Samuel Levi Jones

Samuel Levi Jones (born 1978) is an American artist, he is known for his paintings and assemblage art. Many of his works are abstract, and centered on African-American history, and identity; often using historically sourced materials.

Biography Samuel Levi Jones was born in 1978 in Marion, Indiana, into an African-American family. Jones is related (great nephew, through marriage) to Abraham S. Smith, one of the two men publicly lynched in 1930 in Marion, Indiana. He has also had a solo exhibition at The Dayton Contemporary in Ohio titled The Empire is Falling, and Unbound at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

Jones work is included in public museum collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rubell Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).