Matthew Joseph Jones (1989, USA)
Education:
2018 Master of Fine Arts in Art, Painting Emphasis, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
2016 Master of Arts in Art, Painting Emphasis, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Solo Exhibitions:
2026 Wayfarer, Clyde H Wells Fine Arts Center Gallery, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas
2025 Primal Pilgrimage, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2025 Transient Recollections, The Museum of Asian Texans, Dallas, Texas
2025 A Stone’s Throw Away: Recounting the Journey, Art Corridor II, Tarrant County College SE, Arlington, Texas
2025 Beyond the Window, J N Long Cultural Arts Center, Cleburne, Texas
2025 A Stone’s Throw Away, Ruth Smith Gallery, North Tawton, England
2023 Paper Trail, Mary Lib Saleh Euless Public Library, Euless, Texas
2022 Refuge | Refuse, Norman Brown Gallery, Goldmark Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2021-22 Leave Only Footprints, Gallery 61, Fort Worth, Texas
2018 Finding A Sense Of Place, Irving Arts Center, Irving, Texas
2016 Field Note, Loggia Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
Group Exhibitions:
2026 Side x Side x Side, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2026 Fort Worth Art Fair, 400H Gallery B3, Fort Worth, Texas
2026 3rd Annual Grapevine Contemporary, Rtown Gallery, Grapevine, Texas
2026 Crackpot Logic, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, Texas
2025 Show in the Boe, The Boedeker Building, Dallas, Texas
2025 Hyperlocal V, Atelier Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2025 Lasting Impressions, Cooperstown Art Association Gallery, Cooperstown, New York
2025 Fresh Ideas, Lewisville Grand Theater (Main Gallery), Lewisville, Texas
2025 Apophenia, ICOSA Art Collective, Austin, Texas
2025 Extinction: Save the Planet, Gallerium Art - Biafarin Online Art Exhibition (Catalog)
2025 The Ever Present Revealed, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2025 Ginger Roots, Dallas Asian American Historical Society, Dallas, Texas
2025 Prometheus, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (catalog)
2025 Retrospective, Irving Art Association, Irving, Texas
2025 Five and Seven, Booker T. Washington, Dallas, Texas
2024-25 Behind the Scenes: The Fabric of the Museum, Gallery 61, Fort Worth, Texas
2024 Behind the Scenes: The Fabric of the Museum, Pop up Exhibition, Amon Carter Research Library, Fort Worth, Texas
2024 Near and Far, Bayshore Community Centre, Owen Sound, Ontario
2024 Matthew Jones and Ross Faircloth: Divergent Realities, Richland Campus Brazos Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2024-25 Global Warming is Real, The Museum of Encaustic Art, Cerrillos, New Mexico. Juried by Angela Hansen
2024 Small and Spicy, 500 Annex, Irving, Texas
2024 Man It’s So Hot in Here, The Eclectika at 711, Irving, Texas
2024 11th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas. Juried by Maggie Adler, curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
2024 Voyager-2, 500 Annex, Irving, Texas
2024 Art 214, Oakcliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2024 Paintings and Assemblages, Irving Art Association, Irving, Texas
2024 Faculty, Staff, and Students: Recent Work Installation, Art Corridor II, Tarrant County College SE, Arlington, Texas
2024 Waxworks, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (catalog)
2024 Five and Seven, Booker T. Washington, Dallas, Texas
2023 Hot and Sweaty 2023, 500 X, Dallas, Texas
2023 Miscellaneous, Gallery 61, Fort Worth, Texas
2023 Chaos, Ro2, Dallas, Texas
2023 Membership Show, The-MAC, Dallas, Texas
2023 Sunburn Art Fair, The Post, Fort Worth, Texas
2023 TEXAS NOW 2023 Texas Art Showcase, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas, (online)
2023 This Land, Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
2023 Earth Day: Invest in our Planet, KBM Gallery, (online)
2023 Environments, Kavanagh Gallery, St Charles, Illinois
2023 Celebrating 2, Gallery 61, Fort Worth, Texas
2023 Climate Changing, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2022 Irving Art Association Fall Members Exhibit, West Irving Library, Irving Texas
2022 100-Mile Exhibit, Coppell Arts Center, Coppell, Texas (Juried by Janna Tidwell)
2022 Small Worlds: Juried Exhibition of Small Works, Crooked Tree Art Center, Traverse City, Michigan,
(JURIED by Tami Fauver, director and curator of Krasl Art Center)
2022 Force Of Nature, Webster Arts, Webster Groves, Missouri, (Juried by Gino Santa Maria)
2022 Faculty Biennial, Tarrant County College SE, Arlington, Texas
2022 Hot and Sweaty 2022, 500 X, Dallas, Texas
2022 Members Showcase, Jaycee Park Center for the Arts, Irving, Texas (JURIED by the Irving Arts Association Members)
2022 Irving Art Association Summer Members Exhibit, West Irving Library, Irving, Texas
2021 Wish You Were Here, The Mix Creative Space, Dallas, Texas
2021 Metamorphosis, Tubac Center Of The Arts, Tubac Arizona (Juried by Susan Stover and Lisa Pressman)
2021 Summer Pleasures, Modern Visual Arts Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2021 Summer Exhibition, Gallery 61, Fort Worth, Texas
2021 Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 61, Fort Worth, Texas
2019 3rd Annual Small Works Show, Art Room, Fort Worth, Texas (Juried by Nathan Madrid, Deedra Baker, and Katie Murray)
2019 Social Landscapes, Oakcliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas (Juried by Gerardo Robles)
2019 Short Trip To Nuts, Grackle Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
2019 Fall Gallery Walk, Beaudry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Wicked Summer II, Phase II, Beaudry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 8th Annual Juried Encaustic Exhibition, (Juried by Kathy Blankley Roman and Dan Addington) Morpho Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (catalog)
2019 Wavelength, Beaudry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Unique By Nature, (Juried by Karl Buchberg, retired Senior Curator, MOMA; and J. Patrick Cooney, J. Patrick Cooney Fine Arts) Mckinney Performing Arts Center, Mckinney, Texas
2019 Survey Of Contemporary Encaustic: The IEA 2019 Juried Exhibition, (Juried by Mat Gleason), Chaffey Community Museum Of Art, Ontario, California (catalog)
2018 Colin/Costa/Feige/Ryden, Beaudry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2018 Stylized Realism, Beaudry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2018 Onward Forward, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery (Juried by Christina Haley and Holly Johnson), University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
2018 Art 214, Oakcliff Cultural Center (Juried by: Jim Burton of UNT, Elizabeth Mellot of Collin College, Arthur Peña of UNT, and Tori Phillips), Dallas, Texas
2018 En Plein Air, University of Dallas Upper Gallery, Irving, Texas
2018 Small Works Show, Art 7 Gallery (Juried by Karen Fulton), Fort Worth, Texas
2018 Carpenter Wake, Carpenter Hall (Juried by Christina Haley and John D. Peavler), University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
2017 Open Studio Night, University of Dallas Upper Gallery, Irving, Texas
2017 Contemporary Encaustic 2017, Royal Contemporary (Juried by Lisa Steele), Florence, Colorado
2017 Onward Forward, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery (Juried by Christina Haley and Kyle Hobratschk), University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
2017 The 33%: Artists from the Cultural District, Grackle Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
2016 Open Studio Night, University of Dallas Upper Gallery, Irving, Texas
2016 No Open Spaces, University of Dallas Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, Irving Texas
2015 Don’t Lean Back, Haggerty Art History Building, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
2015 Framed, Umbrella Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015 Open Studio Night, Upper Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving Texas
2015 Fort Worth Exhibitionists, Shipping and Receiving, Fort Worth, Texas
2013 Department of Art Bachelors of Fine Arts Senior Projects Exhibition, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio
2011 Art and Tech Show, Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University (Juried), Columbus, Ohio
Awards/Grants/Fellowships:
2026 Project Grant, Puffin Foundation
2025 Exhibiting Artist Honoraria, Manifest Gallery
2024 IEA Project Grant, International Encaustic Artists
2024 Exhibiting Artist Honoraria, Manifest Gallery
2022 Artist of the Month Award, Irving Arts Association
2021 IEA Project Grant, International Encaustic Artists
Publications:
2026 “Transience.” The Nature of Our Times, Paloma Press, 7 Jan. 2026, natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/transience/.
2026 2026: May it be Timeless, self published on Blurb, https://www.blurb.com/b/12745562-2026-may-it-be-timeless
2020 “Reclaimed by Nature.” Wax Fusion, SP 2020, pgs 26-33, https://issuu.com/internationalencausticartists/docs/wax_fusion_spring_issue_2020_v4
Selected Press:
2026 Gu, Wilson. “Heritage as River: Past, Present, and Future.” Glasstire, 4 May. 2026, https://glasstire.com/2026/05/04/heritage-as-river-past-present-and-future/
2025 Reed, Ava. “Students Call For Campus Art Gallery.” The Collegian, 29, Oct. 2025, https://collegian.tccd.edu/53992/news/students-call-for-campus-art-gallery/
2025 Reed, Ava. “Residency Helps Adjunct Discover Potential Art.” The Collegian, 17, Sept. 2025, https://collegian.tccd.edu/53576/news/residency-helps-adjunct-discover-potential-art/
2025 Smith, Ruth. “Matthew Jones, The Art Pod with Ruth Helen Smith”, Red Mud Arts, Clear Water Studios. https://soundcloud.com/theartpod_ruthhelensmith/ep4_matthew_jones
Residencies:
2025-26 Cedars Union Cohort 5, Artist in residence for 18 months at the Cedars Union in Dallas, Texas
2025 The Ruth Smith Art Residency, 2 weeks in North Tawton, ENG, studying Dartmoor National Park