KELLY KRISTIN JONES
Unstable Ground
Date: September 26th, 2026
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Cost: FREE
Location: Columbia College Chicago Student Center | 754 S Wabash Ave
In conjunction with the 2026 Filter Photo Festival, Filter Photo is pleased to present an artist talk with Chicago-based artist, Kelly Kristin Jones.
Images are shaped as much by what is missing as by what is shown. Through interventions into historical imagery, photographic fragmentation, and archive-based installations, Kelly Kristin Jones explores how absence, accumulation, and reconstruction create space for ambiguity, questioning how we read documents and trust visual information. Jones is a visual artist whose practice engages photography, installation, and material processes to examine the instability of images and historical narratives.
Kelly Kristin Jones is a Chicago-based visual artist raised on the city’s West Side. Her photo-based practice treats photography as both material and subject, examining its role in shaping memory and reinforcing exclusionary historical narratives. Jones received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and served as the Post-MFA Faculty Fellow at the University of Georgia in 2013. She has exhibited widely, with recent presentations at Sarah Lawrence College, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and The Luminary. Jones is a recipient of a 2024 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Photography.