Jean Sbarra Jones is a painter based in Salem, Massachusetts. She earned her MFA from Boston University and has exhibited widely across the United States, with solo shows at Alpha Gallery in Boston, Cairn University in Pennsylvania, and SZ Gallery in Washington State, among others. Her work has also appeared in juried and group exhibitions at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Cheekwood Museum of Art in Tennessee, and the Bowery Gallery in New York. She has shown in exhibitions selected by artists such as Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago, and her work is included in the private collection of Kenneth Noland.
Jones has received awards from Artists Magazine, the Wausau Museum, and the Vermont Studio Center, where she has held multiple residencies. She has been invited as a visiting artist at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and as a workshop leader at the Harvard Art Museums. Her paintings have been published in The Boston Globe, Poets/Artists, and Woven Tale Press.
She has taught at several colleges and universities in the Boston area and currently teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Jones is represented by Alpha Gallery in Boston.
