Amelia Jones

Born in 1961 in North Carolina, Amelia Jones has lived and taught in Los Angeles, Manchester (UK), and Montréal, Québec. She is currently Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design at the Roski School of Art and Design at University of Southern California. She is a writer, curator, performance programmer, and teacher. Her recent publications include essays on performance art histories and theories, queer feminist art and theory, and feminist curating. Her recent publications include Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (2012), Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History (2012), co-edited with Adrian Heathfield, the edited volume Sexuality (2014), and, co-edited with Erin Silver, Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (2016). Her exhibition Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art took place in 2013 in Montreal. She programmed the events Trans-Montréal (2015) and Live Artists Live (at USC in 2016). She edited “On Trans/Performance,” a special issue of Performance Research (October 2016).