. In 2009, Jones founded Institute 193, a nonprofit contemporary art space and publisher in Lexington, Kentucky. He later served as the inaugural director of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, and as director of the Galerie Christian Berst (New York/Paris) and the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York. More recently, Jones co-curated the Atlanta Biennial, an exhibition showcasing emerging, established, and forgotten artistic practices from across the Southern U.S. region, for the Atlanta Contemporary. It is currently on view.
Jones serves as Institute 193’s Curator-at-Large and oversees Institute 193 (1B), a project space in New York’s East Village that organizes collaborative exhibitions with cultural institutions from the Southern United States. His photographs and writings have been published by the Jargon Society, Vanderbilt University Press, Dust-to-Digital and Poem 88, among others. More notably, he is a Kentucky Colonel and Duke of Hazard (one z).
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