J.B. Jones earned a Master’s Degree in Architecture from Rice University in 1964, and studied painting, ceramics, and printmaking at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He practiced architecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until 1992 and has devoted himself to painting since 1994. Mr. Jones served as President of the Cambridge Art Association in 1996-1997. Among his group exhibitions are Distinguished Artists’ Exhibit, Concord Art Association, 2001 and 2002; Equinox, Randolph Gallery, 1999; Two Boston Painters, Thayer Gallery, 1998; and Expanded Visions, BB&N, Cambridge, 1996.

2009 Northeast Prize Show: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: William Stover, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

2009 Massachusetts Artists 2009: Brush Art Gallery. Juror: Nicholas Capasso, Curator, DeCordova Museum.

2008 Northeast Prize Show: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Nicholas Baume, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass.

2007 Red: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Jane Farver, Director, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass.

2007 Members’ Prize Show: Cambridge Art Association. Best in Show: Painting. Juror: Howard Yezerski, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Mass.

2007 The First National Juried Exhibition: Prince Street Gallery, New York City. Juror: Philip Pearlstein.

2006 Blue: Cambridge Art Association. Awarded Director’s Prize. Juror: Carole Anne Meehan, ICA/Vita Brevis, Project Director, Boston, Mass.

Red: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Nick Capasso, Curator, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Mass.

2005 Heat: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Arthur Dion, Director, Gallery Naga, Boston, Massachusetts

In the Game: South Shore Art Center. Juror: William Stover, Assistant Curator Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.

2004 Blue: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Director of Curatorial Affairs, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts.

The Roddy Competition: Concord Art Association. Juror: Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Director of Curatorial Affairs, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Fifteenth National Juried Exhibition: Viridian Artists, New York City. Juror: Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Brooklyn Museum, New York.

National Prize Show: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Robert Fitzpatrick, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.

2003 5th Annual Providence Art Club/Fidelity Investments Exhibit, awarded Fidelity Investments Purchase Prize. Juror: Robin Weiss, Corporate Curator, Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts.

Passion, Cambridge Art Association, awarded Second Prize. Juror: William Stover, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

2002 National Prize Show: Cambridge Art Association, awarded Director’s Prize. Juror: Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City.

2001 Light, Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Adam Weinberg, Director, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts.

National Prize Show: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Maxwell Anderson, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.

Beauty: Cambridge Art Association. Awarded Juror’s Choice Award. Juror: Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Red: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Harry Cooper, Associate Curator of Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1999 Red: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Peter Nisbet, Daimler- Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Members’ Juried Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture: Concord Art Association. Awarded First Prize for Oil Painting. Juror: Margaret McCann, Assistant Professor of Drawing & Painting, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

1998 Annual Prize Show: Cambridge Art Association. Awarded Best in Show. Juror: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons.

National Prize Show: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

1997 National Prize Show: Cambridge Art Association. Juror: Sara Kianovsky, Associate Curator, Fogg Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected Collections: Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School; Fidelity Investments; MassDevelopment; Goodwin Procter LLP; DeCordova Museum: Lending Artist, Corporate Program.