G.B. Jones (b. 1965, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada) is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, musician, and zine publisher whose multidisciplinary practice has had a profound influence on queer culture and contemporary art. Jones first gained recognition through J.D.s, the groundbreaking Toronto-based queer punk zine she co-founded with Bruce LaBruce, which became a defining publication of the queercore movement. During this period, she also co-founded the influential all-female punk band Fifth Column, whose music and politics helped shape the emergence of queer punk culture throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her celebrated drawing series Tom Girls reimagines the homoerotic imagery of Tom of Finland by replacing his hypermasculine male protagonists with women, transforming an iconic visual language into a radical contribution to third-wave feminist and queer art. Since the early 2000s, Jones has developed an ongoing series of witch portraits inspired by cinema, folklore, and everyday life, recasting these historically marginalized figures as queer icons and symbols of resistance, community, and otherness. In 2002, Jones began a long-running collaboration with artist Paul P., producing a series of intricate collages that explore queer history, memory, and visual culture. Many of these works were later published in A Queer Anthology of Rage, edited by Richard Porter and released by Pilot Press in 2018.
G.B. Jones has exhibited her art nationally and internationally since the early 1990’s, in spaces such as Air De Paris, Paris; White Columns, David Zwirner, Feature, Participant Inc., Brooklyn Museum, New York; MoCA Toronto, The Power Plant, Mercer Union, Cooper Cole, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery, Or Gallery, Vancouver; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Muncher Kunstverein, Munich; Gallery Neu, Schwules Museum, Berlin; amongst others. She was included in the 2012 exhibition This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1990s, which was curated by Helen Molesworth for the MCA Chicago and subsequently travelled to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the ICA Philadelphia. G.B. Jones lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Tom Girls Go West
Tom Girls Go West, 2001
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Jack Chick vs. The Tom Girls #1, #2, and #3
Jack Chick vs. The Tom Girls #1, #2, and #3, 1994
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Triptych
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Yo-Yos vs. Skateboards
Yo-Yos vs. Skateboards, 1992
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Screen Test #4
Screen Test #4, 1997
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I Am A Fascist Pig #1
I Am A Fascist Pig #1, 1985
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Stop! Don’t Miss This
Stop! Don't Miss This, 1990
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Cruising #2
Cruising #2, 1988
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Untitled
Untitled, 1997
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Girls who are fans of Sailor Moon
Girls who are fans of Sailor Moon, 1996
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Night
Night, 2011
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Day
Day, 2011
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Barbara Steele as Mary from “The Long Hair of Death”
Barbara Steele as Mary from "The Long Hair of Death", 2017
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Andrew Prine as “Simon Sinestrari” from “Simon, King of the Witches”
Andrew Prine as "Simon Sinestrari" from "Simon, King of the Witches", 2017
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Sybil Leek
Sybil Leek, 2017
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Margaret Johnson as “Flora Carr” from “Night of the Eagle”
Margaret Johnson as "Flora Carr" from "Night of the Eagle", 2017
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Eleanor “Ray” Bone
Eleanor "Ray" Bone, 2017
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Jack Lemmon as “Nicky Holroyd”
Jack Lemmon as "Nicky Holroyd", 2017
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Agnes Moorehead as “Endora”
Agnes Moorehead as "Endora", 2017
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Kim Novak as “Gillian Holroyd” with Pyewacket
Kim Novak as "Gillian Holroyd" with Pyewacket, 2017
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Doreen Valiente
Doreen Valiente, 2017
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Rosaleen Norton
Rosaleen Norton, 2017
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Joan Bennett “Madame Blanc”
Joan Bennett "Madame Blanc", 2016
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