Jonesy is an artist and filmmaker working in Los Angeles. He studied photography and video at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. In the early 1990’s he was a member of the queercore band Fagbash in San Francisco, the roots of which continue to inform his DIY aesthetic.

Since 2008, he has been creating films, music, installation and performance. In 2015, Jonesy founded the collective die Kränken with a team of collaborators after doing research into the large collection of holdings of Southern California Gay Motorcycle Clubs at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. In 2018, they also notably collaborated with Dr. Gayle Rubin on a film about early gay male leather subcultures in San Francisco. In 2019, Jonesy approached the artist Eileen Cowin about responding to a body of work of hers from the 1990’s. It evolved into an collaborative call and response taking the form of the exhibition “Telling Them Apart” in 2024 at the California Museum of Photography at UCR Arts.

Jonesy’s work has been screened and shown at the Hammer Museum, Yale University, the REDCAT Theatre, Oberhausen Film Festival, POPA Buenos Aires, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Anthology Film Archives, OUTsider Festival, Artpace San Antonio, Sala Diaz, and the British Film Institute.

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