EDUCATION

University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil 

Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA) (2015-2017)

Post-Doctorate, School of Art and Communications

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jose Batista Dal Farra

Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, 2012)

Faculty of Art, Environment and Technology

Columbia University, New York, USA

Columbia University Visiting Scholar and Scientist Program 

Visiting Scholar in Art, Art History, Philosophy and Education (2008-2020)

Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Masters in Fine Art (1999-2001)

Specialization in Asian traditional and contemporary arts.

Post-graduate Research Scholar in Sculpture (1998-1999) 

Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

Master of Arts, Fine Art (MA Fine Art, 1997)  

Specialization in multimedia art and theory

Central Saint Martins College of Art, University of the Arts (UAL), London, UK

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BA Hons, 1996) 

Specialization in sculpture and multimedia installation

Boston University, Boston, USA

Bachelor of Arts in History  (BA, 1986) 

European History. Art History. Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society

OTHER EDUCATION 

Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Masterclass with James Rosenquist (2004)

Masterclass in Painting 

California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

Master of Business Administration (MBA, 1989) 

International Management and Strategy

Boston University, Boston and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium

Master of Science (MSc, 1988) in Management

Faculteit van de Economische, Sociale en Politieke Wetenschappen

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing (2017)

Zanabazar Museum of Fine Art, Ulaanbaatar (2014)

Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil (2013)

Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil (2012)

Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York (2011)

Treignac Projet, Correze, France (2010)

FormLAB Tokyo (performance), Tokyo, Japan (2010)

Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Berlin and Queenstown, Singapore (2009)

Åmotgård Museum, Bygstad, Norway (2008)

Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY (2008)        

Space Gallery, London, UK (2005)    

Casa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (1998)

Norimatsu Museum, Matsuyama, Japan (1997)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Douba Film Festival, Sichuan, China (2019)

National Zanabazar Museum of Fine Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2014)

Museum of Brazilian Arts (MAB-FAAP), Sao Paulo, Brazil (2015)

976 Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Launch for Venice Biennale (2014)

University of São Paulo, Brazil (2013)

Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea (2012)

Fenberger Museum, Nagano, Japan (2012)

University of Minnesota, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2010)

Welsh Museum of Modern Art,  Wales, UK (2010)

Exit 11, curated by Luc Fierens and Benoit Piret, Grand-Leez, Belgium (2010)

San Diego State University, curated by Bibiana Padilla Maltos, San Diego, CA (2010) 

Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil (2010)

Bauhaus Foundation, Singapore (2009) 

New General Catalog, New York (2007)

Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY (2007)

Sandra Bürgel Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2007)

South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2006)

Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2006)

CBGB, New York, New York, NY (2006)

Art Fair Tokyo, Japan (2005)

Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2005)

Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2005)

Bergstübl Mitte, Berlin, Germany (2004)

Klaus Winichner, Berlin (2003)

Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2003)

Tactical Museum/ AIT, Tokyo, Japan (2002)

Maejima Art Center, Curated by Roger McDonald, Okinawa, Japan (2002)

Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2001)

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2001)

Gallery 4a, Sydney (2001)

Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Korea (2001)

Nylon Gallery, London, UK (2000)

Asahi Contemporary Art 2000, Tokyo, Japan (2000)

Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand (1999)

Tatsumi Orimoto Space, Kawasaki, Japan (1999)

Milch Gallery, London, UK (1996)

Barbican Gallery, London, UK (1995)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Өнөөдөр (Unuduur), Mongolian national newspaper - Interview with Les Joynes (2014).

 

China Central Television (CCTV), Beijing (2014).

 

Kim, Hee-young, Seoul Foundation for Art & Culture, Korea, An Archaeology of Time: Les Joynes (2012).

 

Epoca São Paulo (magazine), Exposição transforma Museu Brasileiro da Escultura em laboratório criativo (2012).

 

Cultura e Arte (magazine), São Paulo, FormLAB ganha primeira versão no Brasil (2012).

 

Colhera da Culture (magazine), São Paulo, (2012) 

Form Laboratory: O mar de objetos descartados como lixo nas cidades se transforma em arte nas mãos do artista Les Joynes (2012).

 

TVO-São Paulo, Les Joynes (Televised Interview), São Paulo, Brazil (2012).

 

Sele, Katrine, Interview: Parallel Universes, Amotgaard, Bygstad, Firde (newspaper), Norway (2008).

 

Ewald, Gritta, Dagbeeld (magazine), Rotterdam, Netherlands (2008).

 

Fujimori, Manami, In the City on the Move: Featured artists: New York, Boon (magazine),

Japan (2008).

 

Gossart, Séverine, Columbia University Oral History Archives, New York (2007).

 

Kobe Shimbun (newspaper), Japan (2006).

 

Commons & Sense (magazine), Tokyo, Japan (2002).

 

Savannah, Gae, Sculpture Magazine, Washington DC (2002).

 

Japan Design (magazine), Tokyo, Japan (2001).

 

Charlesworth, J.J. The Raft, Art Monthly, London (2000).

WORKS IN COLLECTION

Museu de Arte Brasileira (MAB), São Paulo, Brazil.

 

Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil.

 

The City of Awaji, Japan.

 

Norimatsu Museum, Matsuyama, Japan.

 

Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture/ The City of Seoul, Korea. 

 

Private collections in the UK, Japan, Belgium, France and the US. 

SELECTED WRITING AND PUBLISHED PAPERS

FormLAB: Interfacing Technology with Site, ISEA International Symposium of Electronic Art, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea (2019)

Artist Centric Practices in the Museum of Tomorrow, [book] Museum2050 and Long Art Museum, Shanghai (2019)

Emerging dialogues in teaching, evaluation and curriculum development, 

Critical Practices, New York, (2018)

Intercultural Collaboration in the Arts: Shamanism, Ritual in Brazil, 

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (2018)

Higher Education at the Crossroads: Central Asia

American Center for Mongolian Studies (2018)

Going Beyond: Art as Adventure (Cambridge Scholars, Nottingham, UK, 2018)

Anywhere v.1. Parsons The New School for Design; Project Anywhere; and

School of Creative Industries, ISBN 978-0-692-32297-0, (2016)

Selected Artists from China and the US at Beijing’s Inside Out Art Museum

(catalogue), LeRoy Neiman Foundation, New York (2014)

The Invisible and the Transvisible in Contemporary Art, Singapore, Journal for

Visual Culture, University of California, Irvine (Joynes and Basu, 2011)

Yuichi Higashionna at NADIF Tokyo, Flash Art, Milan (Oct 2000)

Yoshitomo Nara at Ginza Art Space, Art in America (1999)

British art in the 1990s: David Thorpe and Brian Griffith

Springer, Vienna (1998). 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS, TEACHING AND RESEARCH

Columbia University, New York 

Columbia Visiting Scholars and Scientist Program

  Department of Art History and Archeology (2018-2019) 

  Visiting Scholar in Contemporary and Comparative Visual Cultures

  Department of Art and Art Education, Teachers College (2016-2018) 

  Visiting Scholar in Art, Education and University Curriculum Design

  Department of Philosophy (2010-2012) 

  Visiting Scholar in Contemporary Art and Philosophy 

  Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship (2011) 

  Research on Art and Business cooperation.

  School of the Arts  (2008-2010) 

  Visiting Scholar in Contemporary Art

Renmin University of China, Beijing, China (2013-present)

  Visiting Professor 

  School of Art

  Professor of Record, American Art Since 1900:  modern and contemporary art.

  Professor of Record, Site-Specific art.

Peking University, Beijing, China (2018) 

Institute of Cultural Industries 

  Visiting Professor

  Teaching cultural entrepreneurship and strategic analysis for cultural industries.

  Plenary Speaker on Art and Research, Doctoral Program in the School of Art (2018)

  Global Engagement Liaison, Peking University Department of Postdoctoral Affairs

University of the Arts London (UAL), UK (2015)

Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN). 

  Research Fellow in Visual Art 

  UAL doctoral masterclass on arts practice and research .

Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (1998-2001) 

  BA Fine Art Tutor

  Department of Sculpture 

WORKSHOPS AND RESEARCH ON DIVERSITY 

American Center of Mongolian Studies (ACMS), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Research for Arts in Education in Mongolia (funded US Department of State  in collaboration with Mongolian State University for Art & Culture, Ulaanbaatar. 

 

University of the Arts London,  London, UK (2015).

Research on transnational art systems and nomadic practices (including that of FormLAB). 

University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2014-2015).

Post-colonial intercultural and interdisciplinary art practice. Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jose Batista Dal Farra, Director, Departmento des Artes Cenicas (CAC). 

 

FormLAB,  New York, NY (2014)

Director for expedition to visit nomadic Tsaatan reindeer herding community in the

Mongolian Border region with Siberia. Directed exhibition and research.

Fulbright-Hays Award and CEC-ArtsLink, New York grant (2014)

Leeds Metropolitan University,  Leeds, UK (2012)

Doctoral Research on emergence of new geographically dispersed art-making practice.

National Academy Museum, New York (2009)

Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship.

Research on public art, mural and public installation.

Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau Germany (2008-2009)

Artist Fellow on Bauhaus Foundation Kolleg Program, Dessau, Germany 

(2009), Singapore (2009) 

Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dalsåsen, Norway (2008)

Research on Nordic mythology, and site-specific art installations. 

Served on artist selection panel.  Support from Cultural Ministry of Norway.

Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (1998-2001) 

MEXT/Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture Research Scholar. 

Research on contemporary art in East Asia. 

Research on pedagogy. Government sponsored Japanese language program 1997-1998. 

Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK (1996-1997)

Thesis research on the uncanny in American popular culture, art and film. 

Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris (1995)

Erasmus Scholar in Fine Art

Research on sculpture processes: casting, metal, human morphology, new media. 

California State University, San Luis Obispo, CA (1988-89)

Research and management of international organizations. 

Co-published “Managing The Technology Transfer Process: The Parallel Learning Mechanism,” California State University, DankookUniversity Press (1990).

Boston University International Programs Office, Brussels, Belgium (1986-1987)

Research on Graduate Education in Europe.

SELECTED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

Long Art Museum, Shanghai (2018) 

Lecture on the museum of the future and artist-centric installation in China 

Bard Abroad Smolny College Program, Saint Petersburg, Russia(2017) 

Lecture “Contemporary curating and international cooperation”.

Pro Arte Foundation

Saint Petersburg, Russia(2017) 

“Contemporary art and collaboration between the US, China, Mongolia, Brazil, & Singapore”

Mongolian State University of Art and Culture, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2015, 2016) 

Visiting Lecturer

Founder of the American Modern and Contemporary Art Lecture Series.

Cambridge University, UK (2015) 

Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Presenter on Intercultural contemporary art collaboration 

 

Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (1998-2001)

Department of Sculpture

Teaching and tutorials with BA Fine Art Sculpture students 1999-2001. (2 years) 

Research Scholar in Japanese contemporary and traditional arts.

Visiting presentations and teaching (2000-2012)

University of Lincoln (May, 2014), University of Coventry (Feb 2014); Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea; Lasalle College of Art, Singapore; Nanyang Academy of Art, National University of Singapore (2009); University of California, Santa Barbara (2006); Otis School of Art, Los Angeles (2000).

SELECTED CONFERENCES

25th International Symposium on Electronic Art (2019) 

Interfacing Technology with Site, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea

Museum 2050, (2018) 

Long Art Museum, Shanghai

Co-Chair, Young Researcher Conference, Mongolia (2016)

International Committee, College Art Association conference (2015-present).

Japan Startup NYC, Microsoft, New York (2016)

Presidents Forum on Higher Educaiton, Teachers College, Columbia University, New work (2016)

 

Keynote Speaker, Young Researcher Conference Mongolia, National University of Education and the American Center for Mongolian Studies (2015).

 

Royal Geographical Society Conference, London (2013)

 

Editorial Committee, ProjectAnywhere Conference, Parsons/ New School , New York (2015).

 

Panelist, Artists’ Workspaces: Portability, Contingency, Virtuality, College Art Association conference, Chicago (2014).

 

Presenting on intercultural arts collaborations for the panel Going Beyond: Art as Adventure (CAA, Washington, DC).

 

European League of Institutes in the Arts (ELIA) conferences, Seoul (2012) and Vienna (2013).

LANGUAGES

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Mongolian.