Les Joynes (b. Santa Barbara, California 1963) has exhibited in London at Nylon Gallery; in Japan at the Norimatsu Museum (solo), Matsuyama; Casa Gallery (solo), Tokyo, and Table Manners, curated by Roger McDonald at Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo; at the Art Gallery of New South Wales curated by Emil Goh; in Urban Decay, curated by Leah Oates at the Kaufman Arcade, New York; and Bang Bang Berlin curated by Cornelia Brintzinger at Bergstübl’ Projekte, Berlin and this year at Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo where he exhibited works from his Natural Displacement series in March. The artist has also exhibited at Scope Art Fair, New York with Mizuma Gallery.
Current exhibitions include: Working Artists in Brooklyn, Romo Gallery, Atlanta and Art Fair Tokyo in August 2005. Upcoming exhibitions include Dark Nature at Two Trees Gallery in Brooklyn in September 2005.
Les Joynes completed the BA Fine Art at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London (1992-96) and M.A. Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London (1996-1997). In 1995 as an Erasmus scholar he was invited to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts de Paris.
On the Japanese government sponsored Monbusho award Joynes completed an MFA at Musashino Art University, Tokyo in 2001 studying under Hisayuki Mogami. He also possesses an undergraduate and graduate degree from Boston University and Vrije Universiteit-Brussel.
He has guest-lectured at Otis College of Art, Los Angeles and has written on contemporary art for Flash Art, Milan, Springerin Magazine, Vienna and Art in America in New York. His work has appeared on NHK Television Japan, Art Monthly and Sculpture Magazine.
The artist lives in New York and works in Brooklyn.