EMILY BLYTHE JONES
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    • BIO
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    • CV
    • FOOD THOUGHTS
  • CONTACT
  • PROJECTS
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Education
  • 2016, Master of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  • 2015, CSU Summer Arts Residency, California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey Bay, CA
  • 2013, CSU Summer Arts Residency, California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey Bay, CA
  • 2013, Bachelor of Arts, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  • 2008, Associate of Fine Arts, Associate of Arts, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL

Professional Experience
  • 2021, Committed Member, Meatspace Communion
  • 2016, 2D Design Teacher, de Toledo High School, West Hills, CA
  • 2016, 2D Design, Lecturer, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  • 2015, 2D Design, Lecturer, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA

Awards
  • 2016, Awarded Ange and Bela Kasza Award for Art Education
  • 2015, Awarded Ange and Bela Kasza Award for Art Education
  • 2014, Awarded Hans Burkhardt Painting Award
  • 2013, Awarded Hans Burkhardt Painting Award
  • 2011-13, Dean's List, California State University Northridge

Curatorial Projects
  • 2017-2022, Co-Director, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions
2022

  • Canine Dissonance, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
  • Maker's Communion, First German United Methodist Church, Glendale, CA

2021
  • Bad Guy Art, Gallery Also, Los Angeles, CA
  • Monte Vista Projects Presents: Sustainable Sculpting, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
2020
  • Bas-Relief, Bozo Mag, Los Angeles, CA
  • BOZO FAMILY HOE-DOWN, Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair, Los Angeles, CA
  • Works from Home, Apt. 5, Los Angeles, CA​
2019
  • Handjob. LAVA Projects. Alhambra, CA
  • Cruel Optimism. Wow Projects LA. Chewing Foil. Los Angeles, CA
  • Useless Man. Highways Performance Space. Santa Monica, CA
  • Call and Response, Kronenboden, Berlin, Germany
  • Majestic Proton Vest, The Front, New Orleans, LA
  • Co/Lab IV, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
  • Dream Wavers, Loyola Marymount University, Westchester, CA
  • Collection Connection, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
  • The Barker Hanger, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
  • Monte Vista Presents, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
  • QiPO Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
2018
  • Second Annual Holiday Art Raffle, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles and Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  • The Newsstand Project, Los Angeles, CA​Maiden L.A. Launch Party and Fundraiser, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
  • Heat of the Moment, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA
  • CSUN Arts Alumni Small Works Fundraiser​, Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  • PØST: Kamikaze - Let Me Eat Cake, PØST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • What’s Too Silly to be Spoken Must Be Sung, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA
  • Easy Winds, Honest Labor, Los Angeles, CA
  • Interior Fiction, The Vast Lab, Valley Village, CA
  • Feminism Now, Grafiska Sällskapet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • US, Madrid Theatre, Canoga Park, CA
  • I Swear It Was Just There, Dalton Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
  • GLAMFA's Transpose 2018, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA
  • Combined Effort, Sea Farm City's Postcard Show benefit for ACLU, MNK Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2017
  • The First Annual TSALA / Monte Vista Projects Holiday Raffle​, Monte Vista Projects and Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2017 Open Show, Los Angeles Arts Association, Los Angeles, CA
  • Who Do You Think You Are?, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Tarzana, CA
  • Apple Pie, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC
  • S+P=A, Surrogate Gallery Projects, Pasadena, CA
  • GLAMFA, Art Galleries, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
  • 20th Annual High School Arts Invitational, West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
2016
  • Graduate Art Exhibition, Main Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  • Salone Des Refuses, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  • Beastly Beings, Cactus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  •  CSU Call and Response, California State University Long Beach: Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA (Curated by Samantha Fields and Rebecca Campbell
  • Got It For Cheap Vol. 2,3,4,5,6, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, Black Bear Brooklyn, New York City, New York, T Haik HQ, Oslo, Norway Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden, Agnes B's Galleri du Jour, Paris
  • MFA Biennial, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2015
  • Culminating Exhibition for Mixed-Media Mold-Making at CSU Summer Arts Residency, California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey Bay, CA (Curated by Evan Holloway, artist)
  • Solo Exhibition, Shed Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  • CSUN Painting Guild's Juried Spring Show, "At Home,” West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA (Juried by Cliff Benjamin, Gallerist, Western Project, Culver City, CA)
  • Annual Juried Art Student Exhibition, Main Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  • Salone Des Refuses, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  • CSUN Illustration Club Annual Show, West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
​2014
  • C-Note: An Exhibition and Fundraiser for Syrian Children, JAUS Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Solo Exhibition, Shed Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  •  CSUN Painting Guild's "Cat Show," West Gallery, California State University  Northridge, Northridge, CA (Juried by Martha Rich, artist)
  • CSUN Painting Guild's "Meet the Guild" Show, West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
  • Annual Juried Art Student Exhibition, Main Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
  • CSUN Illustration Club Annual Show, West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
2013
  • Solo Exhibition, Shed Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  • Roots Exhibit, West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
  • CSUN Sculpture Organization Pop-Up Show, West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
  • CSUN Photo Club Potluck Show, West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
  • CSUN Painting Guild's "Meet the Guild," West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
  • Annual Incoming MFA Shed Show, Shed Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
  • Culminating Exhibition for Contemporary Painting  at CSU Summer Arts Residency, California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey Bay, CA 
  • Culminating Exhibition for Observational Painting  at CSU Summer Arts Residency, California State University Monterey Bay, Monterey Bay, CA 
  • Annual Juried Art Student Exhibition, Main Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
  • CSUN Painting Guild's "Pretty and Dead", West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
2012        
  • Small Works, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
  • Annual Juried Art Student Exhibition, Main Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
  •  Quantified Self, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Group Exhibition, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Curated by LC,  Gallerist, Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City, CA
  • CSUN Painting Guild's "Painting As Object," West Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
  • Into Error, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
  • CSUN Painting Guild's "Meet the Guild", Shed Gallery, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 
2008 
  • Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Safety-Kleen Gallery One, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
​2007 
  • Bold as Love with Artist Adam Parker Smith, Blue Sky Project Group Installation, The Starline Gallery, Harvard, IL 2006 
​2006
  • My Space: Mchenry County with Artist Penny Brice, Blue Sky Project Group Installation, The Framery, Crystal Lake, IL 
  • Fox Valley Art Conference, Epping Gallery, Mchenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL,

Related Professional Experience
  • 2019 - Present - Studio Assistant and Fabrication
  • 2018 - Social Media Coordinator, de Toledo High School, West Hills, CA
  • 2017 - Guest Artist for Norton Simon Teen Arts Academy, The Art of the Selfie, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
  • 2016 - Guest Artist for Community-based Art Prison Arts Collective at CA State Prison, Los Angeles County
  • 2016 - Artist Lecture and Presentation on Thesis for Archives, Recordkeeping and Memory course at UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
  • 2013-16 - California State University Northridge -Lab Attendant and Assistant for Painting Facilities
  • 2016 - Participant in Call & Response Project with artists Samantha Fields and Rebecca Campbell, California State University Long Beach
  •  2015-2016 - Officer in California State University Northridge Sculpture Organization
    •  Responsible for Secretarial and Managerial Duties, 
    •  Responsible for Exhibition Organization, Installation and Design of Multiple Group Exhibitions 
    •  Host for Guest Artist Lectures 
  • 2012-2015 - Officer, California State University Northridge Painting Guild
    • Responsible for Secretarial Duties and Managerial Duties,
    • Responsible for Exhibition Organization, Installation and Design of Multiple Group Exhibitions
    • Host for Guest Artist Lectures
    • Led Workshops and Lectures
  • 2012-2016 - Cofounder  of 429 Collective - Artist Run Collective
    • Tabled, Los Angeles Zine Fest, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
    • Tabled, San Francisco Zine Fest, San Francisco, 2015
    • Tabled, Los Angeles Zine Fest, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
    • Tabled, Print Fest, California Insitute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 2013
  • ​2014 - Assistant to Gallerist of Good Eye Gallery, Eagle Rock, CA
  • 2013 - Projectionist, College Art Association, CAA Conference, New York, NY
  • 2007 - Blue Sky Project, Mchenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL, Student Assistant for Resident Artist Adam Parker Smith
  • 2006 - Blue Sky Project, Mchenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL, Student Participant with Resident Artist Penny Brice
  • 2005-2006 - H.D. Jacobs in Algonquin, IL Art Club Co-President

​Publications
  • Woo, Heidi. “Art as Innovation.” Slow.Sustain, Winter/Spring '21, slowandsustain.org/emily-blythe-jones/. 
  • Nuys Dambrot, Shana. "Art Pick: Useless Man at Highways Performance Space." LA Weekly. August 23rd, 2019. https://www.laweekly.com/art-pick-useless-man-at-highways-performance-space/
  • Friend of the Artist, vol. 9, 28 May 2019.
  • Smith, Andy. “Emily Blythe Jones Crafts Mixed-Media, Multi-Dimensional Portraits.” Hi-Fructose Magazine, 17 Nov. 2017, hifructose.com/2017/11/17/emily-blythe-jones-crafts-mixed-media-multi-dimensional-portraits/
  • Chancellor's Gallery, California State University, July, 2013 <http:// blogs.calstate.edu/summerarts/index.php/chancellors-gallery/#jp-carousel-885>
  • Sumell, Stephanie. "Murals Chosen for CAP parking structure." Thousand Oaks Acorn. February 28, 2013. http://www.toacorn.com/news/2013-02-28/Community/ Murals_chosen_for_CAP_parking_structure.html
  • Sweet Station, January 18th, 2013. Web. <http://sweet-station.com/blog/2013/01/emily-blythe-jones/>
  • "Painting and Drawing." I'mperfect Zine. Vol 1. December 2012: 8 & 10. Print.
  • “Illustrated.” I’mperfect Zine. Vol 2. December, 2012: 3. PrintTurning Art. N.p., n.d. Web. 02. October, 2012. <http://www.turningart.com/artist/emily-jones>.
  • Poets/Artists. Poets/Artists. Didi Menendez, September 28th, 2012. Web. 02 Oct. 2012. <http://poetsandartists.com/>. ​


  • PORTFOLIO
    • CAN I OFFER YOU A NICE EGG IN THIS TRYING TIME?
    • SCULPTURES AND DIMENSIONAL PAINTINGS
    • DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS
    • WATERCOLOR SNAPSHOTS
    • PRINTS
    • WASN'T THERE
  • ABOUT
    • BIO
    • ARTIST STATEMENT
    • CV
    • FOOD THOUGHTS
  • CONTACT
  • PROJECTS
    • MEATSPACE COMMUNION
    • READ ABOUT SUSTAINABLE MOLD-MAKING
    • WATCH SUSTAINABLE MOLD-MAKING WITH AGAR
    • WATCH SUSTAINABLE MOLD-MAKING: LIVE LECTURE