JULIE RENEE JONES

Curriculum Vitae

JULIE RENEE JONES

Born 1984 — Dayton, Ohio

Lives & Works — Dayton, Ohio

Self-represented. Please contact for image, commission, exhibition/publication inquires.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 | Get Together, Rogar Glass Center for the Arts, Dayton, Ohio

2023 | Give & Take, Index Gallery, Dayton, Ohio

2023 | Relations, Radial Gallery, Dayton, Ohio

2022 | Umbra (Julie Renée Jones), Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Dayton, Ohio

2022 | Waking Up: The Biennial Member and Student invitational, The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, Ohio (2022 First Place Award Winner)

2022 | Soho Photo Gallery 27th Annual Competition, Soho Gallery, New York, New York (Third Place Winner)

2019 | AUTO//UPDATE, FotoFocus, The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky

2019 | The Society for Photographic Education Midwest Juried Exhibition, Milwaukee Institute of 

Art & Design, Brooks Stevens Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2019 | AINT-BAD: Collaborations, Laney Contemporary Fine Art, Savannah, Georgia

2018 | Remedios The Beauty, Granite City Art and Design District - Plaque, Granite City, Illinois 

2018 | New Midwest Photography, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin

2018 | Center Forward 2018, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado

2018 | Summer Quarter 2018, Streit House Space (online)

2017 | HERS, Radial Gallery, Dayton, Ohio

2017 | Umbra, The Blue House Gallery, Dayton, Ohio

2016 | Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v.2, traveling exhibition:

-2018

2018, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

2017, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan

2017, Raygun Projects, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia 

2017, NIAD Art Center, Richmond, California

2017, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California

2017, Volunteer State Community College, Nashville, Tennessee

2017, Apothecary, Chattanooga, Tennessee  

2017, CLASS ROOM, Coventry, UK

2016, Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois

2016, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe, UK

2016, Boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany

2016, corridor / Divisible, The Front Street Building Co.,  Dayton, Ohio

2016 | Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) v.2, Curating Contemporary (online)

2016 | The New Face of Film, FotoFilmic, Visual Arts Center at Boise State University, Boise, Idaho

2016 | 80x80: An Art Show, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

2016 | Reciprocity, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, Ohio

2016 | UMBRA, Ann Miller Gallery, Koch Hall, Wittenburg University, Springfield, Ohio

2016 | Space Jamz, Group Show 47, Humble Arts Foundation (online)

2014 | FlakPhoto Midwest Print Show, Diane Endres Ballway-Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin

2014 | Variations on Likeness: Keliy Anderson-Staley, Glenna Jennings, Julie Renée Jones, & 

Daniel McInnis, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio

2014 | All the Days and Nights, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

2014 | Emerging Artists Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art (online) 

2014 | ADP WRKSHP Pop-Up Exhibition, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 

2013 | Not Just Another Pretty Face 2013 Exhibition, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois

2013 | Making It Home, Unsmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock, Pennsylvania

2013 | City Space + UMBRA, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana

2013 | FotoFilmic’13, International Photography Exhibition, Positive Negative Gallery, Vancouver, 

BC, Canada

2013 | Archetype Drift, Johalla Projects, Chicago, Illinois

2013 | 16th International Opening, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 

2012 | Albert P. Weisman Award Exhibition, the arcade, Chicago, Illinois

2012 | Ground Floor Exhibition, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois

2012 | Margate Photo Festival 3, three person exhibition, Pie Factory, Margate, Kent, United 

Kingdom.

2012 | Alternative Realities, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont

2012 | PPAC’s 3rd Annual Photography Competition & Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2012 | f8, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2012 | Voyeurism & Intimacy: The Public/Private Divide in Photography, RayKo Photo Center, San 

Francisco, California  

2011 | Relative Exposure, 310 conTEMPORARY Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 

2007 | Mount St. John, Marianist Residence Hall, Permanent exhibition, University of Dayton, 

Dayton, Ohio

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2024 | OF COVID: Collective Trauma (various artists)  +KGP | Monolith in collaboration with 

Humble Arts Foundation

2023 | WMN Magazine, “International Women's Day 2023,” Issue #3

2023 | Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood, teNeues

2022 | Stress, love, joy—what mothers photographed during the pandemic, National Geographic, 

History & Culture (online)

2019 | Umbra, Newfound Journal, Volume no. 10, Issue 1, “The Fool’s Journey” (online)

2018 | Issue No.13, Aint-Bad Magazine 

2018 | Umbra: A Review…, exposure magazine (online)

2018 | “New Midwest Photography: A FlakPhoto Project,” Wisconsin: people & ideas, Volume 64, Number 3

2018 | Contemporary by Antonio Muratore & Silvia Colombo, published by LoosenArt

2017 | Strant’s Pictures Without Words, Volume 001, Issue 002, Strant Magazine

2016 | The Point Magazine, Issue 12, Summer 2016

2016 | “Pair,” C 41 Magazine, Issue 2

2015 | Fraction Magazine, Issue 73 Fraction Magazine (online)

2013 | Real Simple Features..., Real Simple Magazine

2012 | “Ground Floor: A Biennial Exhibition of New Art From Chicago,” Hyde Park Arts Center, 

introduction by Dawoud Bey

2012 | "Julie Renée Jones: Strangely Familiar,” feature and interview, The British Journal of 

Photography

PRESS & FEATURES

2023 | Eye Mama – what motherhood looks like, The Guardian (online)

2022 | TIME's Best Portraits of 2022, TIME Magazine (online)

2022 | Visions of Love, The Luupe (online)

2020 | Seeing Light, Seeing Shadow, Culture Couch, WYSO Public Radio

2019 | Photo of the Day: Julie Renée Jones, Don’t Take Pictures (online)

2018 | Refreshing the Map…, Humble Arts Foundation (online)

2018 | 10 Midwest Photographer You Should Follow, Booooooom! (online)

2018 | Julie Renée Jones tells us about her home…, C 41 Magazine (online)

2017 | "Umbra" by Photographer Julie Renée Jones, Booooooom! (online)

2017 | Les coupes de coeur #151, Fisheye Magazine (online)

2017 | Julie Renée Jones Rewrites Memory in "Umbra", iGNANT (online)

2017 | The New Yorker Photo (@newyorkerphoto) Instagram take-over
Week-long artist curation of Umbra work on the New Yorker Photo Instagram

2017 | “Julie Renée Jones” Aint-Bad Magazine (online)

2017 | Film, photograph, or memory?, Dayton City Paper (online & print)

2015 | New Issue of Fraction Magazine #73, featured portfolio, L'Oeil de la Photographie [The Eye 

of Photography]  (online)

2014 | “Julie Renée Jones” Aint-Bad Magazine (online)

2014 | “Let’s Face It: Variations on Likeness at DVAC” Dayton City Paper (online & print)

2013 | “Umbra: Without Light There Can Be No Shadow” Indiana Public Media (online)

2013 | “Clarissa Bonet + Julie Renée Jones” Pictura Gallery (online)

VISITING ARTIST, LECTURES, ARTIST TALKS, & RESIDENCIES

2025 | 2025 SPE Annual Conference, Adaption, Panel Discussion, “Motherhood and Artistic Practice” 

2022 | Belfast Photo Festival (@belfastphotofestival), Insta Residency

2020 | Pre-College Photography Workshop, Guest Artist Lecture, SUNY-Purchase

2017 | The New Yorker Photo (@newyorkerphoto) Instagram take-over
Week-long artist curation of Umbra work on the New Yorker Photo Instagram; August 28th - September 3rd

2016 | Artist Lecture, Oregon State University

2016 | Exhibiting Artist Lecture, Wittenberg University, Springfield Ohio

Artist talk and solo exhibition

2014 | ADP Workshop: Ohio University, Ohio University, Athens Ohio

Artist talk and presentation for Communication, Photojournalism, Commercial Photography, and Fine Arts students; participant in panel on Documentary photography.

2013 | ADP Workshop 2013, Unsmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock Pennsylvania

Featured artist for artist talk and panel discussion 

2012 | Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago Illinois

Selected artist for an archive of approximately 70 Chicago-based artists for collaborative commissions for local communities, collectors, and HPAC members

2012 | MWSPE 2011/2012 Scholarship Recipients, Midwest Society of Photographic Education, regional conference, Cincinnati Ohio

Image Maker presentation

2009 | Visiting Artist for Summer Arts Camp, Stivers School for the Arts, Dayton Ohio

Teacher in Foundation Photography Workshop, Special project with students, Lecture

2007 | Artist in Residence at the University of Dayton, Dayton Ohio

Created two unique installations of work for permanent exhibition in Marianist Hall over a four month period

AWARDS & GRANTS

2023 | Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award Grant, OAC

2022 | The Mike Goheen Memorial Fund Award for Photography, The Contemporary Dayton

2018 | Montgomery County Artist Opportunity Grant, Culture Works

2015 | Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award Grant, OAC

2013 | FotoFilmic’13 International Film Photography, Feature and Exhibition Winner, VnB

2012 | Albert P. Weisman Award, Project Completion Grant, Columbia College Chicago

2012 | Midwest SPE Scholarship, Society for Photographic Education: Midwest Region

2011 | John Mulvany Scholarship, Columbia College Chicago

2011 | Graduate Opportunity Award, Columbia College Chicago

2010 | Stuart and Iris Baum Project Completion Grant, Columbia College Chicago