Tom Jones

Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk) is an artist, curator, writer, and educator. Jones’s artwork is a commentary on American Indian identity, experience, and perception. He examines how American Indian culture is represented through popular culture and raises questions about depictions of identity by non-Natives and Natives alike. He continues to work on an ongoing photographic essay on the contemporary life of his tribe, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin.

Jones co-authored the book People of the Big Voice, Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1943.  He is the co-curator for the exhibition and contributing author to the book, For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw for the National Museum of the American Indian. His works are in numerous private and public collections, such as Microsoft, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The National Museum of the American Indian, The Nerman Museum, Polaroid Corporation, and Sprint Corporation.

He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master of Fine Arts in Photography, and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. He is a professor of Photography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.